Old am radio station

[rascal]

When i was living in San Antonio back in 1999 there was a radio station on AM that played old soul music. Nothing but classic soul. It wasn't one of the bigger stations and probably only could be heard in San Antonio(Northwest SA). I don't remember the call letters. Does anyone remember this station and does that station still play the old soul 1960s/1970s?

[mouse]

http://streaming.kono1011.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=KONOFM

[I. Hustle]

Was it Power 106.7?

[rascal]

It was not KONO. That is a big radio station.

KONO plays or played a variety of oldies. This station I am talking about only played old soul.

[rascal]

Was it Power 106.7?

Is that an FM station? I remember the station did not have a really strong signal. An AM station out of San Antonio.

[Jimcs50]

1230 am?

[z0sa]

AM radio has very strong signals that aren't affected by the curvature of the earth, unlike FM. You can hear WOAI strong all the way to California or so a professor once told me.

[rascal]

AM radio has very strong signals that aren't affected by the curvature of the earth, unlike FM. You can hear WOAI strong all the way to California or so a professor once told me.

Some Powerhouse stations like WOAI (a clear channel station doesn't have to lower their power) can be heard a long way AT Night. Most AM stations have to lower their power by FCC laws at night. I once heard WABC from New York in San Antonio. The conditions must have been just perfect because I could only get it one time.

I used to see how many baseball game broadcasts I could hear in Connecticut early 1970s. Got WJR Detroit Tigers, KMOX St. Louis Cardinals, WBAL Baltimore Orioles, WLW Cincinnati Reds, KDKA Pittsburgh Pirates, WCAU Philadelphis Phillies and Boston and both New York teams on local broadcasts.

This station I am talking about was not a strong station. It played only old soul. Can't believe no one on this site listened to it.

[marmar]

Was it KAPE?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Was it KAPE?

:lmao

[Viva Las Espuelas]

AM radio has very strong signals that aren't affected by the curvature of the earth, unlike FM. You can hear WOAI strong all the way to California or so a professor once told me.


Some Powerhouse stations like WOAI (a clear channel station doesn't have to lower their power) can be heard a long way AT Night. Most AM stations have to lower their power by FCC laws at night. I once heard WABC from New York in San Antonio. The conditions must have been just perfect because I could only get it one time.

I used to see how many baseball game broadcasts I could hear in Connecticut early 1970s. Got WJR Detroit Tigers, KMOX St. Louis Cardinals, WBAL Baltimore Orioles, WLW Cincinnati Reds, KDKA Pittsburgh Pirates, WCAU Philadelphis Phillies and Boston and both New York teams on local broadcasts.

This station I am talking about was not a strong station. It played only old soul. Can't believe no one on this site listened to it.
That'd be the ionosphere you're alluding to. If I'm not mistaken the power of the station doesn't reflect how far it'll reach if conditions in the ionosphere aren't right.

[Twisted_Dawg]

Kmac? Kbuc?

[gospursgojas]

Soul? Oh you mean The Beat

[mouse]

Any updates? Don't forget San Antonio collage has a radio station that used to play only on certain nights and they played music you would not hear on slandered radio stations.
they would play depech mode and Ministry and REM years before anyone one night they may play vintage blues the next night speed metal and so on depending on which student was DJ.


Also 55 KTSA used to be the original oldies station before they turned talk radio.

[rascal]

Bump

Anyone know what this station was and if this station you can hear in northwest san Antonio during the daytime only still plays rare soul oldies from the 1960s?

[mouse]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/KLUVpop.png/200px-KLUVpop.png


http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=San%20Antonio&state=TX

http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx/images/19580504.jpg

http://www.penningtontechnicalarts.com/KEXL/AllenGrimmRCCola.jpg

http://wired-for-sound.blogspot.com/2011/09/no-color-in-poor-san-antonios-harlem.html


http://www.penningtontechnicalarts.com/KEXL/DecalCombo.jpg

[Biernutz]

Was it KAPE?

it was

KMAC AM was the first rock and roll in town. It had a jock named Joe or john Anthony I think..... A old clock with KMAC 630 am on it will bring a lot of money for it.

[mouse]

No wonder it was hard to find its not even in Texas.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=KAPE&x=13&y=5

[Twisted_Dawg]

Mouse,
Were you listening the night KEXL signed off for good? Sort of marked the death of old FM 70's radio.

