Stations I'd like to see come back

[jras20]

I'd like to see Lone star 104.7 come back as Classic country with mix of Texas country, and 98.7 Texas mix. Now when i'm down I listen to America on XM on DirectTV. When we have get togethers.

 

[MartiUnit]

I'd like to see Lone star 104.7 come back as Classic country with mix of Texas country, and 98.7 Texas mix. Now when i'm down I listen to America on XM on DirectTV. When we have get togethers.

Why? OMG, they were so poorly programmed. No wonder that they are silent.

MartiUnit
ElCampoRadioListenerExtraordinaire

 

[Willis1000]

I miss personality AC ala KITE San Antonio, KULF Houston, KVIL Dallas, etc.

 

[jras20]

I'd like to see Lone star 104.7 come back as Classic country with mix of Texas country, and 98.7 Texas mix. Now when i'm down I listen to America on XM on DirectTV. When we have get togethers.

Why? OMG, they were so poorly programmed. No wonder that they are silent.

MartiUnit
ElCampoRadioListenerExtraordinaire

It wasnt all that bad, it had some downs but it was pretty good. Better than being dark.

 

[snoman]

103.7 KVIL (KVIL-FM Dallas-Fort Worth) the OLD KVIL.

100.3 JAMZ (KJMZ-FM Dallas-Fort Worth)

1370 KFRO (KFRO-AM 1370 Longview)

FUN RADIO TUX 99 (KTUX-FM 98.9 Carthage, TX/Shreveport, LA)

94.5 KWKH THE RADIO RANCH (KWKH-FM 94.5 Shreveport, LA), I realize they are on the AM dial, but I miss the all night truckers show. A good mix of music and comedy.

HEART & SOUL 103.9 (KMHT-FM 103.9 Marshall, TX)

Z92.1 (KROZ-FM 92.1 Tyler, TX)

98 KZEW THE ZOO (KZEW-FM 97.9 Dallas-Fort Worth)

Q102 (KTXQ-FM 102.1 Dallas-Fort Worth)

92.9 KITY (KITY-FM 92.9 San Antonio)

KTFM (KTFM-FM 102.7 San Antonio)

96.1 KSJL (KSJL-FM 96.1 San Antonio)

Kiss 98.5 (KHYS-FM 98.5 Houston)

101 KLOL (KLOL-FM 101.1 Houston)

 

[blaster69]

WOAI-top 40 San Antonio
XROCK-80 Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico
KSTP-Minneaplolis-St. Paul
WLS- Chicago
KNUS- DALLAS-FT.WORTH

 

[Willis1000]

I grew up on great AM top 40 stations like KILT Houston, KTSA San Antonio, KNOW Austin, KRIO McAllen and at night WLS Chicago.

They were solid well-programmed stations who attracted a big audience while still doing all the news and public service that was required of them back them.

Remember KILT and KTSA doing 20-20 News at :20 past and :20 till the hour? Did anyone notice that the :20 till newscast could run till the top of the hour in morning drive? A 20-minute newscast on a top 40 station! The listeners stayed with them because they were well written and presented by top notch talent.

 

[stan]

I loved WLS, and could pick it up occasionally even in Texas.

If I am picking Texas stations that I'd like to see come back, here they are:

KFMK - Houston - Lee Jolly could come back with real oldies
KZFX - Houston - Pair up Ted Carson and Paul Christy one more time
KZOM - Orange - Zoom 104 1/2 - You'd probably have to get the old staff out of drug rehab, but the music selection was pretty good back in the day.

 

[lafayetteindependentradio]

KLBJ-FM, KROX-FM late 1990s

KLOL-FM before they became mostly library-based

XERF

 

[salemjedi54]

107.5 KNOK Fort Worth-Dallas
106.1 KOAI Denton-Dallas/Ft. Worth
100.3 KRBV Dallas-Ft.Worth

 

[John Steel]

That is a great list Snoman.
could I be saying that just because I worked at 2 of those ?
NO that has nothing to do with it *s*
John Steel

 

[BossJock1947]

I grew up on great AM top 40 stations like KILT Houston, KTSA San Antonio, KNOW Austin, KRIO McAllen and at night WLS Chicago.

They were solid well-programmed stations who attracted a big audience while still doing all the news and public service that was required of them back them.

Remember KILT and KTSA doing 20-20 News at :20 past and :20 till the hour? Did anyone notice that the :20 till newscast could run till the top of the hour in morning drive? A 20-minute newscast on a top 40 station! The listeners stayed with them because they were well written and presented by top notch talent.

And because they had no where else to go because everybody else too had to do the PSA shit. I come from the era of great top 40 radio and i must confess some of those news/jocks guys voices were real chessy

 

[constantine]

KLBJ

I always loved the old KLBJ. Just a great local radio station. They owned the community back in the day. They still do well, but it was one of the stations that made me want to get into radio. I grew up on KLBJ.

