KNDA Corpus Christi

[Scholarm1111]

Hip Hop KNDA is now running the Russ Parr Morning Show. Listened to the station quite a bit this weekend. The playlist seems to be a bit better defined than in recent memory (not as many obscure rap tracks). I also the like the new liners the station put on a few months ago, sound much better than the old ones.

-Mark

 

[X-Man]

Is KNDA streaming online? If so, what is the website address to listen?

 

[Blacknight]

They sound different because the music director has the playlist like if it was his own Ipod. He goes by the name Napp-1. I heard him when he was up in Killeen on 92.3 then in Austin on Hot 93.3 then Beat 104.3 (now 104.9) then return back to Corpus. This was around '03 to '04. He always bring something different to the radio and leave it whenever he moves somewhere else.

They don't have no website at all.

 

[Scholarm1111]

They sound a bit better to me but maybe that is because I like alot of the current records out right now.

This is the first time I think they have had a syndicated show of any kind in the past few years anyway.

Mark

 

[Anonymouse]

Last year when I was down there in Corpus I tuned into 102.9 Da Bomb (KNDA), hip-hop but with a few obscure tracks in, pretty good mix of music IMO, but not your average hip-hop station.
One question, what's up with the Spanish commercials? I heard a commercial for a Tejano / Conjunto music show (the same one I also heard on K-Rob 1510). If they're still airing these Spanish concert commercials on a hip-hop station... Just LOL!

I can at least tell the owners are probably hispanic.

 

[fredcantu]

The more Spanish speakers there are in market the more Spanish commercials you are likely to hear regardless of the format.
I don't know whether English language stations in South Texas have a policy against non-English commercials.
But IIRC-- Univision has a policy against non-Spanish content on its Spanish language stations.

 

[Infamous]

Last year when I was down there in Corpus I tuned into 102.9 Da Bomb (KNDA), hip-hop but with a few obscure tracks in, pretty good mix of music IMO, but not your average hip-hop station.
One question, what's up with the Spanish commercials? I heard a commercial for a Tejano / Conjunto music show (the same one I also heard on K-Rob 1510). If they're still airing these Spanish concert commercials on a hip-hop station... Just LOL!

I can at least tell the owners are probably hispanic.

Here is the rundown on KNDA...

102.9 used to be Radio Vida (Spanish Christian) owned by Enrique Garza from the Radio Vida chain of stations headquartered in the Rio Grande Valley. When he upgraded the station to 50kw he cashed in and sold the station to Carne Guerra (owner of KRRG and KJBZ in Laredo, TX). At this time a guy here in Corpus Christi named Jesse Rodriguez who owned the Yellow Rose Nightclub (and a few other places) decided that instead of buying commercials for his club to promote the bands that would come down he was better off running a radio station to promote the dances. So he struck up a deal with Carne to lease KNDA. The format was Tejano and the moniker was "Que Onda" (hence the KNDA calls). Now Jesse could play all the commercials and talk about all the dances he was promoting at his club cheaper then just going out and buying tons of spots. Then...sometime around 2002 or 2003 Pacific Broadcasting flipped 102.3 from The Beat over to The Planet (which used to be on the weaker stick on 104.5). Most if not all the jocks and mix show dj's from KBTE The Beat were let go. A few of them went over to Jesse and convinced him to pick up the format and hire the now unemployed jocks. He then switched formats and went with the moniker Da Bomb (Which by the way is pretty ghetto. I have heard that then managing partner for Pacific Broadcasting, Rick Dames, gave Jesse the permission to use the calls and moniker for "The Beat" but he passed on the idea.) At this point Jesse was now bringing hip hop groups to perform at the Yellow Rose. He brought down everyone from 50 Cent to South Park Mexican. Most if not all the groups he'd bring down on a regular basis were dirty south rap groups mainly from the Houston area. (Lil Troy, Chamillionaire, SPM, Big Moe, Z-Ro, Trae, Lil Flip, Paul Wall, etc). Jesse now has a club called Club Cielo which mainly features Spanish groups and bands but will also host a few rap and hip hop shows. He also used 102.9 to promote a gay night club he owned called The Vault.