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KAND Corsicana goes silent
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Corsicana loses, Navarro County loses, and the legendary chili can is officially expired.
It could not have fallen in worst hands regarding following the rules.
Agreed. I suspect, if someone local had been interested, Mrs. Raymond would've sold to them. A decent house in Corsicana costs more than the $75,000 she's getting it for it. Unfortunately, nobody stepped up, and this is the result.
Maybe it's better than losing the station outright, but, to the majority of the local population, it's effectively going to be lost anyway.
I spoke to her, but she hinted what they were looking for was closer to 200k and for sure it was not worth 200k
Is there a translator available for the station? The only translator I saw in Corsicana was K300DS on 107.9, which translates KATG. They have an application to move to 107.3.
I recall a Corsicana station on 107.9 as KAND-FM that was country. It flipped to Tejano as a simulcast of KHCK 99.1 “Kick FM.” It made it into Tyler pretty well. That was the only full time Spanish language station receivable in East Texas for years.
Wouldn’t it be fitting if a KAND translator wound up on 107.9? That probably won’t happen. Hopefully, Corsicana can still have a hometown station for the community.
By the way, doesn’t KRVF Kerens kind of serve the community? Last I checked it was a type of simulcast of KFWR but identified separately as “106.9 The Ranch.” I don’t know to what extent they may program locally to Navarro County, if at all.
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Well the new owners are not known for serving the local community
KAND-FM was sold off to what is now Univision. It was downgraded and moved into the Waco market in 2002...now the present day KWPW 107.9 Robinson TX. It was downgraded in order to let co-owned 107.9 Gainesville to upgrade as a C1 and relicensed to Lewisville to better cover D/FW (the present day KDXX).
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Has a revitalization translator attached to it. 104.9 K285HC.
Now KWPW at Robinson, serving Waco.
Eh. KNES from Fairfield has been the primary occupant of 99.1, with KFZO from Denton a constant visitor. I don't recall ever hearing Tejano on 99.1, and I've been back home for the last 16 years. When I was younger, 99.1 was Z-Rock from the home base of Dallas. I actively searched it out, as we obviously had nothing close to it. 96X was hardcore for ETX, but couldn't hold a candle to the shredding going on at Z-Rock.
Depending on how far back you go, KLJT started off with Spanish language programming at sign-on. La Invasora/Super Invasora has been in ETX since 2002 or 3. Before that, the Hispanic population here was so miniscule that there was figuratively no one here to serve.
Would've been a possibility, had the HFCN not gotten a hold of K300DS. I'd bet a hundred redneck bucks that it, too, is "fed" by 1340 when all is said and done.
It does. Surely isn't targeting Kerens.
It's not in simulcast with KFWR anymore than KCKL is simulcast with KYYK. More Wikipedia fallacies.
It's not a bad station, I'd just rather hear classic country like KAND or Tyler's Ranch plays, than the Texas infused brand of country on The Coriscana Ranch plays.
Here's a link in case you're curious enough to give it a listen.
106.9 The Ranch - Song History
106.9 The Ranch - List of the 10 most recently played songs.
player.listenlive.co
KAND-FM 107.9 actually became the first leg of Tejano "Kick FM" around 1994. As Rodriguez was assembling "Kick FM," the joke was that his motto should have been "We gotcha surrounded." Kick FM surrounded DFW on several signals but didn't reach either downtown when it signed on.
99.1 was Tejano from 1995 to about 2003. It was part of the Kick FM simulcast after being KDZR for a few years. At one point, Kick FM was on 1440, 99.1, 106.7, and 107.9. Almost seems like I'm missing a signal or two in that list. In '96, 106.7 broke off and began simulcasting KMRT's Amor format for Ft. Worth. Those signals have had several revisions over the years with 106.7 moving to 107.1 so the former KXGM 106.5 could move into DFW at 106.7, and, as you mentioned, 107.9 Corsicana moved into Waco so the Gainesville 107.9 could move closer to DFW. I believe it's a slightly better signal than most of the other northern rimshots because it's two clicks away from 107.5, which is a C1 instead of a C0 or a C, and has nothing to worry about above it.
@txchipk may have better records than I, but here's what was Kick when as my records go:
107.9/Corsicana Nov 1993-1998
1440/Denton Dec 1993-Mar 1996
99.1/Denton Feb 1995-Apr 2004
106.7/Granbury Mar 1995-Apr 2000
106.7 was definitely Amor simulcasting KMRT 1480 in ‘96. Not that it couldn’t have gone back to Kick at some point that year, but it was Amor February through August. I remember it well. I lived on the west side of Ft. Worth, and I heard it several times.
1440 changed calls to KINF, but it was part of Kick FM's legal ID at least through mid-summer ‘96. I don’t know if the Spanish talk format ever actually launched, though that was the plan. I understand it picked up KTNO's Spanish religion programming after 1540 got sold, but I can’t remember exactly when that part happened.
That's a bet you might loose! 😎 More likely it will move a little NW, continue feeding K285HC, and then add K237HG Cedar Hill.
Anyone want to make an offer on the old CD changer full of classic country CDs that used to automate KAND back in the 80s? Or how about the DG Media Manager server that automated in the 90s? No guarantees about what's on it or if its even operational anymore.
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That is a new one on me, and somehow both Chip and Mike Shannon missed that one as well.
Neither of these records indicate the Amor simulcast on 106.7 and 107.9 was launched until April 2000.
Dallas/Fort Worth FM Radio Directory
DFWRETROPLEX.COM - History of Radio in Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas - FM
It was KCIR originally... signed on Nov. 1, 1972. Became KXCL in 1977. In 1986 it became KAND-FM "K108" with the Country format moving from FM to AM, and the AC format moving in reverse.
In the mid-1970s the 107.9 in Corsicana could also be heard in Fort Worth on a decent receiver.
FCC records show KCYT became KMRT-FM on 12/8/95. The M Street Journal shows it switched from Tejano "Kick FM" to regional Mexican simulcasting KMRT 1480 in its December 20, 1995 release (https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-M-Street/M-Street-Journal/M-Street-1995-12.pdf). Not sure when KMRT went from regional Mexican to Amor, but it was definitely Amor by March 1996. I remember it being regional Mexican in the summer of '95.
My guess on how Chip and Mike missed that one is that the 106.7 signal covered Ft. Worth, and mostly the area of Ft. Worth west of downtown. Its tower was almost to Stephenville and was more than 70 miles from downtown Dallas. You would've had to work at receiving it in the Dallas area. It wasn't perfect where I lived, and I was near the Hulen Mall. I could hear it fine on the home stereo, though I don't think I could even get a decent signal on my Walkman there.
