John Krondes and The Jordanaires with the Elvis "Hit Making Team" Presents the "Centennial City" With This Gift Of Song Survivors include his wife of 44 years Sherry Romyn, his children Jay Romyn and his wife Michelle of Ashburn, VA, Jeff Romyn, of Fairfax, VA, Melissa Romyn of Seattle, WA, his … Box’s parents broke up not long after he was born, so he spent the school year with his mother in Lawndale, Calif., in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area, and his summers in Hamby, often riding a tractor in the hot Texas sun as he plowed his father’s fields. Other characters on the local scene included John Henry Furr, the Donaldson brothers, Bobby and Freddie, the Myers girls, Doris, Janet, and June, daughters of Leslie, Ellen Faith, daughter of Doug, and the Livingston girls, Eleanor and Phillis. “It was a great time for rock and roll,” said Box, who, now in his 70s, is a small, trim man with a deep radio voice and a full head of gray hair. They didn’t exchange a word, but nodded to each other in silent greeting, “like two kids in high school.”. He’s seen a lot in a career that has taken him to radio stations in Austin, Cleveland, Sacramento, Knoxville and Chattanooga. Underhill also appreciates the fan loyalty Box has built up over his years in Albuquerque radio. Or that time in Odessa, Texas, when he got fired in the middle of a broadcast for making an on-air comment critical of the radio station’s clock. These individuals collectively are associated with 10 companies in 8 cities. [1] Shortly after the station which was owned by Community Broadcasting Co. would be sold to KKBR Inc. for 1.2 million dollars. City Call Letters Frequency Date (YYYY/MM/DD) Start Time Disk Jockey and/or format (positioner) Duration (min) Scoping; Alameda: KJAZ-FM: 92.7: 1994/07/31: 20:44 This is it.”. The majority of it is just dynamite.”. “We are trying to sound like we are a 1965 radio station and Bobby was doing radio back then.”. There are two different versions of Nate that we see. In November, Box was let go from Albuquerque station KABG (98.5-FM) after working there for “20 years, five months, eight hours.” He said there were no hard feelings involved. “When I do the ‘Elvis Hour,’ I never have to worry about it being boring. Like that time in Lubbock when a program director with a bad temper busted up some studio equipment right in front of him. [5] However despite the success in Santa Fe the Utah based owners would focus their efforts on the Albuquerque market which had much more revenue potential. Sometimes, he’s unchained. That’s saying something because radio is a tough business. When he first started with his radio shack Realistic turntables there was no turning back. But it all comes back to the music he loves, which turns anyplace he’s playing it into home. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Peter C. Fuentes and is located at 6400 Uptown Blvd. Listener Comments and Reviews. Bobby Box of KABG "Big Oldies 98.5" in Albuquerque, NM, Donn Webb of KDSK "KD Radio" in Grants, NM, Mike McCann of WCBS Radio, NY, Paul Sydney of WLNG, Sag Harbor, NY, KFRC "Cammy & Dean" in San Francisco, CA, Ray Thomas of WHLG "Coast 101.3 FM" in Stuart, FL, Ric Craig of WRGO "Fun Oldies 102.7", Crystal River, FL, Scott St. James at KTRS, St. Louis, MO, Steinar Lyshaug from Kanal 1 Radio, … The Bobby Bones Show with Bobby, Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie and the whole crew! His on-air style is a free-fall delivery that mixes oldies trivia with light-hearted observations about most anything that comes to mind. “It boggles my mind that Chubby Checker is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” Box said. I thought I would just go to my car and stay there.”, Since then, he has introduced many music stars of the ’50s and ’60s – Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka. “KABG was very kind to me for many years,” he said. Holly, a Lubbock native and 1950s rock sensation (“That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue”) was killed in a plane crash in 1959. Nights - Carlos D (KKOB-FM), Fire with the phones. He was so good that he didn’t have to pay. Kjbo Radio, Inc. is a New Mexico Domestic Profit Corporation filed on August 13, 1993. PETER ROMYN, age 67 of Haymarket, VA died Friday, December 25, 2009, at Prince William Hospital, Manassas, VA. Mr. Romyn served in the U.S. Army and worked for various defense contractors. New Mexico's Greatest Hits, BIG 98.5 FM. Bobby Box works on the air at KDSK, a station that plays the oldies format Box is most identified with in the Albuquerque