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Hi Lisa--I was a KLOS veteran myself in the mid 60's working the graveyard shift sat nights when they were still at 1450; we did a call in "what are you doing" segment where folks would call in from Vips or wherevr they were cruising around. George Oliver was the head honcho back then (owner) & it was owned by B&M Broadcasting, E. Boyd Whitney & D. K. MacGregor who I never saw; but George had someone inside Capitol Records when the Beatles first came to the US and got a bootleg tape of "8 Days a Week" and "Words of Love" smuggled out in a tin 8mm movie can; reel to reel tape; played with a stinger mid way thru it (Frank Cody doing a backwards cue of a record 3 times & saying "exclusive on KLOS") to keep the people at KQ or anyone else from stealing it. Joe Clayton of KQ was KLOS's Jay Clay and was on both stations during the same time period. Tom Barsanti had an R&B show saturday mornings from 9 to 12 that was a first in Albuq and was fabulous. It seems that the station went down hill once the frequency was sold to KRZY and they switched to the 1kw 1580; 4x the power but daytime only. They went broke finally in the mid 60's and the Deme family bought the frequency out of bankruptcy and made a success of KZIA.
Tom Rutherford, as in state senator Rutherford, worked there before moving over to KDEF when they came back on the air after bankruptcy in the 60's; he was Tom Page as I recall. I wound up with the world's worst shift because I had made a deal with Johnny "Appleseed" the PD & station mgr to sell some advertising in exchange for a job; it was a lot of fun even if no one was listening. One other personality I remember was Jerry McDaniel who went on to be a newscaster on channel 13; it was a great station but totally low budget. The "remote" broadcasts done from the KIMO theater from time to time were done with a long mic extension cord!
thanks for the walk down memory lane....
Tom Rutherford, as in state senator Rutherford, worked there before moving over to KDEF when they came back on the air after bankruptcy in the 60's; he was Tom Page as I recall. I wound up with the world's worst shift because I had made a deal with Johnny "Appleseed" the PD & station mgr to sell some advertising in exchange for a job; it was a lot of fun even if no one was listening. One other personality I remember was Jerry McDaniel who went on to be a newscaster on channel 13; it was a great station but totally low budget. The "remote" broadcasts done from the KIMO theater from time to time were done with a long mic extension cord!
thanks for the walk down memory lane....
