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Looking for History on 1240 KPPC

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bturner

On my many trips to the LA area I got to aircheck lots of great radio. I pulled out airchecks of KORJ 94.3 doing Mellow Rock back in 1977. There was KYMS 106.3 doing Top 40 in 1976. The early years of KROQ with Shadoe Stevens and Jimmy Rabbitt. Even 102.9 KSRF as a Beautiful Music out of Santa Monica.

I really wanted to hear 100 watt 1240 KPPC owned at the time by National Science Network. An old musty SRDS Directory listed the station as operating 7am to Midnight Sundays and 7 to 11pm on Wednesdays. I was never in the area to roll tape when they were on the air.

It seems KPPC was owned by a group owner that sold brokered time at one point. I was told they were on the air sunset to 1am and prior to the upgrade were restricted to sunset to sunrise except on Sundays when they aired 7am to Midnight.

If anyone can share some history or knowledge of the station I would sure low to learn what you know.
 
bturner said:
On my many trips to the LA area I got to aircheck lots of great radio. I pulled out airchecks of KORJ 94.3 doing Mellow Rock back in 1977. There was KYMS 106.3 doing Top 40 in 1976. The early years of KROQ with Shadoe Stevens and Jimmy Rabbitt. Even 102.9 KSRF as a Beautiful Music out of Santa Monica.

I really wanted to hear 100 watt 1240 KPPC owned at the time by National Science Network. An old musty SRDS Directory listed the station as operating 7am to Midnight Sundays and 7 to 11pm on Wednesdays. I was never in the area to roll tape when they were on the air.

It seems KPPC was owned by a group owner that sold brokered time at one point. I was told they were on the air sunset to 1am and prior to the upgrade were restricted to sunset to sunrise except on Sundays when they aired 7am to Midnight.

If anyone can share some history or knowledge of the station I would sure low to learn what you know.
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IIRC, PPC stood for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
 
Thank you jh. What a wonderful paper on KPPC. I've been reading the past hour, absorbing all of that info. I always figured National Science Network to be an educational scientific organization, not a marketer of alternative potions.

I had no idea "Progressive Rock" had been a part of its history (along with the FM). I can say the 1976 or 1977 airchecks I have of KROQ are incredible. What Shadoe Stevens was able to pull off as a newscast was amazing as was his deal of potting down a song (not fading) and saying they had to pay the bills, playing a commercial and mumbling something like "Let's see, where were we?" as he potted up the song again. I realize that's not KPPC AM back then, but I sure miss that creativity in radio.

KPPC was such an odd station indeed.
 
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