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DEFFY
Joined: 21 Jul 1999 Posts: 150 Location: HOUSTON, TX, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:22 am Post subject: KKZR is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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They are back online. They are playing new released metal music as well, but the old school rock and metal is also part of their rotation. I missed the "if it's too loud, you're too old" phrase.
http://www.zrockkkzr.com/ |
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Swidman
Joined: 05 Feb 1999 Posts: 244 Location: Gilberts, IL USA
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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I used to listen to that station back in the 80's when it was only on the air for about a year in the Chicago area. Then Christian based organization bought the frequency it was on and changed the format. I never heard that station again and missed it terribly because all the other rock stations at the time were playing the same safe garbage.
I love Hard Radio, but it's good to have another station to listen too so you don't get burned out on the playlist from one station.
BTW, I also listen to Armegedon Radio and Black Diamond Radio on the internet with Hard Radio being my "go-to" station for most of the week.
Thanks for the update about Z Rock! |
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DEFFY
Joined: 21 Jul 1999 Posts: 150 Location: HOUSTON, TX, USA
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, that station was great back in the 80's. I stopped listening to the other radio stations at that time because the DJ were getting a little older and they started to play more of the classic rock. And Zrock met the same fate as your station, they changed format.
When I moved to the San Antonio TX area in the late 90's, Zrock was still around on the AM dial. But the station had changed quite a bit by then, more of the nu-metal stuff was being played along with some of the 80's metal. It was no longer the same.
And i am not planning on leaving HR, just compliment it a little. And on some devices like iphone or windows phone, HR disconnects quite a bit. |
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HardRocker Site Admin
Joined: 06 Nov 1998 Posts: 1769 Location: Dallas, TX.
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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I programmed the Z-Rock network and took it in to San Antonio in 1989 on KSJL-AM. We forced KISS (where I used to work) into a format change to oldies in early 1990. After I left they went more alternative with the format. I created the HardRadio concept as a competitor to Z-Rock and wound up putting it online in 1995. |
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DEFFY
Joined: 21 Jul 1999 Posts: 150 Location: HOUSTON, TX, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Well HardRocker, sounds like I have been following your radio stations/feeds for a very long time. You have been doing a awesome job, thanks.
Just slightly touching back on ZROCK though, I have come to find out that I was excited more because of a "sentimental" attachment to a particular brand or name at a specific time my teens in the 80's. It is great that ZROCK is now streaming online, but it is not what it was - I don't think it could be what it was, and what it is now, trying to merge, classic, metal, rock, nu-metal and everything under the sun just does not work, at least not for me.
I hope you have plans on keeping HR going for many many years and that you stay out of the XM-Sirius. I am not paying for it .
Cheers |
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