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2 S.F. FM History questions

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Hey Guys:

I was looking at past post here and the history of the bay market is amazing!! Kind of mirrors L.A a little bit.

Anyway could anybody help me with these 2 questions:

1. Was KNBR 99.7 Classical from 1966 to 1975?

2. Would anybody know when did KRON 96.5 change from Classical to Beautiful Music?

Thnaks

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

I was looking at past post here and the history of the bay market is amazing!! Kind of mirrors L.A a little bit.

Anyway could anybody help me with these 2 questions:

1. Was KNBR 99.7 Classical from 1966 to 1975?


T.J.
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KNBR-FM was easy listening.
 
I have a mild case of Oldtimers' disease, so it may have been Peters Production out of San Diego. All I remember was big reels and a monthly fee of $1200 for something almost no one listened to.
 
KRON FM was sold to Bonneville, became beautiful music and changed call letters to KOIT in 1975. They used the syndicated format that Bonneville was selling even though there were 2 successful Montovani stations here already, KABL and KFOG.
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I seem to remember a KOIT in the 60's but could not find a reference to it online. It was what I would have called Beautiful Music but I'm not sure if that was its official format.

Bay Area radio was a magical place in the 60's. It is very sad to see what it has become today.
 
Hey Guys:

Thanks for all of the responces. Just want to say I saw in the Broadcasting Yearbooks from 73 to 76 that KRON-FM was listed as Easy Listening. That is why I was asking the question.

T.J.
 
landtuna said:
I seem to remember a KOIT in the 60's but could not find a reference to it online. It was what I would have called Beautiful Music but I'm not sure if that was its official format.

Bay Area radio was a magical place in the 60's. It is very sad to see what it has become today.
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The KOIT of the 1960s has no relation whatsoever to the present KOIT. The 1960s KOIT was co-owned with KYA and was on 93.3. It was at various times, a KYA top-40 simulcast, automated country, automated pop (with Bill Keffury as the voicetracked host), an automated "underground" rocker with singer Gale Garnett doing the voicetracking, and they even had a month or two of exclusively Beatles and Rolling Stones.

Bonneville's KOIT was simply the taking of a dormant callsign, which they applied to the former KRON-FM and turned into a beautiful music station when they first bought it.

Why isn't Bay Area radio magical today? There's KPIG, there are a bunch of non-comm and college stations doing interesting things. And I think the regular listeners of KMEL might think that today was a magical time in radio.
 
Hey Guys:

I wanted to bring this to you all in my last post but I didn't have the info avalible. In my research I found info from a Billboard article from Dec 3 1966.

It says that KNBR-FM will split programming from KNBR-AM. It's schedule is as follows:

Classical: Mon- Sun 12 NOON to 10 PM

Simulcast 680 KNBR Mon- Sun 6AM to 12 NOON, 10 PM till 1AM.

So would anybody know when KNBR-FM went Beautiful Music?

T.J.
 
Hey Guys:

Speaking of KOIT 93.3, KYA-FM 93.3. Here is my timeline 1959 to 1983 I have researched:

1. Sept 1959 to Sept 1966 KYA-FM Simulcast 1260

2. Sept 1966 to Feb 1967 KOIT either Beautiful Music or MOR/Pop Stds??

3. Feb 1967 KOIT added Progressive Rock (NIGHT 8PM till 12MID)

4. June 10 1968 KOIT Progressive Rock (Auto)24 hrs

5. Oct 17, 1970 KOIT Country (Auto)

OK This is where the confusion comes in:

6. Sept 1972 KOIT to KYA-FM Format listed Pop Hits ??? (Y-93) Would anybody know??

7. 1976 KYA-FM Progressive Top 40???? (Y-93)

8. 1980 KYA-FM Simucasted 1260's easy rock format????

9. June 12, 1981 KLHT 93.3 AC (K-LITE 93 FM)

10. Dec 12, 1983 KYA Oldies

Please correct me if I am wrong. I would love any imput for 93.3.

Would anybody know the history of 93.3 from 1972 to 1981?

