Showing posts with label austin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label austin. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

KDHT


KDHT "Hot 93.3" was a Hip-Hop/R&B station licensed to Cedar Park, Texas from 2003 to 2009. 93.3 FM is currently Adult Album Alternative KGSR.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

KKMJ


"Majic 95.5" KKMJ is an Adult Contemporary station from Austin, Texas. Back in the 1970s, 95.5 FM was home to the much more interesting format of "Progressive Country" KOKE.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

BCS National Championship Game - Alabama vs Texas

Tonight is the championship game of college football's horribly flawed Bowl Championship Series. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide take on the Longhorns of the University of Texas at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. I couldn't care less who wins but I'll root for Alabama because they haven't won it all since 1992 and UT last won in 2006.

KUT is a public radio station owned and operated by the University of Texas at Austin.


WVUA is the Voice of the University of Alabama. They carry an Alternative Rock format and are now known as "90.7 The Capstone."

Thursday, August 27, 2009

KLBJ




KLBJ 590 AM is a News/Talk station in Austin, Texas.  It was once owned by the family of President Lyndon Baines Johnson who used his initials for the call letters.


Sister station KLBJ FM carries a Rock format.


The front and back of KLBJ FM t-shirt.

Friday, May 8, 2009

KOKE

On this date in 1886 a pharmacist from Atlanta first sold Coca-Cola whose main ingredients were caffeine and cocaine. At the time he claimed it was a "patent medicine" and cured such ailments as headaches, impotence and morphine addiction. The cocaine was removed starting in 1904 but to this day Coca-Cola uses cocaine-free coco leaf extract as an ingredient. A company in New Jersey imports coco leaves from Peru, extracts the cocaine (which it sells to a Mallinckrodt, the only company in the U.S. licensed to purify cocaine for medical use) and sells the coca flavoring agent to Coca-Cola.


KOKE was a Country music station from Austin, Texas. In 1973 they developed an experimental format called "Progressive Country" which included everyone from Willie Nelson to Janis Joplin to the Rolling Stones. It earned a "Most Innovative Station" award from Billboard magazine in 1974 but struggled to earn ratings despite a fiercely loyal audience. By 1977 they had moved toward a more mainstream format billed as "Sterling Country."