area. After we receive your application, we will email a link that you must visit to complete your registration. Sounds a lot like our friend Bobby Box. BTW, 98.5 can be pulled in about 20 miles south of Farmington to the north, Socorro to the south, and 20 miles past Moriarty to the east. On saturday I do the Roots of rock and roll from 8 am to 12 noon,music from the 50's,60's and 70's. “I had a lot of good times there. But they were slowly and surely going a different way with their music, more ’80s into early ’90s, maybe some late ’70s. Sitting in the quiet lobby of Rio Rancho’s KDSK radio, the most recent of many radio stations – KNOW, WKGN, KZKL, WMOC, KQEO, WZZP, KROY, KJBO, etc., etc. Stream live CNN, FOX News Radio, and MSNBC. It is owned by American General Media and has a classic hits format playing top 40 hits mostly from the 1970s to the early 1990s. KABG (98.5 MHz) is an American radio station licensed to Los Alamos, New Mexico serving the Santa Fe and Albuquerque radio markets. “Elvis could sing a phone book and make it interesting,” Box said. A year later in June 1993 98.5 would go dark in order to move to a new transmitter as well as to new studios in Santa Fe. “I got to see Buddy Holly’s bedroom.”. “I didn’t want to get out of high school because I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” Box recalled. Box appreciates it himself. And he played Spanky and Our Gang’s “Like to Get to Know You” for a listener who just hadn’t heard it in a while. The oldies he has become noted for playing on Albuquerque radio weren’t oldies back in ’62. Box, who was elected to the New Mexico Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2006, has survived some of the radio stations that once employed him. Bobby Box, Hey Bobby, congratulations on your first show - … However by 1997 AGM would move its operations to Albuquerque[10] and would then change the format to oldies and call letters to KABG in June in another attempt to generate better ratings in Albuquerque.[11]. This alert will expire at NaN. It would not enter the Albuquerque radio market until November 1985 when it launched as KKHJ with an adult contemporary format after upgrading to a 100,000 watt signal. And Neutered Nate As… Reek. [4] The format would be a top rated success in the Santa Fe market. Bobby Bristol, then known as “Greg Matthews,” was a young high school-aged DJ working at WINX Radio in Rockville, Maryland. Call 505.240.3740 to advertise with us! The company's filing status is listed as Revoked Final and its File Number is 1626423. He delights in dedicating songs to his 5-year-old son, tunes such as “Peter Rabbit,” the only hit of a 1960s Iowa group called Dee Jay and the Runaways, or “Choo Choo Train” by the Box Tops. And so it was, although there were times when he may have had second thoughts. “I was absolutely scared to death,” he said. Bobby Box (who I know personally) still does that GREAT Saturday morning oldies show and really pulls out the classics. Boasting a music library of about 10,000 songs from the ’50s into the ’80s, KDSK bills itself as New Mexico’s Oldies and Sound Souvenirs station. For many years the station had been known as "Big Oldies" but in 2007 it rebranded to just "Big 98.5" phasing out the word "oldies" as it has followed most other oldies stations across the country in shifting to a more 1970s focused "classic hits" format in order to improve its audience in the 25-54 age range demographic. [7] Later on with new competition following KZRQ (an affiliate of the Z-Rock network) moving to the 105.1 FM frequency in late 1991 replacing a top 40 format, KRBL would move to pick up the mainstream CHR/Top 40 format rebranding as "Lazer 98.5" in June 1992. Box does an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekday show and a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday show at KDSK. or the REQUEST LINE FOR MR. BOBBY BOX is 505.260.1240! On September 20, 2019 KABG was granted a construction permit to move its broadcasting facility to Sandia Crest at 13,800 watts. One of his most enjoyable duties at the station was acting as the emcee and announcer for the station’s WINX Wobbler basketball team. For nearly three decades the station broadcast at low wattage and only covered Los Alamos. We want your input. May 15, 2005, Las Vegas Turns 100 Years Old. This station signed on in 1956 as KRSN-FM. But the ’60s and early ’70s music was gone, and the ’50s, no way.”. KSFE 96.7 FM, KEZF 88.7 FM, KANM 90.3 FM, K-Love 89.5, KMIN 980 AM, KIDS 88.1 FM, KZNM 100.9 FM, Relevant Radio 100.7, KCZY 107.3 FM, KNKT 107.1 FM. In Season 3 Episode 3 of Thrones, Tyrion and Bronn send Podrick to a brothel. 