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What Dallas/Ft Worth radio stations from yesteryear do you miss?

bturner said:
Forgot about KBUY, a great country station

Speaking of KBUY, their FM was Spanish language (the only one in DFW at the time) and from 7 to 11 at night, for some time, they did Southern Gospel.
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As a kid my parents would take us to Seminary South mall and you could see the KBUY DJs through a window. Years later when they went to all news "radio 15" they gave away their music library in the nearby Pep Boys parking lot.
 
Great radio station! I spent five years of my career at KBUY. Had some the best times of my life there!
 
I grew up in Central TX but I could hear:

WBAP 820 Country w/ Don Day, Jimmy Stewart, Don Harris, Bill Mack, Harold Taft on wx. I used to work with my Grandfather on his ranch near Lampasas, all he had was an AM radio. We were in the middle of nowhere, but I enjoyed a touch of the city on his truck's AM radio, he listened to WBAP all day and it was about all he could pick up at night.

KVIL 103.7 My broadcasting class from college got a tour in 1981. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. That station sounded incredible, everyone had talent. It was like a morning show on all day and night. The studio in the bank building in Highland Park was amazing, even a spare control room and pre-built microphone wiring in the conference room table for the weekly Sunday morning "Staff Meeting".

KNUS in the 70s, I got a really good signal in Central TX. I always found them interesting but I always had the thought that the station really didn't know what it wanted to be.

KSCS in the 70s/80s in their "Continuous Country" days. Our cable TV company imported their audio that ran on one of the cable channels. The announcers sounded like they were doing easy-listening but it was very professional and you got the feeling that the music really did matter most.
 
LiveLocal said:
I grew up in Central TX but I could hear:

WBAP 820 Country w/ Don Day, Jimmy Stewart, Don Harris, Bill Mack, Harold Taft on wx. I used to work with my Grandfather on his ranch near Lampasas, all he had was an AM radio. We were in the middle of nowhere, but I enjoyed a touch of the city on his truck's AM radio, he listened to WBAP all day and it was about all he could pick up at night.
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I remember listening to WBAP on my AM clock radio when I was a child in third grade. It must have been 1977 or 1978 because I remember hearing "Margaritaville" as a current. MANY years later, I worked there as a board op. :D
 
charles123 said:
I loved Y95 when it was a Top 40 station.
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Which version?

I remember that they launched as a high energy CHR with a strong rhythmic lean. Then they went to more of a mainstream, even adult-leaning approach with a significant number of oldies mixed in (for example, I remember them playing "Miracles" by the Jefferson Starship, which was over a decade old). Then they dropped the oldies and were more of a straight down the center CHR.

I liked a couple of the variants that they tried, but eventually did get tired of them changing direction every six months.
 
Young Country - they understood better than most that the listeners would stay tuned if you interacted with them and put them on the air.

KVIL back in Ron Chapman's hey day. His listeners were so devoted he once asked listeners to send $20 without saying what they'd do with it - just to see how many would do it. $250,000 later he was very surprised and still didn't really know what to do with the money. I can't recall what he ultimately did, but it was a great story about just how good Chapman was at engaging the listeners.

KEWS All News 94.9 - No talk shows, no sports play-by-play.. just news weather and traffic (and sports reports) 24 hours a day 7 days a week - and on the FM dial where you could actually hear the thing at work.

KMEZ & KOAX - back when easy listening was very popular. Not the light AC stuff, but real easy listening instrumentals all day and night. These two stations battled it out in the top 10 quite a bit back in the late 70s and early 80s. KOAX moved its studios to the top of Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas during this battle. I always enjoyed going up to the observation deck at Reunion as a kid and being able to see the DJ's at work was one of the reasons.
 
Young Country - they understood better than most that the listeners would stay tuned if you interacted with them and put them on the air.

KVIL back in Ron Chapman's hey day. His listeners were so devoted he once asked listeners to send $20 without saying what they'd do with it - just to see how many would do it. $250,000 later he was very surprised and still didn't really know what to do with the money. I can't recall what he ultimately did, but it was a great story about just how good Chapman was at engaging the listeners.

KEWS All News 94.9 - No talk shows, no sports play-by-play.. just news weather and traffic (and sports reports) 24 hours a day 7 days a week - and on the FM dial where you could actually hear the thing at work.

KMEZ & KOAX - back when easy listening was very popular. Not the light AC stuff, but real easy listening instrumentals all day and night. These two stations battled it out in the top 10 quite a bit back in the late 70s and early 80s. KOAX moved its studios to the top of Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas during this battle. I always enjoyed going up to the observation deck at Reunion as a kid and being able to see the DJ's at work was one of the reasons.
 
tested said:
KVIL back in Ron Chapman's hey day. His listeners were so devoted he once asked listeners to send $20 without saying what they'd do with it - just to see how many would do it. $250,000 later he was very surprised and still didn't really know what to do with the money. I can't recall what he ultimately did, but it was a great story about just how good Chapman was at engaging the listeners.
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Actually he was doing it for a charity the whole time. but your right, all he did was get on the air and ask listeners to send $20 without saying what it was for.
 
Richard Pryor said:
105.3 KLLI with Jagger, Pugs and Kelly, Russ Martin, Tom Leykis, Big Dick Hunter, and the Dan and Tasos Show on Saturday night.
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not to mention the audio portion of Cinemax feeds on Saturday nights! ;D

Right after Mick Williams' Cyber Line from 10p-11p.

-BGH
 
TexasTom said:
charles123 said:
I loved Y95 when it was a Top 40 station.
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Which version?

I remember that they launched as a high energy CHR with a strong rhythmic lean. Then they went to more of a mainstream, even adult-leaning approach with a significant number of oldies mixed in (for example, I remember them playing "Miracles" by the Jefferson Starship, which was over a decade old). Then they dropped the oldies and were more of a straight down the center CHR.

I liked a couple of the variants that they tried, but eventually did get tired of them changing direction every six months.
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The one during the years 1986-1987
 
Listening to my 8 track player as I drove through Dallas.
 
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