1260 kinda statically

[BLA]

This would be hoot for an early Sat. Morn. show on 1260:

 

[radiogal]

1260 should bring back that classic country show they had on late Sunday Nights on GO COUNTRY way back when.....it was the best classic country show ever..anywhere period!!!-I think it was called Classic Country with Jimmy Kay.. Any body know what happened to that show?

 

[BLA]

... Anyway, in that case he should give it some presentation, personality, image ... It sounds like a monotonous juke box done on the cheap.

An update to my earlier post-
KKGO 1260 - I tuned into the station tonight for first time in nearly two weeks. Apparently some very nice finishing touches are in place, IMO. Familiar songs, nice imaging!

 

[TheBigA]

1260 should bring back that classic country show they had on late Sunday Nights on GO COUNTRY way back when.....it was the best classic country show ever..anywhere period!!!-I think it was called Classic Country with Jimmy Kay..

At one point they actually had country and movie star Mac Davis hosting that Sunday night show for a while. Unfortunately, Mac passed away.

 

[TomásEstefan]

Speaking of Saul's stations I haven't seen whether or not its been reported earlier but his KKGO-FM HD-2 is (for now?) no longer K-Mozart Classical. They are playing Christmas music on HD-2. Makes me wonder if he is going to keep Go Country 105 country through the season and not compete with KOST's traditional Xmas programming during December...

 

[KilowattKat]

Speaking of Saul's stations I haven't seen whether or not its been reported earlier but his KKGO-FM HD-2 is (for now?) no longer K-Mozart Classical. They are playing Christmas music on HD-2. Makes me wonder if he is going to keep Go Country 105 country through the season and not compete with KOST's traditional Xmas programming during December...

There's a thread that started on Friday.

https://radiodiscussions.com/threads/christmas-arrives-early-at-k-mozart.773695/

 

[briancraig]

In the heyday of AM radio, what was the 1260 signal like?

Were they strictly a Valley station or were they like suburban licensed 1110 or 1580 thought of as a Los Angeles station. Were they easily picked up on a transistor radio in places like Hollywood or Santa Monica?

I know their long time morning man Sweet Dick Whittington is highly thought of, but I don’t ever remember seeing KGIL being much of a ratings factor in the 1960s/70s compared to other MOR stations like KMPC or KFI.

 

[davideduardo]

In the heyday of AM radio, what was the 1260 signal like?

It was a San Fernando Valley station, programmed for that area alone. It was at a lower power (regional channels then could not exceed 5 kw) and on a high dial position. They did very well economically for many years before FM consolidated the market and made it even harder for AMs to compete.

Were they strictly a Valley station or were they like suburban licensed 1110 or 1580 thought of as a Los Angeles station. Were they easily picked up on a transistor radio in places like Hollywood or Santa Monica?

1110 is "suburban" in city of license only. It was, until LA outgrew it, a fully competitive LA signal. 1580, when it moved just East of the 101 in Echo Park, was still a limited signal with a horribly directional signal that was better on Oahu than in Santa Ana at night.

1260 was OK in Hollywood, just over the hill. Not so good farther south.

I know their long time morning man Sweet Dick Whittington is highly thought of, but I don’t ever remember seeing KGIL being much of a ratings factor in the 1960s/70s compared to other MOR stations like KMPC or KFI.

Again, they sold to and for The Valley. For a while, before the "big box" stores and car dealer associations took over, they had plenty of local business from Glendale out to the West Valley to sell too. This was a market bigger than Fresno but with only one station!

 

[TomásEstefan]

In the heyday of AM radio, what was the 1260 signal like?

Were they strictly a Valley station or were they like suburban licensed 1110 or 1580 thought of as a Los Angeles station. Were they easily picked up on a transistor radio in places like Hollywood or Santa Monica?

I know their long time morning man Sweet Dick Whittington is highly thought of, but I don’t ever remember seeing KGIL being much of a ratings factor in the 1960s/70s compared to other MOR stations like KMPC or KFI.

Growing up in the Valley, and having an interest in radio by the time I was 7 or 8, I built (assembled) a radio which was called a "crystal set", with pretty much just a diode, a coil with a tuning slug, an earphone, and a very long antenna wire. With this simple device all I could get was 710 KMPC and 1260 KGIL, as these two stations had their xmitters here in the Valley. And as I mentioned a long time ago on another thread, even though these stations had nearly identical formats back in the 60s, KGIL was my parents favorite station as it was "local". The news department was first-rate, and the radio go-to for coverage of fires, severe weather, school closures, etc, and the talent quality was major market, even though the station pretty much covered just the Valley. They knew better than to attempt to fantasize that they were a full-market LA station. They knew their market and promoted it that way: many of their print ads simply said: KGIL 1260 "The Valley's Own". My favorite print promo was KGIL 1260: "Es Gibt es nur eins" ("there is only one" (in German). Never new why they happened to choose that...