710 AM 1998 TO 2003 FORMAT

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

After doing my search of 710 I am confused about the format of 710 KMIA from 1998 to 2003?

Was it Spanish Talk "Radio Visa Asi Se Habla"

or was it Spanish Oldies "La Consentida"

Thanks for your help on this one guys.

T.J.

 

[davideduardo]

After doing my search of 710 I am confused about the format of 710 KMIA from 1998 to 2003?

Was it Spanish Talk "Radio Visa Asi Se Habla"

or was it Spanish Oldies "La Consentida"

La Consentida was not even created until around 2003 or 2004. And that was about the time the Radio Visa syndication went out of business.

 

[asugeorge1]

I do remember that back around 2001 / 2002, 710 AM was playing an adult standards format similar to 1230 KOY and 580 KSAZ Tucson. The format didn't last long, though. After about a year, the station went to a Spanish language format. Hopefully that helps!

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...back around 2001 / 2002, 710 AM was playing an adult standards format similar to...(snip)...580 KSAZ Tucson.

I can't even guesstimate on the year, but 710 (what were the calls then...
still KUET?) and the Giant 580 were airing the same satellite nostalgia
format, "Stardust," which later evolved into "Tiresome Classics," and was
just shut down by the syndicator in mid-February.

Of course 710 did not have (the KSAZ exclusive) Dancin' Danny Babich
Saturday mornings at 11.

 

[davideduardo]

...back around 2001 / 2002, 710 AM was playing an adult standards format similar to...(snip)...580 KSAZ Tucson.

I can't even guesstimate on the year, but 710 (what were the calls then...
still KUET?) and the Giant 580 were airing the same satellite nostalgia
format, "Stardust," which later evolved into "Tiresome Classics," and was
just shut down by the syndicator in mid-February.

Of course 710 did not have (the KSAZ exclusive) Dancin' Danny Babich
Saturday mornings at 11.

Z-Spanish bought the station in late 1997 and closed sometime in the first half of 1998. In 2000, it was sold to Entravision, as part of the total sale of Z Spanish to them.

My recollection is that it has been Spanish since 1998 in different forms.

 

[DrAkbar]

Didn't the Black Canyon blowtorch experience a tower erectile dysfunction a few years back?

 

[davideduardo]

Didn't the Black Canyon blowtorch experience a tower erectile dysfunction a few years back?

Yep, there was a NIMBY group that was active, and one night a tower or two went horizontal. COnnect the dots...

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Didn't the Black Canyon blowtorch experience a tower erectile dysfunction a few years back?

Yep, there was a NIMBY group that was active, and one night a tower or two went horizontal. COnnect the dots...

Maybe they thought the top hats were just too formal for Black Canyon City. ;D

 

[johndavis]

...back around 2001 / 2002, 710 AM was playing an adult standards format similar to...(snip)...580 KSAZ Tucson.

I can't even guesstimate on the year, but 710 (what were the calls then...
still KUET?) and the Giant 580 were airing the same satellite nostalgia
format, "Stardust," which later evolved into "Tiresome Classics," and was
just shut down by the syndicator in mid-February.

Of course 710 did not have (the KSAZ exclusive) Dancin' Danny Babich
Saturday mornings at 11.

Yeah, I think it signed on as KUET with the ABC Stardust but was sold within months to Z-Spanish (and with a name like Z-Spanish you know the format didn't stick around.)

 

[oldiesfan6479]

KUET 710 Black Canyon City (subject to the accuracy of my
1984 Broadcasting Yearbook) dates back to 09/01/81.

Info in the yearbook shows 500 w-D, 1 kw-N, DA-2, with a
format of "Big Band, C&W, MOR."

And "Net: AP Radio." Remember those AP (and UPI net)
'casts fed on a crummy un-EQed 3.5 kHz phone line?

 

[DrAkbar]

Nurse Jeff and I recall seeing two sticks of a defunct AM station muchos anos pasados on the east side of I-17 in Black Canyon City. Someone once told us the story behind the station, but after too many visits to a Sedona sweat lodge our memories are shot. Maybe that station was also on 7~Ten???

 

[oldiesfan6479]

You are correct, sir! KUET did go "el defuncto" for some years
after its original try at being an AM rimshot to what then was
mainly cactus and creosote (no Anthem yet).

Two sticks becoming six is what must have riled up the locals,
resulting in the aforementioned "topple the top hats" exercise
which took the reconstituted 710 dark for a while.

 

[50kguy]

I was once told that KUET was started by a bunch of folks with ties to KRUX. I trespassed on their old facility back in '93 or '94. The towers were still standing and the building was surrounded by a rickety fence that warned it was state land. Inside, there were still albums on shelves and racks devoid of equipment. Grab a transmitter, mic, mixer and two turntables and you could have been on the air in a minute!

 

[phil]

I, too, wandered back there one day and seem to recall that the "building" was an 8 ft wide house trailer, surrounded by a chain link fence.

 

[EricStein]

I was once told that KUET was started by a bunch of folks with ties to KRUX. I trespassed on their old facility back in '93 or '94. The towers were still standing and the building was surrounded by a rickety fence that warned it was state land. Inside, there were still albums on shelves and racks devoid of equipment. Grab a transmitter, mic, mixer and two turntables and you could have been on the air in a minute!

I believe a man by the name of Bill Ledbetter was one of the owners of the "original" KUET. For some reason, I remember that name was associated to the old Sun City 106.3, KWAO.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I believe a man by the name of Bill Ledbetter was one of the owners of the "original" KUET.

You are correct, sir!

Bill Ledbetter (who passed away in early 2009) was one of a small group
of names who managed and staffed a number of Arizona radio stations
that was headed up originally by Eldred O. Smith at KEOS 1290 Flagstaff
(1 kw-D) in 1959 (note the "vanity" calls).

If you browse through some of the Old Gringo's yearbooks, you'll find some
of these names running KZON (later KRDS) 1190 Tolleson in the early 1960s.

Not sure where they "disappeared to" in the later '60s and '70s, but by the
early 1980s they put KUET on the air, now with John H. Gates as president
of the company. It strikes me as funny that in the '84 yearbook most of
the staffers are listed with middle initials:

William P. Ledbetter, GM
Earl O. Marshall, coml mgr
Robert O. Stewart, PD
Ted I. Martin, ND
Evelyn L. Horton, prom mgr
...and the non-initialed...
Mark Williams, mus dir
(might he be the talk show host recently in Sacto and Albany?)
Evert Fruitman, CE
(also did engineering for KOOL radio/TV back around then)

 

[EricStein]

If you browse through some of the Old Gringo's yearbooks, you'll find some
of these names running KZON (later KRDS) 1190 Tolleson in the early 1960s.

Not sure where they "disappeared to" in the later '60s and '70s, but by the
early 1980s they put KUET on the air, now with John H. Gates as president
of the company. It strikes me as funny that in the '84 yearbook most of
the staffers are listed with middle initials:

Ledbetter...Ray Odom...Ira Lavin...Lou Silverstein...Dick Gilbert - those are names that are associated with many of the signals on the Valley AM dial from the '50s through the '70s. Silverstein has got to be a nonagenarian (or close) by now, and he still owns blowtorch FM KAHM in Prescott (as well as KYCA 1490 up there).