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Paul Harvey affiliates in your area

Growing up in Augusta, GA in the late '80s, Paul Harvey was on THREE TIMES a day on then, CHR station, 104.3 WBBQ. As a teenager I thought this was pretty annoying... chillin by the pool, listening to Janet Jackson, Madonna and Prince one minute and then having to sit through Paul Harvey. And then coming out of Paul Harvey, they would play "Pump Up The Volume" by MARRS 🙃🤔

Kind of strange for a pop station, in 1987. In fact, I've always wondered was any other CHR station, running Paul Harvey during that time as well??
 
Probably in very small towns where there was only a 'hit music' station and a religious station or NPR translator.
 
deejaywestbrook said:
Growing up in Augusta, GA in the late '80s, Paul Harvey was on THREE TIMES a day on then, CHR station, 104.3 WBBQ. As a teenager I thought this was pretty annoying... chillin by the pool, listening to Janet Jackson, Madonna and Prince one minute and then having to sit through Paul Harvey. And then coming out of Paul Harvey, they would play "Pump Up The Volume" by MARRS 🙃🤔

Kind of strange for a pop station, in 1987. In fact, I've always wondered was any other CHR station, running Paul Harvey during that time as well??
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PH was a BIG draw in the 80s. You could put him on anything and you'd get big numbers. I've heard of R&B/urban contemporary stations carrying Harvey around that time too
 
crainbebo said:
Probably in very small towns where there was only a 'hit music' station and a religious station or NPR translator.
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Augusta had plenty of radio stations. It just happened to have one that was dominant. For years and years.

WBBQ was one of America's highest rated radio stations for decades. Whatever it did, it worked. Program Director Harley Drew had a certain fame for wanting to stay in a smaller market where he was the absolute king of radio.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Places I have known:

San Francisco - KGO, of course.

Columbia, Mo. - KFRU (our owner had worked at KXOK in St. Louis, as had Paul Aurandt), pretty much for the whole run. We were a legacy ABC affiliate and had our pick of programming from the four networks. News was from ABC/I.

Kansas City - now this gets interesting. Clearance bounced around a lot. The following is what I've been able to piece together from Kansas City Star radio listings:

Until 1955 - KCMO (810). Then KMBC (980) and KCMO swapped CBS and ABC affiliations, respectively, as did their TV stations.

From 1955 until 1961 - KMBC

From 1961 (November 13 to be specific) through 1963 - KBEA (1480) and KBEY-FM (104.3)

From 1964 through 1968 - KUDL (1380)

From 1969 through 1970 and part of 1974 - WDAF (610)

From 1971 through 1979 - KCMO (810), which changed network affiliations from CBS to ABC in 1971

After 1979 - WDAF again.

St. Louis - this is harder to track down, but he bounced around a lot there, too. The following isn't a complete list. On KXOK until 1955, then WEW (770), then WIL (1430), then back to KXOK briefly. Relatively stable from 1958 to 1964 on East St. Louis station WAMV (later WBBR, 1490). Later in 1964, moved to WBBY (590), also on the Illinois side. Back to WIL (1430) in 1969, staying there for several years, though apparently with breaks. For example, in 1975, some of his commentaries were being carried on noncommercial KWMU-FM. By 1981, he was on a successor to WBBY, WRTH (590), then back on WIL until it dropped all local programming in 1985. After a pause of several months, KUSA (550) picked him up and by 1998 he was still on KUSA's successor, KTRS. However, there may have been a period in the early 1990s when he wasn't on 550, when it reverted to the KSD call letters for a while.
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jp1996 said:
Interesting stuff! KFRU there in Columbia and KLIK in Jefferson City were the anchors for PH in central MO......I think KLIK was an ABC/C affiliate. Never realized Paul jumped around so much in KCMO and STL. I wonder who picked up Paul in Kansas City after WDAF flipped formats. KMBZ, maybe?
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Mark Roberts said:
KLIK was ABC/C; KJFF (its FM) was ABC/FM. Those affiliations were dropped when Brill took over the stations - 1982 or 1983, IIRC.

