Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Remembering Radio Stations From Long Ago
Posted 12-23-2016 at 07:17 PM by case44
My goodness, it's been some forty-five years since sitting in my bedroom at my old house on a weekend afternoon and actually having a radio in my bedroom. And, lo and behold, I actually listened to it when I wasn't in the car with mom and dad and was also trying to outgrow Sesame Street. The station was KBOX-AM (1480), then a country music station with the top country of that time. Great deejays, too. Legendary history.
Not too long after that, I passed puberty and started listening to Top 40 contemporary music. Besides the Dallas area stations everyone else in my class were listening to, this writer was fixated with an AM station in Sherman, Texas. It was KIKM-AM (910), and its reach came into my market that I could listen to it day and night in my late junior high and high school years. I remember some of the people who used to work at that station, but, sadly, I don't remember the jock who did the afternoon or morning shows. I do remember a fellow by the name of Gil Nelson, who worked at night, who ran a very good (and clean) evening show, spinning records from that time, and providing character voices for the younger listeners. And there was also Dale Milford who did the weather forecasts. Dale was a meteorologist whom my mother used to watch on Channel 8 (WFAA-TV) in Dallas way back in the late 1960s and early '70s before he nabbed a congressional seat and left the station. After leaving Congress, there he was, in Sherman, on the radio, doing weather forecasts. North Texas was just home to him.
You know, I still miss KIKM and its glory days, and they were wonderful days. Long since, the 910 frequency saw its license moved to Frisco and is now part of the Dallas-Fort Worth market. When you get attached to radio stations that were special, like KIKM and KBOX were to me, you never really want to let go. D/FW had a few others that were legendary, but I just never took the time to enjoy them enough back then. In retrospect, if you're lucky enough to find airchecks, then you'll find clips of what things used to be like.
It'd be nice just to recapture the old glory of KBOX and KIKM. Just one more time would be nice.
For all listeners.
The station was KBOX-AM (1480), then a country music station with the top country of that time. Great deejays, too. Legendary history. Not too long after that, I passed puberty and started listening to Top 40 contemporary music. Besides the Dallas area stations everyone else in my class were listening to, this writer was fixated with an AM station in Sherman, Texas. It was KIKM-AM (910), and its reach came into my market that I could listen to it day and night in my late junior high and high school years. I remember some of the people who used to work at that station, but, sadly, I don't remember the jock who did the afternoon or morning shows. I do remember a fellow by the name of Gil Nelson, who worked at night, who ran a very good (and clean) evening show, spinning records from that time, and providing character voices for the younger listeners. And there was also Dale Milford who did the weather forecasts. Dale was a meteorologist whom my mother used to watch on Channel 8 (WFAA-TV) in Dallas way back in the late 1960s and early '70s before he nabbed a congressional seat and left the station. After leaving Congress, there he was, in Sherman, on the radio, doing weather forecasts. North Texas was just home to him.
You know, I still miss KIKM and its glory days, and they were wonderful days. Long since, the 910 frequency saw its license moved to Frisco and is now part of the Dallas-Fort Worth market. When you get attached to radio stations that were special, like KIKM and KBOX were to me, you never really want to let go. D/FW had a few others that were legendary, but I just never took the time to enjoy them enough back then. In retrospect, if you're lucky enough to find airchecks, then you'll find clips of what things used to be like.
It'd be nice just to recapture the old glory of KBOX and KIKM. Just one more time would be nice.
For all listeners.
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