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austin radio history

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captex

this is the best of my recollection of austin's past radio history to present: comments/ suggestions always welcome. thanks captex

92.1 krgt spanish 93.7 ktbc county 50's 102.3 spanish
kiky country klbj rock 70's easy listening
kqqq spanish 94.7 kapt couyntry/classic rock
???? jazz rock classic rock
klvr religious katg cat country 98.1 khfi top 40 alternative
93.3 moved from killen kfgi froggy oldies 98.1 kvet country christian
in the 80's party 94.7 cont 98.9 kool oldies 103.5 kcsw easy
b 93.3 top 40 kamx mix 94.7 ???? rock listening
mega 93.3 hip pop 95.5 kazz format unknown 60's kjfk talk flip flopped
mix 93.3 cont koke country khhl cont from oldies to
country kkmj softy khhl spanish contemp
kajz jazz 96.7 kgtn country 99.3 texas music 104.3 beat 104.3
hits 93.3 70's music oldies (very short time) talk
country 96.5 kqfx fox classic rock klgo religious beat 104.3
mega 93.3 dance 96.7 khfi kiss top 40 100.7 kase easy listen spanish
hot 93.3 hip pop 98.3 khfi top 40 country 104.9 kxxs spanish
beat 104.9
107.1 kssr oldies
country
jazz
kgsr altern
107.7 knnc new
rock
classic rock
80's
new rock
spanish
 
Great list, captex -- waaay back in the early 1960's, 98.3 KHFI was a classical music station. My 1959 Broadcast Yearbook lists the power at 780 watts from a 50 foot tower!

The classical music people at 98.3 got the license for 89.5 for a station that would become KMFA in 1967 -- it's still one of the few full-time classical stations in Texas and now cranks out 68,000 watts.

Anyone remember KTAP-AM?
 
wasn't ktap on 970 am somewhere in the 60's, 70's and don't remember the format they had. where they also owned at onetime by 98.3 khfi.
 
Pretty good list. Here's what I recall:
93.3 moved to Austin in 1987
93.7 was easy listening KTBC when it switched to KLBJ Album Rock in 1973
94.7 signed on in 1988 as an easy listening station that played some country
102.3 went straight from easy listening to classic rock in 1985 or '86
103.7 KRMH was album rock from '71 to '75, then top 40 from 75 to 76, when it became KCSW A/C.
KTAP 970 was album rock in 1971. It was bought by R. Miller Hicks krmh around '73 or so, and became KIXL as a religious station.
 
In the 70's when "the good karma" started broadcasting in quadraphonic stereo. Most folks did'nt know that KRMH was just R. Miller Hicks initials. Or that when KHFI TV and KHFI FM were together, the were owned by Featherlite, the folks that bring you all those concrete culverts.
 
No mention of 101.5 at all? :)

From RadioEmporium.com, (call letter history/texas/austin)

? KGID 5/10/1984-4/6/1990
? KOKE 4/6/1990-5/22/1995
Alternative KROX-FM 5/22/1995-
 
i'm sorry i left out 101.7 koke religious in giddings, later changed to 101.5 krox alternative and moved to austin. kgid i don't know the format and when it started.
 
thanks too all with thier comments, sugestions and more comments and suggestions still welcome. thanks captex. i'm sorry i left some stations out.
 
radioeye said:
92.5 KKLB/KXXS is also missing, and KOOL 99 was originally on 99.1 in Lampasas, I can't remember the old calls.
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And if you go back a few more years, KLTD was on 99.3 and didn't get out of Lampasas. I don't remember when it powered up and moved into Austin.
 
To the best of my recollection, the 93.3 calls went like this.

KIXS -- Killeen top 40 simulcast on 1050
KBTS-- Top 40 move into Austin market -- 2000 ft tower near liberty hill.
KMXX -- Mix 93.3
KLNC -- Lone Star 93 Country
KAJZ -- Smooth Jazz
KHHT -- Hot 93 country
KXMG -- Mega 93 dance
KDHT -- Hot 93 hip hop

It's been quite a ride. Now licensed to Cedar Park.
 
fredcantu said:
To the best of my recollection, the 93.3 calls went like this.

