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yee haw the SA country stations

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DominiqueRadio

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What do you guys think about the country stations here in town? Both have been around as long as I can remember. What do you think sets them apart? Who do you think is more successful? I ask cause I am thinking of writing a blog on the subject.
 
DominiqueRadio said:
What do you guys think about the country stations here in town? Both have been around as long as I can remember. What do you think sets them apart? Who do you think is more successful? I ask cause I am thinking of writing a blog on the subject.
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KKYX 680 AM was the first, along with KWED, KWED used to be on 105.3 as "Young Country 105" until 1985 then it flipped to KSMG Magic 105.3 leaving KWED AM in tack.
KAJA KJ97.3 launched 1981 (used to be KEEZ, then WOAI)
KCYY Y100 launced in 1987

KJ has more commericals than Y-100, and Y-100 plays more currents then KJ.

I would say KCYY has been more succesful of the two.
 
fredcantu said:
Wasn't Y100 originally Country KBER-FM?
And was KBUC-FM still around when KAJA and KCYY launched?
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Yes KBUC was still around. My dad loved that station.

I still occasionally see KBUC bumper stickers around town.

When I think of KJ I think of Randy Carroll. He has been at KJ for over 20 years! When I think of Y I remember the legal ID that said K-C-Y-YYYYYYYY 100. I dunno if they still use that.
 
Wasn't Y100 originally Country KBER-FM?
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You are correct. Then it became KSAQ (years before 96.1) as 'Super-Q', 'Q-100' and 'The Buzzard'. I forget how long that lasted, but by '82 or so it was KLLS- Class FM, programmed by George Johns, with Harry Nelson, Scott Husky and Bill Gardner (and Bills' brother Lee Simpson doing news).
 
DominiqueRadio said:
fredcantu said:
Wasn't Y100 originally Country KBER-FM?
And was KBUC-FM still around when KAJA and KCYY launched?
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Yes KBUC was still around. My dad loved that station.

I still occasionally see KBUC bumper stickers around town.

When I think of KJ I think of Randy Carroll. He has been at KJ for over 20 years! When I think of Y I remember the legal ID that said K-C-Y-YYYYYYYY 100. I dunno if they still use that.
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Oh I did forget KBUC 107.5, KBUC then moved to 98.3 and 107.5 became Z107.5 KZVE then K Suave, then KXTN. I remember listening to Dan Seals Bop when Y100 first came on the air. That song was played on 97.3, 100.3, and it was around the Michael Jackson's bad release that KZVE came on the air. The janitors during lunch time when I was in 1st grade would have it on 107.5 and Michael Jackson's I can't stop loving you was playing in Spanish, and I was with my first girlfriend. KBUC ceased on 107.5 in 1987.

For quite some time KCYY had the jingle I am so and so and I spell Country C-O-U-N-T-R-Y-100, look at this way I never ever mispelled Country. ;D
 
willdav713 said:
For quite some time KCYY had the jingle I am so and so and I spell Country C-O-U-N-T-R-Y-100, look at this way I never ever mispelled Country. ;D
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I interned at their sister station in Tulsa, and I remember them doing something similar. However, it was just, "I'm [...] from [...], and I spell country K 95 FM!"
 
grantchester said:
Wasn't Y100 originally Country KBER-FM?
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You are correct. Then it became KSAQ (years before 96.1) as 'Super-Q', 'Q-100' and 'The Buzzard'. I forget how long that lasted, but by '82 or so it was KLLS- Class FM, programmed by George Johns, with Harry Nelson, Scott Husky and Bill Gardner (and Bills' brother Lee Simpson doing news).
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Close, 100.3 KSAQ dropped the calls in 1977 for KZZY which was re-branded Z100FM then later KZ100 or "The home of the Buzzard" until it became KLLS. 96.1 didn't pick up the KSAQ calls until after 1984 when Salem sold the station. There was a good seven year gap there.
 
longshotsa said:
grantchester said:
Wasn't Y100 originally Country KBER-FM?
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You are correct. Then it became KSAQ (years before 96.1) as 'Super-Q', 'Q-100' and 'The Buzzard'. I forget how long that lasted, but by '82 or so it was KLLS- Class FM, programmed by George Johns, with Harry Nelson, Scott Husky and Bill Gardner (and Bills' brother Lee Simpson doing news).
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Close, 100.3 KSAQ dropped the calls in 1977 for KZZY which was re-branded Z100FM then later KZ100 or "The home of the Buzzard" until it became KLLS. 96.1 didn't pick up the KSAQ calls until after 1984 when Salem sold the station. There was a good seven year gap there.

