KWTX-AM Celebrates 75 Year Anniversary

posted on 5.10.2021

Congratulations to Waco's second-oldest radio station, KWTX-AM, which recently turned 75.

Michael Braun, a former station announcer, chronicled the early days of KWTX-AM – from the license application by a future Texas governor to the young Radio manager who put the station on the air in 1946.

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KWTX advertisement in the 1946 Waco City Directory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Station Manager Buddy Bostick (shown) drove through Waco neighborhoods in 1946 announcing the program schedule from this Willys Jeep equipped with a public address system and loudspeakers.

TAB named Bostick Pioneer of the Year in 1996.

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