Houston Radio History

The radio community has been buzzing this week over the announced sale of KCOH .  The station has been on the market for a couple of years ...

The Ratings are in! KNUZ was still doing quite well vs. KILT with it's 250 watts; second place ain't bad. Note only two FMs showed ...

Twenty years ago an employee of KTRH , Philip H. Boudreaux III, produced a history of Houston Radio: The First Sixty Years. The 33 page ess...

Chris Huff of the DFW Radio Archives has compiled a list of the first 40 AM stations on the air in Texas. As followers of this blog alrea...

Most of the new station activity in Houston in the 1960s would take place on the FM dial; it was to be as active an era on FM as the 1920s o...

EDITED (BELOW) 9/8/2023 The number of stations on the AM dial in the Houston/Galveston area continued to grow throughout the 1950s but at a ...

...of a Houston radio listener. Sunday and Monday, December 5th and 6th, 1937. Note Frank Tilton, the blind pianist from the early days of ...

Just two and a half months after the launch of KNUZ , KCOH signed on at 1430 kc. The station ran teaser ads in the papers leading up to t...

...of a Houston radio listener. From the Houston Post , Wednesday, February 18, 1948, the first day of broadcast of KNUZ , 1230.

The Press had been one of the applicants for a station on 1230 kc before the War and was one of the parties notified when the FCC reopened ...

Less than 3 weeks after KLEE signed on KNUZ came on the air on 1230 kc at 6am on February 18, 1948. The station had first been applied fo...

If KATL had been a something of a stealth entry onto the Houston radio scene the next new AM station in town was to make quite a splash. ...

The 1979 Broadcasting Yearbook gave August 1, 1947, for the launch of KIOX , Bay City, but that appears to be far off.  A CP was granted in...

Note: The article previously published as The 1940s - Part 4 - KATL has been retitled Part 5 to keep the articles in chronological order. ...

For the Fall of 1945 I thought maybe the big numbers for KTRH and KXYZ in the mornings reflected, respectively, Arthur Godfrey, who had ju...

The next AM station to come on the air in Houston was KATL , licensed to Texas Broadcasters and operating at 1590 kc with 1000 watts. The o...

After the close of World War II, broadcasters expected a lot of interest in FM radio, which had been used by the armed forces during the wa...