Are you sure it wasn't 1986 when Salem sold the station?
I know in 1984 KMAC 930 flipped to KSLR and KSLR was on AM and FM for a brief period of time.
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willdav713 said:
Are you sure it wasn't 1986 when Salem sold the station?
I know in 1984 KMAC 930 flipped to KSLR and KSLR was on AM and FM for a brief period of time.
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Could be, thanks! I wasn't sure, that's why I said after 84. That's when I moved out to go to college. When I got back in 87 96.1 was KSAQ.
 
Actually, the change came in early 1984. KSLR moved to 630 AM, and KSAQ went on the air, just across the hall from them in their studios on Fred. Rd. They got sold to Inner City in the fall of '86. And thanks Willdav, I forgot about the 100.3 calls changing to KZZY. As I recall, they were next to Central Park Mall with 830 when it was country, under Joe Conway (rip). Now if I could only remember THEIR calls... KCCW?
 
Correction... KCCW was at 930, the old KITE-AM channel, which became KRNN, then went spanish language, and now belongs to SALEM.
 
grantchester said:
Correction... KCCW was at 930, the old KITE-AM channel, which became KRNN, then went spanish language, and now belongs to SALEM.
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KITE, KCCW (1977-1981) see 92.9 KITY aircheck on youtube they have the station lists on the ratings and it shows KCCW. KLLS 100.3/930 1981-1987 (notice on an analog walkman flipping fm to am on the 100.3 position takes you to 930) then KISS they sold the AM station to Adams Broadcasting, or was it LMA'd?, KRNN Radio News Network in 1988 or 1989 then Spanish, back to KISS for a short while, KOOL, and now KLUP. Salem aquired the KLUP calls and changed the format.
 
I came and went from SA a few times during that era, but I remember Kelly Chapman and Steven O Sellers doing news on KCCW in 1979. I also remember the radio mass broadcasts that began on KCCW in 1980... (Dick Shue did a remarkable job of engineering the loop from the Mt. Sacred Heart convent chapel; it really sounded good.) I'm sure that KRNN began in '85, as a real estate deal! Stanley Rosenberg wanted to develop the transmitter site on NE LOOP 410, and thought it would be a simple matter to move the transmitter. HA! The savings and loan crisis killed that deal, and the staff were fired, one by one, starting in fall of '85, til Tony Dale was the only one left. The transmitter is still there. It was still KRNN when Clarence Betts died there, while working on the back up transmitter in '87. KLLS launched in '82 (or maybe late 81?) from the studios on Datapoint. Y-100 began in '89, and immediately ate KAJA's lunch. I don't recall KLLS being on AM, but I wasn't paying much attention by then.
 
grantchester said:
I don't recall KLLS being on AM, but I wasn't paying much attention by then.
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I remember the AM dropping a Music of Your Life or similar MOR format to simulcast adult contemporary "Class FM." I recall the morning DJ saying, "I was planning on going south for my vacation, but not as far south as some AM listeners want me to go."
 
So from KITE to KLAS in '81? Tom East's last broadcast? Doubleday sold out of San Antonio in the late '70s... I don't recall who operated KITE after KEXL went to Lotus. I seem to recall KITE still broadcasting from Datapoint when KLAS went on across the street, and an AM co-located with KLAS, but I may be confusing that with the Cox West cluster and KKYX.
I'm sure the 930 frequency didn't contribute many listeners to KLAS. And as swampy as the northwest side of the Fratt I-35/410 interchange is, the land is probably worth more as real estate than a transmitter site... especially for a station few listen to.
 
grantchester said:
Y-100 began in '89, and immediately ate KAJA's lunch. I don't recall KLLS being on AM, but I wasn't paying much attention by then.
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Y-100, I believe, began in '87. I know it was on-air before '89. It used, and still uses, the same formula every New City Communications country station used. That formula was also successful on every country station they had outside of Atlanta. It did so well, Cox put it on every music station they owned after buying New City.
 
of course... it was '87, because I recall meeting Taylor and Tyler at Fiesta that year.
 
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