Radio stations that advertise other radio stations

[MikeShannon914]

Weird topic, just for fun, but does anyone remember these?

KLRX (Lite 97.9) welcoming KMEZ listeners after KMEZ-107.5 was dropped for KCDU ("Classic rock, without the heavy metal") in 1991?

KLIF-1190 telling listeners in a looped recording to "move down the dial" to the new 570 dial position in 1990?

KTXQ-Q102 telling listeners during the AOR-to-Jammin' Oldies stunting in 1998 that, for classic rock, tune into 92.5 KZPS, and for today's modern rock, tune into The Edge? And Q102 even simulcasted KZPS for several hours as part of the stunt.

KPCN-730 AM telling listeners to move up the dial to KYAL-1600 to keep hearing their favorite country music? That was 1969, when the new KKDA-AM became "Sunny" briefly as an easy listening station.

KRLD-"Oldies 10-80" telling talk show fans to make the move to WBAP? (Oh, wait...that's not supposed to happen until 2008...sorry.) ;D

Others?

 

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KTXQ-Q102 telling listeners during the AOR-to-Jammin' Oldies stunting in 1998 that, for classic rock, tune into 92.5 KZPS, and for today's modern rock, tune into The Edge? And Q102 even simulcasted KZPS for several hours as part of the stunt.

The Q102 switch was legendary. Classic radio. Imagine being new to the market and friend tells you about this classic rock station, you tune in and catch Earth, Wind and Fire. Nice.

Another switch radio was JAMZ's unfortunate agreement to promote the switch to V100. Yeah, love those Thomas Bacote days. Someone hear TAPS bugling in the background?

 

[stevezodiac]

Or the sad day that one of the towers at Ceder Hill was hit by a plane out of the Dallas Naval Air Station, and knocked several stations off. You'd tune to a station and they were telling you to retune to another on the dial. I don't remember which stations were affected, I'm sure someone here does though......

 

[Slambang]

I remember that, I saw the plane hit the tower while I was at recess (I was in 4th grade) the plane ricochet and the tower tumble.

 

[MikeShannon914]

The Zoo and KSCS were the two affected ones I recall offhand. And later, in 1996, when the tower fell when workers were repairing it, and messed up Young Country and KEWS for quite a while thereafter...which ended up being the final nail-in-the-coffin for "The First All-News FM Station in America, Made in Texas." (Actually, I think 94.9 was not affected by the fall itself, but because 105.3 moved temporarily to 94.9 while the tower was rehabbed.)

 

[Robert Bass]

Yep Mike... the KEWS thing was already a done deal, before that tower collapse. Or that's my understanding of it, anyway.

R

 

[bucwhyl]

If I remember correctly, KVIL advertised on B97.9 before it flipped to The Beat.

 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

Or the sad day that one of the towers at Ceder Hill was hit by a plane out of the Dallas Naval Air Station, and knocked several stations off. You'd tune to a station and they were telling you to retune to another on the dial. I don't remember which stations were affected, I'm sure someone here does though......

Remember when that poor man was actually working on the towers and fell umpteen stories to his demise. I think it was the KYNG tower, but I am probably wrong. At any rate, there was some nice solidarity in radio land that unfortunate day.

 

[Robert Bass]

These are actually two different incidents.

The Naval plane strike occured several years before the KYNG tower collapse tragedy. And yes, At least two people were killed in the latter. One was flung like a human catapult from the tower, the second one was on the roof of the transmitter building and was crushed. A very sad day.

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I still have a recording of the news reports from TSN around here, somewhere.
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R