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Have you seen the Judgement day Billboards that 610 AM is posting around the bay

OhioMediaWatch said:
Haven't seen any of Camping's billboards around here, where he owns WCUE/1150. Maybe he's got some up in Cleveland.

On May 22, I want to flip WCUE back to its Top 40 format of the late 70's and early 80's, for nostalgia reasons. ;)
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There is one I've seen along I-76 westbound between Kent and Akron.
 
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
 
RadioStarOne said:
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
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I do remember when KMPX was on 98.9 just before its switch to AOR & KQAK. I might be wrong but I think Alex Bennett signed KMPX off with Big Band music a few days before The Quake debuted.
 
RadioStarOne said:
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
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I'm sure KMPX was on 98.9 as a result of the switch, with the Big Band format - but didn't last long, and became KQAK (the Quake) shortly thereafter.

In fact, here's a link to the Bay Area Radio Museum's page on Norman Davis (KYA, KSAN) on KMPX 'Big Band 99." There's some interesting info I hadn't known before about the station, and the charge that the format was screwed up by none other than...Bill Drake (?). Always interesting stuff on this website...I wonder who runs it...

The air check is from July 82 - it became The Quake a month later.


http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kmpx/1982/kmpx_norman-davis_july-25-1982.shtml
 
RadioStarOne said:
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
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The way it transpired in 1977 was this:
CBS bought 97.3 from Family Stations and renamed it from KEAR to KCBS-FM
National Science Network sold 106.9 to CBS which simultaneously gave it to Family, making KMPX into KEAR
Oakland banker Lloyd Edwards bought 98.9 from CBS, which changed from KCBS-FM to KMPX

98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

The original 98.9 transmitter tower is atop the Clay/Jones apartment building in SF.
 
DavidKaye said:
RadioStarOne said:
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
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The way it transpired in 1977 was this:
CBS bought 97.3 from Family Stations and renamed it from KEAR to KCBS-FM
National Science Network sold 106.9 to CBS which simultaneously gave it to Family, making KMPX into KEAR
Oakland banker Lloyd Edwards bought 98.9 from CBS, which changed from KCBS-FM to KMPX

98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

The original 98.9 transmitter tower is atop the Clay/Jones apartment building in SF.
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Wow I had no idea back in the 1970's CBS owned 106.9 temporarily before KEAR had 106.9 Fm now KCBS has 106.9 back around since 2006.
 
recto101 said:
DavidKaye said:
RadioStarOne said:
I don't believe KMPX was ever on 98.9. (I could be wrong.)That frequency was supposed to go dark when the switch was made and i believe it did for a time. The first station to use that frequency again may have been the Quake. The whole story about what transpired that night can be found in the pages of the chronicle somewhere in the two weeks before the switch happened. I bet David has the information in one of his broadcasting yearbooks!
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The way it transpired in 1977 was this:
CBS bought 97.3 from Family Stations and renamed it from KEAR to KCBS-FM
National Science Network sold 106.9 to CBS which simultaneously gave it to Family, making KMPX into KEAR
Oakland banker Lloyd Edwards bought 98.9 from CBS, which changed from KCBS-FM to KMPX

98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

The original 98.9 transmitter tower is atop the Clay/Jones apartment building in SF.
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Wow I had no idea back in the 1970's CBS owned 106.9 temporarily before KEAR had 106.9 Fm now KCBS has 106.9 back around since 2006.
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Well...CBS owned 106.9 in the 70s for about a minute and a half, if you re-read RadioStarOne's post. They immediately traded it for 97.3, and never ran any programming on the frequency.
 
RadioStarOne said:
98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

David you forgot the Quake, KQAK
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There was also a stint for about 8 weeks between KKCY and KOFY where it was KHIT, IIRC.

Dave B.
 
DaveBayArea said:
RadioStarOne said:
98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

David you forgot the Quake, KQAK
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There was also a stint for about 8 weeks between KKCY and KOFY where it was KHIT, IIRC.

Dave B.
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And I remember when KKCY briefly changed its format to Adult Standards before switching to CHR/Pop KHIT.
 
RadioStarOne said:
98.9's callsigns have been KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KKCY, KSRI, KDBK, KOFY-FM, and KSOL.

David you forgot the Quake, KQAK
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I think in correct order: KJBS-FM, KCBS-FM, KMPX, KQAK, KKCY, KHIT, KOFY-FM, KDBK, KSRY, KSOL, KEMR & KSOL again. The calls of KSRI was on 99.1 Santa Cruz, not on 98.9 San Francisco.
 
recto101 said:
Wow I had no idea back in the 1970's CBS owned 106.9 temporarily before KEAR had 106.9 Fm now KCBS has 106.9 back around since 2006.
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Don't you read for comprehension? CBS only owned 106.9 for a legal instant while it transferred the other licenses. The whole 3-way switch was done at CBS's instigation, but in those days nobody could own 2 FMs in the same market. So, they didn't. They simultaneously bought and sold 106.9 as part of the 3-way transaction.
 
michael hagerty said:
The boards are up in Phoenix too, where Family Life owns KFLR-FM.
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...no connection between Camping's Family Radio and the Tucson-based Family Life Radio. Camping did have a bus running around Tucson last month with his silly doomsday bilge painted across the sides. To my knowledge Camping has no affiliates in Tucson...
 
recto101 said:
Mr. Camping was right that judgement day was coming but it was only for Bin Laden.
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But not on May 21, like Camping predicted
 
travisl5678 said:
Maybe he will say that Bin Laden dieing has something to do with the endtimes?
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I doubt that. But I don't really believe in Doomsday theories they get proven wrong by god every time
 
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