I heard about a KSTB Star 101.5 a few years back that's no longer on the air currently. What did this station sound like and how come it failed? Unfort. I could never hear it so I don't haver any of it's liners or jocks on tape. If anyone has an aircheck I'd be happy to trade but does anyone have a run down of all the DJs on that station? What was their morning show? Please make a list for me. Thank you!
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Please refresh my history - what did KSTB Star 101.5 sound like?
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The KSTB call stood for their "Star of the Bay" slogan. Was basically an AC format. Many mentions of local events in the Galveston Bay area. Appeared to be a syndicated format that was surprisingly customizable.
I never got to hear much of KSTB unless I was down in that area...Their signal barely made it to my Cy-Fair location, and has been downgraded since then. It now simulcasts KAYD in B/PA.
Another similar type of operation was (the original) KRTX 104.9 in Galveston. Very few people recall that it was the first station in the Houston-Galveston market to use "The Wave" as a slogan, when it was running a New Age/Contemporary format in the late 80's. I recall they applied for the KGWV calls about that time, but I don't think they were ever actually granted. Signal range was also very limited, blocked in by the (then) KFRD-FM in Rosenberg. KRTX would occasionally make it to NW Harris county after KFRD signed off. The station is now KPTI on 105.3. Any aircheck of the NAC days would be quite a find, on the same rare level as KZRQ.
I never got to hear much of KSTB unless I was down in that area...Their signal barely made it to my Cy-Fair location, and has been downgraded since then. It now simulcasts KAYD in B/PA.
Another similar type of operation was (the original) KRTX 104.9 in Galveston. Very few people recall that it was the first station in the Houston-Galveston market to use "The Wave" as a slogan, when it was running a New Age/Contemporary format in the late 80's. I recall they applied for the KGWV calls about that time, but I don't think they were ever actually granted. Signal range was also very limited, blocked in by the (then) KFRD-FM in Rosenberg. KRTX would occasionally make it to NW Harris county after KFRD signed off. The station is now KPTI on 105.3. Any aircheck of the NAC days would be quite a find, on the same rare level as KZRQ.
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WillTX
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This station was on their air at least til 2000. It sounded just like San Antonio's Star 93 KSRR before Techinor/Univision bought them. KSTB was fairly heard over the Sharpstown/Fondren Southwest Area, On Digital Walkman (not the analog tuner) cleaner rimshot then now-defunct KHYS 98.5 could only pick it up outside or inside with one of those oldschool console phonograph tuners. They played Hall and Oates, and whoever sung the same it just a shame that's all. Mainly I would only change the channel to it when 98.5 The Jamz had a commercial on it, but it was a good pop a/c
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KSTB's "Star 101.5" days lasted until October, 2002. They aired the Choice AC format from Radio One Networks (which is now Waitt Radio Networks, and the format is called AC Active.) I was working for that network at the time and always got good feedback from the audience, far more than most other markets we had at the time.
They did have a local morning show for a while - A friend of mine was Jessie Coltrane, the female half of the Al & Jessie show. They were based in Clear Lake (the studios were off of Bay Area Blvd in the tower that houses Blue Moon Investigations). Somewhere around here, I have a tape of their show - the problem was they were promoting as the Bay Area, but their signal didn't boom in like the rest of the local Houston radio stations, and got lost in the mix...
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