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KAAM Promotional Materials

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woodyrr

I finally found the 620 brochure that I wanted to share. I turned the house upside down looking for it or for a scan of it when the discussion was going on - and on - about KAAM running infomercials. I was using it as a bookmark of all things. Imagine my surprise when I opened the book and it fell out.

Clicking on the picture or the link will take you to the original on flickr and the full size version.

Of note, on the 620 brochure is a picture of Teresa Hanson who recently passed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39213183@N02/4902126035/

The picture doesn't show up on this site, so if you would like to see it, just click the link.
 
Thank you for posting that. I've got one of those (620 brochures) here someplace. I think the 620 version of KAAM was a much more full service radio station. They had local news at the top of every hour, DJ's round the clock, etc. I listened to that incarnation of it a lot more than I listen to the present one. The last time I heard Walter Evans (in the late 1990's), he was doing news in the wee hours of the morning on 620 KAAM. (A little off topic here, wonder what he's doing nowadays?) Anyway, thanks for posting the brochures.
 
That's back when KAAM had it together.....a sound worth listening to!!
 
As the view count on the flickr page approaches 100, I am glad that I found the items so that I could share them. Thank you all for taking the time to look. I deliberately scanned them at a high enough resolution so that if you look at the larger sizes under the actions menu, you can read the fine print and see the pictures.

I agree with dfaulkner and Jay Weaver that the 620 attempt (from this radio listener’s point of view) was a real attempt at radio even though it only lasted a couple of years. According to the 620 brochure, with the exception of Herman Bockelman with Europe Today, and a couple of other talk programs on Saturday morning, the weekend was music programming and Herman plays a lot of music in Europe Today. They went out and courted real sponsors, like what I recall to be a Huffines car dealership in Plano. I picked up the brochure at a small Italian place very near my brother’s house that was a sponsor. Because we heard about it on the station, my brother and I and friends of his went to the Bavarian Grill in Plano more than once. I also remember listening to live remotes from the Bavarian Grill with German music, although I don’t remember which weeknight they were broadcast.

Their signal was robust as well. When not in Dallas, I could generally pick them up here in the Oklahoma City area.

I sure do miss all of that.
 
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