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Las Vegas radio pre 1980s

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I've been researching Las Vegas radio history. One thing that surprises me is a lot of radio station in the Las Vegas market were introduce in the mid to late 70's like KDWN. What was Las Vegas radio like back in the day?
 
Thanks for the plug, Jay F - the link is http://gapfel.com/vegasradio with a brief timeline of station sign-on dates here: http://gapfel.com/vegasradio/?page_id=47

The 1960's was a real decade of growth, four signals lit up in 1963, the year Mike Gold purchased Joe Julian's Rainbow Broadcasting, who had signed on 1050 AM as KRBO. http://gapfel.com/vegasradio/?p=120 Gold lit up 98.5 FM and changed calls to KLUC. At this time, almost all radio stations traded studio and some transmitter space with the strip hotels. It was a status symbol for a hotel to have a radio station on it's property: El Rancho-KENO, Thunderbird-KORK, Frontier-KLUC, Desert Inn-KLAS, Castaways-KVEG, Hacienda-KBMI, Marina & Tropicana Country Club-KUDO... there were more, I'm just jotting these off the top of my head.

As always, corrections and/or modifications are always welcome. Some content comes from personal memories during my contribution to Las Vegas radio history.

GT
George Thomas
Las Vegas Broadcaster since 1968
 
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