I know it was K-JET once, which signed off in September 1988. What was the rest of that station consisting of? I also heard an ID of it being a simulcast of KZOK.
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KSND ... kind of an adult contemporary
KUUU ... nicknamed KU-16 (originally pop then oldies then "mellow rock" -- precursor to soft AC)
KZOK ... FM simulcast
KJET ... alternative
(was also an oldies with emphasis on 50's/doo-wop, etc.)
then as I recall another stint @ KZOK-AM and then to the Christian derivatives
KUUU ... nicknamed KU-16 (originally pop then oldies then "mellow rock" -- precursor to soft AC)
KZOK ... FM simulcast
KJET ... alternative
(was also an oldies with emphasis on 50's/doo-wop, etc.)
then as I recall another stint @ KZOK-AM and then to the Christian derivatives
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It was 1956 when 1590 hit the airwaves in Seattle, owned by Hugh Ben LaRue at KTIX, it was originally a 6am-Sunset daytimer, then it finally got permission to go full-time, became KETO around 1961, added an FM at 101.5, then 1590 evolved into KSND, then KUUU, and the rest of fairly well documented history.
calls for Z-rock were KZOK because of the "Z" tie-in.
KQUL was the 50's-based oldies I was talking about ... KOOL Gold.
KQUL was the 50's-based oldies I was talking about ... KOOL Gold.
The original KZOK on AM 1590 (1977? to 1982) was actually an automated Gold AC called "Solid Gold 16 KZOK" with some FM simulcasting at first, then full blown automated Gold AC from 1981 to Memorial Day 1982 when it became KJET.
KZOK-AM at this time was mostly oldies, but with a healthy dose of AC currents and a few newer songs, Most of the 'rockers' I went to high school with (the ones who still had AM-only car radios) kept it on KZOK-AM after KZAM-AM became KJZZ (a pioneering Smooth Jazz station) and KJR-AM went soft AC in 1981, regardless of KZOK-AM's actual format.
They really didn't know what to make of KJET ("New Wave" as Alternative was known at the time was confusing to most traditional rock fans and 'headbangers'). KZAM-AM also played a lot of New Wave, but also enough punk and the occasional metal cut to be tolerable to them. But when KJET signed on, New Wave had really changed, the synthesizer became the dominant instrument of choice.
But the 'rockers' were already upgrading en masse to FM radios by this time......
KZOK-AM at this time was mostly oldies, but with a healthy dose of AC currents and a few newer songs, Most of the 'rockers' I went to high school with (the ones who still had AM-only car radios) kept it on KZOK-AM after KZAM-AM became KJZZ (a pioneering Smooth Jazz station) and KJR-AM went soft AC in 1981, regardless of KZOK-AM's actual format.
They really didn't know what to make of KJET ("New Wave" as Alternative was known at the time was confusing to most traditional rock fans and 'headbangers'). KZAM-AM also played a lot of New Wave, but also enough punk and the occasional metal cut to be tolerable to them. But when KJET signed on, New Wave had really changed, the synthesizer became the dominant instrument of choice.
But the 'rockers' were already upgrading en masse to FM radios by this time......
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