Houston Radio History

As reported today by the Chronicle , the long time anchor will be memorialized in brick and mortar. Congratulations to Dave and thanks for...

The long-time Channel 13 weatherman, who also worked at KHOU-TV , has died. The Chronicle story . McGuff's Blog , with pictures and...

By far the most read post on this blog on a continuing, daily, weekly and monthly basis, is this post on the Larry Kane Show.  It has accum...

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...

Celebrating 45 years at KTRK-TV on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, and now a Houston institution. A tribute from the Chronicle , a bit of his...

I've heard from Bud Buschardt, a graduate in RTV from the University of Houston who worked at KUHF and KUHT and went on to a long care...

....of a Houston viewer, Friday, August 4, 1961. Published in the Houston Now section of the Houston Post , Sunday, July 30, 1961.

Larry Kane was a dj in Houston in the 1950s who had a popular dance show on Channel 13 on Saturday afternoons, Houston's version of Amer...

Dan Ammerman One time anchor of the Channel 13 News, before the long tenure of Dave Ward. Few in broadcasting in Houston today will remembe...

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

J.R. Gonzales' Bayou City History Blog at the Chronicle continues to fascinate and every now and then he does a feature related to rad...

This timeline includes information drawn principally from newspaper reports in Houston and Galveston with some data from the FCC databases a...