KAFM Wishes You a Happy New Year!

[jeffdfw]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/01/kafm_wishes_you_a_happy_new_ye.php ;D

 

[Dr. o Fun]

Wow... I was lulled into a state of somnambulance.

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[Mediafrog+]

Wow... I was lulled into a state of somnambulance.

The laid-back atmosphere was pretty typical of Progressive Rock FM's in those days...it was intended to be an alternate universe to the overhype and repetition of Top 40 AM. This type for format was the predecessor to the more commercialized AOR.

I enjoyed K-FM during its brief life, but the launch of KZEW in the summer of 1973 fragged the genre's audience (KAMC 94.9 was also a player in the format) and 92.5 went to a high-energy Top 40 around March, 1974, with some of the heaviest audio processing I've ever heard on FM. That incarnation of the station only lasted ten months.

The article also refers to the later country incarnation as "Outlaw" but I don't recall it ever being referred to as such on the air. More like Progressive Country (as had been done on Austin's KOKE-FM a few years earlier) with the emphasis on album tracks and cutting edge artists.

 

[MikeShannon914]

January 1, 1975...35 years ago: KAFM/"92-K" flips from Top 40 to Progressive Country. The only time I ever remember my own mother calling up a radio station and chewing them out. She told them she recently had an FM converter installed (in her 1974 Chevy Impala) strictly so she could listen to 92-K...and how DARE they change formats!

I was pretty miffed myself. Thereafter, I remember splitting time between KFWD (until their format flip,) KNUS, KLIF, KVIL (AM *and* FM) and sometimes KDNT-FM when I could pick it up. The Zoo was my "cool" 20-yr old uncle's favorite station, so I tuned in occasionally just to be "cool" myself (yeah, at 10 years old. Right.)

Never mind. I'm headed over to John's Jeans to get some clothes, then off to party at the Travis Street Electric Company. Maybe I'll swing by Disc Records or Sound Town on the way to get me a couple of 8-tracks to listen to. I had to go turn in some pop bottles just to buy gas (31 cents a gallon at Gloco for Ethyl...highway robbery!!) Big woo.

 

[Huff]

I enjoyed K-FM during its brief life, but the launch of KZEW in the summer of 1973 fragged the genre's audience (KAMC 94.9 was also a player in the format) and 92.5 went to a high-energy Top 40 around March, 1974, with some of the heaviest audio processing I've ever heard on FM. That incarnation of the station only lasted ten months.

The article also refers to the later country incarnation as "Outlaw" but I don't recall it ever being referred to as such on the air. More like Progressive Country (as had been done on Austin's KOKE-FM a few years earlier) with the emphasis on album tracks and cutting edge artists.

KAFM flipped from progressive to top 40 on Friday, March 8, 1974 at 6a. The "Q" format was proving that top 40 could be a factor on FM at stations like KCBQ/San Diego, KSLQ/St Louis and WQRK/Norfolk (the station most directly copied by KAFM). Instead of going with a "Q" name, they just used "K". (Of course five years later a different kind of "Q" would arrive in DFW.) At the time, KNUS was still on the Chalk Hill stick, so KAFM was the first FM top 40 to cover both Dallas and Fort Worth with a city grade signal.
The lineup for "92K" was McKenzie Fox (6-10a), Marcus Hook (10-Noon), "Captain Billy" (Noon-3), "Shotgun" Tom Kelly (3-7p), Stone Cannon (7-Mid)

KAFM never used "Outlaw" as a moniker during its progreesive country days, it was "KFM 92 1/2 Progressive Country Radio". They also occasionally used "Texas Radio".

 

[MikeShannon914]

Randy Hames did afternoons at 92-K, but it must have been later on in the year.

 

[stinker]

the Travis Street Electric Company....

you know, i was in that place when i was seven (7) yrs old..

the electric dance floor, the dart game upstairs in the back. Braxton W Lord spinning the music.....


My father owned the place.......

Did you know the B-movie Phantom of the Paradise, with actor Paul Williams, was filmed there.???

i went by that location (4527 Travis)this past fall..

mixed bidnesses in there now, but local merchants say it's the same building that held the club..

sure does look alot smaller than it did way back then...

 

[Albert19X]

Traffic is coming to town? Man, I am so there!

 

[Albert19X]

the Travis Street Electric Company....

you know, i was in that place when i was seven (7) yrs old..

the electric dance floor, the dart game upstairs in the back. Braxton W Lord spinning the music.....


My father owned the place.......

Did you know the B-movie Phantom of the Paradise, with actor Paul Williams, was filmed there.???

i went by that location (4527 Travis)this past fall..

mixed bidnesses in there now, but local merchants say it's the same building that held the club..

sure does look alot smaller than it did way back then...

I went there often when I was a senior in high school thanks to the state lowering the drinking age to 18. i remember they had a live drummer on stage to play along with the recorded music. Then walking down the street to the Old Church for a quiet nightcap before climbing in the old Pinto station wagon for the drive home. Saw Johnny Winter and John Nitzinger there. Good times.