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Ksjx 1500 am

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Does anyone here remember when KSJX aired a Heavy Metal format (early '90s)? Mu question, what years did that format run?
 
KSJX "X Rock 1500"

KSJX ran a Hard Rock/Heavy Metal format from April 1990 through about May 1991. The station had the nickname of "X Rock 1500" and was fully automated. It was KSJO's sister station. During the daylight hours it played Mainstream Hard Rock like Trixter. At night, one was treated to bands like Suicidal Tendencies. I think the station changed format after it was sold to a foreign language broadcaster who started a Vietnamese Language format on the frequency.
 
MarioMania said:
I think at the time 1500 simulcast with KSJO 92.3
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It wasn't a simulcast. It was an automated hard-rock format called "X-rock". I remember it, and they had a button on my car radio at the time. But I couldn't remember the years - which is why I didn't respond to the 1st post. I do recall that it had some really bad audio (apologies to the engineer who might have been there & is now reading this - no offense intended). I had an equalizer in my car at the time and the high end had to be all the way up to make it even bearable.

I remember it didn't last very long, and it could easily have been that they were just using it as a stunt. Hence no desire to invest in any kind of quality audio processing or transmission gear.

Dave B.
 
There also was a satellite hard rock format called "Z-Rock." Some AM stations that were co-owned with Rock FM stations used it. 1480 WZRC New York was co-owned with 92.3 WXRK, which had Howard Stern in the morning and Classic Rock the rest of the day, took an underperforming Tropical AM station and put Z-Rock on it. One of Stern's staff, Stuttering John Melendez, did some shows for the AM. Otherwise, they ran the DJs and music from the satellite service.

I guess they were hoping young men who found FM Rock formats too tame would opt for the harder 1480 AM. It didn't run too long in NYC but I understand in some medium and small markets, it ran for several years.
 
Gregg. said:
There also was a satellite hard rock format called "Z-Rock." Some AM stations that were co-owned with Rock FM stations used it. 1480 WZRC New York was co-owned with 92.3 WXRK, which had Howard Stern in the morning and Classic Rock the rest of the day, took an underperforming Tropical AM station and put Z-Rock on it. One of Stern's staff, Stuttering John Melendez, did some shows for the AM. Otherwise, they ran the DJs and music from the satellite service.

I guess they were hoping young men who found FM Rock formats too tame would opt for the harder 1480 AM. It didn't run too long in NYC but I understand in some medium and small markets, it ran for several years.
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After Lee Abrams took over Z-Rock late in 1990, his vision was to make the format more appealing to FM, which meant watering down the format. IIRC WZRC only lasted until about 1992 or so.
 
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