a personal invitation.

[36james]

if you really enjoy oldies, and i mean really good oldies, this little treasure out in the Antelope Valley is the 1 to try, like hearing 50'S, 60's and 70's, without that clear channel or CBS feel to it? try them, i think you will really like it,

http://www.kfxm.com/

they also have a couple of Sunday Specials, Sunday local sermons out of the AV, and then a Classic country show on from 10 to till 12 noon, give KFXM a try, yours ears will love it.

 

[RadioStarOne]

I listen to it every now and then on Tune In and like what they play. They have an interesting morning show too! Nice jingle selection too!

 

[Thomps2525]

KFXM is a low-power FM station at 96.7 in Lancaster. They claim to have a 35,000-song oldies library spanning the 1950s, '60s and '70s. (WLNG in Long Island claims to have a 100,000-song oldies library...but 35,000 still ain't shabby!)

The original KFXM was a top-40 station in San Bernardino from 1959 to around 1984. At one time it was known as Tiger 590. Among their DJs were several who later worked in Los Angeles: Bruce Chandler, Bill Surrey, Lyle Kilgore, Chris Roberts, Craig Powers, William F. Williams, and probably a few others who I can't remember. Yes, Lyle Kilgore was a top-40 DJ before becoming a newsman (KHJ, KLAC, KFWB).

 

[36james]

didnt Chris Compton work at KFXM back in the day as well?

 

[nmoore6676]

Two thumbs up

 

[LKellerIII]

Lyle Kilgore was a top-40 DJ before becoming a newsman (KHJ, KLAC, KFWB).

Did he jock under that name - his real name, I assume - or use another? It occurs to me that Lyle Kilgore is a great news anchor name (would have been especially great for the sensationalistic and violent CKLW 20/20 News ;D), but perhaps not so great as a jock name.

As I recall, Lyle delivered 20/20 News on KHJ straight - and didn't ham it up like J. Paul Huddleston, or (to a lesser degree) Marv Howard.

 

[jonbruce]

William F. Williams was on KMEN 1290, but KFXM also had noted jocks Brad Edwards, Dick Lyons, Roger Christian, Larry Lujack, Rhett Walker, and oh yes Jonny Bruce, among others.

 

[Shannon]

There was The "Real" Don McCoy, who I understand did very well for himself.

Jim Shannon

 

[jonbruce]

Yes, Don McCoy, owner of magic broadcasting was a KFXM jock, and Jhani Kaye was also on 590.

 

[oldies76]

if you really enjoy oldies, and i mean really good oldies, this little treasure out in the Antelope Valley is the 1 to try, like hearing 50'S, 60's and 70's, without that clear channel or CBS feel to it? try them, i think you will really like it,

http://www.kfxm.com/

Good, GOOD station!! Gotta like that heading on their website about consultants!! Very deep cuts!! See, it can be done.....Just give it a chance, the way radio should sound!

Thank you 36James!

 

[michael hagerty]

if you really enjoy oldies, and i mean really good oldies, this little treasure out in the Antelope Valley is the 1 to try, like hearing 50'S, 60's and 70's, without that clear channel or CBS feel to it? try them, i think you will really like it,

http://www.kfxm.com/

Good, GOOD station!! Gotta like that heading on their website about consultants!! Very deep cuts!! See, it can be done.....Just give it a chance, the way radio should sound!

Thank you 36James!

Also helps not to have Arbitron rating your market...or more accurately, lumping it in with Los Angeles where your signal can't compete.

 

[Hot Hits]

Lyle Kilgore was a top-40 DJ before becoming a newsman (KHJ, KLAC, KFWB).

Did he jock under that name - his real name, I assume - or use another? It occurs to me that Lyle Kilgore is a great news anchor name (would have been especially great for the sensationalistic and violent CKLW 20/20 News ;D), but perhaps not so great as a jock name.

As I recall, Lyle delivered 20/20 News on KHJ straight - and didn't ham it up like J. Paul Huddleston, or (to a lesser degree) Marv Howard.

Terrible to pick on the late J Paul Huddleston like that? He is what made KHJ great! Then you have your imitators like Lee Marshall who of course we know from TBS Wresting, CKLW 20 20 News & now as Tony the Tiger for Kellogs. Tommy Lasorda might have said Lee had the voice of God, but that is an insult to the almighty~ :-[

 

[davideduardo]

Also helps not to have Arbitron rating your market...or more accurately, lumping it in with Los Angeles where your signal can't compete.

