Does anyone remember the Texas Q102 radio station?

[Mesquite Archer]

Those were the good old days. Good music, Texas Jams and street racing on Buckner and Forest Lane. Just walked by an old Volkswagen not 30 minutes ago with a KZEW sticker on the back windshield.

Cruised Buckner and Forest Ln many times and raced Bruton bottoms as well. Good times.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

99.5 KISS rocks San Antonio is still going strong.

[100%TtId]

99.5 KISS rocks San Antonio is still going strong.

What happened to that DJ who was named Joe-something? He was there late 80's-90's.

[huntingjunkie]

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com...-of-q102.html/

Went off the air in 1998. I grew up listening to that station and loved it. Some of the employees worked out at a building in Cedar Hill.

Have a cousin that literally covered every inch of his Nova with that bumper sticker in mid 80's. He won some contest and I bet he had 500 bumper stickers on that car.

[1369]

What happened to that DJ who was named Joe-something? He was there late 80's-90's.

Joe Anthony died in '92.

[Fishy]

Have a cousin that literally covered every inch of his Nova with that bumper sticker in mid 80's. He won some contest and I bet he had 500 bumper stickers on that car.

Think I probably put one on my dad's work truck. He got a bunch of them free after doing some work on the building where the tower and antenna was at. I went out there once with him. May have been just engineers and such at Cedar Hill. Not really sure.

[gumbl3]

For sure

[Tbar]

Switch to Q102

In October 1978, Program Director Steve Sutton changed the call sign to KTXQ and the branding to "Q102" (to launder the station of a Fort Worth image, and to lessen confusion with then-CBS network affiliate KDFW-TV Channel 4). In 1983, CBS Radio bought the station. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the station aired variations on the rock format, including classic rock and mainstream rock. Morning hosts Bo and Jim were popular Q102 DJs for most of Q102's existence. Though KTXQ maintained high ratings for years, by the mid-1990s, the station fell into a steep decline, particularly after the debut of KRRW's similar-sounding classic rock format. In its final book in the summer of 1998, KTXQ was ranked 19th with a 2.4 share of the market.

In early 1997, CBS sold the station to New York-based SFX Broadcasting. By August of that year, however, Austin-based Capstar merged with SFX. Six months later, locally-based Chancellor Media acquired KTXQ through a series of trades with Capstar.[2]

Magic 102

At Noon on August 27, 1998, on the same day that Chancellor announced that they would merge with Capstar to form AMFM, Inc., KTXQ discontinued its long-running rock format and began stunting with simulcasts of other AMFM stations from across the country (including KYLD, WHTZ, KYSR, and WUBE), as well as redirecting listeners to KZPS.[3][4][5] On August 31, at 3 p.m., KTXQ flipped to Rhythmic Oldies as "Magic 102." The first song on "Magic" was "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars. [6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDGE#Move_to_Album_Rock

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[grizzman]

Z-rock fan here.

[quarterback]

I remember The ZEW's Labella and Rody in the morning. "Walter from Waco" and "Hunt James".

When I first signed up on TBH I thought about using the Hunt James name but wasn't sure anyone would get it.

http://thezoofile.com/index.html

[Fishy]

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Very informative. Thanks.

[Skinny]

Does anyone remember the Texas Q102 radio station?

Yup. And another one called Y95. Can't recall the exact music played, but I think it was rock.


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[Razorback01]

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