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San Antonio's First FM station started in 1946: 101.5

Texas FM stations listed in Radiocraft magazine in 1948 according to
http://jeff560.tripod.com/1948fm.html
Note a couple of small towns took a stab at the new technology:

96.9 KRBC-FM Abilene TX
104.3 KGNC-FM Amarillo TX
99.5 KRIC-FM Beaumont TX
94.5 KAMT-FM College Station TX
92.5 KRLD-FM Dallas TX
97.9 WFAA-FM Dallas TX
104.5 KIXL-FM Dallas TX
104.9 KURV-FM Edinburg TX
95.3 KGBS-FM Harlingen TX
96.5 KXYZ-FM Houston TX
98.5 KOPY Houston TX
101.1 KTRH-FM Houston TX
102.9 KPRC-FM Houston TX
99.5 KFYO-FM Lubbock TX
95.5 KRBA-FM Lufkin TX
94.5 KGKL-FM San Angelo TX
92.9 KONO-FM San Antonio TX
99.5 KISS San Antonio TX
101.5 KYFM-FM San Antonio TX
102.5 WOAI-FM San Antonio TX
92.5 KCMC-FM Texarkana TX
101.5 KGKB-FM Tyler TX
98.7 KVWC-FM Vernon TX
97.3 KTRN Wichita Falls TX
 
I had long understood that KIXL-FM 104.5 in DFW was the first station in Texas, hitting the air in 1947, but perhaps it is just the oldest continually operating FM, now KKDA-FM. I guess KYFM beat them to the punch but didn't survive very long.

Austin didn't get an FM until the original KHFI 98.3 signed on in 1956 (now KVET-FM 98.1.). I am unaware of any earlier failed FM efforts in Austin...?

Lots of frequency changes in the early years of FM.
 
fredcantu said:
Texas FM stations listed in Radiocraft magazine in 1948...
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Try http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1947/1947-FM-and-TV.pdf at page 13 for all the licensed FMs, CP and on the air, at the beginning of 1947. The same list for 1946 had no FMs in all Texas.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Other-Documments/FM-Magazine/FM-1947-02.o.pdf

In Milton Sleeper's magazine on page 43 there is an early 1947 list of the Texas FMs on the air at that time...

KISS, KYFM and WOAI-FM were on by that time.
 
It's interesting to see the number of visionaries who tried and failed with FM radio in the 1940s and 50s.
They were ahead of their time.
Maybe we'll be saying that about Hybrid Digital Radio in the 2030s.
 
I recall an FM array on one of the KTSA towers. Is that from KYFM, or was it put up when the original KTFM took air?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Austin didn't get an FM until the original KHFI 98.3 signed on in 1956 (now KVET-FM 98.1.). I am unaware of any earlier failed FM efforts in Austin...?
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No Austin FMs pre-date KHFI, but there were two construction permits for FM stations in Austin granted in the spring of 1947:
KNOW-FM 95.5 and KTBC-FM 92.3.
Whether there was ever any actual "construction" of these facilities is not known, but neither station ever made it on the air.
KTBC received another CP in 1960, and soon after there was finally a KTBC-FM (the fourth FM in Austin after KHFI, KAZZ and KUT-FM.)
 
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