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KMAC circa 1975

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Willis1000

A recent thread about KONO's simulcast got me thinking about KMAC/KISS and specifically KMAC 630.
I remember living in the area in 1975 and hearing on KMAC:
Mornings with Red River Dave and the farm report.
Astros baseball
the texaco opera and
the simulcast of KISS-fm's Rock.

did they make any money doing this?
 
The legend was, that when Howard W. Davis divorced his wife to marry the receptionist, the deal was for her to get half the profits... and that KMAC/KISS was managed to earn exactly one dollar a year...
Don't remember Red River Dave, but I do know that Perry Kallison ran the trading post. Don't remember Astros, but they had Missions with Joe Fowler in '78, and Tech and A&M basketball in that era. Augie Meyers used to do a couple of hours on Monday and Tuesday nights. Wes Burleson was the dee-jay at night, when there was no game.
Donnie Meals did mornings on KISS, Mike Shaw did nights. The afternoon shows, with Lou Roney and Joe Anthony on KMAC, were simulcast on KISS, and that's how the rock format got started on FM... would have been about 75 or 76 that they dropped the automated beautiful music format on KISS.
The Texaco Opera was a treat. The announcer would give time cues thusly: "Five minutes to air from the mark... 3 2 1 WOOF.
 
Very early 70's I recall several hours of country mid-days, followed by album rock in late afternoons. Had a lot of CBS News in the mornings.

Can't speak to the night schedule--I was living in Austin at the time, and KMAC's night pattern didn't reach there. Great signal during the daytime, though.
 
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