KSTL 690 AM

[JohnnyOhJohnny]

I would like to know why there is no history of KSTL 690 before 1994? The internet says first air date 1994? I listened to KSTL as a child throughout the 1960's and they were always Religious. their studio's were below the Eads Bridge in a little shack with big letters on the lawn K S T L ??? ??? ??? ???

 

[briancraig]

Wasn't KSTL mainly country until the late 1970s?

 

[radiorob2.0]

They were still playing country in November 1981

http://las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys_item.php?svid=1434

The paper survey looks like a template from 1965.

 

[JohnnyOhJohnny]

maybe they changed format in the 70's. I left St. Louis in 1966. before that they always had screaming preachers. lol

 

[spiritof67]

From my memory, KSTL had a country format in the 1970's, but was probably brokered with paid religion. One of the DJ's I remember on KSTL was Skeets Yaney, who earlier was a performer and later went to KMOX.

In 1979, as a result of Doubleday's purchase of paid religion-formatted WGNU-FM (becoming WWWK/KWK-FM now WARH), some of the brokered-religious shows moved to stations like WCBW (104.9), and KSTL. Another program that moved to KSTL was "Sylvia," who had a German-pop show that aired on both WGNU AM and FM. Programs like Sylvia added more brokered ethnic shows to KSTL, along with paid religion. This kind of programming continued until Crawford purchased KXOK and KSTL in 1994. With that purchase, KSTL gained a low-powered night signal, and a shift to a black-gospel format.