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KRIO/KRIX/XRIO GM Charlie Trub has died

FYI-- T.K. "The King", Raul Reyna-- formerly Captain R-- and yours truly attended Charlie's service.

I will forever be grateful to Charlie Trub for giving me my first full-time news job. I anchored live morning news for KRIO and KRIX and recorded bilingual news capsules for XRIO-TV.
 
That's good Fred. Frankly, I didn't always agree with the way Charlie ran his station(s), but in this age of repeater radio from giant companies, that era looks better and better.

All my best to Charlie's family.
 
The KRIO-KRGV rivalry was a good one. And I believe the listeners were the winners in that fight.

Ha! It just occured to me that I fought on both sides. I was a weekend DJ at KRGV in the mid 70s along with Mike Cantu and Richard Cantu... no relations. And in 1979 I was a news anchor/reporter at KRIO.
 
IIRC-- The Valley was tops in AM penetration long after FM had swept the US. Back in the mid 70s KGBT-AM had a 33 share and KRIO and KRGV were healthy double digits. That left damn little audience for the FMs.
 
Indeed....I seem to remember a "Live Free for a Year" promotion by KBFM that shot them to the top in, what was it, 1979 or 1980? Valley folks turned to FM and never looked back.
 
Sad to hear that Charlie Trub died... he was a true character. RIP
 
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