Michael Haggerty, That's definitely NOT Ed Peters doing the sign-on message at the beginning of the KFMB-FM broadcast day on the Youtube video.
I had Music for the Two Of Us from late 1975 to around 1977 when I switched to FM 100. The Beautiful Music tapes had two things: early tones to cause songs to overlap, and faster fades on songs that had very slow one.
KYXY FM had been KFMX and did Beautiful Music from August or September 1969 before changing calls in 1971. Wally Nelskog of Seattle's KIXI A/F owned it and programmed it with the KIXI format, which in the 70s he would syndicate as "Bright 'n Beautiful which BPI would sell as their new Beautiful format from about 1973 through the decade and into the early 80s. Was very up-tempo with a quarter vocals at least. KSDO FM had been a Classical Music station from 1965 and was owned by Sherwood Gordon whose KSDO AM was San Diego's leading Beautiful Music AM from Sept ember 1959 through 1970 when it became a talk station. KSDO FM in the 70s became Country KOZN which did not do so well and was flipped in 1977 to Beautiful Music, running Darrell Peters' FM 100 Plan with which within a year or so it emerged as the market's #1 Beautiful outlet, calls being changed to KJGY in 1979 before being sold to Westinghouse in 1981. In the Summer of 1988 the same gentleman who had run it since its country days and who initially owned a portion of it invented the ASR format, or Adult Spectrum Radio to go after a younger demographic than Beautiful Music was bringing him. Which debuted on KJQY and later was done briefly on all former Westinghouse Beautiful outlets before they switched to AC. San Diego was quite a Beautiful Music town with 15 to 20 stations doing it at some point from 1953 (Fred Rabell was a pioneer!) through the 70s. During the latter decade KYXY FM, KEZL FM, XTRA AM, and KJQY FM and perhaps one more station were all in competition and all were format leaders at different times.
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Larry Shushan's KPRI, which went on the air in the early Summer of 1960, was an adult popular music station. Like many FMs at that time they played a broad spectrum of current popular LPs, often featuring whole LP sides or whole LPs. In those days most of the adult popular music audience enjoyed instrumental as well as vocal music, so those stations, though not primarily instrumental, played a lot of instrumentals. I would classify KPRI as a hip MOR station. They did folk and comedy and dance and even ethnic LPs along with Jazz and Pop and Classical evenings and even Opera weekends. They had live remotes and DJs handled the announcing. They even had a "slim-down" exercise program for women of the kind that was popular at that time on radio and TV. In the Spring of 1968 the station re-oriented itself toward the youth market. And they may have had some Prog Rock on nights before that.
Ed Peters fashioned Music . . . Only For A Woman for KFMB FM in 1967. Something along the lines of what Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen were doing with the San Sebastian Strings recordings which were very popular at the time. Except with music from LPs rather than original music. Featured poetry composed and I think read by Jacques Wilson (who worked at that station) throughout the day. Syndicated from 1970 and if you took the format you got copies of a book of his poems to distribute to listeners. The female angle is what Jim Schulke and Phil Stout were perfecting at that time with SRP. But Peters must have felt it was rather too limited in scope so brought out his Music . . . Just For the Two Of Us in 1972 and stayed with that for the next 15 years, although some of his clients did well with the "Only For A Woman" and wanted him to keep it going. I never heard either but I am guessing that "Two Of Us" owed a lot to "Only". As far as Beautiful Music is concerned - most stations in the 60s did about a 3 to 1 instrumental -vocal music mix, but some did all instr, or mostly instr, and only a very few did 2 to 1. Most but not all indeed worked in 15 or 20 or 30 minute music segments with a minimum of announcer chatter but not all. Think of them at this point as MOR stations emphasizing popular instrumentals. What became very popular as Beautiful Music on FM in the 70s were mostly much more carefully formatted so they would be musically interesting enough to appeal as foreground music but unobtrusive enough to serve as background music as well. These in general had fewer vocals until in the 1980s when many of them added more to try and attract a younger demographic.
I was not at Peters in 1975-77 (did not arrive until 1980) but I can't imagine there being a directive to fade songs early.) There was no such thing in 1980-1987.
The current KFBG license goes back to 1959 and has always been on 100.7. It's so easy now to access all this information from the FCC's scans of its history cards (I use fccdata.org to get the links to them.)
I've seen that as well.
I think that was in error, Jeff. 100.5 would have put it too close to 100.3 in L.A.
It's in a Wikipedia post about KFMB. It says KFMB signed 101.5 on the air in 1947, took it dark and turned in the license three years later. 101.5 signed back on as KSON-FM in 1950 and became KGB-FM in 1958. There was eight years as KBKB (1964-72), then back to KGB-FM.
I would have thought that as well, but 100.7 puts it on co-channel with KHEY in Ventura which is not that much further than LA's 100.3, which has had too many call changes to remember.
Wiki is fun to read (and yes, I'm the one who donates $3 every year) but not necessarily credible.
Ventura’s 100.7 is actually KHAY.
Thank you. I should have caught that. It was a typo, but the question still remains.
