matty1979 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I found this in the 1986 Houston Astros media guide..thought it was worth posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Runner Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I saw Craig Roberts' name on there, and instanly, his old theme song from Rock 101, KLOL popped into my head.....LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 did all those stations have sports such as shows, programming or just covered them for a brief second?Alot of those names are still here now....Radio was much better in the 80s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 The jingle from the 'Q Morning Zoo' is still stuck in my head - it might be worth trying to have sugically removed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 The jingle from the 'Q Morning Zoo' is still stuck in my head - it might be worth trying to have sugically removed!Remember Mr. Leonards? "That sure is a pretty dress, but it's a booger to iron." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Speaking of olden times, I just discovered recently that Col St James was still on the air. Whatever the classic rock station is now? Christ on a cracker, he was on KILT back when they were a rival to KLOL!All dudes on the radio should sound like Roark on KPFT. Sans the constant public radio beg-a-thon, though. Now that I'm thinking of it, forget Siri, I want that guy dictating my calendar and reading back my notes. "Roark! Cancel my meetings today! I'm going to chill." "Whatever you say, Kathy. Let me turn on your pandora station. Should I have bourbon and nachos delivered? I think you would enjoy a massage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 I can only speak for sure for the ones listed for KILT (610). RB McEntire was the morning news anchor, Jim Carola was News Director and afternoon anchor. He also was long-time PA announcer at the Dome for Oilers games but was not a sports reporter. Pat Hernandez, the only one of the three still active (at KUHF) was the leg-man - he covered city hall, the courthouse, major news conferences including sports, but was not primarily a sports reporter. KILT may have been listed because they still had what was considered for the time a full-service news department instead of just people ripping and reading wire copy to fulfill a news commitment.Many of those other names have been primarily considered sports reporters but I don't know what programming they did, for instance, the three listed for KIKK-FM: did KIKK-FM have any dedicated sports shows or just drop-ins in newscasts? I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Those were the good old days of radio. RB is a neighbor of mine. We were having a discussion not long ago about how different radio is today. Biggest difference is there are no local owners. Every station is owned by a conglomerate based in NYC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEM Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 KFMK "Mother Radio".............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleak Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Those were the good old days of radio. RB is a neighbor of mine. We were having a discussion not long ago about how different radio is today. Biggest difference is there are no local owners. Every station is owned by a conglomerate based in NYC. Except they are all owned by Clear Channel - a conglomerate based in San Antonio. (which technically is owned by Bain Capital out of Boston). Cool. I still have the silver-head KLOL bumper sticker around the house somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleak Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Does anybody remember Jon Matthew (before he pulled a My Sharona) being the comic foil to Moby (before he went to Dallas and went country) on 97 FM's morning show? 101-KLOL vs 97 Rock was a great rivalry back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stjnky Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Found this in my junk drawer recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristinDaugherty Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Does anybody remember Jon Matthew (before he pulled a My Sharona) being the comic foil to Moby (before he went to Dallas and went country) on 97 FM's morning show? 101-KLOL vs 97 Rock was a great rivalry back in the day.Yes sir! It wasn't a real morning without Moby's morning song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Broadfoot Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Wow, I remember 97 Rock, Energy 96.5 and Power 104 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Does anybody remember Jon Matthew (before he pulled a My Sharona) being the comic foil to Moby (before he went to Dallas and went country) on 97 FM's morning show? 101-KLOL vs 97 Rock was a great rivalry back in the day.Wasn't Moby the "Get your lazy asses out of bed" one? I had a colleague who idolized him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Speaking of Jon Matthews, does anybody know where he is or what he's doing now? Back in 2007 he got three years of hard time for indecency with a child, but that was five years ago. I haven't seen or heard anything about him since 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleak Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Seems like it would be difficult to return to a career in the public eye after that type of conviction. I would imagine he is lying low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 I remember the Zoogerizations on 93Q. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 radio in Houston is too compartmentalized... We don't have a true rock station like Corpus, Vegas, and most other markets. instead, we have The Buzz that only plays stuff from new bands and Metallica, three classic rock stations that fight with each other, and we have Outlaw Dave on the 9-5-0. I didn't hear the new Van Halen song on the radio until I went to Vegas for a week- all the Houston stations could learn a few lessons from C101 in Corpus and KOMP in Vegas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanabi-chan Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I miss the old KTRH. I miss album rock stations. Hell, I miss variety in radio stations. Truth is, I listen to either NPR or the BBC news on Pacifica on my drive into work. Morning shows are just blah blah blah by grownups acting like a bunch of teenagers, pretending to be oh so clever and funny. Guys? You are not. Neither is your audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 imagine if you're a R&B fan....the corportate statiions play watered down music and there's no FM competitionwe had more competition in the 80s....Love 94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 In the mid '60's the station I listened to was KFMK, the first "Rock" FM station..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Back then Houston had a "Beautiful Music" radio station. As a young lad sharing my great-grandmother's taste in music, I used to study with it as background music. Odd that the "Beautiful Music" format sort of vanished. Houston also had the great classical station KLEF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 The Beautiful Music station was KXYZ AM and FM. It started that format in the late 50s, and I loved it. It wasn't just elevator or doctor's office music. It was real orchestral popular music performed by people you've heard of.Sometime around 1965, the owner -- Lester Kamin -- decided to change the format to less "Beautiful Music" to more "Pop" music. He threw out the orchestral stuff and went to pop singers and big bands. In 1966 he hired KPRC DJ Bill Calder to be his program director and do an air shift. Calder fired all the deep throated announcers -- like the great Pat Brown, Larry Fogle, and Richard Fulghum -- the guys who made the Beautiful Music programs sound so great, and replaced them with livelier but less interesting Pop Music DJ's from other cities.I couldn't stand listening to Calder because of his obnoxious on-air persona and his giant ego. He actually believed people wanted to hear HIM, and the music he played was just filler between his DJ riffs. He just ruined a great station, in my opinion. He only lasted about a year at KXYZ before he got canned and moved on, but the damage had been done. KXYZ was never the same.If you want proof of what I say about Calder, check out the chronological list of radio stations where he worked, and the fact that he didn't work more than about a year at any of those stations. He wore out his welcome pretty quickly and left a trail of destruction everywhere he went.http://www.calder.tv...l/stations.htmlIn 1968, Kamin gave up trying to revive KXYZ and sold it to ABC Radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 There was also KQUE the "Evervesant" listening station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrubba Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Wasn't Moby the "Get your lazy asses out of bed" one? I had a colleague who idolized him.Subdude , ya made muh day Oh finialy a REAL ROCKER !!!!!!!!!!!!! scrubba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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