Thanks
T.J.
 
I'm not great at dates, but I seem to remember a brief period a period right after K-Lite, when they first started using the KYA-FM call letters again. If I'm remembering correctly, it was more or less an album-rock format with hits mixed in, and the jocks were live, or at least sounded like they were. K-Lite had been poorly voice-tracked.
 
landtuna said:
Sometime in the early 80's KYA-FM went Country. I don't know the duration.
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I thought KYA-FM went Country in 1994 (as well as a call change to KYCY)?
 
I remember when KMPX-106.9 was Big Band. Format stayed the same when they changed frequencies to 98.9 in 1976 (or 1977).
 
Madmansam said:
I remember when KMPX-106.9 was Big Band. Format stayed the same when they changed frequencies to 98.9 in 1976 (or 1977).
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It was in April 1977, and I'm inclined to say April 15, but I'm not sure. It was a 3-way swap. CBS wanted a better signal than they had with 98.9. This was in the days when station chain owners got lots of points with the FCC for doing things to help minority owners. So this is what happened:

CBS bought 106.9 from National Science Network (Stan Gurell & company in LA) and gave it to non-profit Family Stations (KEAR). Family sold 97.3 to CBS. CBS sold 98.9 to black Oakland banker Lloyd Edwards at a favorable rate. Effectively this was a 3-way frequency swap with NSN leaving and Edwards coming into the picture. KEAR got a bigger, but more northerly signal, CBS got a comparable signal, but more centrally located to the Bay Area market, as well as a tax deduction, and Edwards got a radio station.

Edwards was also the only one to sell 98.9 at a profit over the years as far as I know. That frequency had been owned by Julius Brunton & Sons (KJBS-FM), CBS, Viacom, James Gabbert, and I think a couple others in there.
 
Madmansam said:
landtuna said:
Sometime in the early 80's KYA-FM went Country. I don't know the duration.
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I thought KYA-FM went Country in 1994 (as well as a call change to KYCY)?
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They may have tried Country again but I know I'm in the ball park. I had just taken a job at a company headquartered in Silicon Valley and was making frequent biz trips to the Bay Area. I started my job in August of '80 so it wasn't too long after that I flew up, rented my car, flipped on the radio to my favorite radio station.....and heard country music. I was dumbfounded. First that my station went country and then that any S.F. station would go country.
 
DavidKaye said:
Madmansam said:
I remember when KMPX-106.9 was Big Band. Format stayed the same when they changed frequencies to 98.9 in 1976 (or 1977).
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CBS sold 98.9 to black Oakland banker Lloyd Edwards at a favorable rate.
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I seem to recall that there were plans to change KMPX's format from Big Band to Urban around that time and that there was so much outcry that they kept Big Band format.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

Speaking of KOIT 93.3, KYA-FM 93.3. Here is my timeline 1959 to 1983 I have researched:

1. Sept 1959 to Sept 1966 KYA-FM Simulcast 1260

2. Sept 1966 to Feb 1967 KOIT either Beautiful Music or MOR/Pop Stds??

3. Feb 1967 KOIT added Progressive Rock (NIGHT 8PM till 12MID)

4. June 10 1968 KOIT Progressive Rock (Auto)24 hrs

5. Oct 17, 1970 KOIT Country (Auto)

OK This is where the confusion comes in:

6. Sept 1972 KOIT to KYA-FM Format listed Pop Hits ??? (Y-93) Would anybody know??

7. 1976 KYA-FM Progressive Top 40???? (Y-93)

8. 1980 KYA-FM Simucasted 1260's easy rock format????

9. June 12, 1981 KLHT 93.3 AC (K-LITE 93 FM)

10. Dec 12, 1983 KYA Oldies

Please correct me if I am wrong. I would love any imput for 93.3.

Would anybody know the history of 93.3 from 1972 to 1981?

Thanks
T.J.
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Hey, T.J. It sounds like you're working on a local radio history project. Why don't you join the California Historical Radio Society and give us a hand?

http://www.bayarearadio.org/
 
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