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At one time, this station in Mt. Pleasant had a great signal at
100.7 FM.

In 1976, they had an automation system (named Norton), and a
very early version of voice-tracking.

The studios were on old highway 67 just west of the city.

Any other memories of this station?
 
> At one time, this station in Mt. Pleasant had a great signal
> at
> 100.7 FM.
>
> In 1976, they had an automation system (named Norton), and a
>
> very early version of voice-tracking.
>
> The studios were on old highway 67 just west of the city.
>
> Any other memories of this station?


About the same as yours--there were very few places in the region the station's signal wasn't heard. IIRC, Amy Austin once worked there in her formative years in the business. I forget what the format was, but whatever the music, everyone could surely hear it.
 
X-100 heck of a signal I remember listening to them in 1987 in Daisy Arkansas on Lake Greason format was Top 40 best I can remember.



> > At one time, this station in Mt. Pleasant had a great
> signal
> > at
> > 100.7 FM.
> >
> > In 1976, they had an automation system (named Norton), and
> a
> >
> > very early version of voice-tracking.
> >
> > The studios were on old highway 67 just west of the city.
> >
> > Any other memories of this station?
>
>
> About the same as yours--there were very few places in the
> region the station's signal wasn't heard. IIRC, Amy Austin
> once worked there in her formative years in the business. I
> forget what the format was, but whatever the music, everyone
> could surely hear it.
>
 
> X-100 heck of a signal I remember listening to them in 1987
> in Daisy Arkansas on Lake Greason format was Top 40 best I
> can remember.

KPXI also put in a listenable signal into Fort Worth in the mid-70's as well. Not strong, but was alright if you listened in mono. Decent tropo would improve the signal quite a bit.
 
"You're Rockin' On The X!"

It was the only signal at that time that could top KOOI's signal. I haven't seen LA Breeze post on this board in awhile, but he used to work at KPXI. I believe Mick Fulgham might have been there awhile, too.

It was a good station. The only problem that I had with it, was they kept tweaking the format. They would be Top 40, Top 40/Rock, Rock with an AC twist, AC... it just seems like they could never decide what they wanted to do.

Sunburst ruined this station by moving the tower from Mt. Pleasant to Overton and dropping it from a Class A 100,000 watts to a Class C with 25,000 watts and now simulcasts Salem's Christian format from 100.7 in Dallas. Just one in many sad stories of Northeast Texas Radio gone bad. <P ID="signature">______________
KVIL Highland Park
KVIL-FM Highland Park/Dallas-Fort Worth
Thanks for the memories Ron Chapman!</P>
 
> "You're Rockin' On The X!"
>
> It was the only signal at that time that could top KOOI's
> signal. I haven't seen LA Breeze post on this board in
> awhile, but he used to work at KPXI. I believe Mick Fulgham
> might have been there awhile, too.
>
> It was a good station. The only problem that I had with it,
> was they kept tweaking the format. They would be Top 40,
> Top 40/Rock, Rock with an AC twist, AC... it just seems like
> they could never decide what they wanted to do.
>
> Sunburst ruined this station by moving the tower from Mt.
> Pleasant to Overton and dropping it from a Class A 100,000
> watts to a Class C with 25,000 watts and now simulcasts
> Salem's Christian format from 100.7 in Dallas. Just one in
> many sad stories of Northeast Texas Radio gone bad.
>

In the mid to late 80s, growing up in Paris, Texas (which at the time had a few 3000 watt stations), I thought X-100 was a "real" radio station with a real signal, a real airstaff, and a real voice-guy. To me it was mind-boggling that X-100 could be heard in Tyler-Longview, Texarkana, and in Paris. "The 100,000 watt Northeast Texas blow torch."

Does anybody remember this legal ID?

"Rockin' The Rose City (X100)...Rockin' Northeast Texas (100.7fm)...
Rockin' on the X...KPXI-Mount Pleasant/Longview/Tyler."
They eventually changed their legal IDs to "Mount Pleasant/Paris/Longview/Tyler.

As for the staff, I remember Amy Austin, Mick Folgum (he gave me a crappy cassette at a remote), and the "Amazing Super Breeze." At the moment, I don't remember the name of the morning guy. Steve Bailey? Something like that?

I also recall that as a Rock/Top 40 station, they really wanted you to think it was a Tyler station. Even though most of their clients were in the Mount Pleasant area - they tried their best to sound like they were actually in Tyler.
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Cousin Artie on 06/15/05 03:04 AM.</FONT></P>
 
>At the moment, I don't remember the name of the morning guy. Steve Bailey? Something like that?
>


It was Steve Bailey.<P ID="signature">______________
KVIL Highland Park
KVIL-FM Highland Park/Dallas-Fort Worth
Thanks for the memories Ron Chapman!</P>
 
I remember in 1988 X-100 was trying an mix of Alternative and rock CHR hits. It was an interesting format. Kinda of a "Edge Light". Later they added some Rap/R&B and then shifted to AC by 1991. I agree they never could figure out what to play!

