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The KTMO Dyersburg,TN studios are going bye bye very soon! They moved Steve James to their new 103.9 and are now closing the Dyersburg,TN studios and making Steve drive from Dyersburg to Kennett MO.
 
I swear...small market radio has become totally crazy since I left the business over two decades ago! I worked at KTMO when both the studios AND transmitter sat in Kennett, and the freq was 98.9 MHz. What is now called KTMO was then KMIS-FM (then 3kw on 106.3), which I helped put on the air in 1976. Also, KTMO was then the FM sister to KBOA (then 830 kHz). From what I hear the 830 freq is silent now...what a waste! Apparently there is very little left of LOCAL small market radio these days...everything is part of a cluster. Whenever I get nostalgic for my days in radio, I remember what has become of it and the urge quickly goes away. BTW...I am an alumnus of KMIS AM-FM Portageville, MO (1971-78); WCBL AM-FM Benton, KY (1974-78); WSJB AM, Murray, KY (1978) & KBOA-KTMO Kennett, MO (1979-83).
 
830 AM was moved into Memphis last year.... It is for sale and listed on several brokerage sites. Kind of ironic that both of Kennett's best signals were moved in that way..
 
"Bootheel Radio" had those "Killer AM Ground Waves"...... KBOA.... How about Barney and Tom's KYMO up in East Paraire? I loved my summer of radio love there, when returning from El Paso's KINT-98 (following a fire sale in the dessert)..... Give me two AM's with those types of signals and be local.. I can make it (not rich, but basic 'in the black').....
 
How far is it from Dyersburg to Kennett anyway? And wouldn't you be able to take I-155 most of the way there anyhow?

I know it would amaze the average show-me-stater to know that any of their stations has now "moved" to Memphis, Tennessee! :eek: I believe KTMO's former 98.9 frequency is now licensed to Millington, Tennessee!
 
firepoint525 said:
I believe KTMO's former 98.9 frequency is now licensed to Millington, Tennessee!
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It's licensed to Munford, but you basically have the right idea. Of course, I can remember hearing KTMO 98.9 quite easily on the MSU/U of M campus in '93, and a friend who used to work there said he regularly got calls from as far away as Alabama.
 
Kent said:
firepoint525 said:
I believe KTMO's former 98.9 frequency is now licensed to Millington, Tennessee!
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It's licensed to Munford, but you basically have the right idea. Of course, I can remember hearing KTMO 98.9 quite easily on the MSU/U of M campus in '93, and a friend who used to work there said he regularly got calls from as far away as Alabama.
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Okay, thanks.

Some of the stations I remember listening to (from Missouri) when I lived in northwest TN include KLOW/KCRV in Caruthersville, the aforementioned KYMO, and 100.7 from Cape. I also once remembered picking up a station from St. Louis, and even one from Joplin, MO! :eek: I also listened to some NE Arkansas stations, like KLCN from Blytheville, and 98.1 back when it was KHFO, a million years before all the call letter and format changes since they also moved to Memphis.

My uncle from Tiptonville is/was a big fan of the old KMIS at 106.3.
 
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