107.1 Armadillo(KPUR)?

[marxman]

...Am I seeing this right on a friend's Facebook page! 107.1 Armadillo? Is this country? Classic Country?

Marxman

[radioaircheck]

Did KPUR go country?  I thought they were oldies.

[georgechambers]

Why did the chicken cross the road?  To show the armadillo it could be done.

[Rock Oil]

The RUMOR is all Texas Country Weekends.  Going strait at KGNC and KATP.  Trading one clogged demo/format for another.

Good luck to all.  Competition is good.

[radioaircheck]

I just read that they went country!!  is there not enought country stations in Amarillo?  I lived there in the 80's and remember when the station was called "Q107".  I thought it was a great station then.

[bucwhyl]

Speaking of remember, who can name some of the old Amarillo stations? Like KAKS/107.9 Kiss fm. KQIZ/Z93. I believe 107.1 was The Katt at one time, and was a rock station.

[Kent]

I remember 107.1 as "The Hawk" KHWK.  I believe it switched to oldies as KPUR-FM in '90.  And, yes, I remember Kiss and Z-93.  I also remember 104.3 as rock KDXR.

[txchipk]

I just read that they went country!!  is there not enought country stations in Amarillo?  I lived there in the 80's and remember when the station was called "Q107".  I thought it was a great station then.

KZRK-FM 107.9 was KHBQ "Q107" before it became KAKS "Kiss"

[txchipk]

I remember 107.1 as "The Hawk" KHWK.  I believe it switched to oldies as KPUR-FM in '90.  And, yes, I remember Kiss and Z-93.  I also remember 104.3 as rock KDXR.

Amarillo radio history began with WDAG 1140 in the 1920s, but I can only help with the late '80s on for some of them...

KQIZ-FM 93.1 shifted from CHR "Z93" to "93-1 the Beat" in 2000

94.1 has had a fair number of formats.  It went from country KBUY-FM to KDJW-FM in 1987 and back to the KBUY-FM "Y94" in 1990.  At some point in the '90s it changed to rock.  In 1999, it changed from rock KBUY-FM to hot AC KMXJ-FM "Mix 94."  Since then KMXJ-FM shifted to AC.

96.9 was AC KLSF until it became country KMML-FM in 1993 (picked up from 98.7).  KMML-FM flipped to CHR "Kiss" in 2007, and taking the current KXSS-FM calls in 2008.

98.7 also has had a fair number of formats.  It changed from country KMML to hot AC KQAC "Q99" in 1993.  It later picked up ABC's hot AC format as KNSY "Sunny 98.7."  In the late 1990s, it became CHR KPRF "Power 98.7" and then "Kiss." In 2007, it changed to adult hits "Jack FM."

101.9 was AC KZZQ until it changed to easy listening KESE in 1988.  After a couple months of that, it changed to country.  In 1990, it flipped to rock KATP "Rock 102 the Cat." It went to country in the mid-1990s.

104.3 was rock KDXR until it went silent in 1988.  It came back as country KQFX "the Fox" before the Spanish-language formats.
 
107.1 was rock KATP until 1988 when it became KHWK.  KHWK ran then-Transtar's 24/7 satellite Niche 29 top 40/rock format as "the Hawk."  It too went silent for a while.  After that it became oldies KPUR-FM.

[Rock Oil]

Thanks for the history lesson!