Texas Radio Stations of the PAST

Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 29 Jul 2000 7:11 am

KBOX, KBUC, WBAP, KOKE, WACO - I know these were stations in Texas that probably don't exist as such anymore.Any memories or other stations? There must be several hundred more.

Sam in AZ

ajm · Post by **ajm** » 29 Jul 2000 9:00 am

KAAY-AM "Beaker Street"
Little Rock, Arkansas
Early to mid-70's

I, like many other forumites I'm sure, got my musical start playing 6 string rock guitar. I discovered this program which ran late at night (11:00 PM or so to maybe 2:00 AM) and used to fall asleep while listening to it in bed at night. You could probably pick it up almost anywhere on the planet; I lived in Omaha at the time.

While it was not country by any means, it was one of the things that when I look back on it now definetly "shaped" my musical tastes. I got my first tastes of ZZ Top's Rio Grande Mud and Tejas, as well as many other harder rock bands of that era.

Of course, when I was younger still, I couldn't see a new album in the record rack by Buck Owens when I went with Mom to the local grocery store and leave without having her buy it for me either. But that's another story.

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 29 Jul 2000 9:10 am

WBAP is still a staion out of DFW. They have some ok country music late at night, but it is to often interupted with trucker comercials. How about KKYX 680 AM out of San Antonio?? You can still hear that station all over South Texas, sometimes as far North as Waco, and easily as far East as Houston.

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 29 Jul 2000 9:36 am

How about KBUC in San Antonio,
B Bailey is it still there?

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Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 29 Jul 2000 9:50 am

Speaking of late night R'nR, there was a short lived show on KRLD that featured a dj that got KZEW started (last name of Dillon). He played a lot of BB King, Leon Russell, Nitzinger, and other cool stuff. That show really influenced my tastes in music.

Sam in AZ[This message was edited by Sam Marshall on 29 July 2000 at 10:51 AM.]

Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 29 Jul 2000 9:58 am

Didn't George Morgan get his start as a dj for KRLD?

Willie worked at KFJZ, right? I think George Carlin did, too.

Wasn't there KXOL out of Ft Worth? I remember a show called Shootin' Newton theater on KTVT-TV that had him on. I remember the Shooter was on KXOL.

Last time I was back in TX, I heard a pretty good station out of Waxahachie. I also remember hearing good ones from Mineral Wells and Cleburne about 15 years ago.

Sam in AZ

Mario Cuppetelli · Post by **Mario Cuppetelli** » 29 Jul 2000 10:48 am

The Waxahachie station has a great dj named Mike O'Daniel. A great guitar player he does some work for movies as well. His dad was Buck O'Daniel who still sings and plays there in Waxahachie. If you ever go through there you need to stop at Parih Music a great little store with a lot of country comin through. When we go to Waxa. for vacation I go down to the store and usually end up singin with Johnny the fiddle teacher. He was the TX state champ for many years.

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 29 Jul 2000 8:55 pm

When in Waxahachie, tune in to 1390 AM, or look at www.kbec.com .

Al Udeen · Post by **Al Udeen** » 30 Jul 2000 11:01 am

I cant believe no one has mentioned XERF "Is that correct"? in Del Rio TX. with their transmitter in Mexico, I believe {Wolfman Jack}! got his start there? I think they had about 100 watts? Man! you could pick that station up anywhere! Al

Al Udeen · Post by **Al Udeen** » 30 Jul 2000 11:06 am

Woops I meant 100Thousand Watts

willie waits · Post by **willie waits** » 30 Jul 2000 3:45 pm

KILT 100.6 in Houston has a pretty good format. They play old country every night for an hour or two and then two or three hours of Texas music. Lots of steel in these shows. KIKK has gone young country.

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 30 Jul 2000 7:45 pm

I remember KBUC and KKYX in San Antonio; KIKK in Houston; and KOKE-FM (Cosmic Country) in Austin in the '70s. Not to mention all the lower powered transmitters that you could pick up when driving anywhere in between the larger metropolitan areas of Texas.

