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Jackson “Peg” Moreland, who once sang over Dallas’ WFAA Radio (today’s KLIF-AM), died in 1973. Here’s a 1929 recording of him singing “When I Had But Fifty Cents:”
Here are other entries about Dallas’ WFAA-AM, today’s KLIF-AM.
Here are earlier entries about WFAA Radio in Dallas, which shared a frequency with WBAP-AM for decades. WBAP eventually paid WFAA for full-time use of the strong 820 AM frequency and WFAA moved to 570 AM in 1970.
WFAA tried an adult-leaning Top 40 format to complete with hugely popular rival KLIF-AM and KNUS-FM. In the mid-1970s, WFAA-AM moved to a talk radio format. In 1983, it flipped to a classic rock format with the call letters KRQX-AM. It flipped to oldies in 1987 as KLDD. A few years later, it became KKWM-AM, a simulcast of KKWM-FM’s soft rock format (today’s urban contemporary KBFB-FM).
In in 1990, KLIF-AM’s owners sold the 1190 AM freqency, purchased KKWM-AM and moved KLIF’s call letters and news-talk format to 570 AM.
By late 2011, Cumulus Media owned both KLIF flipped to a news-heavy format in 2011, designed to compete with all-news KRLD. As of 2016, KLIF continues the format, similar to the “news/information” positioning of its sister station KGO-AM in San Francisco.
Source: Wikipedia (KLIF-AM)
After serving in the U.S. Army, Dale Milford worked as a meteorologist for KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas, from 1953 until 1958. He worked as a meteorologist at Dallas’ WFAA-TV from 1958 until 1971.
Milford was elected to the U.S. House in 1972. He served as a Democrat until losing renomination in 1978. He died in 1997.
Here are earlier entries about WFAA-TV.
Source: Wikipedia (Dale Milford)
This is an ad from Broadcasting Magazine’s special edition celebrating ABC’s 25th anniversary in 1978. Here are earlier entries about the station’s history.
Here’s an earlier entry about the history of Dallas’ WFAA-TV.
Here’s an earlier entry about Fort Worth’s WBAP-AM and the unusual arrangement it had with WFAA-AM for much of its history.
