Houston Radio History

Morales Radio Hall - toward the rear of the parking lot for the funeral home at 2901 Canal on the east side.  Built in 1970 to house the rad...

Longtime Houston radio and television personality Paul Berlin has passed at the age of 86.  He was a legend almost as soon as the first time...

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

Phil Konstantin sent along this picture taken in the KULF Production Studio in the late 1970s (later than 1976).  That's Phil on the...

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

Lufkin Daily News obituary . Dave Westheimer writes: "Phil Parr was at KTLW in Texas City from 1962 to 1970 and was bassis...

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...

The Chronicle's Craig Hlavaty doing a little reminiscing , including an audio clip of a discussion with Outlaw Dave and pictures.

J. Kent Hackleman was an early talk show host on KTRH.  His granddaughter has this site devoted to him, trying to raise money to digitize 3...

I just stumbled on this source by accident.  Story Sloane writes a feature article for the emag Houston Lifestyles and Home s using photos f...

I knew Jackie back in the 70s and knew she had been to Rice, but never knew of the historical significance of that as revealed by this post ...

As posted on Bill Young Productions - a dominant force on the Houston radio scene for decades as talent, program director, production spe...

From the Rice archives... a feature on KTRU with some pictures and lots of comments.  Take a look at that archives link.  How many statio...

Here are a couple of radio related features from Galveston-born writer Bill Cherry. The first is about Baytown's DJ of the 1950s, Bill...

...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...

A special Doug Miller Channel 11, KHOU Up Close report on Houston Radio from 2001 , posted on YouTube, with some well-known Houston persona...

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

The former KHOU-TV News Director and anchor has passed at the age of 84, reported by Mike McGuff with a video and the Chronicle .

As noted in a recent post, Channel 11 is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year.  The station has posted a series of articles with great...

The Texas Radio Hall of Fame has created the first named award, The Sammy, dedicated to pioneering women in Texas broadcasting.   J.C. Webst...