Houston Retro Radio Dial, June 1961

[hrhwebmaster]

From the Houston Post:

AM

KILT - 610
KIKK - 650 (Pasadena)
KTRH - 740, CBS
KTHT - 790
KPRC - 950, NBC
KNUZ - 1230
KXYZ - 1320, Mutual
KWBA - 1360 (Baytown) ABC
KCOH - 1430
KLVL - 1480 (Pasadena)
KYOK - 1590

News schedules are shown but no indication of music format for any of the AMs. COLs in parentheses are from my knowledge, not the paper.

FM

KUHF - difficult to determine the frequency from the graphic used; I know the station has moved a couple of times; it is about half-way between 91 and 92 mc.
KARO - 94.5
KHUL - 95.7
KFMK - 97.9
KHGM - 99.1
KTRH - 101.1
KQUE - 102.9
KRBE - 104.1

KHGM-FM and KTRH-FM are both shown as playing Classical and popular music; KRBE-FM is Classical; there was no information about KUHF programming; all others FMs are 'popular' music.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by hrhwebmaster on 01/15/06 11:05 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[ChuckTiller]

> AM
>
> KILT - 610
Top 40. Changed to KILT in 1957, previously being KLBS.

> KIKK - 650 (Pasadena)
Country. Originally KRCT Baytown.

> KTRH - 740, CBS
News and Variety programs from CBS Radio

> KTHT - 790
MOR: Middle of the Road

> KPRC - 950, NBC
News and MOR. Home of the Tim and Bob Show. 1st 2-man show in Houston.

> KNUZ - 1230
Top 40

> KXYZ - 1320, Mutual
Beautiful music

> KWBA - 1360 (Baytown) ABC
Country, variety

> KCOH - 1430
R&B

> KLVL - 1480 (Pasadena)
Spanish

> KYOK - 1590
R&B

> FM

> KUHF - difficult to determine the frequency from the graphic
> used; I know the station has moved a couple of times; it
> is about half-way between 91 and 92 mc.
No kidding. It was in different places.

> KARO - 94.5
Not sure of the format.

> KHUL - 95.7
Jazz. "Cool Jazz" (Funny how things work out. It started as a jazz station. Leroy Gloger bought and it became KIKK-FM(Super KIKK). It would stay that way for 36 years before becoming KHJZ, "Smooth Jazz 95.7, The Wave.")

> KFMK - 97.9
Houston's 1st album rock station. It was known as an underground station. However, I have no ideawhat its beginnings were.

> KQUE - 102.9
Combination of MOR and beautiful music. (Originally KPRC-FM. The Hobby family had to sell it because the owned KPRC-TV Channel 2, KPRC-950 and the Houston Post. The FCC made them get rid of one of their properties. Dave Morris who owned KNUZ purchased it and changed it to KQUE.

> KHGM-FM and KTRH-FM are both shown as playing Classical and
> popular music; KRBE-FM is Classical; there was no
> information about KUHF programming; all others FMs are
> 'popular' music.
>
100.3 KOST was on the air with "Candlelight and Gold." It was beautiful music in its infancy. It would become KILT-FM and then KZAP, and back to KILT-FM. In 1984 it would become KXAS for 3 months and then finally KILT-FM, it's prsent calls.

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