Danny Day, 1490 KNOW Austin TX | 1977
August 2, 2012 
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New Contributor Dan Stolper sent in an original, perfect quality recording of a station that apparently has been gone from the Austin market for quite some time – we can find little information about it through any of our research tools. Perhaps one of our listeners can fill in the details of this former Top 40 station. 1490 AM today is apparently KLGO Christian radio.
Here’s Stolper, known on air as Danny Day in what sounds like a short composite of a couple of different airshifts. The quality is superb, complete with jingles and just the slightest hint of reverb.
Stolper writes:
Here is a 1977 aircheck from KNOW Radio, The Rock of Austin, which was the leading top 40 station in that market. I was a student at The University of Texas at Austin while working on-air as Danny Day.
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When I was in Austin in 1990, KNOW was back on 1490 as an oldies station complete with 1960′s era jingles. I think it was the SMN oldies format.
KNOW was a Wendell Mayes radio station, and for several years, was one of the best medium market top forty stations anywhere. Some very well-known DJ’s passed through it from the late sixties through the eighties. One thing that set KNOW apart from many other top forty stations was its’ dedication to news. It had a top flight news department that won tons of awards and rivaled the departments of many of the Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio stations. I was fortunate to have spent two years working as the county courhouse reporter for Olen Murrell at KNOW. Thanks mucho for putting this aircheck on the site, and I’d love to hear some more from KNOW folks.