KOME Radio 95.3 Back On The Air In Meridian, Texas

Programming a play list of "classic hits," LKCM Radio
Group's KOME 95.3 FM returned to the air last week.

The 25,000-watt station is licensed for the Bosque County
listening area and operated by the Ft. Worth-based company
which boasts about a dozen stations in Texas and Oklahoma.

KOME gives up no news reports, commercial announcements,
traffic updates or talk radio shows.

It's just a solid stream of rock, oldies, soul and the
occasional country hit from yesteryear punctuated by the
occasional station identification delivered in the
mellifluous dee-jay pipes of an unidentified professional
announcer.

The station beams its line of sight signal from its Ft.
Worth Ranch Radio KFWR studios to the broadcasting tower
located high on a hill above downtown Meridian. The tower
is the property of Bosque County, which uses it as an outlet
for communicating with its emergency services vehicles,
police and fire departments and ambulances.

The cooperative agreement is in place due to a need for
Bosque County to have a commercial radio outlet in place so
that programming may be interrupted for emergency
announcements regarding weather disasters, fires, floods and
other deadly events, according to County Emergency Services
Manager Dewey Ratliff.

The station's non-stop programming had been interrupted due
to technical difficulties, according to a broadcast
engineering specialist who works at The Ranch Radio Group.

In an interesting aside, KOME was once the call letters of a
San Jose, California, "album oriented rock" station that
pioneered the genre in the Bay Area in the early seventies.

At the time, Chevy Chase, who first achieved fame as a
member of the repertory troupe starring on NBC's late night
comedy show, "Saturday Night Live" and in motion pictures,
worked at the station as a dee-jay. His trademark sign-off
remark was "Don't touch that dial, it's got KOME on it!" He
thereby gained some early notoriety if not a small measure
of fame when "Playboy" Magazine mentioned his expoits in
print.