KLAN Lemoore, Ca Info Needed

[ki6bkj]

Wow, Binkyboy...you just dissolved a few calcified dendrites. I was pretty short when KLAN was playing up all the Johnny and Judy songs (as we called them), and it was the "it" station in Lindsay where I was at the time (Sharkstooth Capital of the World and Gateway to Strathmore). Later in life I would tell unbelieving radio brains about the call letters of my childhood. How on earth could station calls be so racist?...it ranked right up there with the KRAP's and K---'s and K---'s of the industry call-wise. Now all these millenia later I learn that it was a Scottish thing!

But further info I have not as I was all of 6 or 7 at the time I was giving them my TSL, except their jingles spelled the calls, as I recalls, so...(sung to the tune of "K-F-R-C!"): "K-L-A-N!", and rarely otherwise.

Koad Never was at 1320 always on 1240 It was licenced in 1962 and started out to be a country station at that time KNGS was top-40

 

[ki6bkj]

Before anybody jumps on me, I have to make some corrections. I don't think my information is entirely correct. It was partly based on information I remembered reading once on the Catholic radio website which says : KJOP Immaculate Heart Radio 1240 AM Lemoore (1,000 watts day, 250 watts night). Format: EWTN 24 hrs. Immaculate Heart Radio. Hanford, CA 93230. Tel.: (559) 582-5567. See Reno, Nevada. On air December 23, 1963 as KLAN 1320 AM (1,000 watts daytime). Moved to 1240 AM when KRDU in nearby Dinuba moved from 1240 AM to 1130 AM. Started Catholic programming on August 20, 2000. (In the Diocese of Fresno).

The fact is KRDU moved to 1240 around 1958, which was before KLAN was ever on the air. KOAD in Armona (near Hanford and Lemoore) was the station on 1240 in the mid 1960's. KLAN does appear to have started out with 1KW, although it has been reported elsewhere that it was 500 Watts, and I confused it with the 250 watts that was what KOAD was running. At some point the KLAN call letters changed to KQIQ, and it may have gone off the air around 1992 while it was still on 1320KHz. Can anybody shed any light on this? Does KJOP really have any connection to KLAN? Did KJOP just take over the abandonded KOAD 1240 frequency? Is the Catholic church playing fast and loose with the facts?

Koad Was Sold To John And Opehila Pembroke Around 1980 Hence the call KJOP stood for King John and Opehilia Pembroke they had the Station For a few years I wqas one of the DJ's Kjop/Koad was always ionthe frequency of 1240 and did not change with KRDU or any other station

 

[ki6bkj]

Before anybody jumps on me, I have to make some corrections. I don't think my information is entirely correct. It was partly based on information I remembered reading once on the Catholic radio website which says : KJOP Immaculate Heart Radio 1240 AM Lemoore (1,000 watts day, 250 watts night). Format: EWTN 24 hrs. Immaculate Heart Radio. Hanford, CA 93230. Tel.: (559) 582-5567. See Reno, Nevada. On air December 23, 1963 as KLAN 1320 AM (1,000 watts daytime). Moved to 1240 AM when KRDU in nearby Dinuba moved from 1240 AM to 1130 AM. Started Catholic programming on August 20, 2000. (In the Diocese of Fresno). The Catholic Church Has their facts Wrong

The fact is KRDU moved to 1240 around 1958, which was before KLAN was ever on the air. KOAD in Armona (near Hanford and Lemoore) was the station on 1240 in the mid 1960's. KLAN does appear to have started out with 1KW, although it has been reported elsewhere that it was 500 Watts, and I confused it with the 250 watts that was what KOAD was running. At some point the KLAN call letters changed to KQIQ, and it may have gone off the air around 1992 while it was still on 1320KHz. Can anybody shed any light on this? Does KJOP really have any connection to KLAN? Did KJOP just take over the abandonded KOAD 1240 frequency? Is the Catholic church playing fast and loose with the facts?

Koad Was Sold To John And Opehila Pembroke Around 1980 Hence the call KJOP stood for King John and Opehilia Pembroke they had the Station For a few years I wqas one of the DJ's Kjop/Koad was always ionthe frequency of 1240 and did not change with KRDU or any other station

 

[Scottman]

Hello,

I just joined this site a few minutes ago - hadn't known about it. Though the last post on this thread is over a year old, I found it interesting since I grew up in Visalia and was on the fringes of all this radio stuff, so I thought I'd tack on a post to see if anything happens.

As an adolescent, I was totally crazy about radio (but I finally took the cure), listening to KONG, KYNO, KCOK, KBOS, KLAN. KGEN, KNGS, KAFY, KCHJ, the list goes on. A couple of high school friends and I would visit various stations in the evenings and, oddly, they'd let us hang out with them. (Paul Fredericks at KCOK, Bill Stevens at KYNO, etc.) In 1968 I wound up working at KONG AM 1400/FM 92.9 for a couple years. Took over the Nightbeat thing from Brad Fergon, who took over from Mike Herron. I was pretty terrible.

Obviously, I still have a nostalgic fascination with it or I wouldn't be here posting. I wish I'd taken some photos of the old KONG building (inside and out) there on the corner of Mooney and Walnut in Visalia before we moved over by the court house on Main (rather than having lame air checks). If anyone's got photos, I'd love to see 'em!

Scott Morrison

 

[Roachley]

Hi ho hopeless radio enthusiasts!

Check this link to see how things were listed way back then.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/
Under the Radio History Home (tab)

Jones List
An annual publication that covered Radio & TV facilities info on an annual basis.

Yea, radio in the 60's/70's was cool, in a way it's too bad things became too high tech.

 

[valleyguy]

For all these posts, very little has been said . I am now jumping in here to take this to semi Modern times
I know something about KQIQ. I jocked there and became PD in 1979. We were always told the FM was just around the corner, yea right. We were doing a late 70's styled Top 40 format with a fairly large playlist.
I hadn't been called KLAN in years so quit referring to it as KLAN or KOAD. KOAD was a few miles away, with their R&B format at the time. The owner was some kind of freaky dude with Hollywood connections. I discoverd that the fruit cake planned to automate the station so I spilled the beans on the air. I had already lined up a new gig. Met some interesting women in that town. Most of my buds and myself went on to major markets. But the Double Q was a fun little station in that stanky desert/farm town.

If you were the PD then I probably worked for you. The owners sold in Sept of 80 they were Kerry Edward Burke (who's aunt was the Good which in the Wizard of Oz.) Kerry owned 50%(and yes he was gay). The other owner was Bruce Johansson 50%. The sold to Lemoore wireless for $400,000. Brian Fernee and Roger Ridall and some other partners.The FM had a CP but was not on the air. It did go live until about 1985. The FM was moved to Tipton and I think the AM is available.

Kerry (Not Burke)
http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1980/1980-09-08-BC.pdf page 49

 

[semoochie]

I went to college with a kid from Bakersfield and he told me a rather gruesome story about the owner of a radio station, who would end each broadcast by saying "Drive carefully, won't you?" At some point, his was killed in a terrible automobile accident and the station continued to run his old programs, including those final words. It seems to me that the station was in Lemoore.

 

[stewie]

I went to college with a kid from Bakersfield and he told me a rather gruesome story about the owner of a radio station, who would end each broadcast by saying "Drive carefully, won't you?" At some point, his was killed in a terrible automobile accident and the station continued to run his old programs, including those final words. It seems to me that the station was in Lemoore.

Holy cow, you guys brought this thread back from the dead. It's been quiet for nearly 5 years.