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KAHM Sells Out

DrAkbar said:
If the studio speakers were cranked, those duck farts would rattle the room. "..in the air, everywhere - the scent of ducks flatulating on EZ One Hundred"
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My favorite was a preacher on XERF in the 60's. He had a cart with 25 Hz tone on it, and, during is donation pitch, he would hit the "play" button while saying, "put your hands on the radio and feel the power of the Lord".

Folks who felt their radio vibrate would be close to rapture and prone to sending in for the $5, $10 or $20 blessings the preacher offered. Who wouldn't after being touched by the Lord?

Sergio Ballesteros, a friend who was GM of XERF at the time, said he once asked the preacher what the difference between the $5 and the $20 blessing was. Answer: "Fifteen dollars".
 
As for the accounts you have heard with ads on KAHM consider this: the music comes partly if not all, from a syndication company. In just the same way satellite delivered formats have national commercials to clear, so do most stations taking a music library. In addition, network news is paid for via the playback of commercials. For example, at an ABC affiliate, we sold sponsorships to the network news and cleared the network spots in the break prior to the newscast. We ran ads to pay for our jingle package and our music library. Chances are quite good these are traded commercials for goods received. No matter the format, ad agencies just don't buy non-rated markets unless the local folks have some extraordinary pull (rare). And those greater metro dollars are used up on that big city paper, TV stations and the top rated stations in the big city. I know what it is like selling an ADA market: a brick wall. I got a national chain on when I got the franchisee so upset he cut off his advertising dollars until there was a local buy and trust me, the agency was not a happy camper.
 
Great XERF story. I worked the Del Rio market. Paul Kallinger was one of my accounts as was Blanca, the daughter of the owner of XERF who was a whiz at managing the local mall in Del Rio. I understand Arturo got an office in Del Rio after selling XERF, one where he was the local consulate for the Mexican Government. In fact, Paul Jr. was our morning guy.
 
b-turner said:
Great XERF story. I worked the Del Rio market. Paul Kallinger was one of my accounts as was Blanca, the daughter of the owner of XERF who was a whiz at managing the local mall in Del Rio. I understand Arturo got an office in Del Rio after selling XERF, one where he was the local consulate for the Mexican Government. In fact, Paul Jr. was our morning guy.
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We are now 180° off thread, but you probably know that in the 60's XERF as well as XERH in Mexico City were owned in part by Richard Eaton through his then Mexican wife. Eaton was the owner of United Broadcasting, and proved that small owners in the 60's could be every bit as evil as major owners of hundreds of stations in recent years... probably more so, in fact.
 
DavidEduardo said:


I see your rewind and raise you an anecdote.

The jocks at Bill Tanner's 13-Q in Pittsburgh were a bit put off by the serious guys in the next studio who ran Shulke tapes and spent 15 minutes waiting to say, "All day... All Night... all nice! (pause) Wish..."

So one of them grabbed a tape, edited in a deep Steppenwolf cut, and returned it to the studio.

Apparently the announcer would go into a meditative state during the music segments, because he did not react until the song was nearly over, stopping the tape, creating a long piece of dead air, and then starting the fill tape.

The listeners had likely all had a stroke or cardiac event.
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In 1974, at KSLY in San Luis Obispo, we (mostly) teenage jocks were responsible for recording newscasts for our automated FM beautiful music sister station, KUNA.

We'd never have dared to edit the reels, so we went a little more subversive....front-announcing rock songs as part of the weather lockout for the newscasts:

"....and 67 degrees in San Luis Obispo. KUNA-FM 96 beautiful music continues now with Led Zeppelin, his orchestra and chorus and "Whole Lotta Love".

We always wondered if some little old lady liked whatever 101 Strings piece followed these goofs, actually went down to the record store and asked for Led Zeppelin, or any of the others we'd insert into our lockouts about once a week.
 
DavidEduardo said:


We are now 180° off thread, but you probably know that in the 60's XERF as well as XERH in Mexico City were owned in part by Richard Eaton through his then Mexican wife. Eaton was the owner of United Broadcasting, and proved that small owners in the 60's could be every bit as evil as major owners of hundreds of stations in recent years... probably more so, in fact.
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Eaton had his share of problems with the FCC and the courts. His full page ads in Broadcasting Magazine were unusual for a small owner...but he needed an image enema in the worst way. There was no KAHMing down his problems (now, are we back to thread?)
 
