Monthly Anniversaries
This is a collection of monthly anniversary posts giving launch dates and other important milestones in Houston broadcast history.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
A Statement of Purpose
News
About Me
Calendar
AM Chronology - The 1920s
- The Pre-Broadcast Era
- 1922 Part I - WEV
- 1922 Part II - WCAK
- 1922 Part III - WEAY
- 1922 Part IV - WFAL, WGAB, WHAB & WIAC, Galveston
- 1922 Part V - WPAN, WSAV, WRAA
- 1923 - KFCV, KFLX, Galveson
- The FIrst 40 Stations in Texas
- 1924 - KFOQ & KFUL, Galveson
- 1925 - KFVI, KPRC
- A Note about Call Letters
- 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - KTUE, KGHX, Richmond
- 1929 Part I - K - The Rice Hotel
- WCM, KUT, KTRH History Update
- 1929 Part II - KPRC, Sugar Land, Greater KTUE
AM Chronology - The 1930s
AM Chronology - The 1940s
AM Chronology - The 1950s
AM Chronology - The 1960s
FM Chronology - The 1940s
FM Chronology - The 1950s
A Day in the Life
Television
Galleries
Blog Archive
Radio Links
History Links
Bill Calder in the KXYZ studio in 1963. Calder later worked at KPRC and had a late night talk show on Channel 2, following The Tonight Show. His son, Alex Calder, maintains a website in honor of his Dad which includes more pictures of Bill Calder in Houston at http://www.calder.tv/bill/
From 1957. The X-99 was launched in May, 1957, just weeks before Gordon McLendon took over rival station KLBS and flipped it to KILT.
A KAUM promotional piece from 1970.
The KPRC transmitter site at Sugar Land, 1929-1936
Circa 1957
News Staff from KTHT and KOPY-FM on the scene of the Texas City explosion, 1947.
From a Houston Post nostalgia clipping. Saturday at the Shamrock was broadcast live on ABC.
KTUE was not a new station when this special section appeared in the Chronicle, it was upgrading from 5 to 100 watts and moving into new studios in the basement of the Texas State Hotel on Fannin, now the Club Quarters. KTUE was sold the next year (1930) and became KXYZ.
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