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KFI Studios With A Window

michael hagerty said:
Been thinking about it, and I can't think of any San Francisco stations that had street-level or "fishbowl" studios, either.

And in San Diego, I can only think of one---KCBQ at 5th and Ash, before the move to the transmitter in Santee. The studios were upstairs, but with so much glass and a wide enough sidewalk, that you could see in. And that stretch is on a hill, so the view from across the street would have been pretty good.

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XEGM Rock 95 has viewing windows at 4550 Logan Avenue.
 
michael hagerty said:
Had some time to go looking, and I found a shot of the KEZY studios in the Disneyland Hotel:

Disneyland Hotel - KEZY radio

What's funny about the shot is that the family standing in front of the window is Mr. and Mrs. Dick Whittinghill and their daughters. Dick was the morning man at KMPC from 1949 to 1979. Whoever found and posted the shot most likely had no idea.
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Great picture. I sense a bit of the cat ate the canary look on their faces. I wonder if the disc jockey knew who was there? Of course, it makes complete sense that he would stop by the radio station.
 
TomásEstefan said:
How many people know that the CBQ in KCBQ originally stood for CBS Quality?
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Well, I'm one. Call letters go back to 1949. Used to be KSDJ and it was sold. The new owner wanted KCBS, but the network, which was buying KQW in San Jose, wanted the calls. They settled on KCBQ for San Diego.

Back in the days of CBS' stellar reputation. In 1963, new owners put 1230 in Reno back on the air after it had been dark for almost a year. They chose "KCBN" for CBS Nevada.
 
michael hagerty said:
Well, I'm one. Call letters go back to 1949. Used to be KSDJ and it was sold. The new owner wanted KCBS, but the network, which was buying KQW in San Jose, wanted the calls. They settled on KCBQ for San Diego.

Back in the days of CBS' stellar reputation. In 1963, new owners put 1230 in Reno back on the air after it had been dark for almost a year. They chose "KCBN" for CBS Nevada.
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Not sure when the CBS affiliation went to KFMB radio...(TV 8 was always primary CBS)
 
TomásEstefan said:
Not sure when the CBS affiliation went to KFMB radio...(TV 8 was always primary CBS)
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KCBQ's flip to Top 40 in 1958 might have been when. I know there were Top 40s with network affiliations, but they were rare here on the West Coast.

Radio affiliations tend to be very fluid. By the time I got to San Diego in '74, KFMB-AM had no network news. KSDO was the CBS affiliate.
 
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michael hagerty said:
I'm guessing you mean "had". XEGM has been gone for about 40 years. Also, are you sure on the address? 4500 block of Logan is residential, and it all looks like it's been there a long time.
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Had is the word.

Correction on the address for XEGM Rock 95, 4467 Logan Ave, San Diego, CA 92113 (714) 264-9595.
 
michael hagerty said:
KCBQ's flip to Top 40 in 1958 might have been when. I know there were Top 40s with network affiliations, but they were rare here on the West Coast.

Radio affiliations tend to be very fluid. By the time I got to San Diego in '74, KFMB-AM had no network news. KSDO was the CBS affiliate.
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I forgot about that...was that when KSDO tried an all-news format and called themselves "News Plus 1130"?
 
If there were any window studios today, people probably be looking in at a Wollensak recorder or NextGen or Prophet automation system.
 
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