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ARE CHANGES COMING TO KPRC-AM 950 ??

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OldChicago

HMMMM.....

I went to the website to see if I could get a phone number for the studio
so I could tell them that they were repeating a segment of American Top 40 they had previously aired. I then noticed that all references to "RADIO MOJO" have been dropped, and the station now is calling the site "THE 950". Actually, it does still kind of still say "radio mojo" but as prominent as before.

Any ideas. It was not like that a few days ago.


Old Chicago
 
I'm unaware of any pending changes...but I'll second your observation about sloppy automation at 950. This has been a longstanding issue in many dayparts...especially in the evening. It hard to believe management would be unaware. Maybe management is aware and simply doesn't care. ..."close enough is good enough..."

...sad

The whole "Radio Mojo" thing a bit silly anyway... If they're losing it...good ridance.
 
I couldn't agree more pepe. I worked at KPRC for almost seven years in the late 60s and 70s. I will always have fond memories of working for Ray Miller and the late lamented John Davenport, and knowing that the Hobby family and their Houston Post Corp were my employers.

It was a great station and a great place to work. It's really depressing to see the low estate to which it has fallen under its current owners and managers.

You're right. It doesn't appear that they really care anymore. I wish somebody who does care would buy it from them.
 
I remember the early 70s at KPRC, too, Filo. The jocks had to stand up while on the air. And, the place ran like a Swiss watch. Somewhat laid back, by later standards; but, dead air was still a firing offense; and always had to be explained in a discrep. Live jocks and operators ran all the day and night shifts. We ran NBC Monitor on weekends; but a real person fired off the local breaks. Not a sloppy automation system.
 
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They should just simulcast Michael Berry. They need to just simulcast Michael Berry in all day-parts! That would solve all of their problems in his eyes. ::)
 
foursider said:
I remember the early 70s at KPRC, too, Filo. The jocks had to stand up while on the air. And, the place ran like a Swiss watch. Somewhat laid back, by later standards; but, dead air was still a firing offense; and always had to be explained in a discrep. Live jocks and operators ran all the day and night shifts. We ran NBC Monitor on weekends; but a real person fired off the local breaks. Not a sloppy automation system.
Click to expand...

Just curious. Since I am not from Houston, what format did KPRC radio
run during this time. I do remember coming here and hearing KPRC, but I thought it was a news station, and I remember they carried Astros
Baseball.

OLD Chicago
 
Wow. I am baffled about the lack of information on the history of KPRC on Wikipedia.
 
That's just a matter of someone taking the time to research and post it to Wikipedia. I posted a lot of the info on the Houston FMs
 
KPRC 95-0 - ninety five oh - was middle of the road in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The played "some" of the current MOR pop hits of the day, surrounded by a lot of older standards and big band stuff. The DJ staff was made up mostly of older guys like Tim and Bob, Jack London and Buddy Holliday, guys who started out in the 40s and 50s, and they were playing to the "older" demographics - people like themselves who the rockers KILT and KNUZ were ignoring.

Management tried to move it to a more current and younger sound in the early 70s, by hiring a rock jock from Denver to be PD, but that never really worked out. They just had older DJ's playing newer stuff.

In the early 70s, news was still limited to five minutes from NBC Radio plus 2 or 3 minutes local at the top of the hour. Then in 1973, after the move to 8181 SW Fwy, they carved out AM and PM news blocks to compete with KTRH, and as one of those newscasters, I think we gave them a good run for their money.

Gradually though, over a period of years, the news blocks got bigger, and the music hours got shorter until they were finally replaced with talk shows. That's basically how KPRC slowly evolved into News/Talk.

God only knows what it is today, but I think it's time to pull the plug and put it out of its misery. May it RIP.
 
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