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Back when SD FM was mom & pop

C

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As a a young kid I recall these stations:


KDIG-FM in the El Patio building with its cool jazz and
oldies format in the late 60's to early 70's. Live jocks
around the clock and a picture window in downtown La
Jolla. Later sold to some investors who automated it
and moved it to The La Jolla Village Inn.

KITT. I think they called it KITT, easy listening and
mono 60's through late 70's, at 8th & Ash.

KLRO. My favorite of the small time hipster stations.
Jazz,Blues, and MOR from a two room suite in the US
Grant Hotel. Joe Chandler (later KPRI) and Esquire
Holmes (later KIFM) played blues & jazz back before
it was trendy from a grimy little studio with no
cart machines, spots played on reel to reel. The
station was actually the first FM Stereo station
in Southern California. But they ran out of money
& sold to some religious broadcasters. Now they are
known as 94.9.

KFMX. Jazz & Exotica from their studios in the Islandia
Hotel on Shelter Island. Very sweet, later sold and changed
calls to KYXY. Buzz kill. I believe they also had studios
up on Mount Soledad for a time.

KPRI. Pre-Progressive Rock days. From 6th Ave in Hillcrest.
"Capri By The Sea" MOR format, for a time Rod Page did a
live jazz show from The Cotton Patch on Midway Drive.

These were mom & pop stations, very experimental and targeted
to the upwardly mobile users of FM. A more innocent time in
radio, anyone remember these or other stations?







> > > call letters.
> >
> > Yes, I worked briefly at KOGO during the Par regime and I
> > will say that was the worst place I worked
 
> As a a young kid I recall these stations:
>
>
> KDIG-FM in the El Patio building with its cool jazz and
> oldies format in the late 60's to early 70's. Live jocks
> around the clock and a picture window in downtown La
> Jolla. Later sold to some investors who automated it
> and moved it to The La Jolla Village Inn.
>
> KITT. I think they called it KITT, easy listening and
> mono 60's through late 70's, at 8th & Ash.

I still have a KITT Zippo lighter.


>
> KLRO. My favorite of the small time hipster stations.
> Jazz,Blues, and MOR from a two room suite in the US
> Grant Hotel. Joe Chandler (later KPRI) and Esquire
> Holmes (later KIFM) played blues & jazz back before
> it was trendy from a grimy little studio with no
> cart machines, spots played on reel to reel. The
> station was actually the first FM Stereo station
> in Southern California. But they ran out of money
> & sold to some religious broadcasters. Now they are
> known as 94.9.
>
> KFMX. Jazz & Exotica from their studios in the Islandia
> Hotel on Shelter Island. Very sweet, later sold and changed
> calls to KYXY. Buzz kill. I believe they also had studios
> up on Mount Soledad for a time.
>
> KPRI. Pre-Progressive Rock days. From 6th Ave in Hillcrest.
> "Capri By The Sea" MOR format, for a time Rod Page did a
> live jazz show from The Cotton Patch on Midway Drive.


That "Capri" format continued even after they started doing "underground music" in the overnight hours. Do you remember the name of the KPRI dog? Their studios were actually in the basement of that building, beneath the pharmacy, which prompted the underground announcers to say that the "entire station was under drugs."

>
> These were mom & pop stations, very experimental and
> targeted
> to the upwardly mobile users of FM. A more innocent time in
> radio, anyone remember these or other stations?
>


I'm not so sure they were targeted to anyone except lovers of a particular type of music. Even into the 70's the FM's for the most part operated out of closets or one-room suites.
 
Bob, you're right about those stations not "targeting".
it was more of a purely musical thing, or the stereo
hi-fi cache. In the early 70's an LA based slick
magzine called "Coast", featured among its articles
an entire 7 day FM radio station schedule (for every
station in So Cal) and articles on stereo rigs etc.
FM was cool, and not over commercialized at that time.


