AM car radio

[markchub]

What five stations did you have your AM car radio set to in the mid to late sixties?

In Order
KRUX
KRIZ
KOMA
XEROCK 80
KCPX

Of coarse I was a teenager then but I had control of the radio when I was in front seat!

 

[KeithE4]

I'll have to list mine from 1973-75.

1. KOY 550
2. KUPD 1060
3. KRIZ 1230
4. KRUX 1360
5. KTUF 1580

1 and 5 were set so that I could actually tune the radio! The dial was broken (and too expensive to fix) and that's the only way I could tune any station that wasn't preset.

When I moved to Chicago, I was able to nudge it so preset #1 could be set to WIND 560 (1580 was WKKD), then set presets 2-4 to WGN, WLS, and WCFL. I returned the car (a "borrowed" 1968 Plymouth Barracuda) to my folks a few months later. They never did fix the radio.

 

[pattiwacki]

KHJ,KRLA,KWIZ,AM & FM,KFOX

 

[timekpr]

My sister and I were also teenagers then, driving mom and dad's cars.

Numbers 1 and 2 were either KRIZ or KRUX; she preferred KRIZ, I liked KRUX.

As far as we were concerned, no other stations existed and mom and dad didn't listen to the car radio.

 

[pattiwacki]

Oops KWIZ fm wasn't till 70s. Think the other station was KLAC or KGBS. 1969 Pontiac Firebird, canary yellow, very sweet, with 8 track tape player, haha!

 

[buster2]

Dad had control of the car radio in the 60s, so we listened to a lot of KOY, pre-top 40 KUPD, and some KXIV. But KOY ruled the roost at our home for many years. You shoulda seen the look on my parents' faces when they learned that my sister started listening to KDKB in the early 70s. Buncha hippes! (And, well... they WERE.)

 

[DrAkbar]

WMCA & The Good Guys
WABC Home of the All Americans
WPAT In the air everywhere with elevator music (for grandma)
WINS 10~Ten All News (for grandpa)
WNEW Any time, any place, any W

All the FM presets were blank 'cause the old farts just didn't get it!

 

[indieradioguy]

None. Wasn't born yet. ;D

 

[99KTKT]

If mid to late '60s is the timeframe:
990 KTKT
1550 KFIF/switched to 580 KIKX as of July 4 (?), 1967
1450(?) KOLD (top 40 in the evenings circa 1966-67)
1520 KOMA
(????) XEFR, Del Rio, TX (Cd. Acuna, Coahuila, Mex.)--for the Wolfman, of course!
(Note to first poster: XEROK El Paso/Cd. Juarez was much later in time: not before mid-70s)

 

[99KTKT]

dupe. sorry~!

 

[oldiesfan6479]

1550 KFIF/switched to 580 KIKX as of July 4 (?), 1967
1450(?) KOLD (top 40 in the evenings circa 1966-67)
(????) XEFR, Del Rio, TX (Cd. Acuna, Coahuila, Mex.)--for the Wolfman, of course!

KFIF > KIKX = June 10, 1967
KOLD was 1450
1570 Ciudad Acuna calls = XERF

 

[ykw]

None. Wasn't born yet. ;D

What he said.

Jump forward to the mid-1980s, though, and:

KNX (huge Drama Hour fan)
KFI (Lohman & Barkley, especially once the station stopped pretending to be Top 40)
KMPC (Angels and Frank)
KABC (strictly for the Dodgers)
KLAC (strictly for the Kings, Chickieburger and the Lakers)

 

[michael hagerty]

Southern California (1972-1976)

1. 640 KFI
2. 710 KMPC
3. 760 KFMB (San Diego)
4. 930 KHJ
5. 1170 KCBQ (San Diego)


Northern California (1976-1977)

1. 610 KFRC
2. 680 KNBR
3. 1240 KROY (Sacramento)
4. 1400 KUKI (Ukiah)
5. 1470 KNDE (Sacramento)

 

[kruxman]

I didn't move to Phoenix (from Indiana), until 1973. In Indiana, I only knew that two radio stations existed, WLS & WCFL.

In Phoenix:

1. KRUX
2. KRIZ
3. KUPD
4. XROK-80
5. KOMA

 

[50kguy]

Like Dr Akbar, I was a child of the 60's in New York. Dad's radio was 710 WOR & 930 WPAT during the day, 740 CBL/Toronto or 940 CBM/Montreal at night.

When I started buying my own cars in 1980, I didn't tune the radio until after sunset because the first preset was always 800 CKLW/Windsor.

I still wait until after dark to give a radio its first presets, but now it's 1070 KNX.

 

[KeithE4]

I didn't move to Phoenix (from Indiana), until 1973. In Indiana, I only knew that two radio stations existed, WLS & WCFL.

You didn't listen to WIFE, WNDE, WXLW, WAKY, WOWO, and/or CKLW?

 

[sgoddard]

1. WABC (in the remote chance it would come in on a skip)
2. WLS (for night top 40)
3. KAKC (for daytime top 40 - couldn't get them at night even though I was only 35 miles south)
4. KELI - the chicken rock station in Tulsa
5. KBIX (Muskogee - it was my first station)

 

[Tom Wells]

I have 10-12 old car radios that all still work in a box. All Chrysler radios from the 1960-70s, from the Chicago area.
I will have a look see, maybe power 'em up, and let you know what they were set to....they weren't mine.
2 of 'em are AM/FM.

Mine? WGN, WBBM, WLS, WCFL, WNWI.

Dad's? WIND, WGN, WAIT, WJOB, WWCA.

 

[KOOL Listener Lauren]

KFYI is on one of my AM presets in my car. I never touched the presets or changed them. I just "scan" the dial or press the buttons until KFYI shows up. I listen to AM in the car about once every three months, as it obviously shows.

Home radio AM presets, if you still care:

1. 550 KFYI
2. 640 KFI Los Angeles
3. 660 KTNN Window Rock
4. 770 KKOB Albuquerque
5. 840 KOA Denver
6. 960 KKNT
7. 1070 KNX Los Angeles
8. 1440 KAZG
9. ?
10. ?

Hardly touched, except for late night AM listening (a summertime tradition of mine since 6th grade).

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Are there five (or six) current AMs worthy of holding down a preset position?
You be the judge...

1. KFYI 550 Phoenix
2. KTAR 620 Phoenix
3. KNST 790 Tucson (carries El Rushbo live )
4. KNX 1070 Los Angeles (killer night signal in the 'Tuke...read: the KDUS null)
5. KBSZ 1260 Apache Junction
6. KAZG 1440 Scottsdale

My former #2 preset was KSAZ 580 Marana, until the Giant 580 did its last
format flip and became worthless (not that Real Country was anything to
email home about, just a tradition back to the Dancin' Danny Babich days).

KBSZ took out KOY 1230 Phoenix in preset-land.