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AndyWaldrop

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I know those call letters don't mean much of anything to folks in the Dallas - Fort Worth area right now, but they could very soon. Stay tuned!
 
AndyWaldrop said:
I know those call letters don't mean much of anything to folks in the Dallas - Fort Worth area right now, but they could very soon. Stay tuned!
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Of course they did to Houston for many years.....
 
Those calls were for an Oldies station In Houston, Ron Parker was PD. Is Ron coming back to Dallas? He was at Eagle/Z97. KTYS = KLDE.
 
eliseatheduck said:
Is Ron coming back to Dallas?
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I don't think a Ron of the Parker variety will be returning to Dallas radio. And, to be perfectly honest with you, the KLDE calls may not return to a major market any time soon, either.
 
317C50KW said:
I think they did about 20 years ago on the AM dial.
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You're thinking of KLDD, the call on 570 when that station was running its pre-Beatles oldies format in the late 80's. That was between the KRQX and KKWM formats.
 
AndyWaldrop said:
I know those call letters don't mean much of anything to folks in the Dallas - Fort Worth area right now, but they could very soon. Stay tuned!
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I know who owns it and what the Dallas connection is, and that Eldoradians get the luxury of hearing the late John McCarty doing all the promos and liners...but are you implying that KLDE would be a player in this market? That's a LOT to expect!!! Even Abilene's closer to DFW than Eldorado!

(Me, I suggested "KULT" for calls...due to the proximity to the polygamist ranch there.) ;D
 
eliseatheduck said:
Well Okay. But why the KLDE hint ? Format wise?
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That's what I want to know. KLDE was a passable oldies station in Houston - frankly I like KLUV more. They swapped calls and format adjusted a couple of years ago to KHTC the "new" K-HITS. They used to have a massive signal footprint up to Centerville, but then started messing around with HD and now barely make it to Huntsville - and have a huge dropout on Memorial drive as you approach downtown where I can hear - MOVIN! mixed with the San Antonio 107.5. They fixed it for a while, then it broke again.

Actually, if I lived in Houston, I would be more nostalgic about KLEF when it was 94.5 and classical (later 92.1 then - gone) than I would be about KLDE when it was 94.5 or its incarnation on 107.5. The old KFMK 97.9 was the best oldies station Houston ever had since KILT was on AM. The memories of Johnny Gowan and his neice Mandy occasionally going on the air Sunday mornings --- I often wondered if she got a career in radio later in life. She was a natural even at 9. Even made an article in the Houston paper ---

But suppose KLDE - format wise and or call letter wise - came on the air in Dallas. KLUV would submarine them. Unless they went with 50's and 60's, but I notice since the Memorial day countdown was populated with 60's, more 60's are back on KLUV. So I don't think it would be viable.
 
eliseatheduck said:
Those calls were for an Oldies station In Houston, Ron Parker was PD. Is Ron coming back to Dallas? He was at Eagle/Z97. KTYS = KLDE.
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Ron is in NY doing overnights on KCBS last I heard...

I would think if 96.7 goes Oldies then trying to get the KLDE call would be a good fit......(ABC/Citadel could afford it).
 
CW said:
Ron is in NY doing overnights on KCBS last I heard...

I would think if 96.7 goes Oldies then trying to get the KLDE call would be a good fit......(ABC/Citadel could afford it).
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Ron is doing nights at CBS-FM. He was in town (Houston) weekend-before-last checking-on his house, kitties, and girlfriend.

I was thinking 96.7 might buy the KLDE calls from the little FM in El Dorado (Texas) and go with some type of "Oldies" format (I hate the term "Oldies").

Who knows...maybe another Ron will go to 96.7. It's always "wait-and-see," 'ya know.
 
AndyWaldrop said:
(I hate the term "Oldies").
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I do, too. If the calls KHTS were available, I'd grab them. Then the term "Hits" could be used, as opposed to Oldies.
 
busyradioguy said:
I do, too. If the calls KHTS were available, I'd grab them. Then the term "Hits" could be used, as opposed to Oldies.
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Back in the 1960's, when stations started to figure out people still liked songs that had happened to go off the charts - they had "solid gold weekends". So I think a "solid gold" format would be a good alternative name.

That - or something obscure like "only 45 rpm's that have holes burned through them"! Remember that nonsense?
 
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