I first started listening to KFBK back in 1986. At that time the station was affiliated with both ABC and NBC. They aired ABC News at the top of the hour (although I do recall several times where NBC News came on, apparently by mistake). In 1987 or '88, the station completely dropped ABC and went solely with NBC. After a while KFBK completely dropped NBC, and went solely with ABC. Why was ABC dropped during this period and then why was it brought back?
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KFBK Question
- Thread starter Joe Rouse
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Oldjock56
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Joe,
Clear Channel has a number a agreements with Fox News.
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Clear Channel has a number a agreements with Fox News.
One of them was that it's stations that carry network
news would carry Fox.
Newsperson responds:
I remember listening to 1530 KFBK in the 1975 to 1979 era. As far as I remember it was still owned by McClatchy Newspapers then. If an affiliation for 2-networks were available you could run both.
If the change your talking about was in the 80s then that could have been KGNR taking one netwrok and dropping another.
Looking at your post again I think it was a business deal and perception by the station that one network was better than the other at each time. Remember NBC had the TV personalties anchor at least one newscast a day as well as other features. Once it was sold to Westwoood One that changed. So at one time NBC was the better network.
Newsperson
I remember listening to 1530 KFBK in the 1975 to 1979 era. As far as I remember it was still owned by McClatchy Newspapers then. If an affiliation for 2-networks were available you could run both.
If the change your talking about was in the 80s then that could have been KGNR taking one netwrok and dropping another.
Looking at your post again I think it was a business deal and perception by the station that one network was better than the other at each time. Remember NBC had the TV personalties anchor at least one newscast a day as well as other features. Once it was sold to Westwoood One that changed. So at one time NBC was the better network.
Newsperson
newsperson said:
Funny ... I was just listening to a "new" recording I received of KFBK signing on for the day on Sunday, Nov. 11, 1973, at 5 AM.
At the time, the station was owned by McClatchy, operated 20 hours a day, had a variety/music format, and was a CBS Radio affiliate.
If you've got Real Player (or a clone), listen in at:
http://www.sfradiomuseum.com/audio/schneider/KFBK_1973-11-11_Sign-On.ram
I've actually got a ton of great old Sacramento radio recordings. Anybody interested in working on an online radio museum focusing on Sacramento, and perhaps Stockton, Lodi... etc.?
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