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 31 Jul 2000 5:37 am

KHEY,in ElPaso-XELO Del Rio where for the first 50 callers you get a genuine imitation diamond ring for your girlfriend and an 8x10 autographed glossy photo of Roy Acuff suitable for frameing.Alos KIKK was mentioned Is that sataion in Pasadena Texas,my hometown?Ray

Randall Harrington · Post by **Randall Harrington** » 31 Jul 2000 7:44 pm

a real good station that you can only seem to get in a line from FT WORTH TO MIDLOTHIAN west is 92.1 they run under several different call letters they broadcast from FT WORTH in the mornings and Cleburne tx. the rest of the day. The best program is from 8:00pm to midnight with Morgan Choate

Randall Harrington · Post by **Randall Harrington** » 31 Jul 2000 7:49 pm

hey Mario I boxed your ShoBud, well I guess our sho bud up today. I got my new Emmons,Gary Carpenter got my other Emmons.Call me I've got a good story to tell you.

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 31 Jul 2000 10:32 pm

On 92.1 KTFW, Mike Crow's morning show is worth getting up early for.

Jack Shults · Post by **Jack Shults** » 1 Aug 2000 7:57 pm

Ron Peterson has a great traditional country show on 92.1 from midnight until 5:30am.

Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 2 Aug 2000 1:16 pm

Anyone got any memories from Shreveport-Texarkana, Tyler, Sweetwater (Lefty Frissel), Hondo, etc.

Sam in AZ

gene brown · Post by **gene brown** » 2 Aug 2000 7:00 pm

How about K.P.C.N. Grand Praire. Groovy Joe Poovey 1961.

Sam Marshall · Post by **Sam Marshall** » 2 Aug 2000 7:50 pm

Funny that you should mention Groovey Joe Poovey. My sister used to live next to his parents in Dallas. They got very ill and somehow my sister's family ended up with their dog. My sister and her family call it "Poovey-Dog." A real nice dog!

My sister told me that Groovey Joe died about a year or so ago. I saw him mentioned recently in "No Depression."

Sam in AZ[This message was edited by Sam Marshall on 02 August 2000 at 08:51 PM.]

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 3 Aug 2000 10:11 am

KDKH-AM "Shreveport here, Shreveport there, Shreveport everywhere!"

David Weaver · Post by **David Weaver** » 3 Aug 2000 1:42 pm

I can't tell you the call letters but I remember getting Wolfman Jack out of Del Rio in the evenings in Wichita Kansas. Must have been around 1952 or so.

Everything happened on the radio then. Big John and Sparky, Froggy and his magic twanger, Lone Ranger, the Shadow,the Breakfast Club, Arther Godfrey ("The big sack with the 4 x's") They even read the funnies out of the newspaper on Sunday.

The Opry was on. The Duke of Paducah.

Every weekday noon the local farm report would be given by Bruce Beheimer on our local station. He'd ring a cowbell and start in. I went to the studio as a kid, and they actually had his program in a small auditorium. I was surprised that there wasn't thousands there. He was Bruce Beheimer...on the radio!

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 4 Aug 2000 8:28 pm

Hey Al,
I remember XERF Del Rio, Texas very well. When I was a kid in Southern California we could get it loud and clear. They used to sell baby chicks and all kinds of stuff and wasn't Wayne Raney and Lonnie Glauson on there playing and selling those "Hound Dog" talking harmonicas?

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Dean Dobbins · Post by **Dean Dobbins** » 5 Aug 2000 8:22 am

Al Udeen:
You are right, it was "XERF, Del Rio, Texas, With transmitter at the base of
beautiful Saddle Back Mountain, in
Guadalajuna (spelling)?, Mexico".
There was also another station, I think
was in Del Rio, with transmitters in
Mexico, with the call letters "XEG".
I believe they were both 100,000 watt-ers.
Remember the night we jammed in my room
at the then Clarion Hotel, had people lined up half-way around the hall, and damned
near got thrown out of the Hotel?
See you in St. Louis this year?

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Dino