Houston Radio History

Howard Kemper was an announcer on KXYZ in 1940.  He was also an amateur photographer.  Recently his son John discovered some old negatives a...

I received these images from Christina Bowker.  The letter, a song request, was postmarked in November, 1930, just months after KTUE...

He was born Milton T. Willis in Houston; raised in Montrose, he graduated from Lamar High School, class of 1948, and went off to the Nav...

From the Valley Morning Star . The Phil Harlow mentioned was the first program director of KCOH and also worked at KXYZ .

- of a Galveston radio listener, Sunday, February 2, 1947.   KGBC had signed on the previous day but there were no listings in the Galvesto...

Often referred to as Houston's first morning duo, Tim and Bob were together on KPRC for over a decade. For more on the duo on this blo...

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...

Some punchlines just write themselves and some blog posts do too. I received the following communication from Tim Campbell with attached ph...

Twelve images from a brochure published in the 1950s have been added to the KXYZ Gallery, originally published on 5 August 2009. Scroll do...

A KXYZ Rate Card from 1936. A KXYZ ad dated January 20, 1949 A KYYZ ad, undated. Some KXYZ stationery and a letter from one ...