Hey Guys:
Would anybody know the format of KRHM 102.7 before it became KKDJ 102.7 Top 40 in 1971?
Would anybody know the format of KRHM 102.7 before it became KKDJ 102.7 Top 40 in 1971?
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102.7 KRHM? 102.7 KLAC?
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According to KIIS FM's Wikipedia entry (take it for what it is worth):
KLAC to KIIS
KLAC-FM 102.9 and KRHM-FM 94.7 traded frequencies in 1967. On April 15, 1971, KRHM changed call letters to KKDJ and became a top 40 station until 1975. Combined Communications then purchased KKDJ and changed the station's format to adult contemporary under the new call letters of KIIS, began simulcasting with 1150 AM. Unable to draw high ratings, KIIS continued to change formats until flipping back to its current top 40 format in 1981. Shortly thereafter, Gannett Company purchased both KIIS-AM/FM and Combined Communications.
If I'm reading that correctly, then that means that KLAC FM was Aldult Contemporary. I am not sure if there was a change from 102.9 to 102.7 at that point, or if that was somebody's error. 102.9 would have come in conflict with 102.9 in San Diego (which Gannett eventually also owned).
KIIS FM's Wikipedia page can befe found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIIS
KLAC to KIIS
KLAC-FM 102.9 and KRHM-FM 94.7 traded frequencies in 1967. On April 15, 1971, KRHM changed call letters to KKDJ and became a top 40 station until 1975. Combined Communications then purchased KKDJ and changed the station's format to adult contemporary under the new call letters of KIIS, began simulcasting with 1150 AM. Unable to draw high ratings, KIIS continued to change formats until flipping back to its current top 40 format in 1981. Shortly thereafter, Gannett Company purchased both KIIS-AM/FM and Combined Communications.
If I'm reading that correctly, then that means that KLAC FM was Aldult Contemporary. I am not sure if there was a change from 102.9 to 102.7 at that point, or if that was somebody's error. 102.9 would have come in conflict with 102.9 in San Diego (which Gannett eventually also owned).
KIIS FM's Wikipedia page can befe found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIIS
Hey Guys:
I saw on another site (blog site) that KRHM was MOR/standards from 1963 to 1967 on 94.7 and 1967 to 1971 on 102.7.
KLAC-FM duplicated KLAC-AM programming on 102.7 from 1961 to 1967 and 1967 to 1968 on 94.7.
T.J.
I saw on another site (blog site) that KRHM was MOR/standards from 1963 to 1967 on 94.7 and 1967 to 1971 on 102.7.
KLAC-FM duplicated KLAC-AM programming on 102.7 from 1961 to 1967 and 1967 to 1968 on 94.7.
T.J.
t.j. said:
T.J.: From 1967 onward, KLAC-FM couldn't legally duplicate the AM more than 50% of the time.
KRHM was basically a commercial version of what public radio became later on. It was probably the very last of the true variety, block programming formats in this market. Benson Curtis, the owner, hosted Strictly From Dixie dixieland jazz show every Saturday at 5pm. On Sundays at 3 they would play a couple of hours of stand-up comedy recordings. And Paul Werth did several excellent history and biographical documentaries Sunday nights at 9pm. They also did radio drama classical, soft rock and other jazz programming over the years.
Hey ercjncpr:
Thanks for that info. I want to make sure I have this correct, Could you tell me did this block programming format at KRHM happen on 102.7 from 1967 to 1971?
Thanks
T.J.
Thanks for that info. I want to make sure I have this correct, Could you tell me did this block programming format at KRHM happen on 102.7 from 1967 to 1971?
Thanks
T.J.
t.j. said:
Yes and even before then on the 94.7 frequency. Something else I left out. On Sunday afternoons through most of the 1960s, whenever bullfights from Tijuana were shown on KMEX-TV, KRHM did an English translation simulcast featuring an American bullfighter whose name I have long forgotten.
There is an Error on one of the posts on this story. I was There when it Happened, when the
switch was made!!
It was Spring 1965, not '67, that KLAC-FM and KRHM traded channels. 9:00 PM on a Friday night.
I had two radios set up to watch and hear. KRHM (which was on FM only) made the transition quickly.
It took them less that a minute to dump carrier on 94.7 and re-appear at 102.7. The audio was great
when they came back. Both carriers had dumped almost simultaneoulsy just moments after 9:00 P.M.
KLAC, at that time was a simulcast, of 570 AM. It took them almost 45 minutes to get the carrier back on
at 94.7 and the audio was rather distorted (overdriven). By midnight the audio simulcast of KLAC-AM
sounded pretty good. It had sounded great on the 102.7 channel that they had just left.
I was in this same basic time frame (Spring 1965) that KMLA 100.3 morphed into 100.3 KFOX-FM.
That again was an audio diaster on the FM as KMLA signed off with good audio and then KFOX took over.
That transition sounded like KFOX just put a table model AM radio tuned to 1280 KFOX up to the mike
at the KMLA studio and let it go that way for several days. Really bad audio for what once had been
LA's Pioneer FM Multiplex Stereo station (the first one in multiplex stereo). That is was what KMLA had 'bragged' (promoted) about for several years.
The wikipedia KIIS page does also contain the 1967 as opossed to 1965 error too. I KNOW I'M
right on this detail, because it was before I moved back east in 1965. The Wikipedia article does
not mention any 102.9 channel. That station (now KIIS-FM) was never at 102.9, always 102.7!
The table of assignments put 102.9 in San Diego from the beginning.
switch was made!!
It was Spring 1965, not '67, that KLAC-FM and KRHM traded channels. 9:00 PM on a Friday night.
I had two radios set up to watch and hear. KRHM (which was on FM only) made the transition quickly.
It took them less that a minute to dump carrier on 94.7 and re-appear at 102.7. The audio was great
when they came back. Both carriers had dumped almost simultaneoulsy just moments after 9:00 P.M.
KLAC, at that time was a simulcast, of 570 AM. It took them almost 45 minutes to get the carrier back on
at 94.7 and the audio was rather distorted (overdriven). By midnight the audio simulcast of KLAC-AM
sounded pretty good. It had sounded great on the 102.7 channel that they had just left.
I was in this same basic time frame (Spring 1965) that KMLA 100.3 morphed into 100.3 KFOX-FM.
That again was an audio diaster on the FM as KMLA signed off with good audio and then KFOX took over.
That transition sounded like KFOX just put a table model AM radio tuned to 1280 KFOX up to the mike
at the KMLA studio and let it go that way for several days. Really bad audio for what once had been
LA's Pioneer FM Multiplex Stereo station (the first one in multiplex stereo). That is was what KMLA had 'bragged' (promoted) about for several years.
The wikipedia KIIS page does also contain the 1967 as opossed to 1965 error too. I KNOW I'M
right on this detail, because it was before I moved back east in 1965. The Wikipedia article does
not mention any 102.9 channel. That station (now KIIS-FM) was never at 102.9, always 102.7!
The table of assignments put 102.9 in San Diego from the beginning.
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