As I mentioned in a previous post KUTY is now di-plexing off of 1380 at greatly reduced power.
Also, the Lancaster Fairgrounds, I believe, have been called "the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds" since at least the late 80s.
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KUTY. What format did it have.
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Also, the Lancaster Fairgrounds, I believe, have been called "the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds" since at least the late 80s.
When I was looking for my first radio job in1973, KUTY was one of the stations I stopped in with a tape. PD wasn't around; receptionist took it and let me hang out with the midday DJ in the studio. The place was pretty much a dump. The jock told me that if it were him, he'd skip KUTY and be looking elsewhere..so I did.
KUTY was Top 40 in the 60's and 70's. KUTY was one of Jay Stevens/Steve Jay's early radio stops in 1963.
KUTY was Top 40 in the 60's and 70's. KUTY was one of Jay Stevens/Steve Jay's early radio stops in 1963.
Out of curiosity, where did you land for the first gig?
Don Imus as well, I think.
And Billy Pearl. Covered that on page one.
Well, Palmdale and Lancaster at the time had a combined population of probably around 45 or 50,000, so I'm sure the local stations were pretty primitive.
One of the nicest studios I ever worked in was in Ukiah---population at the time 10,000. All depended on ownership.
Almost 100%!
The stations were not primitive, but the jingles were...
Jingles were expensive. The only market I ever worked in my first time around where the GM would buy a decent package was San Luis Obispo---but they were also five or six years old.
PAMS would probably be out of the question... and so would the Johnny Mann singers!
Yeah. I don't know who did KSLY's. Like I said, decent, but old. KIBS in Bishop had ancient Pepper-Tanners and KUKI in Ukiah had none at all.
When I got to KOLO in Reno, it was a mish-mash of stuff---newest was probably eight years old, and some of it, including a re-sing of KSFO's "Sound of the City" (the "Sound of the Sierra") was from the early-mid 60s.
I almost got the GM to sign off on JAM's "I'd Rather Be in...." package in 1979. Got them to take the price down to two grand. He acted like he was going to do it for a couple of weeks, then weaseled.
Such as the stations of the Paul Bunyan net in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Well equipped and in nice buildings, but very small towns.
I've worked in stations that people living in the world's worst slums would come in, look around, and say "What a dump!"
[and if you want to read about the world's worst slum; Dharavi - Wikipedia ]
[and if you want to read about the world's worst slum; Dharavi - Wikipedia ]
Nah. The "suburbios" of Guayaquil in Ecuador are worse, particularly the parts over the Estero Salado, the tidal flats that have homes on stilts no running water and only stolen electricity. Sewers drain into the flats, where tides tend to occasionally cleanse the near swamp-like land when they came in high enough.
I had a transmitter site on the edge of one of those areas, and it had to be guarded 24/7 with very big and mean armed thugs.
I've seen slums in Lima ("pueblos nuevos") in my work with the Catholic Church there, and been to plenty of similar places in Mexico City (went several times with the ratings interviewers) and in El Alto, the massive slum with over a million people overlooking La Paz at 13,000 feet AMSL. El Alto - Wikipedia
Nothing, though, is more disconcerting and troubling than the slums of Guayaquil. And today, they are the center of Ecuador's nearly 4,500 murders a year of which less than 300 are ever cause for arrests.
Holy crap!
Robert Douglas
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Its a long way from Palmdale's KUTY1470, buy I'd love to hear more about your experience in Ecuador - and especially why you had to leave so suddenly. I read the story somewhere about your 570 station in Quito where you found the transmitter in what sounded like a pawnshop! Cuenca has been one of my top targets for a retirement destination.
My first station was HRCM1 (nobody used calls though... it was not legal to use them to ID on the air), Radio Musical which went on the air from a brand new CP on 570 AM in Quito in 1964. We had a transmitter built by the former chief design engineer of Telefunken from Europe who fled that country when Hitler started exterminating his fellow Jews. It was all brand new, with the first cart machines in the country, the first Audimax 7 Volumax, PAMS jingles done in Mexico and just incredible jocks. Horvath did the transmitter site, I did the studios.
It billed nothing for 7 months as it was South America's first Top 40 station and "nobody will like that here". That was until the first ratings showed it to be #1 in the core sales demo, and we were sold out, 24/7, in 30 days.
The transmitter story was the opposite. One of the stations I later bought was a pile of trash about 50 miles outside of Quito and it had a 250 watt home-made transmitter on AM and a twin on short wave. We tossed both in a gully that was used for trash disposal long before recycling was a thing. We rebuilt it with another transmitter from Al Horvath in a beautiful location just south of the city in a natural wetland.
More of the story at David Gleason in Ecuador 1964 to 1970
Robert Douglas
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Thanks. What an amazing career you've had. The things you did at 20 make me sad to think that at that age I was still stringing up a long wire antenna for a pirate station in Pasadena.
KDES Palm Springs later in 1973. MUCH nicer facility than KUTY at that time. Although $1.65 an hour for weekends was probably what KUTY would have paid (minimum wage in 1973).
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