50,000 mega blasters!! Playing the greatest hits from music's greatest artists, including Elton John, Michael Jackson, and The Rolling Stones. Listen to free internet radio, news, sports, music, and podcasts. BIG 98.5 also boasts some of … “We are trying to re-create the sounds of ’60s radio, not just play oldies,” said Underhill, who, as Derek Lloyd, is also a KDSK disc jockey. Spider-Monkey Nate As… Ramsay Bolton. GREG SORBER/JOUR­NAL Bobby Box works on the air at KDSK, a sta­tion that plays the oldies for­mat Box is most iden­ti­fied with in the Al­bu­querque area. “Neither are (’60s/’70s rock group) Paul Revere & the Raiders, but (hip-hop group) the Beastie Boys are. KDSK can refer to: KDSK AM a radio station at 1240 AM located in Albuquerque, New Mexico KDSK - FM, a radio station at 92.7 FM located in Grants, New the strong “I never tell my children I’m going to work because that would be a lie,” Box said. .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... RIO RANCHO – If radio DJ Bobby Box could turn into one of those oldies tunes he has reveled in playing for several decades, on this particular afternoon, a recent Friday, he’d be Tyrone Davis’ “Turn Back the Hands of Time.”. I thought they were going to forget him. Derek Underhill, who, with his wife, Sheila, owns KDSK, said he is happy to have Box on his team. The cities are Albuquerque NM, Baton Rouge LA, Eldorado IL, Harrisburg IL, Helena AL, New Port Richey FL, Santo TX, and Vandalia IL. Vee died in 2016. Mr. Trenis was a lifelong resident of Catlett in Fauquier County, where he operated a beef and dairy farm for 50 years. Nearby Radio Stations. Today the format is mostly focused on music from the 1980s with a small amount of music from the 1990s added. It then went on to overcome two other long running oldies stations in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe markets, KBOM 106.7 (moved to 94.7 in 2000, both frequencies which AGM had later purchased) in Santa Fe and KZKL (later changed to KQEO) 101.7 in Albuquerque which dropped the format in 2002 making KABG the only FM oldies station in both markets until its format change in 2007. Box said Checker (“The Twist,” “Let’s Twist Again,” “Limbo Rock”) would sign autographs until his hand fell off. 2nd String: Mornings -Jim Villanucci (KKOB-am), Julio Jeezy (KKSS) with Moxey (KTEG) I would wet myself to hear these threee guys in a room, what would they talk about? and The Elvis Hour at 9 am..I have worked for Big 98.5 for over 20 years...I have been in Albq Radio for more than 45 years..My name is Bobby Box [6] In March 1990 98.5 would change to KRBL with an Album-oriented rock format called "The Rebel Rocker" targeting a younger audience in Albuquerque. He comes back with the money. New Mexico's Greatest Hits, BIG 98.5 FM. Stream Bobby Box free online. “Outside of the time when I was playing country music at (Albuquerque’s) KRZY, I played contemporary until the 1980s, when I started doing oldies shows, music of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. “Since I started doing the oldies format, the exchange with listeners has been a big part of it,” he said. AGM would retain the formats on both stations and operate them from Santa Fe for another year. He’d always do (live performances) of ‘American Trilogy’ like it was the last thing he was going to sing.”. Some of the musicians whose music he admires, including ’60s teen idol Bobby Vee and singer Chubby Checker, whose records ignited the ’60s twist craze, became Box’s friends. “I tell them I’m going to play records. One of my favorite dj's here in the Rocky Mountain West is Bobby Box on 98.5 "Big Oldies" out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.. For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States. 1 talking about this. I called it the Box Lunch and I take request for my Listeners to hear what they ask for. Rio Rancho's only hometown radio station brings you hits from the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Box, who made his Albuquerque radio debut at KQEO in 1969, is known to his Duke City-area listeners for playing the music of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s and for the “Elvis Hour,” a segment he continues at KDSK from noon to 1 p.m. Saturdays. By the age of 12, Bobby was doing his own gigs and parties, spinning for 5 hours at a time for minimum pay. Steve Ricketts Morning Drive: Our Name In Lights! [9] In 1996 KNYN and KTMN were sold to American General Media. 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