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Hot 95-7's Calls would have been KKHT.

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TroyG

It would've been a great idea in the first place. Those Calls would have been great for the Top-40 Hit Music Station. and KRBE's Main Competitor. KKHT would've stood for K K HoT, or HiT. So, to end of confusion-CBS decided to use KKHH-In which, the last 2 letters were stood for Hot Hits.
 
Or perhaps the fact "KKHT" is already in use - and in this market? Good.... theory.
 
Agreed. Now may I have the 15 seconds back that I wasted looking at this thread? kthxbai.

G
 
rageradio said:
They were used for just that back in the mid 80s when 97Rock flipped to Top 40 as Hit 96.5
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And we all know what a great success that was! Anybody want a few thousand KKHT bumper stickers?

Except for the Legal ID, call letters are a waste of time. Some of the best known sets here in Houston would have to be KILT, KTRH, KRBE, and...well you get the picture. The audience knows those stations best and refers to them as their numerical dial positions. Go ahead, ask anybody. They'll tell you that they listen to 100 or 104 or 93-7. I rarely ever get callers who ask me if they've reached KKRW. People still get 97 Rock's call letters wrong, but they sure remember 97 Rock. By the way, they were KSRR (and I had to check to be sure) which were chosen for Star 97. So, if calls were so important to the success of a station, you can be sure ABC would have changed them when they changed formats.

Of course, back in the day, we listened to Kilt, Knews, and Kick, but that was before we knew what call letters were.
 
ColonelStJames said:
And we all know what a great success that was! Anybody want a few thousand KKHT bumper stickers?

Except for the Legal ID, call letters are a waste of time. Some of the best known sets here in Houston would have to be KILT, KTRH, KRBE, and...well you get the picture. The audience knows those stations best and refers to them as their numerical dial positions. Go ahead, ask anybody. They'll tell you that they listen to 100 or 104 or 93-7. I rarely ever get callers who ask me if they've reached KKRW. People still get 97 Rock's call letters wrong, but they sure remember 97 Rock. By the way, they were KSRR (and I had to check to be sure) which were chosen for Star 97.
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Holy crap I remember that! 97 Rock KSRR, which somehow stood for Kick Ass Rock n Roll... 9th grade waking up to Moby! Those were the days!

CJ
 
ColonelStJames said:
rageradio said:
They were used for just that back in the mid 80s when 97Rock flipped to Top 40 as Hit 96.5
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And we all know what a great success that was! Anybody want a few thousand KKHT bumper stickers?

Except for the Legal ID, call letters are a waste of time. Some of the best known sets here in Houston would have to be KILT, KTRH, KRBE, and...well you get the picture. The audience knows those stations best and refers to them as their numerical dial positions. Go ahead, ask anybody. They'll tell you that they listen to 100 or 104 or 93-7. I rarely ever get callers who ask me if they've reached KKRW. People still get 97 Rock's call letters wrong, but they sure remember 97 Rock. By the way, they were KSRR (and I had to check to be sure) which were chosen for Star 97. So, if calls were so important to the success of a station, you can be sure ABC would have changed them when they changed formats.

Of course, back in the day, we listened to Kilt, Knews, and Kick, but that was before we knew what call letters were.
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Hate to disagree, The group I ran with didn't call it 101.1, It was always KLOL.

Outside of Houston, the best Call Letter identification with a station was KZEW "You're rockin' with the zoo" in Dallas.
 
KLOL was part of the exception. So are KRBE, KTRH and "Kilt". The stations (or at least the calls) have been around for so long that the calls were passed down from the older generations. KILT, whether Album Rock or Country has been burned into Houston's listeners minds as "FM 100 KILT" for 30+ years now. KLOL hasn't spun a rock song in nearly half a decade, but people still know and refer to it as KLOL as opposed to "Mega 101". Hell, it even works for defunct stations. To this day if you mention a "kikk up truck" people smile as they remember all of the old trucks that used to ride around here with KIKK 96 bumper stickers. I've rarely, if ever, heard any station introduced to this market in the last, say 20 years, referred to by its calls. i.e. KHPT KHTC KHJK KTHT, etc.
 
KLOL was part of the exception. So are KRBE, KTRH and "Kilt".
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You forgot one more station
That has been around for many generations: KODA.

Listeners at work referred this station that plays Easy Listening/Elevator Music, which was popular then. And Montovani & Manilow were gang-wayed for Michael Buble & Coldplay, which happens to be on KODA's playlist.
 
You are absolutely right, Troy. How could I forget "Koma"? I also seem to have forgotten KMJQ. It's been at 102.1 for around 30 years itself.

How many years do a stations calls and imaging have to remain in place before it becomes "heritage"? Some stations are certainly getting on up there. Mix is scaring 20 years at 96.5 and KBXX has to be getting close to 20 at 97.9. Even KKRW has been around since the early 90's. "All Rock and Roll Oldies, Whenever!" You young punks didn't even know that "Arrow" actually stood for something, huh? :D ;D
 
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