Hey Jay and Y'all...
Re: Y-95, I came to Texas from NY-NJ, I had worked at Z-100 as a phone op in high school, 83-85, so I trended toward "the Wire" (Y-95) over KEGL.
I remember driving into Dallas for the first time on a Sunday afternoon, July 22nd 1988. The first top of the hour song I heard on 97.1 was Urgent by Foreigner, as my memory goes. From my Z-100 background , I though what the $%^&* was that? KEGL? I was told that Dallas was very Rock leaning, with KZEW and Q-102 and all. Ultimately I liked the Wire better. I believe they called TCB the "Tower of Power", at least Bill Evans / the Morning Guys did.
I am back in the metroplex now, as of a few years ago. My wife works just down the street from TCB and Las Collinas seems rather dead as opposed to 1988.
And Jay, since you worked in the former Xerox building, a story about the elevator - the one on the right hand side. My friend and I went up to the lobby of the Eagle. This was circa the time when the pics of the jocks hung in the lobby. Kraddick had replaced his picture with a caricature.
instead.
My friend took out his keys and keyed into the simulated mahogany of the right elevator "Y-95" in very large letters. I was embarrassed. Do you ever remember seeing Y-95 scratched into the wood grain of an elevator there?
Re: Y-95, I came to Texas from NY-NJ, I had worked at Z-100 as a phone op in high school, 83-85, so I trended toward "the Wire" (Y-95) over KEGL.
I remember driving into Dallas for the first time on a Sunday afternoon, July 22nd 1988. The first top of the hour song I heard on 97.1 was Urgent by Foreigner, as my memory goes. From my Z-100 background , I though what the $%^&* was that? KEGL? I was told that Dallas was very Rock leaning, with KZEW and Q-102 and all. Ultimately I liked the Wire better. I believe they called TCB the "Tower of Power", at least Bill Evans / the Morning Guys did.
I am back in the metroplex now, as of a few years ago. My wife works just down the street from TCB and Las Collinas seems rather dead as opposed to 1988.
And Jay, since you worked in the former Xerox building, a story about the elevator - the one on the right hand side. My friend and I went up to the lobby of the Eagle. This was circa the time when the pics of the jocks hung in the lobby. Kraddick had replaced his picture with a caricature.
instead.
My friend took out his keys and keyed into the simulated mahogany of the right elevator "Y-95" in very large letters. I was embarrassed. Do you ever remember seeing Y-95 scratched into the wood grain of an elevator there?
These days, if I cared to get them OTA, the technology is available to still get them by nulling out 969 and using a software-defined radio like the Sony HD tuner to reject 971 from the Tulsa area. I'd love to have had the modern tech I have access today back then