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14K and 92K - Circa '83-'84

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GaryTheThompson

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All this talk about KJ in the 80's makes me think of a station that I was never in town to hear in Tulsa. In the early 80's, I was living in the wheatfields just north of the Kansas border.

But does anyone remember 14K and 92K?

I think it's been discussed ( couple years ago) on this board.

Mel Myers and Wavy Davy were at the helm. I think Kelly Cash from K-95 was one of the jocks there. I think Maybe Carey was too...but I may be wrong on that.

Who were some of the other jocks from this short-lived, underpowered powerhouse?

Anybody remember anything about them as a station? I had some airchecks of it at one point. But I'm not sure where they are now.
 
14k/92k was a AWSOME station that was unfortunely on a sorry stick. Mel and friends had that thing SMOK'IN. I really miss KELi. I used to listen to the 1430 side of things here in OKC just for the music mix that could be found NO where else.

Once again, thank you Mel and Wavy for the great memories of a great station. Later they'd do it again with a different format on the Z.
 
They are both at KJSR 103.3 now. Mel hosts mornings and Wavy afternoons. Andy from the old KAYI does middays. Awesome lineup.
 
speaking of Star, have you heard the pipes on Bobby, their evening guy?

He's in his 20's and sounds like that.

that's just a sin. No one should sound that good at that age. =0
 
I remember those days well. A buddy that I had worked with in Tahlequah, Tommy Cooper (aka Tom Brown) was doing afternoons there for a while. It was a great format, and it really set the example for CHR in that era.
 
14K-92K was a great station, much better than KAY-107 or KJ was at the time. Had they not been crippled by a weak 3K signal out of Broken Arrow they might have beaten KAY-107 at the time. The highest I ever saw the station in 12+ was #8 in early 1984, pretty good for a marginal FM signal.

CHR in Tulsa had a rough time in 1978-82...KAKC dropped it in 1978, KELi kept going until 1981 until they flipped to a really lame AC..then a disastrous news format and then a satellite AC format before Mel and Wavvy took it over in 1983. KMOD-AM gave it a quick shot in 1981-2..but was hampered by cheap ownership and that weak signal.. KWEN morphed from AC into "Rock 95" and they were basically a "Rock 40" until new owners flipped it to country in the summer of 1981.

I have a few rough cassette tapes of 14K/92K, including their last hour broadcast. I lived in Bartlesville at the time, so most of my tapes are from the 1430 AM side.

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I did some digging around and I found the few tapes I have of 14K-92K. At the time I was barely scrounging for money during my college days and I bought mostly cheap cassettes for taping radio. Looking back I wish I had shelled out more cash for better tape (but I had to eat).

My date on the last hour cassette is 8-15-85... now Im wondering if 14K-92K started in 1984 instead of 83.
 
http://download.yousendit.com/7F2B5D1355A2AFA7

This is the last hour of 14K-92K...recorded off KELi-AM on my old Sony jambox on cheap SEL (K-Mart) normal bias tape. I originally pause button scoped the broadcast (sorry), except for one song.. Jim Sweeny & The Jumpshots "It Ain't Right" which was a local hit. Enjoy the end of a great radio station.
 
Billy!

Good to see you on the boards again.

I really appreciate those airchecks of 14K you sent me like 5 years ago.

'preciate ya, man.

Thanks for this download !
 
After listening to this...

What a great hour of radio. They appear to have actually prepped for this hour with Sound FX, bits and a pre-planned exit of sorts.

Love the energy and creativity that went into this entire staff saying goodbye. Mel mentions "Candy Black" as one of the part-timers. Is that K-95's Kelly Cash?

In a day where format flips are not even mentioned 'til afterword, this was very refreshing. The whole staff saying 'goodbye" for an entire hour. Seems like everyone handled this with class from Jocks to Managers to owners.

What was the format after the flip? And what was the song that started to play after the dry legal at the end?

Why wasn't Wavy on this tape? Do I recall hearing that he had left the staff weeks earlier for a different gig?

Regardless, just great radio and a fantastic piece of Tulsa radio history. Ok, now what happened to all of those jocks on the check? Rod Tucker, Brian Cain...etc?
 
I don't know why Wavy wasn't on the tape - had he already left the station? Anyone know where we went to?

I'm glad 92K-14K went out with a bang.. I remember Mel on the air mentioning the day before that it was going to be the last day. They knew the end was coming. Mel reels off a huge list of people who worked for the station, and this was just a small operation.

The song that starts playing after the ID is Andrew Gold's "Thank You For Being A Freind"..when I stopped recording. The stations went to a satellite AC format for awhile.. then 1430 and 92.1 were split apart to different owners by 1986. 1430 was spun off to the company that ran 106.1 and simulcast their AC format for a while.. they later became KQLL oldies. 92.1 was sold to the guy who started 106.1 and went classical.

Thats All I can remember...I moved out of Bartlesville in Dec 1986 to Wichita KS and lost track of Tulsa radio. I'd like to know how the stations wound up in Clear Channel's hands.

Glad everyone liked the aircheck...the tape was very hissy and bassy (recorded on a jambox with no Dolby), but cleaned up fairly well with just a little noise processing, EQ to brighten it up and I digitally tightened up a few edits.
 
billyg said:
Thats All I can remember...I moved out of Bartlesville in Dec 1986 to Wichita KS and lost track of Tulsa radio. I'd like to know how the stations wound up in Clear Channel's hands.
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In 1995, Federated Media, which owned KQLL, was looking for a duopoly, and KCMA's owner wanted to retire. So, he sold KCMA to Federated. About 18 months later, Federated sold its Grand Rapids and Tulsa stations to Clear Channel.
 
Fed Med is still around, although I didn't know it 'til I joined K-99 here in Dayton. Our new morning guy just joined us from a Fed Med cluster. He says they're a great group to work for.

He just missed his home town of Dayton so he moved back here. =)
 
I spoke with Mel today about this thread and he told me that he has that full broadcast on reel to reel tape. I found out Steve Hunter also has the last hour recorded on a cassette. Thanks for posting it. That was cool to hear.
 
I'm pretty sure that steve also has some tapes of Brian Cain and cold duck doing their overnight shift.

Maybe one or two others.
 
billyg said:
KMOD-AM gave it a quick shot in 1981-2..but was hampered by cheap ownership and that weak signal.
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By which you mean KXXO 1300 (just before it switched to big band/jazz KBBJ), yes?
 
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