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Patrick Riley
I, too, listened to KOMA (AM 1520, as I recall) in Oklahoma City, tuning it in as soon as the sun went down and the signal became available. No news here; I think we all listened to KOMA in the evenings!
Before sunset, I grudgingly listened to the local KSWS station ... they mostly played “hillbilly” (country) music and that just wasn’t cool. I’ve since come to like and enjoy country music but not in my high school days!
I also listened to Wolfman Jack. In the years I was a fan, he broadcast from Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico on station XERF AM 1570 ... only a short dial twist from KOMA. XEG, mentioned by John, may have been a sister station ... not sure as I don’t recognize the name???
XERF was a “border blaster” station transmitting with a 250,000 watt signal. U.S. stations at the time were limited to a 50,000 maximum watt signal and there weren’t many stations of that signal size (KOMA was one) licensed by the FCC. If we could pickup KOMA in Roswell, imagine the range XERF must have had!
I’d also listened to XERF in bed late at night after Wolfman Jack was off the air. Until dawn they broadcast one radio preacher after another hawking prayer cloths and other religious and healing paraphernalia. I’m not sure why I listened to this but I did.
Hey, we may not have had M-TV, but we definitely had great music!
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1 brother 79, the other, 74.
