Houston Radio History

These pictures are from March, 1978. Don Nash, Chief Engineer of KYOK in the 70s, built the studio which was in use frequently.  ...

Long time Houston radio legend Rick Roberts passed recently.  Here's the Chronicle story.

I had discovered this material several years ago but when I went to post about it on the blog, it had been taken off the web.  I went lookin...

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 ...

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

I am grateful to Michael for sending me this picture showing Novella Smith who used the name Dizzy Lizzy on KYOK . I'm not sur...

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...

This gallery will be a collection of miscellaneous pictures of people. Most photos will be in galleries associated with the stations they w...

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