97 KROY

[1069_KIFR]

Just felt like typing out, 97 KROY!

 

[travisl5678]

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Was KROY ever a Stand alone station indepent of 1240 AM?

 

[calguy]

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Was KROY ever a Stand alone station independent of 1240 AM?

Yes, in the 80's when the stations were separated by the Johnson's who sold them off after pretty much killing the KROY heritage. By then the calls were off the AM.

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

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Was KROY ever a Stand alone station independent of 1240 AM?

Yes, in the 80's when the stations were separated by the Johnson's who sold them off after pretty much killing the KROY heritage. By then the calls were off the AM.

Jonsson Communications sold KSAC-FM 97 (96.9 ) and KSJQ (96.7) to Commonwealth Broadcasting in the Summer of 1985. Commonwealth then returned the KROY call letters to 96.9 FM. The call letter KROY were placed on an FM station in Sparks, NV. Part of the deal to Commonwealth, was the KROY call letters. At the last minute, Commonwealth told Jonsson that they didn't want KENZ 1240 and just the FMs.

Jonsson held on to 1240 AM switching the calls to KSAC from KENZ. They held on to the property until the end of October 1994 when it was sold to Dwight Case.

 

[landtuna]

I used to listen to KROY from Marin County, CA in the very early 60's. The signal wasn't consistent enough to be a regular listener though.

We had no local RnR stations in Marin County (which is on the northern end of the GG bridge) so depended on KYA from SF or KEWB from Oakland as our primaries. Sometimes we could get KROY (Sacto) and KLOK (San Jose).