 

[radioeye]

I grew up on great AM top 40 stations like KILT Houston, KTSA San Antonio, KNOW Austin, KRIO McAllen and at night WLS Chicago.

They were solid well-programmed stations who attracted a big audience while still doing all the news and public service that was required of them back them.

Remember KILT and KTSA doing 20-20 News at :20 past and :20 till the hour? Did anyone notice that the :20 till newscast could run till the top of the hour in morning drive? A 20-minute newscast on a top 40 station! The listeners stayed with them because they were well written and presented by top notch talent.

Radio was different in Austin, KNOW was definitely the Rock of Austin CHR station, but then there was KOKE "Coke FM" the Progressive Country inovator.... And KRMH "Good Karma". The latter two not "well programmed" but fun to listen to.

 

[CW]

I loved WLS, and could pick it up occasionally even in Texas.

If I am picking Texas stations that I'd like to see come back, here they are:

KFMK - Houston - Lee Jolly could come back with real oldies
KZFX - Houston - Pair up Ted Carson and Paul Christy one more time
KZOM - Orange - Zoom 104 1/2 - You'd probably have to get the old staff out of drug rehab, but the music selection was pretty good back in the day.

I agree with ya Stan....As to KZOM, they probably are dead if they didnt get out of rehab by now

I would add XEROK and WLAC to the list as well...they along with WLS were presets on my car AM radio back in the 70s....

 

[Horns]

Growing up in Central Texas...KOOV Country in Copperas Cove/Killeen....great LOCAL radio back in the 80s and 90s.

KTEM in Temple when it was personality top-40 in the 70s.

KTON, a great country station in Belton/Temple in the 60s-80s. Then, it became Q106 and had a good coupole of years as a personality CHR in the early-mid 80s.

KASE 101 in Austin in the 80s with their "three in a row" country done "easy-listening style" like KSCS in the 80s. Great music.

KTSA-AM in the 70s-early 80s. Man, was it well programmed around-the-clock. Came in great all the way up to Killeen. I remember listening to them in 1980 when Hurricane Allen caused a mass evacuation of the South Texas coast. Sure, they kept playing the hits, but they provided incredible full-service information to the thousands on the road in a mass evacuation to SA. (Unlike the numerous stations that failed miserably when thousands evacuated NOLA during Katrina and were on the road on that Sunday night in search of information on the radio dial while un-staffed stations kept up their satellite feed or voice tracking or infomercials all night)

KVIL, we got them via cable TV in Central Texas. Same with KSCS.

WBAP when they were country, full-service. I remember being kept company on late-night drives in the middle of nowhere by Bill Mack and Harold Taft with weather.

 

[mmnassour]

I grew up on great AM top 40 stations like KILT Houston, KTSA San Antonio, KNOW Austin, KRIO McAllen and at night WLS Chicago.

Oh, gosh, thanks for bringing up KRIO. I was in the RGV for the endgame at 910, when Charlie, oh, what was his name, Charlie Trubb(?) was running that station into the ground by sucking off all the money to launch KRIX FM and XHRIO2 TV. My gosh, what an abomination that was. Anyway, I remember both KRGV and KRIO fighting it out for supremacy in the Valley, the KBFM coming along and making the last AM-dominant market in the country (practically) an FM bastion within one book in 1978.

KRGV struggled on with its format for 5-6 more years, but KRIO was dead by 1980.

 

[Willis1000]

KRIO was voice tracking before voice tracking was cool.
They used the same technology that everyone else used for beautiful music stations and pulled off personality top 40 with it.
Most of the DJs were based in Houston.
A four-hour airshift came in the mail on a five-inch reel of tape.

BTW-- You don't need a wall of equipment anymore. A cheap desktop computer will do.

 

[poops]

I'd like to see Lone star 104.7 come back as Classic country with mix of Texas country, and 98.7 Texas mix. Now when i'm down I listen to America on XM on DirectTV. When we have get togethers.

jras,

I agree on 98.7 Texas mix, can't say that I've heard Lonestar 104.7 though.

I'm also with cw on kzfx and KFMK.

I would also like to see KILT, the big 610 (top 40) come back with many of the crew from the seventies.

Lastly, I'd like to see the return of "Lite & Country" KBRZ Freeport. Their signal wasn't the greatest, but it was really good for a mom & pop station.

Oh well.... back to reality

poops

 

[Garrett]

In Lubbock, I'd like to see KRLB "B99-5" come back, since 99.5 flipped just before I moved here. Also, I wish "Hot 104.3" would change it's name back to "Kiss 104.3".

Also, there's not a comeback wish, but it might be nices if "Sports Radio 1340" had a name of its own, like "The Sports Dawg" or "The Ticket" or "The Fan" or something. Not that it needs it, just for my own entertainment.