I was trying to figure out why the KECR History Card only goes back to the 1970s. I remember it was a Top 40 station in the 1960s. They had a KDEO Music Survey posted in a Michigan Record Store a lot of people in radio worked at. I couldn't figure out why. Was the station off the air for a long time and the License was cancelled, and another owner put it back on the air and relicensed it? It looks like it was once owned by the Bartells. I always thought it was KCBQ that was in that Group.
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KDEO/KMJC/KECR 910 History
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The various San Diego stations that have been on 910 have always been hampered by the fact that 910 doesn't cover North County day or night. The stations' sharp null has to be aimed at KOXR in Oxnard (Saticoy xmitter) which means the signal disappears before you even reach Carlsbad on the coast and much farther South inland from the coast.
In KDEO's Top 40 days in ancient times they had relatively good ratings. North County didn't really matter at that time as there weren't that many potential listeners up there anyway.
In KDEO's Top 40 days in ancient times they had relatively good ratings. North County didn't really matter at that time as there weren't that many potential listeners up there anyway.
Broadcasting Yearbook lists 910 El Cajon as going on the air in 1955. Possibly some owner lost the license and the FCC no longer counts 1955 as the station's start, even though Broadcasting Yearbook does?
David has every Broadcasting Yearbook on his WorldRadioHistory.com website. It's an amazing resource! Can you imagine the yearbooks go back to 1935? It's fun just to read some of the full-page advertisements for stations that are still going strong today. So any year you want, the info is there. I'd start with 1956. Here's the website:
David has every Broadcasting Yearbook on his WorldRadioHistory.com website. It's an amazing resource! Can you imagine the yearbooks go back to 1935? It's fun just to read some of the full-page advertisements for stations that are still going strong today. So any year you want, the info is there. I'd start with 1956. Here's the website:
BROADCASTING YEARBOOK - Station and industry directory 1935-2010
"Broadcasting Yearbook" was a directory of radio and television stations and related information first published in 1935 by the editors of "Broadcasting Magazine". It includes listings of all stations, suppliers, FCC rules, group ownership, stations sales and other industry statistics. The last...
www.worldradiohistory.com
KCBQ was Bartell Family Radio---four siblings, Melvin, Rosa, David and Lee Beznor (the family name evolved over time, largely because of involvement in entertainment).
The family lost control of the company around 1968.
Lee bought the La Jolla Village Inn and Humphrey's by the Bay and then, in 1976, bought KDEO on his own and re-launched it as KMJC (Magic 91). Lee sold it in 1989.
At one point as a religious station KMJC stood for "King Majesty Jesus Christ"
I was actually "King and Master, Jesus Christ". That branding was after the station ceased music operations and leased its airtime.
In the Great Lakes Region, Bartell Broadcasting owned WDRQ 93.1 Detroit and WOKY 920 Milwaukee in the 1970s. I forget whether they owned any other of the "Q" stations.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
But not originally ...
The above is circa 1980, I think (near the end of its top-40 days). That would be consistent with Mike's recollection in post #4.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I thought I might answer the original question ...
Because the history cards were replaced by CDBS in the early 1980s. (The white card with the teeny tiny print at the end of the card sequence in the PDF explains this.)
Because the history cards were replaced by CDBS in the early 1980s. (The white card with the teeny tiny print at the end of the card sequence in the PDF explains this.)
But that's not what the question was.
The history cards for KECR indeed *end* in 1981, but they *begin* only in 1975.
Scrolling through, one of them is marked "duplicate card," and I surmise that the original cards must have gotten lost somewhere along the way. There's a note on one of them to add to the history cards "if found."
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Ah. I misinterpreted the question. Thanks, Scott.
So ... the mystery, it is solv-ed (as Inspector Clouseau would say).
So ... the mystery, it is solv-ed (as Inspector Clouseau would say).
Dale Bickel said once that if a station was relicensed, the old History Card was often discarded. This is true even if a new station took over the old physical facility. This is especially true of all the UHF TV stations who went off the air in the early days of UHF TV.
Indeed, the only way we can try to reconstruct the History is to go year by year and issue by issue of various sources in the worldradiohistory.com archives. Even then, the engineering details of AM stations are not available. I'm very curious about early AM Directional Data. I've gone so far as to take tower arrangement information from old USGS Quadrangles, and use a Coverage Map from the archives to reconstruct the phasing and field ratios, as best as I could.
Indeed, the only way we can try to reconstruct the History is to go year by year and issue by issue of various sources in the worldradiohistory.com archives. Even then, the engineering details of AM stations are not available. I'm very curious about early AM Directional Data. I've gone so far as to take tower arrangement information from old USGS Quadrangles, and use a Coverage Map from the archives to reconstruct the phasing and field ratios, as best as I could.
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El Cajon's 910 has to protect KOXR in Oxnard, and that big null runs right through Oceanside. When I was a kid, I spent a bunch of Summers in the Oceanside-Carlsbad area and wasn't even aware of KDEO. I listened to KCBQ and KGB...and once in a while KUDE (1320) at night when at times they played Top 40. Day times they were MOR.
You should add your research on early directional systems to WorldRadioHistory. I'd love to have that information.
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