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RGV Ratings

Absolutely right, I forgot about the Reynosa station on 17. My gosh, you DO need a program to tell the players down there! ;D

Also....Charlie Trub may not have been the actual owner of KRIO during the late 70s, early 80s, apparently. For anyone who's interested in that Valley footnote of a station, I found a little more info on one of the actual owners at: http://www.cabledays.net/education/library/oralHistoryDetails.cfm?id=215 . Just go there and search the page for KRIO.
 
I ran into Charlie a few years ago when he was running the 101.1 on South Padre Island. He sold it to Entravision I think. So he was still at it in the 21st century.
 
Yes indeed, I think he STARTED that station in 1978 or 1979. KRIX 99.5, South Padre. At the time it was the only decent sounding station in the RGV. But there were problems with the signal. I seem to remember some of our jocks laughing that their pattern was so far off that you could hear it in Havana better than McAllen!
 
There is a pirate on 103.5 with a Tejano format in the McAllen area that id's itself as "Tejano Powerhouse 103.5". It operates at very odd times of the day and night.
 
radiodog2 said:
There is a pirate on 103.5 with a Tejano format in the McAllen area that id's itself as "Tejano Powerhouse 103.5". It operates at very odd times of the day and night.
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Someone should call the fcc to check this out.
 
mmnassour said:
Yes indeed, I think he STARTED that station in 1978 or 1979. KRIX 99.5, South Padre. At the time it was the only decent sounding station in the RGV. But there were problems with the signal. I seem to remember some of our jocks laughing that their pattern was so far off that you could hear it in Havana better than McAllen!
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Maybe you're confusing KRIX with another station. KRIX did start in the late 70s as 99X. It was 100kw but had its 500-foot tower in its community of license, Brownsville. That would explain the reception issues in McAllen. But it was also completely automated in the 99X days. I believe it ran the TM Stereo Rock format out of a portable building at the base of the tower. The only live element was the news which came from the KRIO newsroom in McAllen.
 
No, it's the same station. I was just wrong in the city of license. I remember the KRIX sign-on very well, but would have sworn that it was licensed to South Padre, not Brownsville. But you're right, that's the station to which I'm referring. Almost thirty years does tend to fog the mind ;D. And yes, that automation wasn't worth a......
 
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