KRYS-FM
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KRYS-FM is a radio station
broadcasting a Country music
format. Licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas
, USA, the station serves the Corpus Christi area. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications
and features programing from ABC Radio .
, until it was sold in 1956 and changed to KRYS. 1360 AM is now KKTX
. The station went on the air as KBCB on 1981-01-05. on 1984-08-20, the station changed its call sign to the current KRYS.
Prior to becoming KKTX-FM, KRYS-AM facilities were located on South Staples across from one of Corpus Christi's first shopping centers. The station manager was Ace Lloyd and the station was owned by an oil company in San Antonio that had at least one other radio station in the South Texas market. Between 1967-1969, on-air personality J Gordan Lunn, who later became the weatherman on KMID-TV in the Midland-Odessa market, was the morning DJ. Jim Springer was the sales' manager and George Dismukes and Bill Scott made up the sales' staff. The news director was Bud Little who later moved to San Antonio and became the news director for WOAI. In the early 70s the station moved to a new location and Jim Springer became the station manager. Salesmen were Brady Malone and Bill Scott.
Radio station
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broadcasting a Country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
format. Licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. The MSA population in 2008 was 416,376. The population was 305,215 at the 2010 census making it the...
, USA, the station serves the Corpus Christi area. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
and features programing from ABC Radio .
History
K-99 has been a country formatted station since December 1982. K-99's original call letters were KBCB-FM (1982–84). KRYS was originally KRIS radio 1360 AMAM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...
, until it was sold in 1956 and changed to KRYS. 1360 AM is now KKTX
KKTX (AM)
KKTX is a radio station serving the Corpus Christi, Texas area with a News/Talk format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1360 kHz and is under ownership of Clear Channel Communications.-External links:*...
. The station went on the air as KBCB on 1981-01-05. on 1984-08-20, the station changed its call sign to the current KRYS.
Prior to becoming KKTX-FM, KRYS-AM facilities were located on South Staples across from one of Corpus Christi's first shopping centers. The station manager was Ace Lloyd and the station was owned by an oil company in San Antonio that had at least one other radio station in the South Texas market. Between 1967-1969, on-air personality J Gordan Lunn, who later became the weatherman on KMID-TV in the Midland-Odessa market, was the morning DJ. Jim Springer was the sales' manager and George Dismukes and Bill Scott made up the sales' staff. The news director was Bud Little who later moved to San Antonio and became the news director for WOAI. In the early 70s the station moved to a new location and Jim Springer became the station manager. Salesmen were Brady Malone and Bill Scott.