Making up for all the times I received Austin’s KHFI in Lafayette, I’m now picking up KSMB from Lafayette in Austin.
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Making up for all the times I received Austin’s KHFI in Lafayette, I’m now picking up KSMB from Lafayette in Austin.
96.7 KHFI-FM Georgetown/Austin
Top 40 “96-7 Kiss FM, All the Hits”
2/8/2013, 2:50PM
DJ: Cruz
VO: Jeff Berlin
Jingles: ReelWorld ONE (KIIS Melody)
Audio of 93.7 KOOJ Baton Rouge flipping from Active Rock to Classic Hits “Red @ 93.7” on 4/25/2005. They would pick up the KRDJ calls the next month, then shift to Variety Hits in 2006.
I remember leaving work early that day to go home and catch the flip at 5:00.
Side note: I also have an aircheck somewhere of KRDJ moving back to Lafayette in 2007 (their city of license, New Iberia, is in the Lafayette market; their signal—centered between Lafayette and Baton Rouge—covers both markets) and debuting a new classic rock format. It’s probably on a hard drive in a box in my closet. I need to find that.
KBPA San Marcos, TX (Austin), KXXM San Antonio
Two more catches followed me back from Texas to Lafayette, received 560 (KBPA) and 635 (KXXM) miles from transmitters
KKMY Orange, TX (Beaumont)
Received at my parents’ house in Lafayette, 180 miles east of transmitter.
95.5 KKMJ-FM (Austin, TX) — TV spot, 1990
Dick Clark for Majic 95
Majic fits your every mood
104.1 WABD/Mobile, AL
Top 40
7/14/2012, 12:45PM
A significant amount of radio-related drama has been unfolding in the Mobile market ever since Dittman Group announced the sale of WABB-FM to Educational Media Foundation back in February. At midnight on March 1, 2012, as WABB was fading into EMF’s K-Love Christian AC format, Cumulus quickly swooped in and “saved” the Top 40 format by switching their own Variety Hits 104.1 WYOK to WABD, hiring WABB’s former staff to take over where WABB left off.
Fast forward just four months—Cumulus and WABD make a major announcement on the morning of July 9, 2012: Cumulus and EMF had come to an agreement for Cumulus to swap their Urban AC 98.3 WDLT to EMF, plus Classic Hits 97.1 WRQQ in Nashville, in exchange for the monster 97.5FM signal; WABD and the Top 40 format would move back “home” at midnight on July 15, 2012. In the meantime, K-Love and the WLVM calls would move to 98.3, with Urban AC taking over the stronger 104.1 frequency. Evidence that something was up was widely overlooked, as EMF had notified the FCC in May to rescind their initial (and standard) request to convert WLVM to non-commercial operation and waive the main studio requirement.
I happened to take a road trip out to Pensacola on the Saturday (July 14) before the flip, and while I wasn’t there to catch the flip itself, I did manage to get some of WABD’s last day on 104.1. Here’s a scoped hour of Scotty Davis on WABD, including some heavy promotion of the midnight move to 97.5.