In 1991 KPXI became country "K-101". Despite having that great signal they still couldnt do much saleswise with the gridlock of KNUE and then-strong KYKX, and I think thats what led to its sale and downgrade.

Austin, Bailey, Fulgham and Paul Kyser all worked there. BTW I believe all these jocks also worked at 96-X in Kilgore (and in the Longview Mall) during its CHR days in the early-mid 80's. (PS I wish I had airchecks/tapes of this era)

The studios are still in Mt Pleasant, its still home to KIMP 960 and now "Star Country" KSCN 96.9, licenced to Pittsburg.

And just for the record, KEGG 1560 in Daingerfield is now KNGR "King Country" Southen Gospel radio. I hope its doing well with this format despite that weak signal.
 
Steve Bailey worked with me in Tyler before he went to
Mt. Pleasant.

KEGG? Yeah, I've got a few stories about that station
from the late 70's.
 
> "You're Rockin' On The X!"
>
> It was the only signal at that time that could top KOOI's
> signal.

KPXI pumped a out a solid signal from the site near Purley, and you could hear them on the east side of Dallas all the way east on I-30 to Texarkana and beyond.

> I haven't seen LA Breeze post on this board in
> awhile, but he used to work at KPXI. I believe Mick Fulgham
> might have been there awhile, too.

Maybe my memory's a little fuzzy but Mick worked evenings, didn't he?

> It was a good station. The only problem that I had with it,
> was they kept tweaking the format. They would be Top 40,
> Top 40/Rock, Rock with an AC twist, AC... it just seems like
> they could never decide what they wanted to do.

It was good, but you're right about the identity crisis, especially right before their move into the Tyler market.

> Sunburst ruined this station by moving the tower from Mt.
> Pleasant to Overton and dropping it from a Class A 100,000
> watts to a Class C with 25,000 watts and now simulcasts
> Salem's Christian format from 100.7 in Dallas.

I know what you're saying, but your classes are kinda backwards. The station was a Class C that dropped to a C3 with the move to Overton. And since their antenna is considerably more than 100 meters (328 feet) above average terrain they have to run much less than the max of 25kW---their power is 8,100 watts at 510 feet. What's more, it's somewhat directional, too, with the pattern being suppressed toward the west and northwest of the tower, right in the direction of Tyler, so they don't interfere with co-channel KWRD-FM (even if KPXI is simulcasting it).

> Just one in many sad stories of Northeast Texas Radio gone bad.

Uh-huh. Made me sad when they shut down the big rig, and sadder that they even attempted a country format.
 
> In 1991 KPXI became country "K-101". Despite having that
> great signal they still couldnt do much saleswise with the
> gridlock of KNUE and then-strong KYKX, and I think thats
> what led to its sale and downgrade.
>
> The studios are still in Mt Pleasant, its still home to KIMP
> 960 and now "Star Country" KSCN 96.9, licenced to Pittsburg.

When K-101 finally went off the air to make way for the downgrade and move to Overton, for about a week they ran a continuous loop of an old man saying something to the effect of:

"Uh-oh, looks like someone at K-101 forgot to pay the bills. K-101's country music has moved to the new Star 96.9"

Then, when KPXI came back on the air licensed to Overton, they simulcasted oldies KFRO 95.3.
 
It was indeed quite a station in many ways. I came to work at KPXI just two weeks after Nick Roberts canned me from 96X back in April of 1988. It was a fun station to work for. We've been tweaking formats around CHR by either hybriding with alternative, AC or even urban. The lineup during my near three years with the station were:

6a-10a: Steve Bailey
10a-3p: Amy Austin
3p-7p: Mick Fulgham
7p-12p: Superbreeze (which is yours truly now known as LA Breeze)
12a-6a: Michael Kelly

By spring 1990, Mike Kelly and I switched shifts because he has the hype to take the prime time shift up another level. I went to overnights to keep things live at the time. But still it was a hell of a ride in the studios on Hwy 67.

When we flipped to AC in the fall of 1990, I was music director about a month after Mick Fulgham and Mike Kelly left. Andy Roman was our program director at the time and also operations director when he arrived in the spring of 1990. The lineup was not the best but at least we kept it real there. I guess you might say that whenever we do live radio, KPXI was it. However I was upset that they shifted the city of license to Overton and downgraded it to 25k. But nevertheless it was a hell of a station in the middle of Northeast Texas.

