Radio Histories - Other Cities

This Kansas City Radio history website is maintained by Mark Roberts, who worked at KTRH in the 1980s.

The Puget Sound Radio Broadcasters Association website includes a market history prepared by Eric Dawes, who got his start in radio at KLYX-FM, Clear Lake:

I discovered the New Orleans Radio History Shrine when searching for information about William John Uhalt, who put KTUE on the air in 1926 (now KXYZ). He had helped his brother put a NOLA station on the air before coming to Houston and there have been other connections between Houston and NOLA broadcasters over the years.

The Bay Area Radio Museum covers San Francisco.

Radio-history.com covers New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia

The Chicago Radio Time Capsule and Chicagoland Radio Call Sign History websites cover Chicago.

There are three sites devoted to Dallas-Fort Worth radio and television.

Chris Huff’s DFW Radio Archives is a huge collection of the ratings history of the market plus other great information.

Mike Shannon’s History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television

and Steve Eberhart’s History of KLIF, Gordon McLendon’s flagship station.

I discovered all three of these several years ago and they inspired me to attempt something similar for Houston. I may even have stolen a few ideas and facts from these guys.

These Dallas sites are among the very best broadcast history sites on the web, standards to which all others can be compared. It’s apparent they’ve been hard at work on these for years and years.

The History of KLIF site contains a few mentions of KILT, McLendon’s Houston station.

To be continued. While there are few radio stations which maintain histories on their websites, there are many privately maintained websites devoted to individual stations; Google on the call letters and ‘history’ if you’re interested in a particular station. I’ll add some to this list soon.