> > As a a young kid I recall these stations:
> >
> >
> > KDIG-FM in the El Patio building with its cool jazz and
> > oldies format in the late 60's to early 70's. Live jocks
> > around the clock and a picture window in downtown La
> > Jolla. Later sold to some investors who automated it
> > and moved it to The La Jolla Village Inn.
> >
> > KITT. I think they called it KITT, easy listening and
> > mono 60's through late 70's, at 8th & Ash.
>
> I still have a KITT Zippo lighter.
>
>
> >
> > KLRO. My favorite of the small time hipster stations.
> > Jazz,Blues, and MOR from a two room suite in the US
> > Grant Hotel. Joe Chandler (later KPRI) and Esquire
> > Holmes (later KIFM) played blues & jazz back before
> > it was trendy from a grimy little studio with no
> > cart machines, spots played on reel to reel. The
> > station was actually the first FM Stereo station
> > in Southern California. But they ran out of money
> > & sold to some religious broadcasters. Now they are
> > known as 94.9.
> >
> > KFMX. Jazz & Exotica from their studios in the Islandia
> > Hotel on Shelter Island. Very sweet, later sold and
> changed
> > calls to KYXY. Buzz kill. I believe they also had studios
> > up on Mount Soledad for a time.
> >
> > KPRI. Pre-Progressive Rock days. From 6th Ave in
> Hillcrest.
> > "Capri By The Sea" MOR format, for a time Rod Page did a
> > live jazz show from The Cotton Patch on Midway Drive.
>
>
> That "Capri" format continued even after they started doing
> "underground music" in the overnight hours. Do you remember
> the name of the KPRI dog? Their studios were actually in
> the basement of that building, beneath the pharmacy, which
> prompted the underground announcers to say that the "entire
> station was under drugs."
>
> >
> > These were mom & pop stations, very experimental and
> > targeted
> > to the upwardly mobile users of FM. A more innocent time
> in
> > radio, anyone remember these or other stations?
> >
>
>
> I'm not so sure they were targeted to anyone except lovers
> of a particular type of music. Even into the 70's the FM's
> for the most part operated out of closets or one-room
> suites.
>
 
> KFMX. Jazz & Exotica from their studios in the Islandia
> Hotel on Shelter Island. Very sweet, later sold and changed
> calls to KYXY. Buzz kill. I believe they also had studios
> up on Mount Soledad for a time.


When I was in college in Claremont (L.A. county) in the mid-60s, I built a special high-gain Yagi just to receive KFMX and installed it on the dorm roof. Great introduction to jazz.

Brian
 
> As a a young kid I recall these stations:
>
>
> KDIG-FM in the El Patio building with its cool jazz and
> oldies format in the late 60's to early 70's. Live jocks
> around the clock and a picture window in downtown La
> Jolla. Later sold to some investors who automated it
> and moved it to The La Jolla Village Inn.
>
> KITT. I think they called it KITT, easy listening and
> mono 60's through late 70's, at 8th & Ash.
>
> KLRO. My favorite of the small time hipster stations.
> Jazz,Blues, and MOR from a two room suite in the US
> Grant Hotel. Joe Chandler (later KPRI) and Esquire
> Holmes (later KIFM) played blues & jazz back before
> it was trendy from a grimy little studio with no
> cart machines, spots played on reel to reel. The
> station was actually the first FM Stereo station
> in Southern California. But they ran out of money
> & sold to some religious broadcasters. Now they are
> known as 94.9.
>
> KFMX. Jazz & Exotica from their studios in the Islandia
> Hotel on Shelter Island. Very sweet, later sold and changed
> calls to KYXY. Buzz kill. I believe they also had studios
> up on Mount Soledad for a time.
>
> KPRI. Pre-Progressive Rock days. From 6th Ave in Hillcrest.
> "Capri By The Sea" MOR format, for a time Rod Page did a
> live jazz show from The Cotton Patch on Midway Drive.
>
> These were mom & pop stations, very experimental and
> targeted
> to the upwardly mobile users of FM. A more innocent time in
> radio, anyone remember these or other stations?
>
> Yes I remember a KDIG billboard with a smiley face and the phrase "dial a smile"

KSEA. Top 40 but later went to country, or was it Gospel 97? (Ohio Players Skin Tight was the hit back then).

KOZN. Your country cousin!! 103.7

XHIS FM90 and XHERS FM. XHERS was somewhere around 100 FM, pretty close to B-100 before XHERS went off the air.

SOUL 104. XSOL came on the air playing Billy Prestons' Space Race over and over. Later Soul Radio moved to 90.3 and then to 96 FM (fly robin fly!!).

K105 Dynamite Disco!! Sorry rockers thats what Rock 105.3 used to be!! K105 had a great club sound. But I got tired listening to the same beat all the time.
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