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KJUL (Warning! Persons under 50 need not read)

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kgbsamfm

I've been in radio 50 years. Been the whole route working the "farm system" in California until I reached the great L.A. market and enjoyed a wonderful stint at two stations there over a period of 20 years. Got my jollies as a fairly high profile personality and all the perks that go with working a major market until the corporate gargoyles took over the industry. Moved to Las Vegas 15 months ago and was sad to discover there wasn't a listenable station in town. That is until I started listening to KJUL 104.7 (ironic that I worked that frequency in Palm Springs with my best friend Russ O'Hara weekends for kicks and grins for a few years in the late 90s). My own personal tastes in music are fairly broad considering I grew up with and played rock-n-roll and country all my life, and I never thought I'd find a radio station I could listen to with any regularity in this day and age. I was wrong. In a sea of angry, white, rich male and female talk show hosts, who can't seem to find happiness anywhere with anything, KJUL is truly an oasis. My good friend Pete Moss (whom I've known and worked with since 1971) once said "radio has always been about companionship". At least the kind of radio we did and do. The music on KJUL is just good stuff. The personalties and voices are warm, friendly and really make you feel like you're there with them. If you're looking for someone to yell at you, tell you how to think and how they were the first to tell you something, or some cutesy-pie Seacrest-esque guy with no voice for radio and a bimbo to laugh at everything he says, you won't find it at KJUL. No hate spewing or ego vomiting here. Just good music and friendly folks sharing it with you. Oh, I know as a radio veteran you're supposed to criticize every little format flaw and critique every word in every set (especially when you're not currently working in the market), but when you're stuck in traffic, KJUL is really, at least for me, a soothing, calming and enjoyable radio station to have in the car. My own personal style is a bit more insane and off the wall, but I realized years ago, I couldn't be everything to everyone, so I found a niche in L.A. and filled it for a couple of decades. I have no idea if anyone at KJUL reads this board or even cares what critics think about their station (I hope they don't), but I just wanted to stop in here and say congratulations to the Gentry's (the family not the group) for hanging in there with a really good radio station. It just proves to me that what Bob Hudson and Bill Ballance told me years ago........if you give them a good product and stay consistent, you'll get listeners, make a little money and have fun doing it. Good show KJUL! I'll leave now and make room for some pissed off talk show host to shout me down.

Bob Morgan.
 
kgbsamfm said:
I've been in radio 50 years. Been the whole route working the "farm system" in California until I reached the great L.A. market and enjoyed a wonderful stint at two stations there over a period of 20 years. Got my jollies as a fairly high profile personality and all the perks that go with working a major market until the corporate gargoyles took over the industry. Moved to Las Vegas 15 months ago and was sad to discover there wasn't a listenable station in town. That is until I started listening to KJUL 104.7 (ironic that I worked that frequency in Palm Springs with my best friend Russ O'Hara weekends for kicks and grins for a few years in the late 90s). My own personal tastes in music are fairly broad considering I grew up with and played rock-n-roll and country all my life, and I never thought I'd find a radio station I could listen to with any regularity in this day and age. I was wrong. In a sea of angry, white, rich male and female talk show hosts, who can't seem to find happiness anywhere with anything, KJUL is truly an oasis. My good friend Pete Moss (whom I've known and worked with since 1971) once said "radio has always been about companionship". At least the kind of radio we did and do. The music on KJUL is just good stuff. The personalties and voices are warm, friendly and really make you feel like you're there with them. If you're looking for someone to yell at you, tell you how to think and how they were the first to tell you something, or some cutesy-pie Seacrest-esque guy with no voice for radio and a bimbo to laugh at everything he says, you won't find it at KJUL. No hate spewing or ego vomiting here. Just good music and friendly folks sharing it with you. Oh, I know as a radio veteran you're supposed to criticize every little format flaw and critique every word in every set (especially when you're not currently working in the market), but when you're stuck in traffic, KJUL is really, at least for me, a soothing, calming and enjoyable radio station to have in the car. My own personal style is a bit more insane and off the wall, but I realized years ago, I couldn't be everything to everyone, so I found a niche in L.A. and filled it for a couple of decades. I have no idea if anyone at KJUL reads this board or even cares what critics think about their station (I hope they don't), but I just wanted to stop in here and say congratulations to the Gentry's (the family not the group) for hanging in there with a really good radio station. It just proves to me that what Bob Hudson and Bill Ballance told me years ago........if you give them a good product and stay consistent, you'll get listeners, make a little money and have fun doing it. Good show KJUL! I'll leave now and make room for some pissed off talk show host to shout me down.

Bob Morgan.
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An excellent observation, Bob. KJUL is the kind of station that does not annoy you with "mindless ramblings" by jocks who have no idea how to conduct entertaining radio for the masses. Being a native SoCal who grew up listening to Dick Whittington, Dick Whittinghill, Robert W. Morgan, Dave Hull, Casey Kasem, etc., I miss that kind of radio nowadays. I think that people who are under the age of 50 SHOULD give KJUL a try, & listen to the difference! And just maybe, they will hear some GREAT MUSIC from years gone by that still sounds great!

MM
 
I am in Philly and I punch up K-Jewel on my computer here and can listen for hours. When I came out there in 2005, I immediately fell in love with the Jewel when it was on Beasley-run 104.3 (before the Coyote). The 104.7 version sounds better, IMO, with a larger selection of traditional big bands and crooners than the previous incarnation. All the "kids" in my training class thought I was an old fart (at 35, nonetheless), but I listened ad nauseum. And still do!
 
GREAT POINTS BY THE WAY YOU MENTIONED PETE MOSS WHERE IS HE I NOTICED HE DISAPPEARED FROM THE AM STATION IN SAN BERNARDINO
 
Gotta agree on KJUL...Didn't Scott Gentry run (PD) KENO in the late 70's... I think I worked weekends for him at KENO-FM ( " Position 92..Your Album Station ")... Gentry and Morgan certainly have pipes that you don't hear much in radio these days...it's the closest to the format we ran at KORK in the late 70's with Red McIlvaine, Walt Reno, Chuck Manning and myself...have fun with the listeners, play some tunes, entertain..Nowadays, it's 1 out of the 3 and we all know which one... and the quality of the songs (real singers, love songs that had little if any sex in them, and that forgotten part of a song- a melody ) was so much more "picture-painting" than song writers now...It is sad what radio has become, but corporations will do that...my only gripe with KJUL is that they have a lousy signal up here in Aliente...will that change?
 
Pete's still here in town involved in some projects that keep him busy. A great friend and a real radio pro. I have enjoyed knowing and working with him since we first met. We had a lot of laughs when we worked nights back at KGBS. Wonderful memories. As for KJUL, it's my understanding their transmitter is up in Moapa, about 40 miles or so north of Las Vegas. When I drive up to St. George on occasion, I notice there are 3 sizeable towers, 2 on the east side and one on the west side of the freeway. Don't know which one is theirs. All I know is they're making good use of their station. It just proves to me there are still some independent owner/operators in this country that continue to respect the people that put food on their tables................THE LISTENER!
 
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