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michael hagerty said:
We always wondered if some little old lady liked whatever 101 Strings piece followed these goofs, actually went down to the record store and asked for Led Zeppelin, or any of the others we'd insert into our lockouts about once a week.
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And we all know that Mr. Zeppelin was Ray Conniff's alter ego...
 
Swing was popular again for about 10 minutes in the 90s.


b-turner said:
What we have here are exceptions to the rule versus the norm. I know some youth that listen to classical music (they play instruments) but the norm for classical music listening is the 60+ age group. I would need to see some survey to believe otherwise as I have research supporting my claim (at least on classical music). I'm sure KAHM has listeners. I think the telling point is they sold. A station doing well gets a 'no, we're not for sale' or an 'okay I'll sell but at a price so I can buy an equal or better local signal'. I know a fellow that says there's a huge big band revival among young demographics. He claims many of his friends like Big Band. I'm sure they do but that does not translate to a revival. You might very well know something we don't know and again I have to ask why don't you try to continue it by either putting in a better offer or buying an existing signal in the area?
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Despite the fact that the Daily Courier, also known locally as The Daily Disappointment,
tells us that KAHM and KYCA will have no changes, there are already signs to the contrary.

The station is now billing itself as "KAHM, 102.1, SPRING VALLEY/Prescott" on air.
The slogan "We've always been calm and we always will be," has disappeared on air.
The Badger Mtn site, home of the KAHM translator and KYCA translator, at 101.7 and 103.5,
respectively appear to be undergoing some modifications. On a hike up the mountain,
there appear to be new antennas and equipment. Unknown if there are any changes at
the Mingus Mtn site.
 
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Prescott Joe said:
The station is now billing itself as "KAHM, 102.1, SPRING VALLEY/Prescott" on air.
The slogan "We've always been calm and we always will be," has disappeared on air.
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Spring Valley aint even a city, just a Census Designated Place. Should we waste more time by petitioning the FCC to stop this sale because of the bold face lie told by the seller?




....Nah.
 
The station I work for is licensed to an unincorporated community. Better yet, I know of a Texas FM with a city of license being "Blowout" which was actually a town about 80 years ago. Today it is a cemetery on a dirt road but the name appears on the government maps.Is Crown King, Arizona a real town? Can't recall if they have a government but it was a heck of a drive in a passenger car!
 
So it is incorporated? It wouldn't surprise me that it would be but I can't think of too many services a town government might offer residents in return for becoming incorporated. I know Young, AZ isn't incorporated and sort of stuck out in the middle of nowhere (like Crown King, only accessible via a stretch of dirt road) and has 600 people.
 
b-turner said:
So it is incorporated? It wouldn't surprise me that it would be but I can't think of too many services a town government might offer residents in return for becoming incorporated. I know Young, AZ isn't incorporated and sort of stuck out in the middle of nowhere (like Crown King, only accessible via a stretch of dirt road) and has 600 people.
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Crown King is unincorporated.
 
If incorporation were a criteria, Las Vegas would have had no radio stations for the longest time---most were licensed to the unincorporated town of Paradise (which includes the Strip)....so, for that matter, was KVVU, Channel 5, which had a V/O for the legal ID when I lived there (mid-80s) that emphasized "Paradise...Las Vegas."
 
b-turner said:
So it is incorporated? It wouldn't surprise me that it would be but I can't think of too many services a town government might offer residents in return for becoming incorporated. I know Young, AZ isn't incorporated and sort of stuck out in the middle of nowhere (like Crown King, only accessible via a stretch of dirt road) and has 600 people.
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Crown King is not incorporated AFAIK. Just a small collection of houses, cabins and a bar. You might be interested to know that that whole area is a Phoenix city park (established during the Depression I think). It took about half a day to reach it when I was a kid.
 
michael hagerty said:
If incorporation were a criteria, Las Vegas would have had no radio stations for the longest time---most were licensed to the unincorporated town of Paradise (which includes the Strip)....so, for that matter, was KVVU, Channel 5, which had a V/O for the legal ID when I lived there (mid-80s) that emphasized "Paradise...Las Vegas."
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The only "Paradise" I know is in CA.....and not much of one at that. :)
 
Now the question Los Buckeye Boyz axe is this: What will be the last song played on KAHM? And the follow up ...is that artist still alive?
 
DrAkbar said:
Now the question Los Buckeye Boyz axe is this: What will be the last song played on KAHM? And the follow up ...is that artist still alive?
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That's easy......Frankie's "I Did It My Way"......and no (thank goodness).
 
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