KDKA changes

[pfa]

Fred Honzburgler returns to KD tomorrow, according to pghnow.cpm. 'Bout time. His replacements have been lousy...

 

[MarkLaRoi]

Bring back Gary Dickson. That would be a good start at local programming.

Gary is back! He's here at 101.5 WORD FM. This week you'll be able to hear him covering mornings for Kenny Woods, but mostly he's our OM/PD.Good guy!

 

[Biz Listener]

6------Chuck Daugherty
9------Breakfast Club
10------Henry DaBecco
1-------Roy Elwell
3-------Jim McLaughlin
6:30----ABC News
7:15----Roy Elwell
9-------Dave Scott
12-------Lee Vogel

That was the origional line-up at KQV

Anything else?

Yeah. Didn't KQV start back in the 1920's? I mean, I thought it was almost as old as KDKA, which is why it got to keep the "K" call letters when all of the other stations east of the Mississippi had to have a "W". So are you telling us that those guys were the original line-up on KQV? That would have made them really, really old by the 1960's.

And how did they have ABC news in the 1920's? ABC was formed when NBC wasn't allowed to keep both the Red and Blue networks, and so one of them became ABC in the late 40's.

 

[Pratte4Life]

Biz- we all luv ya- but c'mon, talk about picky.

Heck, if I wanted to, I could tell you KQV actually PREDATES KDKA (1919 to 1920).

 

[Biz Listener]

Biz- we all luv ya- but c'mon, talk about picky.

Heck, if I wanted to, I could tell you KQV actually PREDATES KDKA (1919 to 1920).

I was going to mention that KQV was on the air as W8ZAE before KDKA, as were several other stations. KDKA's claim to being first was based on some sort of loophole about being first to apply for a license or something. But I didn't know the details and was afraid I might get them wrong.

I was just trying to make a point that radio didn't begin with the invention of Top-40. It had been around for a long time before that. So calling any batch of disc jockeys from the 1950's or 1960's the "original" line-up is just silly. So I figured instead of just saying "That's silly", I thought I'd respond with a silly response to demonstrate how silly calling a bunch of disc jockeys from several decades after the station started "original" was.

 

[fryman]

Henry D also used to introduce "The Kingpin Nick Perry on Bowling For Dollars.

 

[johnsummers]

BTW, anyone who knows Clarke Ingram, or has worked with him knows that he's one of the best radio people in the biz....in any format or any era.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Of course the Funlovin 5 +1 was not the "origional" line-up on KQV. I thought I meant that TOP 40 gave radio a new lease on life after TV entered many homes and it seemed radio was obsolete. Those guys I listed were the origional line-up at KQV when it switched to TOP 40. Obviously BIZ LIstener could give us the origional TOP 40 line-ups on WQXI, WPLO, and WAKE.