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Anyone Remember KUPY 1450?
- Thread starter Bongwater
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thinking it was country?
Yes, it was country and it was in a little building next to the Daffodil Bowling Alley on E Main. The tower at that time was right there too.
I visited the station one night in winter of '83/'84 and the DJ was kind enough to let us in (we must have been bored). We spent probably half an hour in there talking and looking at all the records in this one room next to the studio. Was a Sr. in high school at the time and remember leaving him a six pack of beer outside the door (don't ask me how we got it or why we gave up a six pack of what we had, but we did...)
I visited the station one night in winter of '83/'84 and the DJ was kind enough to let us in (we must have been bored). We spent probably half an hour in there talking and looking at all the records in this one room next to the studio. Was a Sr. in high school at the time and remember leaving him a six pack of beer outside the door (don't ask me how we got it or why we gave up a six pack of what we had, but we did...)
Yes indeedy, I remember KUPY. I worked there from November 1977 - October 1978 as a jock and News Director. A ton of memories and personalities. Folks like Evelyn and Sandy (office staff), Bill Efronson, Bruce Bond, Jim Gallant. David Smock, Pepper (Sarah) Schilling, Mary Tompkins, Meryl Yourish, and the late Bud Blair...a nice fella who owned the station when I began working there and passed in late '77 from a heart attack following a broadcast of a basketball game. I ran into Bruce in 2008 and it was great to see him again. He's doing well. Roger B. Nelson came on the scene as a cocky, tow-headed cherub. Today he runs KXLY in Spokane. A great guy. And then there was a saucy lass named Sandy Van Quathem. That's another story which we'll leave untold. I remember 'em all like it was only yesterday. Which in the mind....it was.
Wasn't KUPY formerly KAYE, and didn't KAYE go through a long
license-revocation ordeal with the FCC? I don't recall if they
kept it, or if Uncle Charlie pulled it and "re-bid" the freq. with
KUPY being the successful applicant.
All I remember is the KAYE license soap opera got pretty much
weekly ink in Broadcasting for a while.
license-revocation ordeal with the FCC? I don't recall if they
kept it, or if Uncle Charlie pulled it and "re-bid" the freq. with
KUPY being the successful applicant.
All I remember is the KAYE license soap opera got pretty much
weekly ink in Broadcasting for a while.
Yup, and there was a "engineer" who had it. The name Hank Perozzo rings a bell but may be incorrect. Whoever it was, helped my friends at KAPA in Raymond move their transmitter site, did it for a trade for religious programming, and failed to follow FCC requirements and cost my friends a $10,000 fine.
KAYE,1450, was religious'political format, owned by Jim Nichols. Got into trouble by identifying congressional representative as "a traitor." At FCC hearing the struggle turned on whether the term was "a traitor" or "a trader" and hearing might well have meant los of license. Stretched on for a long time. Long enough for Nichols to separately apply to transfer title to Henry Peruzzo as KUPY. FCC didn't know what it was doing. Sale approved. Hearing concluded indecisive.
Peruzzo also had bizarre notion that station could be moved from Puyallup and divided to a commercial religious station operated by his relatives monday through saturday, and operated as a noncommercial station by himself on Sundays. ("That's the way radio started out, with different owners of same frequency.") I asked him how he could exist as a nonprofit , asking for "grants" from listeners. He said: "Jim Bakker operates a nonprofit activity."
Peruzzo also had bizarre notion that station could be moved from Puyallup and divided to a commercial religious station operated by his relatives monday through saturday, and operated as a noncommercial station by himself on Sundays. ("That's the way radio started out, with different owners of same frequency.") I asked him how he could exist as a nonprofit , asking for "grants" from listeners. He said: "Jim Bakker operates a nonprofit activity."
WHOOPS! I jumped too fast. Peruzzo owned KUPY only a short time, sold it to Courtmanche (Ray Court) where it became KRPM, country format. Peruzzo then acquired KDFL, Sumner, I think it was, which he transfered to Steilacom. KRPM sold to Geesman (Country Gold Network) which remained licensed to Puyallup but studio on the highway in Fife, focussed on old-time country -- until sale to KSUH.
I certainly do, my father was Bill Efronson and he managed the station in the late 70's when it was KUPY changing to KRPM
I worked with Bill Efronson from 1977 through 1978. He was a good and kind hearted man and he loved radio. I believe his wife's name was Sandy and she loved Elvis. Lots of nice memories at 1450 from those days.
Bob Mathers
Bob Mathers
Hey Swingin sam: Could you tell me what the format was of KUPY when you were there in November of 1977.
Thanks
T.J.
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Mike Brewer
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You DO realize this thread is FIVE YEARS old, right? You'd do better finding "SWINGINSAM" through social media or the name he provided at the end of his post. You're welcome.
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