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Years ago (many years ago...),I worked at that little station in Daingerfield, 1000 watt AM, KEGG 1560.It seems alot of people went through there over the years.Any others here that worked there?Thanks.
 
One of the original KEGG owners was Charlie Monk who had been on staff at then KOCA in Kilgore. Charlie died of cancer in the mid/late 80s.
 
C.S. Hays was the guy who took a chance and hired me for my first radio job.He died a few years ago.
 
I know nothing of this small station in Daingerfield.. nothing at all.... ;)
 
I must've went there about a certain number of times. I remember back in October of 1994 Comunity Broadcast Group acquired that station. They went urban and block-formatted middays for Rush Limbaugh. I must've laughed my @&& off when they did that. To me it was the stupidest programming move ever attempted. Then by mid-May of '95, they pulled Rush off the schedule and the listeners were on their way to a witch hunt at KEGG. From there CBGI cleaned house and left. They had four stations at the time, but ended up with three (KZEY-AM, KZEY-FM [KMHT-FM now] and KMHT-AM). Now KEGG is now a full gospel radio station with new calls as of almost three or four years ago. The new calls: KNGR (King Radio). At least it's working for them.
 
Didn't Doc Severson of Tonight Show Fame use to own KEGG ? I've always heard that
 
Doc was on the board of directors at one time...around 1979.Hey -- He was my very first celebrity "interview" the day he was in town for the Christmas parade. Man, you'd laugh if you listen to it....I was a little nervous!I look back at those times and just laugh -- it was a great place to learn the basics and then move on to bigger and better places.
 
The new owners of KNGR have done a good job keeping the station running with gospel music after years of neglect. It almost went down the same route as KZEY/KOFY and KLUE. Too many people with little business know-how (and talent) trying to run a radio station. Someone tried a mexican format a couple years ago but gave up when they blew up the old transmitter, they almost destroyed the station for good. The new owners did get a power increase to 1500 watts days, 60 at night last year, and installed a bigger tower with a solid-state xmitter to replace the old Continental. It still has a hard time getting into Longview.Website and streaming online.www.kingcountry.org
 
I wish they would have kept the old call letters but with that format,the change was probably required -- KEGG was known for alot of differentmusic and styles of programming.
 
Musicradio said:
I wish they would have kept the old call letters but with that format,the change was probably required -- KEGG was known for alot of differentmusic and styles of programming.
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I wish they would have kept them too for history's sake, but the new owners wanted a new image for the station. KEGG has had way too many bad owners, management and format flips in the past that have turned locals away. And the "Kegg" calls don't work well for a religous music station.
 
Yeah, the calls had to change for sure for a religious station.

I was looking thru my scrapbooks a few days ago and found I have old photos of the old KEGG studios -- man, it was much different back then as compared to the stuff I use now.
 
I heard the original air studio was where the secretary's desk is now. I have no idea why they moved it. And the production room was just an office. I have a few photos I snapped about a year ago when they were getting it back on the air. I hope they are making some money running it.

I wonder if KNGR could be moved to the expanded band?
 
In 1978, the main on-air studio was next to the transmitter room. just out outside the studio was a small room sometimes used for live news. Across the hall from it was another small room for the records and albums.

The on-air studio had a window looking out to the transmitter to the left, one almost directly above the control board into an office/studio, one behind the operator into an engineering room and the window into the small newsroom.

The production room was just inside the front door.
 
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