"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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How about KLIF 1190 in Dallas, TX. When Gordon McLendon owned the
station it was a top 40 station from about 1955 to 1963. But McLendon
only played the good do-wop songs, never the trash that later became
Mo-Town. In the late 50's Gordon would play the news from Radio Moscow
and then give his commentary against communists. A lot of good it did,
just look at the mess this country is in today. He was also running
for political office at that time.

KLIF became Top 40 in about 1953, right after the format popped out of KOWH
in Omaha. It continued being Top 40 through the 70's. They definitely did
play Motown, as their heyday was in the late 60's when they battled
Balaban's KBOX for supremacy in the Dallas market (which did not include Ft.
Worth at the time... KXOL was the big Top 40 there).