Jhani Kaye and Jim Taber made KINT hotter than a firecracker. They were unstoppable.

Jhani hired me to do weekends and swing when I first came to town. That same afternoon while surfing around the AM band, I stumbled onto XROK 80. Now, I used to listen to this Mighty X station that came in so well on the California Coast that I thought it was one of the Baja Border Blasters. The next day I approached Chris Michaels and he also hired me for weekends/swing. Now what do I do? KINT and XEROK wanted me. Little did I know at the time, KINT was the most listened to station in El Paso.

I went back to Jhani and told him I was going to take the position with X-ROK. He said, “They’re not even live”, (though they had just gone live a week earlier.) “If you want to be with a number one station, you’ll stay with us”. I had other plans. The last thing Jhani said to me was, “OK – see you in the book.” In the long run, he was right.

KINT would give away five cars a year, money every hour, concert tickets — hell, Kaye and Taber gave away the world… We at the X had very little to give away, the only thing we really had was a HUGE amount of RF power. I recorded this composite one summer night while nursing a bottle of tequila with a radio friend from southern California who was visiting.

The KINT studio was housed in their transmitter building on the south side of town. Old equipment and a dumpy old building – but damn did they sound great…

The voice on the ‘Super Star – Super Car’ Promos was Jhani’s old friend Rod Roddy of The Price is Right fame. Taber was one of the KLIF jocks in the late sixties. Like the top of the hour liner, “The McLendon Stations”, Jim did the same with the liner at KINT. And the McLendon Editorials — KINT also ran Taber’s Editorial of the day.

KINT was a class act. Jim Taber and Jhani Kaye OWNED El Paso in the late seventies.