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From Radio Daily News, about the New York City market: "At the same time, the Elvis Duran morning show on WHTZ (100.3 FM) replaced La Mega as No. 1 with listeners 18 to 34 and is closing in among listeners 25 to 54."

Elvis Duran was originally 'Barry Cope' on the old KMMK-95.3 out of McKinney from 1979-81. Stubie Doak was there then, and so were a lot of the 1970s NTSU Mafia (Sammy, Russ, Ray, Andy, etc.)
 
KMMK..The only place in Collin County that was LOW enough to put an Fm transmitter. CR Graham was the owner. Checks would bounce,or paid in "Piggly Wiggly " money orders sometimes cash. Tradeouts were evident in his home, from Howell's home furnishings and Dr.Pepper.

One ice stormy night a BRILLIANT announcer couldn't seem to get accurate meter readings due to the ice accumulation on the antenna,which BTW wasn't that tall,maybe the length of 4 telephone poles. This doofus somehow managed to shimmy up the pole with a ball peen hammer and knocked the ice off. The problem ,(besides leaving any common sense behind in the control room) He also damaged a "bay" on the antenna,and thus KMMK's signal was great in their parking lot,and scattered pockets anywhere else for years.

Don't try this at home kids.
 
i believe there was a Chris Kerson, Dan Perrine, and John Gray working there with Barry Cope..

CR Graham ran this station as a hobby...

there were many a opossum or skunk outside this mobile home on Telephone Road north of Mckinney on US 75...


KMMK would broadcast the Allen Eagle football games in the fall...

George Riba and Dan Perrine did play by play ...

Perrine was replace later by a local fellow name Barry Chase....

this was early 1980's...
 
Dan Perine. He was an NTSU alum. Now whatever happen to him?
 
he sure was.

i think that's where Ken Barnett came from as well...

KIKM was a good listen during those Top 40 days.
 
KIKM WAS A PRETTY MUCH A "FARM STATION" for KVIL. Steve Eberhardt was there too ,and Don Miller.
 
KIK'm was a fun place to learn and a popular stepping stone to Dallas. We had several come to KVIL.
It was an AM station with an amazing pattern for a 1000 watt station. It covered Dallas as well as a local and extended close to Wichita Falls, over to Paris, and past Durant. We got calls from Dallas often.
A lot of Dallas area radio people checked it out too. One day the KLIF PD (Jim Davis) walked in, and on another day I came in and had a message from the PD of Z-97 who offered me the overnight shift (I declined - I was actually making more in afternoons in Sherman!).
We kept the format tight (top 20 singles) and I can remember going across the street to the old SherDen Mall to buy some good oldies out of my pocket at Musicland so we'd have them. We had the same TM jingles as KILT. It was all held together by a shoestring budget but for what it was, it sounded pretty good.

96.7 FM was the 3000 watt FM sister-station but in those days not much of a factor. We simulcasted for a while, then seperated the FM to Drake automation tapes featuring Bob Kingsley's voice. The AM jocks had to keep an eye on the FM which was in a studio down the hall. Of course all the AM jocks could care less about the "step-sister" country FM. I remember one day all the tapes ran out and the automation system defaulted to the "PSA cart" over and over. A lady finally called the front desk and said "you might want to check on your DJ, he just keeps reading those announcements over and over"....pretty funny stuff, imagining this old lady thinking the DJ on the FM had flipped out or something....of course, the manager was less than amused when he found out!


Ken Barnett, myself, Don Miller (now in Austin), Paul Davis (now at KRLD sales), Al Forguson (later with KMGC and KLUV), Barry (Now in New York), ... I'm sure I'm fogetting some names...

I was up there a couple years ago and the mall was gone, the old KIKM building was falling down in very bad shape...was weird to walk thru it... I hear it is gone now, razed in the last year. A lot of fun times there!
 
Wow, KMMK/McKinney was my first radio job. Whenever payday came around, the owner would meet me in the hospital parking lot on 75 and pay me with cash. Barry would come on after me on Saturdays and I'd stick around and we'd make up stuff in the production room (such as it was). I did play-by-play for McKinney HS football for two seasons, and then I'd sleep at the station overnight with the scorpions so I wouldn't have to drive all the way back to Oak Cliff. Great place for stories later.
 
Steve Eberhart said:
KIK'm...was an AM station with an amazing pattern for a 1000 watt station. It covered Dallas as well as a local and extended close to Wichita Falls, over to Paris, and past Durant. We got calls from Dallas often.
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No kidding. Inherited from predecessor KRRV, it was one of the most solid 1kw directionals I've ever heard. Their best days were in the mid-to-late 70's after WFAA dumped music and KXOL flipped to Country, and the Top 40 formats on KLIF and the original KFJZ were swirling down the toilet. KIKM wound up as a preset on many AM-only car radios in DFW.
 
stubied said:
...and then I'd sleep at the station overnight with the scorpions so I wouldn't have to drive all the way back to Oak Cliff. Great place for stories later.
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That has liability written all over it. We had a part-timer that did pretty much the same thing; meanwhile another part-timer was stealing property from the suite. The thefts were carried out over a few months, and without the evidence of security footage that was finally captured, some people suspected Mr. Sleepover was responsible. Mr. Sleepover also used the suite's shower facilities, and never cleaned the stall. The part-time janitor had to handle this, and she got tired of it real fast. The shower facility was meant for clean-up purposes for the folks using makeup in the TV portion of the suite, not as a regular hygiene area for unwelcome overnight guests.

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But did he put the soap back to where it was suppose to be?
 
stubied said:
Wow, KMMK/McKinney was my first radio job. Whenever payday came around, the owner would meet me in the hospital parking lot on 75 and pay me with cash. Barry would come on after me on Saturdays and I'd stick around and we'd make up stuff in the production room (such as it was). I did play-by-play for McKinney HS football for two seasons, and then I'd sleep at the station overnight with the scorpions so I wouldn't have to drive all the way back to Oak Cliff. Great place for stories later.
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which years did you perform your services for the mighty KMMK??
 
waaaaay back in the mid 70's. trantulas in the transmitter room, a upi machine that was never hooked up,a board that had to be tweaked underneath with a paper clip so the channels balanced.
KMMK: Kan't Make Much Kash
 
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