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KYNO Bringing Back "The Boss"
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sounds automated to memofocat said:The original KYNO@1300 is/was 5kw/1kw (day/night) that's now KWRU- Spanish lang.FresnoDave said:
The new KYNO@1430 is 5kw full time and is heard roughly from Visalia to Merced on 99. Pretty much the same coverage as the old 1300- but a bit better at night with the higher power.
FYI- Boss Radio evolved out of "The Battle of Fresno", which was KYNO vs. upstart KMAK (K/MAKe) - 1962-1964. The competitive shenanigans that went on are legend. Giving away Corvettes and $1000 "Treasure Hunts"- (that in todays $ would be like $10,000). Non-stop phone-in contest give aways. The over-the top publicity stunts and give-a-ways were non stop. In '65 the management of the two stations joined forces in LA and created Boss Radio on KHJ/930 AM, blowing out all competitors, KRLA and KFWB, among others. KYNO was the 'farm club'/training grounds station where Boss Jocks polished their schtick before moving to one of the major market stations from coast to coast that contracted with the Drake/Chanault consultancy team. Drake and Chanault were the KYNO team that eventually won the K/MAKe/KYNO war but it was Ron Jacobs, the gonzo K/MAKe PD from Hawaii that joined them and became program director of KHJ. Within a year Boss Radio dominated pretty much every market where it was launched, in every corner of the country. Google "Boss Radio", "Drake/Chanault", anf Ron Jacobs, for tons of info and air checks. Ron Jacobs is still active on line with a blog from his home in Hawaii- his online moniker is 'whodaguy' Currently, Jacobs has just put his book about KHJ and Boss Radio into digital downloadable format and it's avai;able at his whodaguy blog site.
Boss Radio KHJ, for some years now, has been an AM station on the Island of Guam - of all places - lol
Let's hope the new KYNO has "Million Dollar Weekends"
ExKynoJox said:
Yes the processing needs to be bumped -
in the 6pm hour I heard the most lame segway I think I've ever heard - "House Of The Rising Sun" followed by ..... The Fleetwoods, "Come Softly To Me" WTF?
soft launch? Let's hope- lol so far it is....... hmm .... a little limp and soft :O
Ohhh This afternoon I heard "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" How loong IS that intro ? 90 seconds?? I don't know, but it sure needed SOMEBODY to be talking it up!
It needs some Top 40 weight DJ's and a good play list.
Any webpage or stream yet?
That's better. The levels are more consistent. (Sounds like another 3dB)
I'd adjust the que points on the jingles/sweepers... Make 'em a little tighter.
Didn't hear any 50's today, this morning & afternoon. Maybe I missed them?
But the "Who - Teenage Wasteland"? That sounds like a nighttime album cut, from when John was working at KCEY in '72. Don't remember that as a hit, Album cut yes!
Sounds like an improvement. A few more Bill Drake liners would be fitting, as a tribute.
Rock on "KYNO", it's good to be "The Boss"!
I'd adjust the que points on the jingles/sweepers... Make 'em a little tighter.
Didn't hear any 50's today, this morning & afternoon. Maybe I missed them?
But the "Who - Teenage Wasteland"? That sounds like a nighttime album cut, from when John was working at KCEY in '72. Don't remember that as a hit, Album cut yes!
Sounds like an improvement. A few more Bill Drake liners would be fitting, as a tribute.
Rock on "KYNO", it's good to be "The Boss"!
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They added Charlie Tuna in the mornings, I remember KYAF 94.7 using his shows on the weekends, I haven't heard that station for a long while.
Did Charlie Tuna ever really work there ever?
RadioStarOne said:
No. Charlie went to KHJ from WMEX, Boston.
Very few of the KYNO guys ever got to KHJ during the Drake years. Gary Mack (one of the original KHJ Boss Jocks) and Pete McNeal (1970-72) are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head, plus newsman Bob Lee. Big John Carter and Bob Anthony got to KHJ in the late 70s, after Drake and several gigs in between Fresno and L.A.
More often, KYNO jocks went to KGB, San Diego (Harry Scarborough, Eric Chase, Johnny Scott...who became Bobby Ocean, Les Turpin)......or KFRC, San Francisco (Dale Dorman, Mike Novak).
