The web sites listed below are not
part of
VASTHEAD.COM or
HOUSTONRETRO.COM.
If you click on any of the links in this box, you have left
this web site.
Current Houston area radio stations
Houston
Radio History Blog Spot
The Houston Radio History Blog Spot is operated by long
time Houston broadcaster Bruce Williamson. The site includes
significant research on Houston radio history and numerous
rare photos.
40
Years After
440:
Satisfaction
Airchexx
Radio
411
Reel
Radio
Alex
Bennett's Web Site
The
Bill Calder Collection
Beau
Weaver's Radio Archive
Bayou
City History
Bill
Young Productions
Bob
Green Productions
Bob Green contributed the KULF airchecks from 1972 and 1973.
The Federal
Communications Commission
The
History of Rock and Roll Radio
Buddy McGregor runs this new site, and Buddy says it "will
have much Texas nostalgia."
Jim
Rose Remembers Radio
Mr. Rose is a former Houston DJ who writes about radio and
entertainment.
John
& Ken Show
The
Monitor Beacon
Monitor was the weekend service of NBC Radio. KPRC carried
it for two decades.
Ken
Nordine & Word Jazz
I have been familiar with Ken Nordine since a friend brought
over the first two Word Jazz recordings when I was 20 years
old. Ken Nordine has influenced a lot of us who take an experimental
attitude toward media. If you are new to Nordine, a good place
to start is the current four album Word
Jazz compilation. If you don't know his albums, you will
know his voice when you hear it. Among radio people, his voice
is about as familiar as Orson Wells.
PAMS
of Dallas jingles
Photo
Houston
ProSound
Studio
This is the studio of Bob
Edwards, Bob has helped with this radio site since before
it even existed. In 2003, he happened to call me asking if
I had any old airchecks. It was our first conversation since
1984.
As synchronicity would have it, I had
just finished copying all my airchecks to CD, using a series
of borrowed reel to reel tape units. Before that, the recordings
had not even been heard by anyone in at least two decades.
We got together and swapped recordings.
As a result of that meeting, I concluded that there was more
interest in old airchecks than I had thought. At first, this
site just listed a few items available for trade. Later, I
created a few mp3 files from the CD's. Now, nearly all of
my original recording are on line. However, whenever someone
sends me an old tape, I rely on Bob's studio to edit the recording
and to convert it to digital form.
In a time long ago, in a place not
far away, I worked for Bob at KBUK in Baytown.
Radio
Daily News
Radio-Info.com
Radio-Info.com
for Houston-Galveston
Radio
Online
The
Rise and Fall of the Beautiful Music Format
Rock
Radio Scrapbook
Rock
Radio Scrapbook Quotes
Shutterbug
Magazine Radio
Dayna
Steele
Thompson
Communication Breakthroughs
Jeff Thompson was involved with KXYZ and KMSC during the period
described on this site. That's his voice introducing "KMSC
Capsule News" on the KMSC recording from 1968.
We
know Houston radio sucks
CURRENT HOUSTON RADIO STATIONS
This is a list still under construction,
and it will never list all of the stations in the Houston
area. It is just a sampling of stations likely to interest
people who come to this web site.
The major problem with a list like
this is that radio is so unstable. It can seem to become outdated
overnight. Please send me a note if a station undergoes a
call letter change or a major format change.
KILT-FM
(Country)
KKBQ 93Q
(Country)
KKRW
- 93Q - The Arrow
KPFT - Pacifica
Jack
FM 103.7
KBME
- The Sports Animal
KUHF-
Houston Public Radio |
