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KINT 98 in El Paso

I do remember listening when you did evenings. That station had the sound of major market along with Zippo, Kaye, and Austin. Then one by one all those guys were disappearing.
 
Mainly, I did evenings in the latter 70's. Started off at KINT 98 doing overnights. The morning guy was Robert Scott and Jhani Kaye(The PD) did afternoons. Jhani is now in LA Programming K-Earth. Oh Lordy, did we have some crazy times. The studios were across the street from two strip clubs and I saw plenty of action from the 2 floor window. Jhani was an amazing PD. Man, I was a punk back then.
 
How come you left? you were succeeded by another crazy guy.....Uncle Alvin. Then after him, the station went downhill. Whoever they had good, they never held on to too long.
 
Well, after they fired me I said "I don't want to work here anymore." It worked out for the best..I starting doing mornings. Went to Vegas, Tucson, Charleston S.C. and ended up in San Antonio. Been on air here for about 22 years. My sister still lives in El Paso and my Mother lived there until she passed away a couple of years ago. I do miss Chico's tacos at 2 am.
 
Jamey K.....split 4 ways! The studio was pretty cool with that huge window. Thanks to Jhani Kaye that station was run very well and we had some strong #'s. Many years back I thought about coming back and doing some programming, but it didn't work out. Because I went to Austin High and really started radio in El Paso I'll always feel attached to that town.
 
Why would you want to come back to a market that completely fell from the wayside 20 years ago. I remember KINT, KSET, KFIM, plus the last days of KELP all good contemporary hit radio stations. The market became a disaster when KINT went to KISS, KSET went some kind of punk new wave, KFIM was concentrating puking out their call letters then sounding like they once were. They were sounding very choppy as i can describe it. Stations like Z 93 came along with a unique funky format where Kenny Rogers mixes into The Whispers, then into Julio Iglesis. And it seemed like the stations were programing or targeting listeners in Juarez, then El Paso.
Which was once a great market for it's size back in the late 70's into the very early 80's just disappeared.
You did a good job as the evening man on KINT, and after Jhani Kaye left...it still held up for awhile, then it all went down.
 
Kris, what station are you at now? You were a unbelievable great night guy. A local guy too! I worked at KELP, and K102. I graduated from high school and moved to go to college. I always looked forward to listening to you when I would come home for holidays. I even stole your "Are YOU Talking To ME" bit. I didn't do it near as well as you did though...so I quit!

Weren't you working with a live audience up there for a while?
 
Starbucks...why did I consider coming back? My folks were there and I felt like I had a knowledge of the market. I also found out that I wasn't bad as a PD, in fact I loved doing it. You're right Jhani Kaye was the glue of KINT 98.

Jamey K...you stole "are you talking to me?" Well, I stole it from "Taxi driver" and besides I've stolen a lot more than that. Yea, they had me working with a live audience for a bit. That was just plain weird.

I moved around a bit and ended up in San Antonio for the last 22 years. Did mornings and was PD of a Classic Rock station that did very very well. I am now doing mornings on a Country station. The Demo is a little broader and leans female.
 
Kris,

I'm glad to hear you're doing well! I was in El Paso in August and I thought about you when I drove by Bassett Center on the way to downtown.

After high school in Tornillo,I moved to Amarillo to go to college ...left and came back. The girlfriend-now the wife- was here, so I just stayed. I had worked at KELP & KHEY while in high school. I came home for the summer in 77 and did nights at K102 before they flipped to straight country. Rob Camp & Gordon Marcy were there when I was and they were amazing guys to work with. I've heard Rob is in San Antonio, and out of radio. After the flip from Progressive to straight country, I came to Amarillo and stayed here. I always enjoyed listening to you when I was home. When I started doing nights on a Top 40, you were a big influence. You always sounded alive, and fun.

I called you once when I was home asked if I could come take a look...weekend afternoon I think, and you couldn't have been nicer. You were so busy....phones going...someone else was there, along with me. I remember, the cart cue tones kicked off flashing red lights....on the end of promos, they were clicking like crazy! LOL. It was making you nuts.

El Paso was a great market. In the 60's, I always ran home after school to listen to Sonny Melendrez on the old KINT. I was at KELP when Jhani Kaye blew into town and changed everything. Everything!

BTW...Chico's is still awesome and the Cattlemen's is still the best steak there is!
 
JAMEY K! Cattlemens....mmmmm. That place was always fine. Don't know if you know but Sonny Melendrez worked here in San Antonio for years and years. We ran into each other a couple or times. Sonny Rio, who used to do mid-days on KINT worked down the hall from me for a while. Weird Brother Jerry was a guy I worked with in EP for a while...never heard what happened to him. I was on the air in EP from the mid 70's to about 80. A lot more freedom back then. We could get ourselves in trouble, but we were allowed to push the envelope and be creative. If it worked we kept our job. At the time, it was worth the risk and Radio was pretty fun to listen to.
 
Re: Weird Brother Jerry, I heard he passed away last month. Apparently natural causes...couldn't have been older than 53 or so. Real name was Jerry Wilson. Started his career in EP at M104....later worked at at least a half-dozen station in the market.
 
TXRAD....Sorry to hear about Jerry. He and I did a shift together for a while on some wanna be station after I got canned at KINT-98. We made each other laugh quite a bit. I bet 70-80% of the folks I started out with are out of the business or have passed away.
 
What about Phillips and Wall? What ever happened to those guys?
 
Kris Winston said:
Phillips is doing mornings in St. Louis...don't know about Wall. Now, those two were very funny.
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We used to hire those two to do private parties. I still have tape of their 2 hour stand up. You're right, they were very funny and they were noticeably too big and hip for El Paso ever to understand.
 
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