how many am/fm stations gone to being silent

[willdav713]

Small town radio operations gone but not forgotten in the Austin area... KCLT-AM Lockhart, KELG-AM Elgin, KGTN AM/FM Georgetown, KGID-FM Giddings, KIXS-FM Killeen, KLTD-FM Lampasas, KMRB-FM Marble Falls, KRGT Hutto, KSSR-FM Bastrop, KTAE-AM Taylor.

Didn't KSSR change calls to KGSR? I remember Star 107 KGSR out of Bastrop.

 

[willdav713]

I was thinking that, too. Those stations just changed frequency when they upgraded. Their license was never cancelled which was the theme of this thread.

Now if you want to muse about the small town local services that were lost to the big city, that would make a good thread, too.

I thought the post included the cancellation of the license to operate on that frequency. Yes it included translators, but still they were stations that were once on that frequency they upgraded to a different frequency and their old frequency has gone silent.

 

[mmnassour]

Well, I was thinking it means stations that are gone, period. But I'm waiting for the thread on move-ins.... ;D

 

[txchipk]

Small town radio operations gone but not forgotten in the Austin area... KCLT-AM Lockhart, KELG-AM Elgin, KGTN AM/FM Georgetown, KGID-FM Giddings, KIXS-FM Killeen, KLTD-FM Lampasas, KMRB-FM Marble Falls, KRGT Hutto, KSSR-FM Bastrop, KTAE-AM Taylor.

Didn't KSSR change calls to KGSR? I remember Star 107 KGSR out of Bastrop.

107.1 Bastrop was KSSR 1986-1989. When it flipped from country to new age "Star 107" in 1989, it picked up the KGSR calls soon after.

 

[mmnassour]

I've got to admit that the one I miss is KTAE. I don't know if there's ever been a more full service radio station to a small community. I was kind of hoping that Fred Lundgren would pick up the mantle when he took the calls for his station on 1330 over in Elgin, but the schedule looks mostly like network talk and far too much Alex Jones.

But it's OK, I can't hear it in Austin anyway.....

 

[fredcantu]

I was fortunate to have worked in block-programmed small market radio. That is so much more creative than plugging in a satellite format.

 

[stan]

KOLE in Port Arthur was silent for awhile. Then, someone powered up the transmitter with the new 'dead air' format. Now, someone illegally broadcasts Mexican music part of the days with no legal IDs. The station might as well be dead. Good work, Birach!

 

[fredcantu]

Sounds like someone doing some engineering.

 

[stan]

Sounds like someone doing some engineering.

Given the state of Port Arthur's crime stats, my vote is on someone with an iPod breaking into the transmitter site and hooking it up for some illegal broadcasting with poor audio. We already have three AM Mexican stations in the Triangle - we REALLY need another one.

 

[mmnassour]

So.....would that be a zombie station?

 

[fredcantu]

We already have three AM Mexican stations in the Triangle - we REALLY need another one.

No foreign stations exist on U.S. soil that I know of.

 

[stan]

You're correct. I'll quit making the Wall of Voodoo references - it didn't work either time.

 

[purpledevil]

There once was a 92.1 licensed to Sealy, Texas. Been too long since it was on the air to recall the calls. It went silent after then KRTS-Seabrook (now KROI) upgraded to 21kW. There was never a replacement allocated to Sealy, resulting in them losing the only service licensed to the town and leaving the county with only one licensed 250 watt AM daytimer.

 

[fredcantu]

92.1 used to be a class A channel limited to 3,000 watts. So they were fairly short spaced. So for one station to upgrade on a formerly local channel, others on the frequency had to change frequency or go away.

 

[jd]

Another station that faded away is KJCH 1410 Cleveland (prior call letters KVLB). It operated full-time with 500 watts but what horrible coverage it had, due to awful ground conductivity. Houston area DJ's Hal McClain and Matt Guinn worked there early in their careers.

 

[stan]

Is KRCM on the air since it moved from Beaumont to The Woodlands?

 

[earshot]

KPEP 1420, San Angelo.

Signed on in the 50s and was country most of its life. Originally co-owned by Jerry Naylor of the band The Caviliers ("Last Kiss").

In the early 80s, the calls changed to KHOS and was satellite country. Later, stand-alone FM KBIL bought it and flipped it to oldies, running Drake-Chenault reels. Jocks were blown out around 1989 and it went satellite with Zippo in the morning. Both the AM and the FM went dark. The FM was resurrected a year or so later.

This site has some interesting photos/info for old-school radio and Louisiana Hayride buffs.
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/JerryNaylor.html

 

[hayseed]

Is KTEO still on the air in San Angelo? (High atop the Holiday Inn on the Concho River) Anyone remember Joe Roberts... Benny Bellamy...Wesley Sherman?

 

[boiseengineer]

FCC just deleted call letters and canceled licenses for these:

KXME SOUTH TEXAS FM INVESTMENTS, LLC 98.5 MHZ WELLINGTON, TX
KAHA SOUTH TEXAS FM INVESTMENTS, LLC 104.3 MHZ OLNEY, TX
KNOS TANGO RADIO, LLC 98.9 MHZ ALBANY, TX
KKUL-FM TANGO RADIO, LLC 98.1 MHZ TRINITY, TX
KANM ANGO RADIO, LLC 95.9 MHZ SKYLINE-GANIPA, NM

"Application dismissed by letter dated 02/24/2011 for failure to prosecute"

 

[earshot]

Is KTEO still on the air in San Angelo? (High atop the Holiday Inn on the Concho River) Anyone remember Joe Roberts... Benny Bellamy...Wesley Sherman?

The last I knew, it was simulcasting its FM sister, KCRN, a Christian music format.

Would love to have pictures of it back in its Holiday Inn days! Oh, and I saw on a Goodfellow AFB history website, shots of San Angelo that shows the hotel as closed and boarded up.