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mofocat

Does anyone here remember the early incarnation of what is now KWYE. I mean before it moved to 101.1 from 94.5mHz and before it was KFIG. When it was KCIB.
Or how about the original KLBS-FM on 95.9, before it moved to 104.7.
Anyone here work with Magnificent Montegue at the old KYNO-FM/KPHD?
Goin waaaay back, wasn't KBIF originally licensed to Sanger as KBID?
Since the current radio environment is so stale, how about some "memory floggers"?
 
Here's a question for someone: I see in an old Vane Jones log book that the original KMJ-FM, 97.9, had a power of about 7300w @ 630ft. HAAT. I'm wondering WHERE that antenna was. Was it on the KMJ tower in Kerman? Was that tower that high? The signal seemed too good at that time to be coming from from Kerman. How high was that tower? And, is that tower still standing (with a transmitter) as a back-up for KMJ AM?
I guess being, twice as high as the class As that are in Kerman, and with twice the power, it would make sense that that is where the KMJ FM of the mid 60s was located. I had forgotten about KMJ's big AM stick, but I had assumed KMJ FM was closer in to the center of town.
 
KYNO-FM 95.5 switching to 95.7 in 1980, with antenna and studios at the Security bank building.

KAAT 107.1 switching to 103.1 to avoid interference for the new Madera station KMMM 107.3 located East of Highway 145 near Avenue 12, who later switched to 107.1 and moved to the hills near highway 41 and Road 200.
 
DanielBoone said:
Didn't KFYE used to be Y94 back in the 70's and early 80's?
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Ohhh ya I was Y94 for what seemed a couple decades before becoming Kiss Country. By the way, anyone know whatever happened to Greg Elliott? Not that I really need to know. Just a curiosity. Wasn't he Captain Woofer? Or, no?

So what was 93.7 called before Y94? Just KFYE and KFRM, before that?
 
I believe it was around April, 1980 when KLBS-FM moved from 95.9 to 104.7. The signal on the 104.7 frequency came right into Sacramento loud and clear, where I was living. I really loved their Free-Form Progressive Rock format, and the laid-back air talent (Mike McAdam, Pete Moss, Jake Ziller, etc.). 104.7 FM broadcast from 7AM until Midnight, seven days a week. I used to listen for hours on end to "K-105." On Sunday afternoons, they ran a three hour Soul show hosted by "Mister D." I also remember the commercials for Pea Soup Anderson's in Santa Nella, the Happy Submarine Sandwich shop in Merced, and Toscano Ford in Los Banos. KLBS-FM lasted until May 24, 1982 when they became KSNN "Kissin 105" and broadcast SMN's Satellite-Delivered Adult Contemporary format.

Was the format at 95.9 FM also Free-Form/Progressive? I am guessing it was, because I saw a copy of an early 1975 Billboard magazine on-line with ad for Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" album. The ad included a list of all the radio stations in North America playing the album. All the stations listed in the ad were AOR/Progressive, and KLBS-FM was listed as one of the stations.

I wonder when KLBS-FM first began programming Progressive Rock. I have heard that when they were at 95.9 FM, they simulcast KLBS-AM's Portugese and Farm programming until 10 AM or Noon, and then broke off with Progressive until they signed the station off at midnight. I believe that the original 95.9 frequency signed on in 1966 and simulcast KLBS-AM's programming a good deal of the time.

I think I raised more questions then I did provide answers. But this is an interesting thread !!
 
mofocat said:
Does anyone here remember the early incarnation of what is now KWYE. I mean before it moved to 101.1 from 94.5mHz and before it was KFIG. When it was KCIB.
Or how about the original KLBS-FM on 95.9, before it moved to 104.7.
Anyone here work with Magnificent Montegue at the old KYNO-FM/KPHD?
Goin waaaay back, wasn't KBIF originally licensed to Sanger as KBID?
Since the current radio environment is so stale, how about some "memory floggers"?
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I think KPHD was a country station
 
mofocat said:
So what was 93.7 called before Y94? Just KFYE and KFRM, before that?
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that 93.7 was originally KFRE in the early days, they were owned together with KFRE 940 and KFRE-TV 12 which became 30, and KFRE-TV and 93.7 shared the same transmitter building. I do know that later 101.9 was KFRE.
 
"KFYE and KFRM, before that"
I got that wrong - it was KRFM on 93.7 before KFYE

and I think Kenrayc may be right about KFRE AM/TV having 101.9 ( and not the 93.7 I suggested)

KYNO FM became KPHD at the same time that Fresno State was upgraded from a College to a University - thus the 'PHD"- when? about 73?? As KYNO FM they became 'ROCK 96' to compete with progressive free-form KFIG.

