Houston Radio History

 A researcher has contacted me for help in finding information on this program which aired on KHUL-FM in  1965 for about 6 months, apparentl...

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

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...

A Houston Chronicle slide show of lost FM formats, including some interesting photos and some historical facts, mostly of rather recent st...

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

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...

Here's an article from Houston History Magazine .  The Jive Hive was before my time but anyone who was around in the 60s through the 90s...

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...

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...

From YouTube, a compilation of historic broadcast videos from KHTV, ca. 1967-85 (one segment is as late as 1992).

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