Houston Radio History

...and the origin of the term rock and roll, from Wired For Sound , an excellent blog (link on the sidebar) with pictures, names and history...

The Bayou City History Blogger, J.R. Gonzales, has continued to post excerpts from the Marvin Zindler tapes but not all of them have been in...

JR Gonzales of the Bayou City History blog in the Chronicle has notified me he's come across some audio tapes of an old Marvin Zindler ...

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

Published in November, 1922. Bering-Cortes was one of the forerunners of today's Bering Hardware. Once upon a time, everything in r...

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 ...

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...

KATL became Houston’s 7th radio station on Monday, May 12, 1947, operating on 1590 kilocycles with 1000 watts, and the station operating on ...