That isn’t that recent….
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KBRD has moved to 920 AM and 101.1 FM
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That isn’t that recent….
The history of 920 is a bit complicated. KGHO was on 920 for a number of years in the 2000’s (in AM stereo to boot). But that didn’t last. I know it was also KQ-92 way back in the day. I believe that was a hyper local CHR for Olympia, but I’m not sure when it went by that branding.
the guy who owned KGHO 920 when it was oldies is the guy behind the NWRRPS and KGHO-LPFM
That was sort of my point. They have a 50 year span that ended 50 years ago!
Previous call letters: 2-1-57/KITN-AM 1420; (Donald F. Whitman) 6-1-60 changed frequency to 920-AM; KQEU (National Communications Inc.) call letters 02/17/1982; KCPL (National Communications Inc.) 07/31/1993; KGHO (Brian & John Spencer)05/24/1996; KAYO (Brian & John Spencer) 04/13/1999; KGHO (Brian & John Spencer) 12/23/1999; KGTK (Alan Gottlieb) 03/30/2004; KBRD (Skip’s For The Music Foundation) July 1, 2025.
According to the Wikipedia page on 680 KBRD (hasn't been updated with new calls), Skip Morrow also owned an FM station at the time he put KBRD on the air in 1994. I don't remember that. Is it possibly a Wikipedia error? It also hasn't been updated with the recent changes on the 'History' section. I recall he briefly owned AM 1280 with a Classical format.
Wikipedia error likely; It's possible KBRD (B/EZ "K-Bird FM 104" which had been AAA "103.7 The Mountain" for three years by 1994, was a totally different format and had no connection whatsoever to Skip) may have gotten into the page as that unknown FM by similarity of call sign. But as far as I know, Skip never owned an FM (He was kind of an AM believer, if I remember.)
But he did own "1280 The Lady", his Classical station (KLDY, which were KBRD's previous calls on 680 before Skip's purchase. He transferred them over to 1280.)
KLDY was what I would call "Classic Classical", meaning they played older recordings of Classical/Opera music; Stokowski, Toscanini, Fiedler and the like conducting. Stuff KING-FM would never play (everything had to be 100% digital or digitally remastered to get KING-FM airplay by this time.) Basically the Classical end of Skip's mammoth record collection.
Two stations proved to be a bit much for a tiny group of volunteers and KLDY was sold.
I did stop at an antique store in the area and the lady who owned it was playing KLDY on a 1941 Ward's console. It actually sounded terrific on it. Must've been a sad day in the shop when it flipped.
It looks like all a person has to do if they want to update anything on Wikipedia....is create an account??? So anybody can write ANYTHING they want, no matter how inaccurate, without any fact checking...and it gets changed???
The motto of Wikipedia should be...'Don't believe anything you read!'.
It's not that bad. Wikipedia is not 100% perfect. The volunteer Wikipedia editors do reasonably well screening out the most bogus crap on the majority of pages, but I imagine the politics, religion and celebrity pages really keep them busy. But little things slip through. I wouldn't call it a major error, but nothing a little removing of the FM part can't fix. That's all.
When you write for Wikipedia, you do have to have corroborating links to reputable sources. They just don't let you post anything. All new entries and updates are verified this way.
I’ve been saying for years that Wikipedia isn’t worth putting all your trust in.
Wikipedia does have a tendency to attract a lot of trolls. With that being said, I doubt that the trolls really care that much about editing the page for KBRD (or any other radio station). For radio and TV, Wikipedia has been pretty spot-on (in my experience). Would I use it for writing a scientific report for a university class? No.
Also on the 680 KBRD Wikipedia page....Skip's Cockatoo was the station's music director, and only songs that the bird would dance to would get played. Just think of all the money that the iHeart's and Audacy's would save for their music research just by getting a Moluccan Cockatoo!
I'm hoping that part on Wikipedia is correct.
I'm hoping that part on Wikipedia is correct.
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That station was for the birds!
Hopefully that would mean I would never have to hear a Kesha song again as long as I live.
youre reading into that too much really. if they had a modern fm transmitter they could do the frequency shift keying ID and wouldnt even need to verbally ID K266BM
I just meant since stations usually promote their frequency that it's odd that they aren't. But then they aren't the usual type of operation either.
I do think mentioning frequencies is mostly in important in most cases, but as you note.. they arent typical there"
"Across the south sound at 680 and 920 am along with 101.1 FN, This is KBRD Olmypia, KUTI Lacey" would be a good way to do it