KTXQ: Q102 Texas' Best Rock (1991)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Pardon me while I trip on some local-interest nostalgia. If you can't relate, just think about whatever rock 'n roll radio station was popular in your town during your formative years--the one for which at least half the cars at your high school had a bumper sticker. That is basically what this is about.



Of course, they were bought out by some corporate entity that forced it into general suckitude and it died a horrible death as all the great music stations did.

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[rick-day.livejournal.com]

I was always a ZOO man, myself.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I liked the ZOO better, too! :)

ETA: But by the time of this ad, I was all about The Edge. I was too old for that stuff. What was wrong with me? :D

[imweirdlikethat.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, there is now a Q102 in my area...

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there have been more than one in various places. That's why I added the call letters and slogan to be clear.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

The pre-eminent radio station in my home town when I was in high school was WPLR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLR); even people who didn't listen to it seemed to have the fluorescent-pink bumper sticker on their cars and notebooks. In the 80s they started to lean more towards a top-40 format, and I was thinking that was probably the end of them, but apparently they went back to their roots.

They were truly progressive; I remember when I was a kid hearing Jimi Hendrix segue-ing into John Denver singing "Sunshine on my Shoulder."

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Something that is disappearing from our culture is the way radio stations were part of the community; even if it was a station you didn't listen to, you still knew what the format was and who the DJs were. For example, I knew people who would never listen to country music, but would turn to the country station just to listen to a guy named Terry Dorsey and the Hiney Wine skits. My dad used to listen to that. Ugh, those were soooo stupid!

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Most bumper stickers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQRS-FM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQRS-FM)

Former coolest commercial station: http://minnewiki.publicradio.org/index.php/Rev105 (http://minnewiki.publicradio.org/index.php/Rev105)

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Remember the Hiney Wine bumper stickers? There was many a Terry Dorsey silly skit on KSCS.

I alternated between the ZOO and Q102.

[zydee.livejournal.com]

Zoo here too :)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

With the inverted heart meant to look like an ass? Oh, yeah! In my junior year, I went to a Christian school in a small town. I remember riding with my best friend and our principal, a good Christian lady, naturally, was driving us to some school function and a car with one of those stickers passed us. She asked us if we knew what the upside-down heart meant and what Hiney referred to. "Does the upside-down heart mean you don't love something?" She also didn't know how it was pronounced. "Is it hiney? Hinny? Do you know what is?"

OMG, we were dying!!! We were trying so hard to not to crack up and pretend to be totally innocent about the matter. "No, ma'am. We have no idea what that's about." :D

Great memory! Thanks!