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Strange formats in Houston
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rbrucecarter5
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matty1979 said:
What about right now?
The eagles - WTF are they? Classic rock? Oldies? 70's and 80's Bad songs that were bad then and still are bad today? How about all of those I mentioned.
KODA - oldies? beautiful music? Ac? All Delilah all the time?
Arrow - should put an "n" on it for "narrow" - small playlist
Are KRBE and 95.7 top 40? rap? hip-hop? urban? Probably a mixture which sucks if you hate hip hop and rap.
And so forth and so on. It gets wierder, especially with Christian stations. I can't speak to country. It all adds up to one incredibly strange radio dial, not one to my liking so I'm on satellite most of the time. The ONLY bright spots in the Houston area are the new classical station and that little oldies station in Huntsville on 1490.
Very true! I would love to see "oldies" come back into town. There is only so many times I can listen to "Desperado" without wanting to drive off the road.
XM has been my choice for years and every once in a while I will check out 93.7 and 9 times out of 10 its a commercial or they are playing "I want to know what love is"....how is that rock?
XM has the 70's station that will replay Americas top 40 from various years...way cool!!
XM has been my choice for years and every once in a while I will check out 93.7 and 9 times out of 10 its a commercial or they are playing "I want to know what love is"....how is that rock?
XM has the 70's station that will replay Americas top 40 from various years...way cool!!
I think the strangest format Houston has ever had happened in the early 90s, when a New York group bought a Houston FM and named it "YOU-105", installed a "talk radio format" and put a shock jock named Robert William Milford the Third in charge of it.
Milford's run as PD of You-105 was a total failure, and it was put out of its misery -- and OUR misery -- after only six months or so. It was a fascinating experiment, in a bad dream sort of way, the same way watching a snake swallow a mouse is fascinating. Those New York guys thought a New York style shock radio station would work in Houston. It didn't.
I think most of us know Milford as the Rob Williams who was News Director for a brief time at KNUZ. Since then Williams has worked all over the country under his real name of Rob Milford, most recently as a field reporter for CBS Radio in Florida.
Milford's run as PD of You-105 was a total failure, and it was put out of its misery -- and OUR misery -- after only six months or so. It was a fascinating experiment, in a bad dream sort of way, the same way watching a snake swallow a mouse is fascinating. Those New York guys thought a New York style shock radio station would work in Houston. It didn't.
I think most of us know Milford as the Rob Williams who was News Director for a brief time at KNUZ. Since then Williams has worked all over the country under his real name of Rob Milford, most recently as a field reporter for CBS Radio in Florida.
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charles123
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rbrucecarter5 said:
What about KTBZ? Are they Alternative or Active Rock? Why are they playing Metallica?
matty1979 said:
Sounds interesting. How long did that last? What station was that?
Old Chicago
OldChicago said:
It wasn't 10 years ago. AND it wasn't a format; it was stunting before the flip to KIOL Rock 103.7. This coincided with the beginning of KFNC, "FM Newschannel 97-5."
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rbrucecarter5
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Chuck Tiller said:
So - when do the long term stunts end on all the other strange formats around town? Why can't Houston just do normal formats?
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purpledevil
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I don't remember this "You 105". I do remember a "You 106.9" that was KKHU-Conroe and that lasted a pretty short time.
Strangest station I can ever remember in Houston was KIKK-FM as "Young Country" 95.7. Played rock/pop hits with Country music mixed in. Very strange, especially after the many years 95.7 was entirely country as "KIKK 96 FM". Didn't last all that long, as "The Wave" entered the market as Houston's smooth Jazz outlet.
Honorable mention would go to KKBQ AM & FM when it abandoned Top 40 in '91 and went to a rock hybrid of sorts. Another short lived format that quickly flipped again within a couple months to "Easy Country 92.9".
*gasp*, Chuck it wasn't 10 years ago, but would you believe it has been 7? Happened in 2005 when 103.7 signed on from La Porte. Good Lord, the years just fly by... :-\
Strangest station I can ever remember in Houston was KIKK-FM as "Young Country" 95.7. Played rock/pop hits with Country music mixed in. Very strange, especially after the many years 95.7 was entirely country as "KIKK 96 FM". Didn't last all that long, as "The Wave" entered the market as Houston's smooth Jazz outlet.
Honorable mention would go to KKBQ AM & FM when it abandoned Top 40 in '91 and went to a rock hybrid of sorts. Another short lived format that quickly flipped again within a couple months to "Easy Country 92.9".
*gasp*, Chuck it wasn't 10 years ago, but would you believe it has been 7? Happened in 2005 when 103.7 signed on from La Porte. Good Lord, the years just fly by... :-\
purpledevil said:
KKHU You 106.9 lasted 6 months, I think they were trying to go after the abondoned KFMK listeners. Before that they were Smooth Jazz KJZS, before that KJOJ 106.9 (used to be on 107.3) I think we got to add the 107.5 The Rocket to the list. That was a weird format. I have one short aircheck of You 106.9 with Donna McKenzie, along with KSRR Star 107 out of Austin May 1992. Let's not forget Club 104 KRBE the station that played Top 40 songs of Toni Toni Tone, and C&C Music Factory without the rap in the breakdowns. They would make their own edits splicing up the songs like Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam (Ultimix) and take ad-libs out of the song. I called it Top 40 with Karoeke! I heard no other station do that with their songs.
I don't remember this "You 105". I do remember a "You 106.9" that was KKHU-Conroe and that lasted a pretty short time.
For purpledevil:
You are right. It WAS YOU 106.9. It was such an awful format that my brain has deleted most of my unpleasant memories of it.
I was between full time jobs at the time and doing time at Metro Traffic when YOU-106 hit town, and I remember doing some traffic reports for that Milford III guy. He wanted us to literally scream the reports so it would fit in with the madness he was creating.
The other traffic reporters in Metro's boiler room in the Transco Tower didn't appreciate the screamer over in the corner, but that's what Milford wanted.
For purpledevil:
You are right. It WAS YOU 106.9. It was such an awful format that my brain has deleted most of my unpleasant memories of it.
I was between full time jobs at the time and doing time at Metro Traffic when YOU-106 hit town, and I remember doing some traffic reports for that Milford III guy. He wanted us to literally scream the reports so it would fit in with the madness he was creating.
The other traffic reporters in Metro's boiler room in the Transco Tower didn't appreciate the screamer over in the corner, but that's what Milford wanted.
The imaging was terrible. Instead of saying "You 106 point 9," it was being pronounced as 'YOU'LL 106.9.
I don't remember Donna Mac being there on the smooth jazz period. However, she was on KHYS?KJOJ as Smooth FM 98.5 around 1996. Ted Carson was doing the morning shift, Donna was on in the afternoon and Col. St. James at night. I was doing weekends and fill-ins as Charles Calloway. I was still at KILT, four floors above using my real name.
I don't remember Donna Mac being there on the smooth jazz period. However, she was on KHYS?KJOJ as Smooth FM 98.5 around 1996. Ted Carson was doing the morning shift, Donna was on in the afternoon and Col. St. James at night. I was doing weekends and fill-ins as Charles Calloway. I was still at KILT, four floors above using my real name.
Chuck Tiller said:
No, during the You 106.9 period. May 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB52okVPzfw
I think she made the transition to KLOL a couple of months later.
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