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KHJ-AM 930 sold for $9.75 Million

Michael, Bill Earl thought the Don Steele parody was made in the late 1960s. Now you know why he's the official historian for KRLA and not KMPC. :) I have the tape in one of my dozens of boxes of airchecks and I haven't listened to it for many years. I had forgotten about the Dolly Parton song being included. Thank you for clarifying the details as to when and where the parody was made. ZzzzZZZAPPPP! You're Morganized!
 
Indoors, I believe it. On wheels, maybe not, hence the need to promote the stream.

In my experience, even in the car.

I remember some seller set up a remote in Fontana. Well before I got there, the signal became noisy and wretched. When at the location, in a retail parking lot, we could not pick up the station on a pocket radio to get the cues for the remote cut-ins. So we had to have someone put a cellular phone in front of a radio in Hollywood and we held another cellphone up to the talent's ear for the cues.

Of course, no listeners showed up for the remote. I had some choice words for the Monday sales meeting, too.
 
KHJ was wrong in 1980: We did not all grow up to be cowboys. KHJ's country format lasted just two and a half years. But on November 8, the day of the format change, I taped an hour of Jim Duncan's evening show and there was a lot of noise and interference. I was just a kid when I discovered KHJ in 1963 and heard Gravy Waltz by Steve Allen, Scarlett O'Hara by Lawrence Welk and I Want To Stay Here by Steve & Eydie. Those songs are still among my favorites all these years later. I listened to KHJ a lot, especially after they switched to top-40 in 1965. I listened faithfully to every weekly Top 30 countdown show. I don't remember hearing noise and interference at night in the '60s and '70s. Was KHJ in 1980 still broadcasting with the same power as in the '60s?

KHJ used the same facility and frequency since NARBA put them on 930 in the early 40's and up to the recent move to the KBLA site. In fact, the towers that stood off Fairfax were erected in the 30's just after it was determined that vertical towers were the best radiators and shortly after directional systems became popular as a way to enable power increases.
 
Indoors, I believe it. On wheels, maybe not, hence the need to promote the stream.

With about 2/3 of radio listening taking place at work and at home, the indoor signal is critical to success.
 
SuperRadioFan, I wasn't lost yesterday. I posted a comment about a Don Steele parody to a thread about KHJ. Doesn't that make sense? Or.....it would have made sense if the Don Steele Parody was being discussed on this thread and not on a KRTH thread. Okay, okay, I go to so many threads that I posted a reply to the wrong one. I'll make sure that I never do that again.

Yes, I think dropping all the 1960s music will turn out to be a big mistake for WCBS-FM.
 
So to get this train back on track: KHJ becomes Immaculate Heart Radio on November 17th at 1pm (according to the network web site) They may or may not stunt befoe that.
 
Religious broadcasters don't stunt, although they may go off the air at midnight and then sign back on at 1:00pm.
 
Stairway to Heaven

<No> Sympathy for the Devil

Don't Fear the Reaper

Knockin on Heaven's Door

Don't Stop Believing

My Sweet Lord...

See, to me, stunting would go just the opposite way.

Devil With A Blue Dress On

Devil Woman

Or......

Oh, this is awful....

24 hours of Billy Joel's "Only The Good Die Young" ("...you Catholic girls start much too late...")
 
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