Meanwhile, on AM KARM 1430 was also progressive rock around 71-72.
Damn! I wish I had air checks of the fresno AM and FM dials from then!
 
mofocat said:
"KFYE and KFRM, before that"
I got that wrong - it was KRFM on 93.7 before KFYE

and I think Kenrayc may be right about KFRE AM/TV having 101.9 ( and not the 93.7 I suggested)

KYNO FM became KPHD at the same time that Fresno State was upgraded from a College to a University - thus the 'PHD"- when? about 73?? As KYNO FM they became 'ROCK 96' to compete with progressive free-form KFIG.

Meanwhile, on AM KARM 1430 was also progressive rock around 71-72.
Damn! I wish I had air checks of the fresno AM and FM dials from then!
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There was some great radio back then
 
ki6bkj said:
mofocat said:
"KFYE and KFRM, before that"
I got that wrong - it was KRFM on 93.7 before KFYE

and I think Kenrayc may be right about KFRE AM/TV having 101.9 ( and not the 93.7 I suggested)

KYNO FM became KPHD at the same time that Fresno State was upgraded from a College to a University - thus the 'PHD"- when? about 73?? As KYNO FM they became 'ROCK 96' to compete with progressive free-form KFIG.

Meanwhile, on AM KARM 1430 was also progressive rock around 71-72.
Damn! I wish I had air checks of the fresno AM and FM dials from then!
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There was some great radio back then
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Really !!! Too much to be able to soak it all in!! So many stations were at a high point of their run and yet I missed hearing most of them because just 1 or 2 or 3 of them were good enuf to never tune away from to see what was happening on others, even though I was always more interested than the average bear in what was on the radio. I was never a TV watcher.
It's when I lived way out away from town, I think, that I sampled everything on the dial the most. There wasn't the super strong close in stations to overwhelm the more distant ones. They were all on more of an equal footing, signal wise. Such as in '62- KLAN and KYNO and KYOS were all pretty close in listenability where I lived. Along with 2-3 others of the same genre. Shoot, at night, KYNO, KMAKe, and most of the other lower powered locals were in the mud and The Big X came blasting in along with KRLA and KFWB. But in tuning around for something to listen to there was all kinds of other ditant signals to hear. KOMA to CKWX.
Now see there I diverged from Fresno radio.
Gary Dee we need you! lol Fresno (all) radio needs a kick in the pants!
 
mofocat said:
ki6bkj said:
mofocat said:
"KFYE and KFRM, before that"
I got that wrong - it was KRFM on 93.7 before KFYE

and I think Kenrayc may be right about KFRE AM/TV having 101.9 ( and not the 93.7 I suggested)

KYNO FM became KPHD at the same time that Fresno State was upgraded from a College to a University - thus the 'PHD"- when? about 73?? As KYNO FM they became 'ROCK 96' to compete with progressive free-form KFIG.

Meanwhile, on AM KARM 1430 was also progressive rock around 71-72.
Damn! I wish I had air checks of the fresno AM and FM dials from then!
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There was some great radio back then
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Really !!! Too much to be able to soak it all in!! So many stations were at a high point of their run and yet I missed hearing most of them because just 1 or 2 or 3 of them were good enuf to never tune away from to see what was happening on others, even though I was always more interested than the average bear in what was on the radio. I was never a TV watcher.
It's when I lived way out away from town, I think, that I sampled everything on the dial the most. There wasn't the super strong close in stations to overwhelm the more distant ones. They were all on more of an equal footing, signal wise. Such as in '62- KLAN and KYNO and KYOS were all pretty close in listenability where I lived. Along with 2-3 others of the same genre. Shoot, at night, KYNO, KMAKe, and most of the other lower powered locals were in the mud and The Big X came blasting in along with KRLA and KFWB. But in tuning around for something to listen to there was all kinds of other ditant signals to hear. KOMA to CKWX.
Now see there I diverged from Fresno radio.
Gary Dee we need you! lol Fresno (all) radio needs a kick in the pants!
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Gary Dee was at KMAK along with "peanutbutter" Bobby Martin
 
Don't know about KCIB or KBID, but here's what I remember about the FM side of things.

