Miami OK

[AmyMegan]

This is my favorite station. I have every one in our work room listening as well. Miami OK pronounced Miam-uh.

 

[Kelly A]

This is my favorite station. I have every one in our work room listening as well. Miami OK pronounced Miam-uh.

Good to know.
Looks like they used to have a control room in the window. Now it's more than likely a PC sitting in a closet.

 

[AmyMegan]

Grove OK Rural Oklahoma but the town has a lot of local business.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Looks like they used to have a control room in the window.

A 78-year-old man ran a station playing various styles that would appeal to his age group in the Charlotte NC area, daytime only.

His building was being torn down and he planned to move into the shopping mall across the street and have the control room visible to shoppers. Never happened. It went off the air Christmas Day 1992 and never came back.

 

[Kent]

K-Grand 107.5 hasn’t been around for a long time. It was sold to OSU almost 20 years ago. At one point around 1997-98, it ran a classic hits format that was probably way ahead of its time.

KGLC runs an interesting soft AC format, or at least it did a couple years ago. I heard Hestand finally sold his stations as he'd been shopping them for several years. In addition to KGVE/KVIS/KGLC, he also owned KESA 100.9 in Eureka Springs.

 

[AmyMegan]

K-Grand 107.5 hasn’t been around for a long time. It was sold to OSU almost 20 years ago. At one point around 1997-98, it ran a classic hits format that was probably way ahead of its time.

KGLC runs an interesting soft AC format, or at least it did a couple years ago. I heard Hestand finally sold his stations as he'd been shopping them for several years. In addition to KGVE/KVIS/KGLC, he also owned KESA 100.9 in Eureka Springs.

KGLC is on 100.9 FM and KTSO in Tulsa OK is also on 100.9 and the formats are similar. When I am headed to Missouri, the KTSO signal fades, and KGLC starts coming in and the music is similar. At first I thought was KTSO has a great signal but realized it was KGLC,

 

[AmyMegan]

K-Grand 107.5 hasn’t been around for a long time. It was sold to OSU almost 20 years ago. At one point around 1997-98, it ran a classic hits format that was probably way ahead of its time.

KGLC runs an interesting soft AC format, or at least it did a couple years ago. I heard Hestand finally sold his stations as he'd been shopping them for several years. In addition to KGVE/KVIS/KGLC, he also owned KESA 100.9 in Eureka Springs.

Ive heard KESA when I was in Eureka Springs. AR I wish I had time to look for the station but I didn't and the terrain in Eureka Springs AR is tricky.. It's hard to get around that town.

 

[AmyMegan]

My pics from Lakes Country radio in Talequah OK. And nearby Mr Ed"s grave. A marker that was donated by another station.

 

[Kelly A]

A 78-year-old man ran a station playing various styles that would appeal to his age group in the Charlotte NC area, daytime only.

His building was being torn down and he planned to move into the shopping mall across the street and have the control room visible to shoppers. Never happened. It went off the air Christmas Day 1992 and never came back.

So goes a lot of the old 'personal jukeboxes' of the day. Radio is a tough enough business to be in. Even well-off people of the day can only lose money for so long.

 

[Kelly A]

My pics from Lakes Country radio in Talequah OK. And nearby Mr Ed"s grave. A marker that was donated by another station.

Forget the radio stations. So, is that memorial just a big headstone purchased by the radio station to commemorate the passing of Mr. Ed? The reason for asking, on-line reports were the horse that played Mr. Ed lived, and eventually died from a tranquilizer overdose outside of Burbank, CA. There are other reports that the horse lived on a farm in Talequah OK, and died there in 1970. I'm kind of on the side of Mr. Ed meeting his maker in California, not Oklahoma, since that's where his trainer lived, and where the show was filmed. It doesn't make sense that the horse would have made it's way from Los Angeles to some obscure place like Talequah.

 

[Kent]

KGLC is on 100.9 FM and KTSO in Tulsa OK is also on 100.9 and the formats are similar. When I am headed to Missouri, the KTSO signal fades, and KGLC starts coming in and the music is similar. At first I thought was KTSO has a great signal but realized it was KGLC,

I have family in Tulsa and have made the I-44 run between Tulsa and Joplin many times over the last 25 years. I remember KXOJ and KGLC almost blending together. My grandparents used to live right on State Hwy 28 on the Rogers/Mayes County line. They were just down the road from Totem Pole Park. It was always KXOJ that came in at their house. I got my first real taste of DX'ing at their house on that hill. Kansas City, Joplin, Springfield, Northwest Arkansas, and Wichita (in addition to most Tulsa stations) could be picked up there. Of course, as the 90’s began, more stations upgraded and got shoehorned into the dial, which meant most of the farther away stations began to disappear.

Ive heard KESA when I was in Eureka Springs. AR I wish I had time to look for the station but I didn't and the terrain in Eureka Springs AR is tricky.. It's hard to get around that town.

Seems like I heard Bunyard bought KESA, and it probably fits well with his stations in Berryville. My mother likes to go to Eureka Springs about once every 10 years. I was just there about six months ago for an afternoon. Didn’t get a chance to check out KESA, though I understand it’s a soft AC format. The old KTCN was an easy listening station until it was sold to Larry Rice's New Life Evangelistic Center. I can tell you exactly where it was in the pre-NLEC days. You wouldn’t know a radio station had ever been there looking at it today.

 

[AmyMegan]

Forget the radio stations. So, is that memorial just a big headstone purchased by the radio station to commemorate the passing of Mr. Ed? The reason for asking, on-line reports were the horse that played Mr. Ed lived, and eventually died from a tranquilizer overdose outside of Burbank, CA. There are other reports that the horse lived on a farm in Talequah OK, and died there in 1970. I'm kind of on the side of Mr. Ed meeting his maker in California, not Oklahoma, since that's where his trainer lived, and where the show was filmed. It doesn't make sense that the horse would have made it's way from Los Angeles to some obscure place like Talequah.

I thought Mr Ed's body was buried in Talequah. I'll have to research this.