KLAY 1480 TO 1180

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

Can anybody tell me if I am right on this:

KLAY (talk) went from 1480 to 1180 on May 1, 1990. Then 1480 went back on air as KDFL talk format in May 2 , 1990? It also shared time with KTGN 1480? Format ?

Thanks
T.J.

 

[dialtwister]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLAY

..wonder if the 'ever-so-talented' BRUCE BOND is still with them?...

 

[QZVX]

KDFL was on 1560, not 1480. This was way back in the 7os. 1480 started as KFHA in the 50s (?) KOOD in the 60s, went dark and was purchased by Clay Huntington for KLAY [for a short time the call letters KQLA were were used] Fill in the blanks and make corrections by either checking News Tribune archives or ask Clay Huntington himself, at KLAY Lakewood.

 

[Bongwater]

KDFL was on 1560, not 1480. This was way back in the 7os. 1480 started as KFHA in the 50s (?) KOOD in the 60s, went dark and was purchased by Clay Huntington for KLAY [for a short time the call letters KQLA were were used] Fill in the blanks and make corrections by either checking News Tribune archives or ask Clay Huntington himself, at KLAY Lakewood.

106.1 was originally KLAY-FM, One of the first AORs in Puget Sound (along with KOL-FM), both stations would adopt country formats in the '70s. I think Steve Slaton worked for both of them early in his career......

 

[BurntOutRadio]

I listened to KLAY-FM for awhile and I do remember Steve Slayton on there. I also remember something about him getting busted for smoking the bad weed at the station.

 

[TexasTom]

106.1 KLAY(FM) became country KRPM in either 1978 or 1979.

Before that, it was one of the strangest album rock stations I've ever heard -- I once remember hearing the full 15 minute version of Santa Esmerelda's disco remake of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" on KLAY(FM).

On another occasion, they ran David Bowie's "A Space Oddity" into a comedy skit about the first man on Mars using the historic moment to go on a political rant heard around the world -- the skit ended with the president ordering the guy's oxygen cut off. And with that, KLAY-FM segued into "Love is Like Oxygen" by Sweet.

This would have been within a year or so before the station flipped to country -- and, obviously, things were much looser at KLAY(FM) than they were at KISW(FM) or KZOK(FM) in Seattle during the same period.

It was interesting listening because it was really and truly unpredictable -- something that was rare on radio by the late seventies, and which is completely nonexistent today.