Disco on KOOL?

[pattiwacki]

disco sucked then, disco sucks now. Are there a few titles that transcend such trendy types of labels? Of course, but the genre almost killed Top 40 radio.

Disco, as a genre, sucks.

Abba was great! So was the SNF soundtrack. The coolest guy who ever lived, Steve McQueen, wore the grooves out on his copy (though his widow is embarrased to admit that now,lol!).

 

[oldiesfan6479]

landtuna,
You're describing the old KOOL AM...(snip)...and the static! It was like trying to
tune in the Wolfman from Del Rio, TX late at night in high school.

Ah yes, you must be referring to the big null at night on 960 through much of
the East Valley.

Another case of a metro area having long outgrown a DA-N signal--the four
towers that were on Tom Chauncey's ranch (near Scottsdale and Bell roads,
IIRC) shooting a big lobe to the southwest. KOOL(AM) put a great signal at
night into Rocky Point, but not Mesa... :

 

[landtuna]

Nope. Never listened to KOOL-AM but I do remember the big towers on the Chauncy Ranch. I moved back to the Valley in '79 and the FM side was already on-air. Still remember Jeanne Sedello (?) and Dave Munsey from those days.

The "static-filled" station I remember best from my early days in Tucson in the 50's was KOMA-AM (1520). Sometimes we could also get another AM from SF but I don't remember which one (KSFO?). KOB and KSL also came in pretty good but they didn't play Top-40 as I remember.

 

[DrAkbar]

Nope. Never listened to KOOL-AM but I do remember the big towers on the Chauncy Ranch. I moved back to the Valley in '79 and the FM side was already on-air. Still remember Jeanne Sedello (?) and Dave Munsey from those days.

The "static-filled" station I remember best from my early days in Tucson in the 50's was KOMA-AM (1520). Sometimes we could also get another AM from SF but I don't remember which one (KSFO?). KOB and KSL also came in pretty good but they didn't play Top-40 as I remember.

Our hunch those 50k stations would be KNBR (6~Eighty), KCBS (7~Forty) and KGO (8~Ten). The only AM Top 40 station in the Bay area capable of reaching Phoenix at night would have been KFRC (The Big 6~Ten), but KT'R would have to be off the air in order to do that.

Back to KOOL-AM/KKNT (9~Sixty). Even though the directional nighttime signal nulls to the East Valley, they have 5kw non-D during the hours that really matter. In spite of that power and signal, nothing seems to have grabbed a sizable audience (including Liddy & Hill ) on that frequency for the past 30 years.

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

The only AM Top 40 station in the Bay area capable of reaching Phoenix at night would have been KFRC (The Big 6~Ten), but KT'R would have to be off the air in order to do that.

I live near Lindsay and McDowell, and I can get 610, San Francisco (now KEAR), and KAVL, Lancaster every night, even with KTAR on the air.

 

[DrAkbar]

I live near Lindsay and McDowell, and I can get 610, San Francisco (now KEAR), and KAVL, Lancaster every night, even with KTAR on the air.

The Nurse and I get WCFL, KLIF, WIBG and on clear nights WQAM! With IBOC and the fact the FCC doesn't give a sh#t about AM radio anymore, it's amazing that you can get those two 6~Ten stations! But can you get KKNT at night?

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

Yes, I can get KKNT at night.

 

[pberger]

What are you using for a receiver? What antenna?

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

All of my radios can receive KKNT at night:
JVC T-X30 (has a built-in aerial for mediumwave only; I put in wire for FM)
Panasonic walkman RQ-E27V
GE clock radio 7-4624 B

 

[oldiesfan6479]

It appears KOOL has dropped the 7-12 disco show. The past
fifteen minutes has been the normal '60s/'70s mix, sans DJ.

That was last week.

This week--as we wait for NFVG to give us a number one then,
and number one now shout ;D--the show has morphed into what
KOOL is branding "Seventies Saturday Night." A few disco-tinged
songs so far, but it's mostly the standard '70s fare they've been
doing on Sundays.