KIXS -- Killeen top 40 simulcast on 1050
KBTS-- Top 40 move into Austin market -- 2000 ft tower near liberty hill.
KMXX -- Mix 93.3
KLNC -- Lone Star 93 Country
KAJZ -- Smooth Jazz
KHHT -- Hot 93 country
KXMG -- Mega 93 dance
KDHT -- Hot 93 hip hop

It's been quite a ride. Now licensed to Cedar Park.
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I think you're pretty close. KHHT came before KAJZ and did both country and classic hits. In 1996, it became KAJZ. I believe that lasted about two years, and it became country KLNC "Lone Star 93" after that. I seem to remember it using the "Lone Star" name very briefly after it dumped the hot AC format as KMXX Mix 93.3. I think that whole episode came about after KBTS was LMA'ed to KHFI. They flipped it to Mix and then to Lone Star 93 before it got LMA'ed to KLBJ, who took it satellite country with "Hot Country 93" and changed the calls to KHHT.
 
Don't forget that 93.3 in Killeen signed on back in the 1960's as KLEN-FM, running just 760 watts.
 
That was real close on 93.3. KHHT did come before KAJZ, but it was not satellite country (some of the overnight was satellite, I think it was even called Lonestar). I think the LBJ Company originally were going to go completely automated with it and bought their first computer automation system which was used on all its stations, but then they decided to go after KASE and hired a full staff. Jimbo Powers was the morning host along with a woman whose name I can't recall right now but she works in Dallas now I believe. Jimbo eventually went into production full time (he is still the prod director there) and was replaced by Ernie Brown for a couple of months (late of KVET and now in Seattle I believe after a stint at TSN). Then they made the change to "The Seventies Station" playing a mix of disco and rock of the 70's (I think the calls were still KHHL). Then it flipped to Jazz then eventually back to country, this time as Lonestar 93 and stressing Texas music. The rest is accurate.
 
Let's see if we have this straight now for 93.3:

KLEN -- Killeen
KIXS -- Killeen top 40 simulcast on AM 1050 daytimer
KBTS-- Top 40 move into Austin market -- 2000 ft tower near liberty hill.
KMXX -- Mix 93.3
KHHT -- Hot 93 country
KHHT -- The Seventies Station
KLNC -- Lone Star 93 Country
KAJZ -- Smooth Jazz
KXMG -- Mega 93 dance
KDHT -- Hot 93 hip hop

Somebody write this down.
 
fredcantu said:
Let's see if we have this straight now for 93.3:

KLEN -- Killeen
KIXS -- Killeen top 40 simulcast on AM 1050 daytimer
KBTS-- Top 40 move into Austin market -- 2000 ft tower near liberty hill.
KMXX -- Mix 93.3
KHHT -- Hot 93 country
KHHT -- The Seventies Station
KLNC -- Lone Star 93 Country
KAJZ -- Smooth Jazz
KXMG -- Mega 93 dance
KDHT -- Hot 93 hip hop

Somebody write this down.
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Hey Fred, If I'm not mistaking, you're the same guy who runs mexicoradiotv.com right?
If so, how do you do it? It's so many updates and you seem to keep up with almost each one of them. Heck, if it wasn't for this website, I would never know that some stations are now gone. Nice webpage! Full of information.
 
fredcantu said:
Somebody write this down.
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Okay, here are some accompanying dates from the FCC database:

KBTS-FM 12/17/1986
KMXX 09/01/1992
KAJZ 01/18/1996
KLNC 10/05/1998
KXMG 08/01/2001
KDHT 08/18/2003

I don't have the dates for the original calls (KLEN-FM) or its successor, KIXS. But also note that there is no record in the database for the KHHT call letters, but they would have been there as MisterRadio described...somewhere in the period from around 1993 to early 1996.
 
fredcantu said:
Let's see if we have this straight now for 93.3:

KLEN -- Killeen
KIXS -- Killeen top 40 simulcast on AM 1050 daytimer
KBTS-- Top 40 move into Austin market -- 2000 ft tower near liberty hill.
KMXX -- Mix 93.3
KHHT -- Hot 93 country
KHHT -- The Seventies Station
KLNC -- Lone Star 93 Country
KAJZ -- Smooth Jazz
KXMG -- Mega 93 dance
KDHT -- Hot 93 hip hop

Somebody write this down.
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Actually it was The Seventies Station, the Smooth Jazz, then Lone Star 93. Everything else looks right.
 
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