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KYND AM 1520 - The Early Days

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I have been told about the early days of KYND. It seems Jim Glogowski was the General Manager and Sales. As I pieced together, it was just Jim. A VHS tape recorder/player was used. Morning programs up to 12:15 were recorded with IDs and such. A 15 minute program on cassette aired at 12:15 so the VHS could be rewound. At 12:30 the VHS tape was started and from the logs I saw, had 5 hours and 15 minutes of programming on it. This was to allow Jim to grab lunch and then go out to sell.

I believe we had weekends covered back then. I think Brad did Saturday all day and Clay did Sunday.

I was told KYND was just the portable building at that time. It seems a construction guy, a DJ and the owner built on both sides of the portable building creating a 1,200 square foot facility. At one point the driveway was gravel and not much gravel at that. In rainy weather it was not uncommon to get stuck.

Eventually Robert was added to do mornings and David to do afternoons. There was another DJ in there. I think he was the one that helped with the building. I think he went to K-Star and then wound up in Ohio at a country station, I think was in a larger Ohio market.

Jim, as I understand it, went to another station after a year (per his agreement). Some time went by before I started in July 1993. I was hired in February of 1993 but Matt wanted the upgrade to 3,000 watts (from 500) to be complete.

I left KYND in May 2019 after 25 years and 8.5 months
 
Nice history.

What is KYND up to these days, do you know?
 
Do you think KGAF would be interested in joining the Astros Radio Network? I’m sure some Texoma listeners would love to listen to the defending World Series Champions over the course of the 2023 season.
 
Not a chance. First, there's no way we'd alienate so much of our audience to clear baseball on weekdays. If it's one of the local schools going to state or a chance at it, sure, we do it live. Second, if they talk baseball at all, they talk Dallas. The reason we're #1 18+ & 35+ is local news, weather, live sounding jocks and a carefully crafted AC mix that creates massive numbers of listen all day at work listeners. And we're not #1 by a little. Almost one person per household listens comparing number of listeners to number of households.
 
To be honest, I'm loving it! I get to work with businesses one-on-one to get folks in their store and I have a great team sipporting me that makes sure the product produces results. I'm lucky to work for Steve and under great management.
 
The Rimshot said:
Do you think KGAF would be interested in joining the Astros Radio Network? I’m sure some Texoma listeners would love to listen to the defending World Series Champions over the course of the 2023 season.
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Gainesville is solidly Texas Rangers territory. AFAICT the Astros have never made much of an impact among baseball fans in North Texas, even before the Rangers showed up in 1972.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Gainesville is solidly Texas Rangers territory. AFAICT the Astros have never made much of an impact among baseball fans in North Texas, even before the Rangers showed up in 1972.
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With the Astros recent success of six straight ALCS appearances, four AL Championships in six years, and two World Series Championships in six years, I’m sure the perception has changed.
 
The Astros are more successful consistently than the Rangers will ever be. It’s probably harder to carry Astros on stations closer to Arlington since the Rangers fans would probably throw a fit.
 
The Rimshot said:
With the Astros recent success of six straight ALCS appearances, four AL Championships in six years, and two World Series Championships in six years, I’m sure the perception has changed.
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I don't think so. Regionalism is a major factor, as is tradition. Look at the long history of the Cubs for a good example of following a team, no matter what.
 
stan said:
The Astros are more successful consistently than the Rangers will ever be. It’s probably harder to carry Astros on stations closer to Arlington since the Rangers fans would probably throw a fit.
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It's not that the Rangers Nation would necessarily throw a fit, they simply wouldn't care, and as a result, not tune in. The Astros are Houston's team, while the Rangers represent the rest of the State. Austin and SA are more aligned with, and supportive of Texas, especially now that the Round Rock Express are the AAA club of the Rangers. Oklahoma fits into this category too, because of the long history the 89ers had with Texas.

The Texans face the same dilemma. Outside of a 75 mile radius of Houston, Texas is solidly Cowboys country. The Astros and Texans could both start a dynasty, and it would be met with a shrug anywhere outside of Houston.

The Rangers may never have the success that the Astros have had in recent years, but our first title certainly won't be aided by the thud of a garbage can. 😉
 
Palpatine said:
None of the titles were added by garbage cans, except if you count placing the Yankees in one.
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Of course, what I said previously was just some good old fashioned ribbing of a division, and in state rival, but the Astros were found to be guilty of stealing signs from their opponents, including striking garbage cans, and setting up a center field camera to catch the opposing team's catcher's signs to the pitcher. It cost the organization their GM, Jeff Luhnow, A.J. Hinch, the skipper, $5 million in fines, and several draft picks. You may want to forget all about it down there, but it is very well remembered by the rest of the league, and most assuredly the Los Angeles Dodgers, who rightfully should be in the record books as the 2017 World Champions.

Houston is very fortunate to have landed Dusty Baker, who guided the team to a legitimate title last year.
 
To rosecitymedia,

If you believe the Rangers were innocent of cheating in the 2017 season, you are mistaken. Ryan Spaeder went on record saying Adrian Beltre had a friend sit in the center field bleachers at Rangers’ home games and wave a shirt when he was getting anything off speed.

Beltre at home: .362/.440/.586
Beltre on the road: .271/.333/.489

(Average/OBP/Slugging)

Several teams were using electronic sign stealing, it wasn’t just the Astros. The Red Sox, Yankees, Cleveland and Dodgers were all guilty of using what’s known as “The Baserunner Method,” which is where if you have a Baserunner, the video team would relay the pitch that was coming through a player in the dugout, who would relay the pitch to the Baserunner, who would relay it to the batter.

The Astros also used this method, so if you want to strip them of their 2017 title, that’s fine, but at the same time you need to strip the Red Sox of their AL East title, and the Dodgers of their NL pennant, and Cleveland of their 2017 AL Central title for employing the same method. The Yankees didn’t win anything that year, as they snuck in as a wild card team, but did have a hell of a postseason run, pushing the Astros to a Game 7 of the ALCS, only to lose 4-0.
 
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