Oh, by the way, does anyone remember "The Screamin' Mean Party Machine?" The van was colored in hot pink with our logo. It was an attention getter at the time in all of our remotes and dances that we conduct each time. Good times, man!

> "You're Rockin' On The X!"
>
> It was the only signal at that time that could top KOOI's
> signal. I haven't seen LA Breeze post on this board in
> awhile, but he used to work at KPXI. I believe Mick Fulgham
> might have been there awhile, too.
>
> It was a good station. The only problem that I had with it,
> was they kept tweaking the format. They would be Top 40,
> Top 40/Rock, Rock with an AC twist, AC... it just seems like
> they could never decide what they wanted to do.
>
> Sunburst ruined this station by moving the tower from Mt.
> Pleasant to Overton and dropping it from a Class A 100,000
> watts to a Class C with 25,000 watts and now simulcasts
> Salem's Christian format from 100.7 in Dallas. Just one in
> many sad stories of Northeast Texas Radio gone bad.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Note to MRS Ventures: GET THE HELL OUT OF RADIO!!! 94 BAD-FM jamz!!!!</P>
 
It was indeed quite a station in many ways. I came to work at KPXI just two weeks after Nick Roberts canned me from 96X back in April of 1988. It was a fun station to work for. We've been tweaking formats around CHR by either hybriding with alternative, AC or even urban. The lineup during my near three years with the station were:

6a-10a: Steve Bailey
10a-3p: Amy Austin
3p-7p: Mick Fulgham
7p-12p: Superbreeze (which is yours truly now known as LA Breeze)
12a-6a: Michael Kelly

By spring 1990, Mike Kelly and I switched shifts because he has the hype to take the prime time shift up another level. I went to overnights to keep things live at the time. But still it was a hell of a ride in the studios on Hwy 67.

When we flipped to AC in the fall of 1990, I was music director about a month after Mick Fulgham and Mike Kelly left. Andy Roman was our program director at the time and also operations director when he arrived in the spring of 1990. The lineup was not the best but at least we kept it real there. I guess you might say that whenever we do live radio, KPXI was it. However I was upset that they shifted the city of license to Overton and downgraded it to 25k. But nevertheless it was a hell of a station in the middle of Northeast Texas.

> "You're Rockin' On The X!"
>
> It was the only signal at that time that could top KOOI's
> signal. I haven't seen LA Breeze post on this board in
> awhile, but he used to work at KPXI. I believe Mick Fulgham
> might have been there awhile, too.
>
> It was a good station. The only problem that I had with it,
> was they kept tweaking the format. They would be Top 40,
> Top 40/Rock, Rock with an AC twist, AC... it just seems like
> they could never decide what they wanted to do.
>
> Sunburst ruined this station by moving the tower from Mt.
> Pleasant to Overton and dropping it from a Class A 100,000
> watts to a Class C with 25,000 watts and now simulcasts
> Salem's Christian format from 100.7 in Dallas. Just one in
> many sad stories of Northeast Texas Radio gone bad.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Note to MRS Ventures: GET THE HELL OUT OF RADIO!!! 94 BAD-FM jamz!!!!</P>
 
Oh, by the way, does anyone remember X100's remote van? We call it the "Scremin' Mean Party Machine." Anyone who has been to of many remotes and dances cannot miss the hot pink truck (that looks like a bread truck at the time). It was an attention getter at the time and to some people they think that we are out of our minds.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Note to MRS Ventures: GET THE HELL OUT OF RADIO!!! 94 BAD-FM jamz!!!!</P>
 
I don't remember that one however I remember one that started with a telephone disconnect tone......we're sorry the radio station you have been listeninbg to has been disconnected and is no longer in service please listen to Star Country 96.9

> > In 1991 KPXI became country "K-101". Despite having that
> > great signal they still couldnt do much saleswise with the
>
> > gridlock of KNUE and then-strong KYKX, and I think thats
> > what led to its sale and downgrade.
> >
> > The studios are still in Mt Pleasant, its still home to
> KIMP
> > 960 and now "Star Country" KSCN 96.9, licenced to
> Pittsburg.
>
> When K-101 finally went off the air to make way for the
> downgrade and move to Overton, for about a week they ran a
> continuous loop of an old man saying something to the effect
> of:
>
> "Uh-oh, looks like someone at K-101 forgot to pay the bills.
> K-101's country music has moved to the new Star 96.9"
>
> Then, when KPXI came back on the air licensed to Overton,
> they simulcasted oldies KFRO 95.3.
>
 
>
> The studios are still in Mt Pleasant, its still home to KIMP
> 960 and now "Star Country" KSCN 96.9, licenced to Pittsburg.

It's a shame too. Only the morning show is live and the rest is the internet based network out of Omaha,,Waitt radio Network. Bland , Boring, and a very very very short playlist.
 
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