In the 1960s, did KFWB have accessible viewing windows for fans?
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KFWB Viewing Window
- Thread starter Donny-KUDU
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No. KFWB was located at 6419 Hollywood Blvd. in those days. The studios were not on the ground floor. There was no access for fans beyond the receptionist on the ground floor. The fans were not allowed to go upstairs to view the broadcasts.
When I was a weekend jock at KWIZ-FM/Santa Ana back in the day, our broadcast booth was at South Coast Plaza Village, a nice outdoor shopping center with small restaurants and specialty shops across the street from the giant South Coast Plaza mall. The booth had a big glass window so strolling shoppers could watch you spinning records, putting commercials into the cart machine, back announcing the songs just played, etc. It was great fun and the shoppers would often wave at you and smile. Also, as I recall, when I was working in downtown Los Angeles the old KIEV/Glendale had a broadcast booth at a downtown mall, the name of which escapes me. If you were over there on your lunch break you could catch the always entertaining (even if you didn't agree with his politics) George Putnam holding court. Finally, as to KFWB, their studios on Hollywood Blvd. had a wonderful art deco style neon sign with the call letters that overlooked the boulevard.
ARCO Plaza- in Downtown L.A.
I think that the green neons, calls and mikes are strewn about outside the transmitter shack for KFWB. They were used at Yucca too.
Anybody know if these antenna are still in use on top of the old Pacific theater? I stumbled across them while google mapping KFWB's site
As we can see, that space to the right of the Warner Bros. building is a vacant lot, but in its '' heyday'', KFWB was a major, major presence in L.A. broadcasting. I don't see it in the photo below, but they had one of the first ''time and temperature'' digital signs. It was very rudimentary, but they referred to it constantly as if it were absolutely space-age technology. -DarylAnybody know if these antenna are still in use on top of the old Pacific theater? I stumbled across them while google mapping KFWB's site
Way, way back in the day KFWB had a tiny (probably 5 ft X 5ft) remote studio the north end of what was then the Topanga Plaza in Canoga Park, I guessing it was near a Wallachs record store.
It was inside the Wallachs Music City in a corner of the store that had a window out to the mall. I recall going there when the mall opened around '64 and there was Sam Riddle in the booth on mic and an engineer playing the records and pushing buttons.
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