[Twisted_Dawg]

it was

KMAC AM was the first rock and roll in town. It had a jock named Joe or john Anthony I think..... A old clock with KMAC 630 am on it will bring a lot of money for it.

I don't think KMAC was the first rock and roll station. That would have been KTSA or KONO. KMAC always changed their formats. For a time they had that legendary DJ Joe Anthony. And for awhile they had a DJ who I thought went by Mighty Joe Rotten (I think) and listeners would call in and he would trade insults or play a song they requested and half way through the song drag the turn table needle back and forth over the song and say how much the song sucked and how he heated it. Perhaps SA's first shock DJ.

[Twisted_Dawg]

No wonder it was hard to find its not even in Texas.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=KAPE&x=13&y=5

Mouse, I believe there was a AM KAPE 1480 in San Antonio back in the 1980's which later changed to KCHL

http://www.kchl.org/kchl_staff

[Biernutz]

I don't think KMAC was the first rock and roll station. That would have been KTSA or KONO. KMAC always changed their formats. For a time they had that legendary DJ Joe Anthony. And for awhile they had a DJ who I thought went by Mighty Joe Rotten (I think) and listeners would call in and he would trade insults or play a song they requested and half way through the song drag the turn table needle back and forth over the song and say how much the song sucked and how he heated it. Perhaps SA's first shock DJ.

Joe Anthony was at KONO first then he went to KMAC........I think Joe Rotten came later at KONO......KEXL was the first metal station...It started on
KITY at 11pm on the weekends to 6 am,then later every night at 11, then it went to KEXL full time

[Biernutz]

My sister has helped with much of my post but here is a link of Texas stations with the old DJ's http://www.440.com/tx.html
or this online board http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-antonio/103682-san-antonio-radio-stations-past.html..






(http://www.sanantonioradiomemories.com/)

[mouse]

Mouse, KMAC always changed their formats. For a time they had that legendary DJ Joe Anthony.

I used to part time DJ at his restaurant/dance club we always got free tickets to shows at Randy's rodeo municipal auditorium and convention center.

I got to see many bands up close 3rd row.

[mouse]

Mouse,
Were you listening the night KEXL signed off for good? Sort of marked the death of old FM 70's radio.

what year was that I may had been in the service. I missed all kinds of stuff during 1979-1982 I had to see Def leopard in a small high school gym in Fayetteville NC

they got many Boos dam rednecks had never heard of them.

[Biernutz]

another site for old sat stations http://www.sanantonioradiomemories.com/

[Twisted_Dawg]

I used to part time DJ at his restaurant/dance club we always got free tickets to shows at Randy's rodeo municipal auditorium and convention center.

I got to see many bands up close 3rd row.

But did you see the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo? I did.

[mouse]

But did you see the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo? I did.

Yes they got booed and there was a fight/mini riot Sid vicious almost didn't make it to his hotle I think he mentioned it on a Documentary.

Strange thing is Joe Anthony introduced Heavy Metal to the USA Scorpions first gig San antonio Judas priest and so on but the music industry doesn't mention him in fact they go out of there way to not mention him or San antonio.

The great thing about Joe Anthony's pizza parlor / dance club all the bands would make a stop there after or before thier shows i got to hang out with Budjie Rob halford, triumph,UFO and others, You must remember back then they were not considered huge popular bands.

[rascal]

Soul? Oh you mean The Beat

Could be this station. You would hear stuff like Jealous Kind Of Fella- Garland Green from 1969 and other soul you wouldn't hear on other stations.

[gospursgojas]

Could be this station. You would hear stuff like Jealous Kind Of Fella- Garland Green from 1969 and other soul you wouldn't hear on other stations.

Haha...crazy bump. I was just joking man. The beat is the station that plays crappy hip hop of today.

[rascal]

Haha...crazy bump. I was just joking man. The beat is the station that plays crappy hip hop of today.

Not it then. Hip Hop is crappy.

[cherylsteele]

I probably was KAPE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCHL

[rascal]

I probably was KAPE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCHL

No, it wasn't urban gospel. It played old soul.

[PuttPutt]

KSJL 810? http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2007/02/26/daily35.html

[Spur|n|Austin]

AM radio has very strong signals that aren't affected by the curvature of the earth, unlike FM. You can hear WOAI strong all the way to California or so a professor once told me.

I used to listen to games on WOAI when I was living in Lubbock for school, pretty awesome.

[Bender]

But did you see the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo? I did.
1978. I was there too. Still have my ticket stub.