Historical question regarding KGIL

[Ultimajock]

...as us Monkees fans well remember, in the pre-titles sequence to the episode in which Peter Tork sells his soul to The Devil in order to learn how to play the harp, there's a car clearly marked "KGIL" crossing a street at the same time Tork tries to carry the harp across an intersection. It's always been my impression that KGIL was a Top 40 station at the time and struck a deal with Raybert Productions to slip that callsign exposure into the show (product placement early on). Am I right, or does that make too much sense to be true?...

 

[doublecashkgb]

KGIL was MOR from Lassen Street in Mission Hills. The legendary Sweet Dick Whittington was
the morning man. Later in one form or another of course the legendary KM RIchards
apparently worked there (according to resume). At the time of the Monkees show KGIL
was known for it's fleet of traffic cars under the direction of GM Dick Corson. Corson later
made a splash, or a crash, when he shot and killed his wife on his private plane, then
if I remember killed himself in 1991. Brutal little bastard.