Texas Radio: Longtime AM Host Roger Garrett Departs KORA

Roger Garrett

For many Bryan College Station, TX residents, the days have started with the sound of Roger W.W.W. Garrett's voice on his Country KORA 98.3 FM morning show.

He has used that voice and his time to make a big impact on the community, but Wednesday was his last day on-air at KORA, according to KBTX.com.

Roger WWW Garrett has been entertaining listeners each morning on KORA for five years starting in 1987, and then for the last ten years.

Garrett started in radio more than 45 years ago. Half of that time has been here in the brazos valley on KORA or other stations, and he's hit the airwaves in Houston and California, too.

He's says it's a passion that started when he was 14 years old.  "Kept a radio in my locker and between classes, I would go to my locker and listen to as much radio as I could- right then I decided I was going to be in radio."

Garrett futures plans include online radio. "I am starting an internet radio station, it's a dream of mine and really looking forward to it, it's actually broadcast quality, radio station distributed over the internet."  He says he hopes to have his online radio station up and running by the end of January.

KORA 98.3 FM (900watts) 60dBu Coverage

John Seigler is the general manager of Brazos Valley Communications, which runs KORA. He says Garrett has a special connection with listeners.

Roger Garrett’s radio career began in 1969 at KWRD in Henderson, Texas where he was the only applicant with an FCC license, which was required in those days. What followed were stops at KEES Gladewater, Texas, KRBE Houston, KROK Shreveport, KHFI Austin, KLDE Houston, KBRE Merced, California, and KAGG, KTSR, KTAM, and KORA in Bryan-College Station.

His replacement, Bo Woods, will start January 12th, 2015.