Houston Radio History

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Mike McGuff broke the news the other day.  Here's a link to an obit in a Connecticut newspaper. J.R. Gonzales chimed in with a post ...

I always assume that many of the readers of this site are interested in the history of Houston beyond just the history of radio and televisi...

My correspondent, John Hill, has provided me with a wealth of information about KILT in the early 1960s, including a description of the equ...

Another KILT Ex has checked in. Red Jones worked for KILT from 1957 to 1962, with a stint as Program director from ‘59 to ‘62. He got out...

J.R. Gonzales' Bayou City History blog in the Chronicle has posted a story about a big promotional event staged by KILT in the Astrodo...

This is a story I only recently learned of, a small part of Houston radio history, brought to my attention by John Hill. It’s the story of ...

I have been corresponding with John Hill, CSRTE, an engineer at KILT from 1960 to 1964, who has been filling me in on a lot of facts and da...

I'm a little late with this but just recently came across the news myself. The Washington Post obituary . This is not a name familia...

Postcards from Texas on Houston's 55 has done a feature on the Beatles only appearance in Houston, in August 1965. They talked with a ...

Updated 6/18/11 to add information about the change of ownership of KRCT. Around the end of February, 1957, the McLendon Investment Corp. ...

EDITED 4/13/2014 In addition to the articles sometimes published in the Bayou City Houston blog in the Chronicle relating to broadcasting...

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. ...

Blog reader Charles Fairchild sent me this link to a flyer promoting KILT 's Go Texan Hootenanny in 1966 (PDF file) along with an expla...

One of the biggest stories in Houston radio in the 1950s was the Top 40 war between KILT and KNUZ. Actually, the war was over pretty fast....

A collection of miscellaneous bumper stickers. ABC-FM was running Love FM on their 7 FMs, a taped album rock format, but flipped them al...

KILT, 610 AM Original air date: January 31, 1948 Original owner: W. Albert Lee Original Call letters: KLEE Additional call letters used: KLB...

In the first couple of weeks of May, 1957, station KLBS, 610, ran a mail-in contest inviting listeners to guess what the letters BCMF stood ...