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KHOZ 102.9 - moving tower location so serve Springfield, Mo.
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deputydog404
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alot of people knew this was coming. charlie earls told me and kevin beamen this about three years ago when we worked for him. earls had told everyone that there would "always be a KHOZ in harrison". what he told us that meant was that he would leave khoz-am 900 in harrison and move the fm stick north.....he even told us that he was thinking of changing the call letters...so dont be surprised when that application is made.
khoz 102.9 is nothing more than a krzk south. they have taken a great heritage station and turned it into a jukebox. pretty sad.
hang in there bill wilcox....you are the last one...and congratulations on 25 years
khoz 102.9 is nothing more than a krzk south. they have taken a great heritage station and turned it into a jukebox. pretty sad.
hang in there bill wilcox....you are the last one...and congratulations on 25 years
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dallasrockradio
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When I was looking around the website, it kinda suprised me that AM 900 is a AC format.
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DIZ Guy
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How long has the AM 900 KHOZ been around?????
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deputydog404
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i wanna say khoz am 900 has been around since 1949 or so....around that time anyway...but the earl's dont care....they wiull destroy it too...just give them time.....all they want is enought money for scottie earles to have another face lift
face lift.... now that's funny. Knew that stick was moving the day they took the place over.
There is some interesting heritage in Arkansas broadcasting here. circa 1949 sounds close.
Maybe Kudzooter or someone can fill in the blanks here. There was a group of stations networked together originally. KXLR in North Little Rock may have been the "mothership". Others in the network were KXAR in Hope, KWAK in Stuttgart and KHOZ in Harrison.
They had a phone look lash-up as it was explained to me, and I think they had their own teletype network so they could send news back and forth as well as get their national news. I worked KWAK circa 1957-59 and heard bits and pieces of the story. There were still a few terminals, switches and patch-bay labels around that were reminders of that history.
Apparently they split up the "Co-op" with the managers/partners/whatever in Hope, Stuttgart and Harrison becoming station owners and very active and prominent in the state broadcast circles for a number of years.
It was always interesting to get Mel Spann talking about the years past. He told of his early years when he slept on the floor of the transmitter building at KARK where he learned the ins and out of broadcast engineering from a very demanding old time master.
Maybe Kudzooter or someone can fill in the blanks here. There was a group of stations networked together originally. KXLR in North Little Rock may have been the "mothership". Others in the network were KXAR in Hope, KWAK in Stuttgart and KHOZ in Harrison.
They had a phone look lash-up as it was explained to me, and I think they had their own teletype network so they could send news back and forth as well as get their national news. I worked KWAK circa 1957-59 and heard bits and pieces of the story. There were still a few terminals, switches and patch-bay labels around that were reminders of that history.
Apparently they split up the "Co-op" with the managers/partners/whatever in Hope, Stuttgart and Harrison becoming station owners and very active and prominent in the state broadcast circles for a number of years.
It was always interesting to get Mel Spann talking about the years past. He told of his early years when he slept on the floor of the transmitter building at KARK where he learned the ins and out of broadcast engineering from a very demanding old time master.
Wow, Goat Roper Cowboy, you're sending me pre-Gunhill Road...back when my hair was.....there. When I first started hanging out at KWAK in the early 1950s, there was a teletype hookup between them, KXLR, and (seems like it was) KWEM, which later became KWAM. Don't remember a KHOZ tie-in, but there's lotta reality I don't remember -- which balances nicely with the stuff I remember perfectly, which never happened. When I was active in broadcast band DXing, and totally unaware of geographic anomalies like mountains, I couldn't figure how KWAK, KVRC/Arkadelphia, and KHOZ could all be on 1240 in the same state! (And you thought I just got stupid late in life.)
It'll be interesting to see what Charlie & Scottie do with the station after the stick moves. Like most stations in markets this size, spot load generally gets to be "how many spots ya wanna load?" I can't see how they can maintain the bulk they need to pay the nut...and still hope to make any dent in the pretty tightly run ship I hear in KTTS. But now that my body's been about 99% retired for almost three years...and my mind had several years headstart on that...I'm no longer trying to figure out how or why to make radio word in this third milennium. Pretty sure it was all those futile attempts to crack that code all those years, that are why my hair isn't still.....there. :'(
It'll be interesting to see what Charlie & Scottie do with the station after the stick moves. Like most stations in markets this size, spot load generally gets to be "how many spots ya wanna load?" I can't see how they can maintain the bulk they need to pay the nut...and still hope to make any dent in the pretty tightly run ship I hear in KTTS. But now that my body's been about 99% retired for almost three years...and my mind had several years headstart on that...I'm no longer trying to figure out how or why to make radio word in this third milennium. Pretty sure it was all those futile attempts to crack that code all those years, that are why my hair isn't still.....there. :'(
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Musicradio
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Their sales dept. sure will have to travel a bit to go to Springfield.....honestly, doesn't Springfield have enough stations already?
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