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Historic KOKE-FM is back on the air in Austin

10mo ago

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AUSTIN -- For more than a decade, local radio station KOKE-FM gave the nation a taste of what Texas country music was all about. In 1974, Billboard named KOKE the most innovative radio station in the country. The station went off the air in the late 1980s, but today it has found new life on Austin's airwaves. Radio has always had its place in the Live Music Capital of the World, and in the 1970s, Austin station KOKE helped bring progressive and outlaw country to the forefront. It played artists like Willi