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"Big Announcement" Regarding John and Ken on Monday

michael hagerty said:
I think that may have been a phrasing issue and that they were referring to Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans. They were certainly a key component of Art Laboe’s audience in that era.
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Not "immigrants" who neither listened to Art nor KGFJ nor any kind of programming in English. The Latino listeners were the Pochos, the descendants of the Mexican community in LA that preceded statehood.
 
michael hagerty said:
That's the answer---KBLA became KBBQ on June 17, 1967.



Not well at all. 1500's signal always kept it from being competitive, even in the 1960s (as KBLA) when the noise floor was lower, and both L.A. and the ratings survey area were smaller.



1,000 watts at 1280 on the dial. You're talking 30 miles back then (at a signal strength most people would accept) best case. So it was weakened by the time it got to L.A. proper.

Still, they did okay with it, managing to rank in the top ten in the fall 1967, 1968 and 1970 books. The fall '71 book showed the effect of KLAC, which knocked KFOX into a tie for 17th. After that, they never managed a 1 share in the L.A. ratings.
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Way back then 1280's xmitter was way down in Seal Beach. That kilowatt was obliterated by 1260 up here in the SFV!
 
DavidEduardo said:
Not "immigrants" who neither listened to Art nor KGFJ nor any kind of programming in English. The Latino listeners were the Pochos, the descendants of the Mexican community in LA that preceded statehood.
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There could also have been some Native American listeners since they were also in Southern California prior to statehood, according to this website:
www.first5la.org

First 5 LA’s Learn and Grow: Tribes of L.A. County and Virtual Activities - First 5 Los Angeles

First 5 LA’s Learn and Grow: Tribes of L.A. County and Virtual Activities Did you know that Los Angeles County is home to more people of Native heritage than any other county in the U.S.? Or that Native American Day is September 25th? The holiday, which was first recognized as an official state...
www.first5la.org www.first5la.org
 
HerbNero said:
Not really.
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IHeart has about 800 stations. That's about 5% of all US stations.

Not including translators, the USA has about 15,600. The other nations of just North and South America have more than that.

Why in the word did you say "not really" when that statement is so obviously false?
 
michael hagerty said:
Two-thirds of the world's radio stations broadcast in countries other than the United States.
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And we have more stations per capita than many nations because, going back to the 30's, we limited AM stations to very low power with a cap of only 50 kw... and very few stations at that level.

In Europe, for example, powers up to 500 kw were used even prior to WW II. So one of those higher power transmitters makes up for a couple of dozen of the US (formerly called) Class IV AM station.
 
DavidEduardo said:
And we have more stations per capita than many nations because, going back to the 30's, we limited AM stations to very low power with a cap of only 50 kw... and very few stations at that level.

In Europe, for example, powers up to 500 kw were used even prior to WW II. So one of those higher power transmitters makes up for a couple of dozen of the US (formerly called) Class IV AM station.
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Indeed. I think someone one another thread recently said that there is still a central European station operating on 540 kHz with 2 million Watts !
 
Here's the podcast of the very last hour of "John and Ken":

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John & Ken Show Hour 3 (12/06)

<p>News anchor Debra Mark and Technical Director/Associate Producer Eric Sklar had goodbye messages for Ken. More special messages for Ken and his retirement. </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
player.fm player.fm

Includes recorded goodbyes from David G. Hall, who hired them on KFI. And even from former Governor Grey Davis (not a bit, he actually sent something). A lot of good montages of stuff over the years.

Ken actually started to cry as he said goodbye, saying "I'm be so fortunate to do this show... and make so much money." It's pretty funny if you haven't heard it.

While J&K has drifted far outside my interest and ideology of late, there's no doubt it's been a strong show and it ends strong.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Indeed. I think someone one another thread recently said that there is still a central European station operating on 540 kHz with 2 million Watts !
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WRH 2023 shows 2000 kw as HNG Kossuth Radio, Solt.
Also at 2 megawatts is 549 ARS SBA Al Quran Al Karim, Abba., ARS, SBA SBA Radio Riyadh, Duba. amd 1521 SBA Radio Rayadh.

WRH shows no 2 megawatt stations in Asia, although there are a couple of 2 megawatters in India.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Five 400kw Nautel units running in parallel. They can take one out of service for maintenance and still run 1600kw!
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I've always assumed that those "megawatt and more" installations in northern Africa and the "Middle East" had much to do with the horrible ground conductivity in most of that region.
 
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