The KFRE thing gets kind-of confusing.
As I recall, 93.7 was KFRE-FM until 1971. I believe KFRE's owners sold both stations separately, and KFRE became KFYE, modeling itself after KIQI (K-101) in San Francisco.
At that time, KQARM-FM was on 101.9, but around 1976 it was co-owned with KFRE, and the FM was KFRY.
As for KYNO-FM, it came on the air around May 20, 1970 (a Friday evening at 6 p.m.), with Drake's Hit Parade '70 format.
In September of '70, Solid Gold Rock-and-Roll debuted in the 7p-5A daypart, ultimately running 24 hours a day.
Around 1972 KYNO-FM went live with a format similar to KLOS's Rock 'n' Stereo, soon becoming KPHD.
Around 1974 KPHD began airing Drake's automated Great American Country package, then I'm a bit fuzzy on the rest.
I think they were album rock from 1976-77, and all-disco for a while around 1978-79 before returning to album rock.
In their first decade they seemed to be a laboratory for whatever Drake-Chenault wanted to try next.
As for KFIG-94.5, in 1970 they were MOR from 6 AM to 6 PM and AOR nights and weekends.
I certainly remember album rock on KARM in 1971 as well.
 
Gary Gilbert was on KYNO around 61 and was terrible lol Not sure if it was Drake that booted him out but he went back to 'Yokol valley' and turned up again on some Visalia Tulare stations- he was on KCOK 1270 in 68 when he got hired at KMAK and worked both stations for awhile, making the commute between the two. He first started taking phone calls on air at KCOK I think, and then worked it into his KMAK show and "the rest is history". Moving to Cleveland where he turned the town upside down and reportedley was pullin down $1 million salary- really one of the first "shock jocks" And to think, he left KYNO "all washed up" as a jock.
 
multiplex said:
Don't know about KCIB or KBID, but here's what I remember about the FM side of things.

The KFRE thing gets kind-of confusing.
As I recall, 93.7 was KFRE-FM until 1971. I believe KFRE's owners sold both stations separately, and KFRE became KFYE, modeling itself after KIQI (K-101) in San Francisco.
At that time, KQARM-FM was on 101.9, but around 1976 it was co-owned with KFRE, and the FM was KFRY.
As for KYNO-FM, it came on the air around May 20, 1970 (a Friday evening at 6 p.m.), with Drake's Hit Parade '70 format.
In September of '70, Solid Gold Rock-and-Roll debuted in the 7p-5A daypart, ultimately running 24 hours a day.
Around 1972 KYNO-FM went live with a format similar to KLOS's Rock 'n' Stereo, soon becoming KPHD.
Around 1974 KPHD began airing Drake's automated Great American Country package, then I'm a bit fuzzy on the rest.
I think they were album rock from 1976-77, and all-disco for a while around 1978-79 before returning to album rock.
In their first decade they seemed to be a laboratory for whatever Drake-Chenault wanted to try next.
As for KFIG-94.5, in 1970 they were MOR from 6 AM to 6 PM and AOR nights and weekends.
I certainly remember album rock on KARM in 1971 as well.
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That's pretty much accurate for the days of 95.5. If I remember correctly, we flipped from GAC to the album rock on a Sunday night at 6. I know that we kicked off the Rock 96 era with Stairway to Heaven (we had something of a kick off party that night atop the Security Pacific building with both AM and FM there - well, AM's Novak, VanKamp; Alexander who was FM PD). The format was indeed the test for a soon to be launched DC automated format, with the library on cart and manned by segue jocks. The hotline ran constantly with Bert Kleinman calling from LA with changes to the clock. I will say, the format was as tight as over at the AM. I remember well, our disaster with the all Led Zeppelin weekend. So few songs in the library that the rotation was just over 3 hours.

As to KARM, they pretty much went against KYNO in the evenings, with a jock by the name of Dave England adding more and more rock. That transitioned into more of a album rock, free-form deal.

Formats that never happened: KARM's intent to flip KFIG to disco. I guess we can't say we missed that, eh?
 
I had to go back and check the online Vane Jones logbook, 1963. KARM-FM was 101.9 93.7 was KRFM. The next year, 1964, 943.7, became KFRE-FM. I read somewhere that at one point, the KARM ownership, wanted to donate 101.9 to Fresno State and Fresno State refused to take it.
During those years 94.5 was KBID, 97.9 was KMJ-FM, and 102.7 was KXQR. That was all, just 5 FM stations in Fresno in 1963.

The AM side had just recently increased from 8 to 11 with the ealy 60s seeing the additions of 1220 in Fowler and 1510, and 1550 in Fresno. All three new AMs were 500 watts or less and all 3 daytime's.
 
Multiplex is right about KFRE selling the 93.7, KRFM, but then buying the 101.9 and getting the KFRY calls, KFRE/KFRY both doing country in the late 70s.
I remember the transition of KFIG from MOR to AOR. It started as an "experiment in music" after midnight called "360 Minutes", before expanding to 6pm to 6am.
 
ki6bkj said:
DanielBoone said:
Yes indeed! Those were the good days of radio! ;D

Compared to the crap-music now, that dominates the airwaves! :mad: :mad:
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Todays radio is so watered-down
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Thanks to the Communications Act of 1996 and elimination of The Fairness Doctrine (when? 86?)
 
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