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KAND-AM to become first true "green" station in USA

Kent said:
It goes back to the idea that good talk works while bad talk doesn't. Viewpoint is irrelevant. The second and third most listened to talk programs (behind Rush Limbaugh) are Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Both have a definite liberal viewpoint. If KAND provides a quality product that is also entertaining to enough people, it will do just fine. If it doesn't, it's doomed. It's really that simple.
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I was surprised at the strength of the signal in Plano. And there are no real stations in the background like there are on some of the other graveyards. Of course I was using a GE Superadio, I don't know how strong it would be in a car.
 
Hmmmm. Just crazy enough it may just work. ;)

Can't wait to check it out. ;D
 
I wonder if Kevin Mc is still driving his Ford "Harley Davidson Edition" hotrod pickup truck? Might have to get Herb's to paint it it green!
 
Jerry Reynolds is doing the conversion to propane as we speak. ;D
 
CW said:
DAYRADIO said:
"In 1936, one year before KAND began broadcasting, the State of Texas erected a marker in Corsicana naming the town 'The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry,' Mr. Yates said, "Mobil and Texaco both trace their roots to the town. We can't think of a better place to usher in the next generation of energy to America than Corsicana."
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HA!!! Someone working for the state responsible for that marker must have been from Corsicana.....Excuse me, but they obviously never heard of SPINDLETOP.....Beaumont was the birthplace of the oil industry in Texas...and Sour Lake, just west of Beaumont, was the home of the Texas Co, the original name of Texaco.....Gulf Oil (Chevron), Magnolia (now Mobil) and others all started in Beaumont...in fact, Magnolia started one of the oldest AM in the state...KFDM, now KLVI in the 1920s!

KFDM stood for Kall For Dependable Magnolia......later, same calls ended up on TV6 when it was built (owned by the same owners, not Magnolia/Mobil, at the time)...TV and radio went their separate ways in early 1960s when John Hicks, father of Steve and Tom Hicks, bought 560 and changed callsign to KLVI. The KFDM calls still stand on TV6 (which was owned by BELO for a good while in the late 60s-mid 80s iirc and now, ironically, owned by FREEDOM.....FDM?? HMMM weird)...

Yep, that state marker (and Mr Yates as well) is VERY wrong !!!
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While Spindletop (1901) was much larger, the first well was in Corsicana, June of 1894. Several of the companies mentioned had holding in both locations, as well as other oil fields. In which oil field first I do not know.

"In 1897, 57 wells were drilled, of which 50 were producers. By the end of 1898, 316 wells had been drilled, of which 287 were producers, and the daily production of the field rose to 2,300 barrels a day. The J. S. Cullinan Company built a small refinery on the outskirts of Corsicana which later became the Magnolia Petroleum Company. The old Corsicana shallow field had depleted itself to its stripper stage by 1901, at which date a total of 663 wells had been drilled, and the cumulative production was three million barrels."

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/towns/tuckertown/tuckertown.htm
 
KAND-AM to join Fox Sports Network

Radio Daily News is reporting today that KAND-AM has joined the Fox Sports Network. Does this mean KAND has dropped its "Green Radio" format?
 
First gree station was solar-powered WNBO Bryan, OH in 1979.

Under sponsorship of the US Department of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory has developed a concept for a small photovoltaic power system.^Of simple construction, the system uses low-cost, prefabricated, transportable units for easy, fast installation and requires minimal site preparation.^The first application of this experimental system began operation in August 1979 at daytime AM radio station WNBO in Bryan, Ohio.

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6638466
 
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