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Sorry to say that the FCC shut down my favorite station, Kyote Radio... which operated as a 5 watt powerhouse for the ghost town of Terlingua for 10 years that I know of, maybe longer. The ladies of the community did impose regulations, insisting that they stop referring to the F%*^ing FCC on the air, but that other nearly equally descriptive adjectives were acceptable. For some reason, the feds decided to travel to this little town near Mexico last year and threatened to imprison the offenders. My days of hearing Rachmaninoff, Oscar Peterson, Dire Straits, and the Light Crust Dough Boys - all back to back with zero commercials- is over. http://www.kyoteradio.org/
Similar to the S Clark story of Terlingua radio, is the story of KTAX. My accountants are a couple of Italian-American Deadheads from Long Island who did pro bono accounting for KGNU community radio in Boulder, Colorado. When KGNU relocated and upgraded their equipment, Mike and Eugene acquired their old broadcast gear and set up KTAX to play whatever was being played in their office all day. That was mostly DAT bootlegs of the Dead but not exclusively so. The office had a pair of Klipsch K-horns and a bank of Rowland gear they got from me and a wood stove for heat. The listening area was confined to about 3 square miles of mountain valley, half of which was a reservoir. Still, they broadcast during office hours 5 days a week for ten years and, as far as I know, no one ever spoke a word over KTAX radio. It just started up one day, was discovered by word of mouth and stopped broadcasting abruptly when the FBI showed up and let them know what the penalties would be for continuing to share their music over the air. Just like the Terlingua example, you have to ask yourself, "Who were they hurting?".Current favorites are KVNF in Paonia, Colorado and KZMU in Moab, Utah.Looks like nobody cares much for Clear Channel.
I almost forgot about the most classic and powerful R&B radio station that used to broadcast from Ciudad Acuna, MX. Said they were in Del Rio, TX (across the Rio Grande) but that is where their tower was. Can't remember their call letters (this was like in the 50's) but you will recognize the name of one of their DJ's . . Wolfman Jack. There was another from Shreveport, LA and one from Memphis. R&B and some gospel, if I recall. Texas girl Angela Strehli immortalizes those stations on the opening track of her album, Blonde and Blue.
Last time I liked any radio station was quite some time ago in Detroit: WABX and WDET (Dave Dixon, Ed Love, Judy Adams(?)). Dislike all I've heard since.
Enjoyed WNEW-FM 102.7 back then...Still catch Vin Scelsa on a Saturday night on WFUV...Idiot's Delight...always an interesting show.
It was the early 70's and music in the Detroit area was awesome!! This is where I learned about progressive rock and what we now call classic rock!! WABX was a great station!! So was WRIF, WWWW(W4). But the best station was CJOM out of Canada. They played music no one else would play.
Was this the station that ZZ Top refered to as "The X" (Radio X)?"I heard it, I heard it, I heard it on the X."
