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Category: Dallas
1st Show After Kidd Kraddick Dies, Kiss 106.1 KHKS Dallas | July 30 2013
After stints as a nighttime high enerygy jock in Miami, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Tampa, David “Kidd” Kraddick took his show to Dallas, first at KEGL 97, then to Kiss 106.1, KHKS in Dallas. Kidd made the transition to morning drive, and his new show quicky became popular. In 2001, the show became…
Dave Collins, 99 FM KNUS Dallas | October 19 1977
The calls, KNUS FM 99, in Dallas first appeared in the summer 0f 1966, as a Progressive Rock station. It was part of the legendary McLendon group of station. Gordon McLendon is widely credited for perfecting the commercially successful Top 40 radio format, during the 1950s and 1960s. By 1971, the station had morphed into…
Dallas Composite | November, 1992
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Here’s a short overview of the Dallas/Ft. Worth market in the Fall of 1992.
Ron Chapman, KLUV 98.7 Dallas | November 2003
Forty-five years in one market. Thirty-two of them at the same station. He was No. 1 & he killed the competition. Ron Chapman was the king of Dallas morning radio. And his listeners loved him. They loved him so much, that in 1988, Chapman asked his KVIL listeners to send in $20 each, without…
NBC News & Information Service, WRR 1310 Dallas | July 30 1976
There was a time when radio news was a big deal. In 1974, NBC Radio was trailing the other big networks, ABC, CBS and Mutual. NBC’s O&O (Owned and Operated) FM stations were not doing well. The radio division needed a big new idea. At that time FM listener penetration in many markets was beginning…
Bill Mack, KWFT 62 Wichita Falls TX | August 3 1957
Not many radio DJs have a Grammy, but Bill Mack does! Radio personalty & songwriter Bill Mack penned the song “Blue,” which became a big song for Patsy Cline in 1958, & a smash hit in 1996 for LeAnn Rimes. He has also written songs for George Strait, Dean Martin, Ray Price, Jerry Lee Lewis and George…
John Summers, KLUV AM 1190 Dallas | 1998
The Mighty 1190 AM in Dallas is a legendary frequency. It was the Gordon McLendon Top 40 powerhouse KLIF in the 50s & 60s. Fairchild Industries kept KLIF going as an AC in the 1970s. Susquehanna bought KLIF in 1980 and flipped the station to country, then to talk in 1986. In the 1990s,…
Amy Auston, 106.1 KHKS Denton/Dallas TX | December 24, 1997
“The most requested song this afternoon so far, is Adam Sandler and the Hannukah song on Kiss-FM”
