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“Retro Radio" was a commercial-free music and talk format that featured oldies music and nostalgia, and brought several familiar radio voices back to the Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves. The new format began Saturday, May 24, on 1360 AM and also streamed on the internet. "Retro Radio" signed off on June 30, 2008.
“This format was an offshoot of ‘The Hi-Fi Club,’ a weekly music and nostalgia program we’ve done on KMNY since 2006,” Retro Radio program director Mike Shannon said. “We’ve taken many of the show’s elements and built a radio station around them.”
DFW radio veterans Bud Buschardt, Jim Thomas and Jay Weaver hosted oldies shows on the weekends, while “The Hi-Fi Club” hosts Ray Whitworth, John Lewis and Mike Shannon filled weekend shifts as well. “Hi-Fi” veteran Chad Hoker hosted the popular weekday morning program, “GenX Radio,” and former KLLI-FM talk show personality Larry Stanley hosted a mid-day talk program on Saturdays.
A window of opportunity came available when the longtime lessee of KMNY, the BizRadio Network, purchased its own station in Mineral Wells, TX, and terminated its lease agreement with KMNY owner MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting, Inc. (MRBI.) KMNY offered the now-unused hours to Shannon’s group, based on the station’s success with “The Hi-Fi Club.”
“It was not a long-term project,” Shannon said. “The entire broadcast schedule at KMNY was eventually leased by Rational Radio, which first provided a progressive talk format on 1360 from 7PM to midnight, seven days a week. In that interim, Retro Radio put the daytime and overnight hours to good use with programming that honored yesterday’s great personalities and stations in the DFW area.”
Retro Radio’s music library primarily consisted of oldies. Modern Classic Rock, an untried format in DFW radio, featured higher-energy rock songs from 1975-1995. Weekday morning programming focused on 1980s music. Weekends consisted of pop oldies from across all decades.
1360 AM is the former home of KXOL, a radio station established over 60 years ago in Fort Worth that was once home to national celebrities such as Bob Schieffer, George Carlin, Jack Burns, Jim Lowe, Norm Alden, Jim MacKrell, Frank Jolle, Rod Roddy and Bill Mack.
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