KFBK-FM?(A History Question)

[travisl5678]

I was looking at some of David Eduardo's QSLs from California from 1959 and one from KFBK has a picture of a microphone that says on it: KFBK AM and FM, does ayone know what the FM was, http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive Cleveland/California Verification Optimized.pdf the KFBK QSL is on page 73

 

[DJBigOne]

My guess would be an AM/FM simulcast.

 

[travisl5678]

i meant what frequency, sorry

 

[RadioStarOne]

92.5 FM Classicial Music Format. I believe. Mr. Richards your being paged.

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

i meant what frequency, sorry

KFBK-FM started at 96.9 and later moved to 92.5

 

[BossRadioDJ]

As a medium-wave DX hound from way back, Mr. Eduardo's collection of QSLs is pure radio gold. This is simply page after page after page of amazing stuff from an era when the sport of QSL hunting was fun; unfortunately, in 2010, with every station playing the same canned cr@p, the sport is practically dead. Thanks, DFG, for putting this wonderful stuff out there for us geezers to enjoy.

My favorite: #44 from KRAK (1140 kc.), which had recently moved up the road from Stockton to Sacramento. The veri is signed by a secretary on behalf of KRAK chief engineer Robert D. LaRue.

 

[Madmansam]

I remember when KFBK-FM was Classical Music. in fact, they were Classical Music for awhile even after changing calls to KAER in 1979. Soon afterwards, they changed to Easy Listening aka Beautiful Music using the Bonneville service. Around 1982, KAER changed to Country Music but the change of KEWT-105.1 to Country a year later pretty much killed KAER's momentum. Around 1986, they switched to AC and a couple of years later changed calls to KGBY.

 

[DuckBlue]

In January 1965, I reported for duty at McClellan AFB as a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. At that time, KFBK-FM was simulcasting KFBK-AM. At night, they broadcast stereo music, one channel on the AM and the other channel on the FM. They started broadcasting classical music by the end of that year or early the next year. The station was automated on tape and the programming sounded like it came from a programming service. There was an amazing array of programs, all announced. The Sacramento Bee had a neat pull-out section each week that had a complete program menu for each day of the following week. Being a novice audiophile, I thought the audio quality was awful, but the variety of programs they had was impressive. They were still broadcasting the format when I was released from the AF in December 1967.