Good info. Just a reminder that the PDs got fired over the individual books. Comparing quarterly books year over year, usually.
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As the old adage went, "A GM is allowed two bad PDs, a PD is allowed two bad books..."
That brings up the question of when stations and agencies started looking at multi-book averages instead of giving biblical credibility to single books. Was it at the agency level, or at the radio side that averages started to be favored.
And a record promoter is allowed an infinite number of stiffs...
My recollection is that it was pretty much book by book in the 60s and early 70s. We started to look more at year-over-year (spring this year vs spring last; summer this year vs summer last, etc.) beginning in the mid 70s.
Things were nowhere near as stable. Two books in the 70s in a volatile market like San Diego could kill a station.
Important to remember, too, that music and jock changes had to be based on more current data than a yearly average. By the time you figured that out in the days before music research and when your jock was opening the mic every three minutes for three or four hours a shot six days a week, it was too late.
I remember NINE towers, with the additional set of three belonging to 960 AM. Did one set of towers get demolished recently? I know a different thread discussed 1310's CP to move slightly inland, so they can diplex with 1510. Have 1310's toll plaza sticks been removed?
Obviously, I do too good a job keeping my eyes on the road. I’ll be there in two and a half weeks.
Which brings up a question. In the mid to late 90's if memory serves I used to listen to a San Diego station that used "The Planet" as its brand. Do you recall what happened to it?
It became a talk station “Free FM”, in 2005. That lasted a couple of years. That was followed by a Modern AC for five years and then dance music for another five. In 2017, there was a frequency swap and it’s been Country KSON since then.
WOW! Couldn't find a home, eh?
The longest that frequency has kept a set of call letters is 13 years, and even with that, it morphed midway through from Beautiful Music to AC.
They managed to get nine years out of "The Planet", up against KGB-FM the entire time. They grabbed Howard Stern for mornings, and then when Stern bolted for satellite, they joined the lemmings doing the "Free FM" hot talk thing.
They didn't have much choice. They were owned by CBS, and that was a corporate thing. At least they got Adam Carolla, and not David Lee Roth.
Yeah, I had forgotten that KPLN was AMFM (the ownership group), that Clear Channel swallowed them but had to spin stations off back in 2000, which got them into Infinity's hands.
I missed something. Who is JD?
"Boss Soul Radio, Lucky 13," actually, according to various pieces of paper I have on file here.
KDIA Boss Soul Radio - Lucky 13 Music Survey (May 20, 1966) | Bay Area
KDIA Boss Soul Radio, Oakland Lucky 13 Survey Week Ending May 20, 1966 Percy Sledge continues to hold off the
bayarearadio.org
Sidebar: I used to hang out here on RadioDiscussions.com a lot ... actually, an awful lot, and then I got busy with other things and didn't stop by that often, and then rarely at all.
I just sat and read every post in this topic and enjoyed every minute of it. When there ain't enough "new stuff" happening in radio to talk about, it's fun (at least for me) to read about "old stuff," especially when I learn new details about things I knew only by osmosis.
Great thread. I'm sure Verne will be by in a minute to remind everyone that I'm a wannabe who never worked in radio and I have a fake radio museum and that he's just one of 86 jocks who used the name "Chris Edwards" on the air...
Good times.
D.J.
I just sat and read every post in this topic and enjoyed every minute of it. When there ain't enough "new stuff" happening in radio to talk about, it's fun (at least for me) to read about "old stuff," especially when I learn new details about things I knew only by osmosis.
Great thread. I'm sure Verne will be by in a minute to remind everyone that I'm a wannabe who never worked in radio and I have a fake radio museum and that he's just one of 86 jocks who used the name "Chris Edwards" on the air...
Good times.
D.J.
It's good to have you back. Verne only shows up under an assumed name on the Fresno and Monterey boards.
Just remembered I think for a short while KDIA (1310) Oakland actually called itself "K-DAY" about the time KDAY Santa Monica changed its format to R & B.
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