You got a link for that? I've seen that John Driscoll and Nancy Plum grabbed the odd fill-in shift on the FM after TenQ launched (because they had been on the FM playing Country before that), but I have never seen anything about automation for KGBS-FM/KHTZ or having the AM jocks voice-track it.
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You got a link for that? I've seen that John Driscoll and Nancy Plum grabbed the odd fill-in shift on the FM after TenQ launched (because they had been on the FM playing Country before that), but I have never seen anything about automation for KGBS-FM/KHTZ or having the AM jocks voice-track it.
Yeah---in fact, the July 17, 1976 issue of Billboard announcing the coming flip of the AM mentions that KGBS-FM has:
I had missed that at the time, and I have to say, it didn't sound automated.
Here's the lineup in April of 1978. Nancy Plum was doing the same shift on KTNQ and KGBS, playing Top 40 on one and Country on the other:
6-10 AM: Bobby Morgan
10-2 PM: Chris Lane
2-6 PM: Ron Martin
6-10 PM: Doc Holliday
10-2 AM: Lee Adams
2-6 PM: Nancy Plum
Here's the crew in '76 before the AM became KTNQ---so Nancy (center) probably never stopped doing the automated Country shift:
Mikel Hunter (bottom, with eye patch) is the only one who wasn't there two years later---he was replaced by Lee Adams.
You are the only person I've ever heard say that. I wish someone had rolled tape.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And now you know two people who remember him doing that.
Also, I wonder if this was the night that KGBS decided to invest in automation:
Hunter left KGBS to work for a radio station in Iran. Fortunately he left before the Shah was deposed and the hostage crisis happened. He returned to KOME in San Jose in 1978.
A PS: The 1976 KGBS staff photo I posted came from Nancy Plum herself, on Facebook, where she mentions that she left a fulltime job at KAFY in Bakersfield for weekend overnights at KGBS because it paid more.
At the time, I thought radio pay might be roughly linear, stairsteps of money on the way to the bigs.
Nope.
I was making $600 a month at KUKI in Ukiah, a town of 10,000 people. Bakersfield was nearing 200,000---and Nancy was getting $650 at KAFY. I later learned there were jocks working in San Diego for $800.
Factoring cost of living (even then), I was doing better than they were.
At the time, I thought radio pay might be roughly linear, stairsteps of money on the way to the bigs.
Nope.
I was making $600 a month at KUKI in Ukiah, a town of 10,000 people. Bakersfield was nearing 200,000---and Nancy was getting $650 at KAFY. I later learned there were jocks working in San Diego for $800.
Factoring cost of living (even then), I was doing better than they were.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
The late Tom Nefeldt (T. Michael Jordan) once told me that when he was at KKDJ with Rick Carroll, both of them were only making a couple thousand more a year than they were in Sacramento.