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KMET 94.7 1966-1968, KROQ 106.7 1974

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Hey Guys:

Thanks to Michael H, Iv'e been using billboard from google to do some more radio research. I have found alot of info I have been missing. THANKS MICHAEL!! I plan to share the info I found with you guys once I get my notes in order.

1.In some articles about KMET before becoming Progressive Rock they say it was MOR and standards and some articles say it was Easy Listening.

Can anybody tell me which format was right?

2. Would anybody know the exact date KROQ 106.7 went off the air in 1974? I couldn't find that anywhere.

Thanks

T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

Thanks to Michael H, Iv'e been using billboard from google to do some more radio research. I have found alot of info I have been missing. THANKS MICHAEL!! I plan to share the info I found with you guys once I get my notes in order.

1.In some articles about KMET before becoming Progressive Rock they say it was MOR and standards and some articles say it was Easy Listening.

Can anybody tell me which format was right?

2. Would anybody know the exact date KROQ 106.7 went off the air in 1974? I couldn't find that anywhere.

Thanks

T.J.
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T.J.:

MOR and Standards and Easy Listening were fairly interchangeable names for the same thing back in the 60s. By the 1970s, as MOR and Standards largely vanished, Easy Listening was associated with Beautiful Music.

As for KROQ, Billboard reported Shadoe Stevens' walkout in the June 15, 1974 issue. A trade ad for the new ZZ Top album includes KROQ among the stations playing it in the July 13, 1974 issue. As of the August 17, 1974 issue, Billboard was reporting a new jock (Sim Farar) joining the KROQ lineup.

The first mention of KROQ being off the air is in the September 28, 1974 issue.

So...that puts it somewhere in the six week span of August 17-September 28, 1974. I'd go with September.

It also undoes the popular wisdom that KROQ folded when Shadoe walked out. It took 90 days after that.
 
Los Angeles Times in an article on June 20, 1976 about KROQ's upcoming return said that on July 29, 1974 "both the AM and FM facilities went dark."
 
briancraig said:
Los Angeles Times in an article on June 20, 1976 about KROQ's upcoming return said that on July 29, 1974 "both the AM and FM facilities went dark."
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That's a pretty good source. Problem is, so's Billboard, which had weekly deadlines, was published in LA just like the Times and reported a new jock on KROQ in mid-August and didn't mention the station going dark until late September.

That doesn't mean it wasn't July 29...just that if it was, Billboard would have had to screw up twice...reporting a new jock on a dark station in their own city...and not mentioning going dark (a big deal in LA) for two months.

Working against taking the Times as Gospel is their specific date is part of a piece published two years later...so it's only as good as whoever their source was for that date.

The key would be to see if the Times actually did a story in 1974 on KROQ going dark and what date that was.

If the Times didn't cover it, Radio and Records, based in LA and published weekly like Billboard, was a lot more aggressive about its radio coverage than Billboard and probably did a story. Google Books has yet to digitize R&R. Anyone have back issues from '74?
 
The L.A. Times did a story about KROQ's problems on July 7, 1974, but I don't know if they did a story about the station going dark. Next time I go to the library, I'll check the microfilm.

I would trust Radio and Records in regards to dates over both Billboard and the L.A. Times.

Another source might be Broadcasting Magazine which usually can be found at most major libraries. The only place I know that has a complete run of R & R is the Country Music Foundation Library in Nashville. Although, I'm sure the Library of Congress and possibly others have back issues.

Also check out this google book search for KROQ July 1974 and see the FCC report that is 3rd from the top:

http://www.google.com/search?client...8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp
 
briancraig said:
The L.A. Times did a story about KROQ's problems on July 7, 1974, but I don't know if they did a story about the station going dark. Next time I go to the library, I'll check the microfilm.

I would trust Radio and Records in regards to dates over both Billboard and the L.A. Times.

Another source might be Broadcasting Magazine which usually can be found at most major libraries. The only place I know that has a complete run of R & R is the Country Music Foundation Library in Nashville. Although, I'm sure the Library of Congress and possibly others have back issues.

Also check out this google book search for KROQ July 1974 and see the FCC report that is 3rd from the top:

http://www.google.com/search?client...8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp
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I couldn't get anything on that link, but I'm working from my phone today.

I did an LA Times archive search. The July 7 article you mention was the last KROQ article of the year. They didn't cover the station going dark (which probably menas the 1976 article relied on an outside source's two-year-old memory for the date)...and the Times actually continued to show KROQ in its radio listings until the end of the year.

Interesting coincidence. In Jim Hilliker's history of KPPC at laradio.com, he shows July 29, 1974 as the date KPPC-AM left the Pasadena Presbyterian Chuch basement. KPPC-FM had become KROQ-FM the previous fall.
 
Re: Yo T.J.

T.J., you've stirred up a lot of nostalgia here. How about telling us a little bit about yourself? Where are you from? How old are you? What is all of this research for? Just curious. Thanks for coming by.
 
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