Oldies on AM 700?

[willdav713]

Would be nice to hear the "o" stuff in Houston again.

I heard someone post the existence of the True Oldies Channel on KRBE HD-2. 

[joesixpack]

Isn't Houston the largest market without a full time oldies/classic hits station? What was the last station in Houston to carry that format?

Oldies 94.5.  If I remember correctly it stopped back in the late 90's when The Buzz moved to 94.5 from 107.5.

[purpledevil]

Isn't Houston the largest market without a full time oldies/classic hits station? What was the last station in Houston to carry that format?

Oldies 94.5.  If I remember correctly it stopped back in the late 90's when The Buzz moved to 94.5 from 107.5.

July 18, 2000. 107-5 The Buzz relaunched at 94.5 with a live Stone Temple Pilots show. Oldies moved to 107-5 and remained there until "K-Hits" was born in 2006. K-Hits folded in 2009 with the launch of classic hits "107-5 The Eagle" which is when the oldies completely died at 107.5 and shifted towards the classic rock that it is today.

[radiobop]

By the way, I would call what Paul Berlin mostly plays as adult standards from the 40s and 50s as opposed to "oldies..."

[zork]

Isn't Houston the largest market without a full time oldies/classic hits station? What was the last station in Houston to carry that format? Washington and now Atlanta with the demise of WYAY are without an outlet as well.

With the success of CBS-FM, KRTH, WOGL and WLS-FM I wonder why an oldies format isn't tried in Houston these days.

Kbme was probably the last station to carry that format with their beautiful music before cheap channel ruined it trying to flip it to a sports station even though there were too many in the market already

[Mediafrog+]

Kbme was probably the last station to carry that format with their beautiful music before cheap channel ruined it trying to flip it to a sports station even though there were too many in the market already

Huh???  KBME from 1998 to 2004 was Standards/MOR/Nostalgia, not Beautiful Music, which is an entirely different format that pretty much disappeared in the 1980's.

And how did Clear Channel "ruin" 790?  There was only one other SportsTalker in the market (610) when 790 was flipped in 2004.  Was one SportsTalker "too many" as you claim?

[KOL]

No, 790 was ruined the day 79Q 'died'.   

[stan]

No, 790 was ruined the day 79Q 'died'.   

That's a long time ago!  93Q succeeded 79Q since as most music formats moved to FM.  Lander and Q Zoo - what memories.

[rageradio]

Great memories!

[willdav713]

No, 790 was ruined the day 79Q 'died'.   

What about Hot 79Q AM Stereo?  That was a good station too.  That died because of the poor marketing concept of AM Stereo.