This station is 100 watts at 75 feet above average terrain, and the 60 dbu signal covers just over 15,000 people.

It's an LPFM, which can not sell advertising, and is obviously a labor of love by Chris Compton, who lists himself as GM, SM, PD, CE, Promotion Manager and Traffic Director.

 

[davideduardo]

Gotta like that heading on their website about consultants!!

Let's examine that, shall we?

They say "We do not have consultants to tell us what to play. We answer to a higher authority; The Listener"

Gosh. That is exactly what "big" stations do... they don't let any one person pick the music... they consult with the listeners and play what they want to hear.

I'll betcha' that KXFM does not ask listeners what they should play and that the owner makes all the programming decisions.

 

[michael hagerty]

Also helps not to have Arbitron rating your market...or more accurately, lumping it in with Los Angeles where your signal can't compete.

This station is 100 watts at 75 feet above average terrain, and the 60 dbu signal covers just over 15,000 people.

It's an LPFM, which can not sell advertising, and is obviously a labor of love by Chris Compton, who lists himself as GM, SM, PD, CE, Promotion Manager and Traffic Director.

In other words, it is in no way proof that "this kind of radio can work".

I mean other than the transmitter doesn't shut itself down when you put the audio through it.

 

[oldies76]

Let's examine that, shall we?

They say "We do not have consultants to tell us what to play. We answer to a higher authority; The Listener"

Gosh. That is exactly what "big" stations do... they don't let any one person pick the music... they consult with the listeners and play what they want to hear.

Ok, but I think we all know where they are getting at with that header, thus the deep cuts, the rare cuts and targeting 55+. Would KRTH or CBS-FM incorporate that banner on their websites? I think you know the message.

 

[michael hagerty]

Let's examine that, shall we?

They say "We do not have consultants to tell us what to play. We answer to a higher authority; The Listener"

Gosh. That is exactly what "big" stations do... they don't let any one person pick the music... they consult with the listeners and play what they want to hear.

Ok, but I think we all know where they are getting at with that header, thus the deep cuts, the rare cuts and targeting 55+. Would KRTH or CBS-FM incorporate that banner on their websites? You know the message David.

Would they?

No.

Would it be accurate if they did?

Yes.

 

[Thomps2525]

All I know, after listening to KRTH for many years, is that Roy Orbison never had a hit besides Oh Pretty Woman, and Brenda Lee and Pat Boone and Connie Francis and Herb Alpert never had any hits at all.

Mister Bruce, I could have sworn that KFXM had a Ron Christian. Did they? Roger Christian had worked in Rochester and Buffalo before coming to KFXM in 1959. He joined KRLA in 1960 and later worked at KFWB, KBLA, KHJ, KGBS, XEPRS, KIQQ and KRTH.

Thanks for mentioning Jhani Kaye. There was a Johnny Kaye at KFXM, and now I know who it is. But which is the real spelling of his first name? Or is "Johnny Kaye/Jhani Kaye" just a radio name and his real name is something such as Lafayette Potrzebie or Aloysius Danderdoodle?

Go to http://kfxm-kmen-radio.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html and scroll down a little bit and you'll see a June 1959 KFXM survey---the Dubs were number one?!?---that lists the "Swinging Seven DJs." Lyle Kilgore is among them.

 

[oldies76]

All I know, after listening to KRTH for many years, is that Roy Orbison never had a hit besides Oh Pretty Woman, and Brenda Lee and Pat Boone and Connie Francis and Herb Alpert never had any hits at all.

That's an accurate way of nailing it.

 

[michael hagerty]

All I know, after listening to KRTH for many years, is that Roy Orbison never had a hit besides Oh Pretty Woman, and Brenda Lee and Pat Boone and Connie Francis and Herb Alpert never had any hits at all.

That's an accurate way of nailing it.

Depends on what years you listened to KRTH. I've heard several Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, Pat Boone, Connie Francis and Herb Alpert hits on that station.

But not recently.

That's because KRTH's job is not to tell us who had hits once upon a time and what they were, but to play what their target audience wants to hear now.