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KCOH sale

stan

stan

Will anything change with the upcoming sale of KCOH to Paraclete Church Ministries of Houston? KCOH has quite a history in Houston, and it would be sad to see the station become another AM mess.
 
I think it's safe to say everything will change at KCOH. The current format will be replaced with religion oriented programming. That's why religious organizations like Paraclete Ministries buy radio stations.
 
I missed this story. I'm certainly sad to see KCOH go. It's another chapter in Houston's radio beginnings being thrown by the wayside. Is this a gospel based church? If so, I guess we've got another KWWJ on our hands. By my count that will make 4 gospel stations in the market. At least it's not Aleluya. They've jumped on everything that has come up for sale these last couple of years. Must be too focused on the KRTX upgrade, and suckering...I mean gathering donations from their masses.
 
A little more info here: http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWe...x?ContentID=48903&ContentTypeID=103&Archive=0

Nothing in the Chronicle so far. I would think this would generate quite a bit of chatter, even though most of the African-Amercian audience has made the move to FM (along with virtually every other demographic.)

Yes, it looks like KCOH will be heading to a religious format. Probably mostly brokered programming, which seems to be the the final phase of AM radio before disappearing into complete oblivion.
 
That is a shame. For I am sure the speculation of KCOH's direction will become reality soon. Gotta love the place for that it was, and what it did. The first radio station in Texas programmed for African-American's is not just something you can brush off or ignore. Their contributions were HUGE.

There is a ton of talent there too, and I mean it. Me, Wash Allen and his 'soothsayers' spent many a moment together, and just about every day on my drive to KILT.

I wish them well.
 
I think there are a lot of native Houstonians in their 40s and 50s (most of whom have never heard of this board) who would agree with me on this: It was a wonderful thing to be 10 years old, switching the AM among KILT, KCOH, KNUZ and KYOK. The music, the jox, the news! KCOH is the last man standing. I still listen and if this news is true, well, I can't express.

As I posted here a few years ago, when I would write the news for Metro Source (the broadcast wire service) and hear it read by KCOH news people, it was one of the great thrills, just a couple of years ago. Right up there with filling in for Jim Corola, doing traffic for the always controversial Steve Hegwood (KYOK), interviewing the original Hudson and Harrigan when I was in high school and working for years with the legend himself, Paul Berlin.

Ya gotta love this business. Working with the heroes you grew up with.
 
mrbeasley said:
I wonder whatever happened to the legendary GG who worked there. She was one of the first black female DJs in the nation.
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It's funny you should mention that. The first person that went through my mind as I was recalling "those days" was Grandma Gigi! Then, of course, Skipper Lee Frazier!!!
 
.....makes one wish if it were possible for this format and call letters to move to another station with a fair signal, even on a B/PA based stick that is the most reliable to deliver to the targeted demo areas, it can make for a more profitable situation as opposed to yet another creation of a spanish language station, and a happier ending from the start......
 
I moved here in 1974 (worked as "John Parker" at KENR and then KULF) and remember KCOH (daytime only then) and KYOK in heavy competition while
KNUZ and KILT were battling for their demographics. A few years later I left broadcasting and started publishing community newspapers.

Occasionally though I will still write about the radio biz and once wrote that I assumed that the "COH" stood for City of Houston and was an officially-licensed government station, as was WRR in Dallas.

I was informed I was wrong, wrong, wrong. The "COH" stood for "Call of Houston," a privately-owned new radio station (early 50's?) that played what we would later call "beautiful music."

Over the years, with up and down ratings, various formats and finally new owners, it settled on becoming a black station.

I will miss KCOH.
 
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