True, the original is best, but I heard a lotta KYNO in my day, and most of the time they seemed more plastic than KHJ (and much of the time KFRC seemed less so.)
Being 13 when KHJ went "boss," I found it fascinating. It was obvious they were using some of the same elements as KGB and KYNO, including the original 20/20 news sounder.
One thing wasn't common to them all: the jingles were different on KHJ.
KGB and KYNO changed their jingles to match in July 1965.
Being 13 when KHJ went "boss," I found it fascinating. It was obvious they were using some of the same elements as KGB and KYNO, including the original 20/20 news sounder.
One thing wasn't common to them all: the jingles were different on KHJ.
KGB and KYNO changed their jingles to match in July 1965.
multiplex said:
Worth remembering that Fresno was a much smaller market, Drake's involvement was a matter of circumstance, and that many if not most KYNO jocks were on their second or third jobs in radio.
Drake used KYNO as a place to polish off rough edges of smaller-market jocks, but as as I noted above, only a handful were deemed good enough to move on to KGB, much less KFRC or KHJ.
KFRC was frequently less plastic than KHJ. I think a lot of it can be chalked up to the San Francisco versus L.A. dynamic of the time. I think KSFO was usually more real than KMPC.
Hi Michael,
I can't recall whether Gary Mack was on KGB, even as a weekender. But he did make one important stop between KYNO and KHJ: he did weekends and fill-ins for KRLA.
It would be interesting to know if he had very early info on the KHJ change and was positioning himself for that, or if he was in the right place at the right time, with his track record at KYNO helping to make the difference.
Either way, he had already done L.A. radio and was already in the market.
I can't recall whether Gary Mack was on KGB, even as a weekender. But he did make one important stop between KYNO and KHJ: he did weekends and fill-ins for KRLA.
It would be interesting to know if he had very early info on the KHJ change and was positioning himself for that, or if he was in the right place at the right time, with his track record at KYNO helping to make the difference.
Either way, he had already done L.A. radio and was already in the market.
multiplex said:
No, Gary didn't do KGB...he went from KYNO to KRLA to KHJ. No idea about insider knowledge either.
Note, though, I didn't specify jumping directly from KYNO to KHJ...what I meant and said was "Very few of the KYNO guys ever got to KHJ during the Drake years."
I wonder how many jocks thought they had their ticket to KHJ the day they got hired at KYNO. Fact is, Drake and his L.A. PDs went outside for talent a lot. Robert W. Morgan was a KMAK alum...Roger Christian came from KFWB, as did Sam Riddle. The Real Don Steele had never worked for Drake before KHJ, nor had Dave Diamond or Johnny Williams.
I left out a few notable KYNO alumnus who did go up the Drake/RKO ladder (though not to L.A.): Bob Elliot/K.O. Bailey, who went to both KGB and KFRC, as did Les Turpin. Ed Mitchell went to KFRC. And he rarely jocked once he moved on, but Les Garland briefly programmed KIQQ for Drake and then went into the RKO fold, programming WRKO, Boston and KFRC.
I think Jay Stevens (aka Steve Jay) worked at KYNO, KGB and KHJ as well as KRTH and ran KRLA for years.
MisterGort said:
Well, you got the KGB part right. Steve Jay never worked at KYNO or KHJ and never ran KRLA.
He was part of Ron Jacobs' crew at KMAK. KYNO won the Battle of Fresno in '63. Drake hired Steve at KGB in '64.
Steve went to KFRC in 1967, where they already had Steve Clark, so he became Jay Stevens.
Jay moved to KRLA in 1969, where he was a jock and music director.
In 1972, he went to KROQ-AM and in 1973 to KKDJ, staying through its change to KIIS-FM.
Jay was the voice of Wherehouse Records for most of the 70s, owned a production company that provided automated formats for stations, and owned at least one (KIOQ-FM in Bishop, where I worked for him in '75 and '76).
He was out of KIIS by '77, and didn't return to jocking until '94 at KRTH, where he revived the Steve Jay name. He retired a few years back.
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