Don't know about Harvey post-WDAF flip, as that was after my time in Kansas City.
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I know that Paul Harvey was also carried on KCHI 1010AM & 103.9FM (Pre 2002) & 98.5FM (Post 2002), in Chillicothe, MO. KMZU 100.7FM, in Carrollton, MO, also carried Paul Harvey from the 80's to late 2000's except for a period from the late 90's to early 2000's when they were affiliated with NBC.
I think KSIS 1050AM in Sedalia, MO, KDKD 1280AM & 95.3FM in Clinton, MO, KRES 104.7FM & KWIX 1230AM in Moberly, MO, may have carried Paul Harvey as well. Also thinking that KOKO 1450AM in Warrensburg, MO, may have also been a affiliate at one point.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Augusta had plenty of radio stations. It just happened to have one that was dominant. For years and years.

WBBQ was one of America's highest rated radio stations for decades. Whatever it did, it worked. Program Director Harley Drew had a certain fame for wanting to stay in a smaller market where he was the absolute king of radio.
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I think WBBQ was second only to pre-switch WABC for ABC's Contemporary Radio network
 
Route66Fan said:
I know that Paul Harvey was also carried on KCHI 1010AM & 103.9FM (Pre 2002) & 98.5FM (Post 2002), in Chillicothe, MO. KMZU 100.7FM, in Carrollton, MO, also carried Paul Harvey from the 80's to late 2000's except for a period from the late 90's to early 2000's when they were affiliated with NBC.
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Before that, KCHI was a Mutual affiliate.

I'm sure that KIRX in Kirksville was a Paul Harvey affiliate. It was another ABC legacy affiliate that had its choice of networks. KIRX started KRXL in 1968 and was an FM network affiliate. KIRX was ABC/I for hourly news.

KCOG just over the Missouri border in Centerville, Iowa - where I had the not-so-great fortune of residing for a few years - picked up Harvey and ABC/I in 1969. I believe they dropped the affiliation around 1974.

Route66Fan said:
I think KSIS 1050AM in Sedalia, MO, KDKD 1280AM & 95.3FM in Clinton, MO, KRES 104.7FM & KWIX 1230AM in Moberly, MO, may have carried Paul Harvey as well.
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KWIX didn't affiliate with anyone until it affiliated with CBS in the 1990s. KRES was an ABC/C affiliate. How that meshed with its farm-and-country format might seem questionable, but a newscast is a newscast if it's done professionally. KRES may have picked up Contemporary to avoid conflicts with KIRX and KFRU. But I suppose they could have gone Entertainment and didn't.
 
anotherguyTN said:
WTRO in Dyersburg, TN was country and later oldies and carried Paul Harvey. Their sister station WASL 100.1 was AC, then classic rock (Now Jack FM), and carried him until his death.
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Wasn't both stations ABC Contemporary affiliates from the 4-network split in '68 all the way into the 2000s?
 
A friend of mine pointed out that Harvey was actually a replacement for a commentator named H. R. Baukage, who had a daily program called "Baukage Talking". Baukage resigned (maybe retired; he was 62 at the time) April 1, 1951. Harvey took over the next day, which was a Monday. However, it also appears that Harvey was a featured newscaster on ABC before that; for example, a Sunday night newscast at 9:15 pm Central during 1950.
 
Howard Stern talks sometimes about Album Rock WCCC-AM-FM Hartford, the second station where he worked, which ran Paul Harvey. It was nominally an ABC-FM Network affiliate but only so the station would have Harvey. I don't think it ran the hourly newscasts, although it may have run the spots.

Stern says the sales staff had no problem selling Harvey, even though he really didn't fit in with a rock station. I guess enough businesses liked Harvey so they advertised on WCCC, even though it was playing Rock and Howard Stern in the morning.
 
In the Charleston market Paul Harvey waffled around stations for a long time. Whoever had ABC had the rights. I recall the last few years of his career he was on WSCC 94.3 as they were the ABC affiliate. There were a few years he wasn’t on. Adult standards WSSP (also at 94.3) aired him for a little while as well.

I heard an air check on a local radio website and in the late 80s he aired on 1390 AM, whatever call letters they were at the time (WCSC, WXTC, WCSE).
 
charlestondxman said:
In the Charleston market Paul Harvey waffled around stations for a long time. Whoever had ABC had the rights. I recall the last few years of his career he was on WSCC 94.3 as they were the ABC affiliate. There were a few years he wasn’t on. Adult standards WSSP (also at 94.3) aired him for a little while as well.

I heard an air check on a local radio website and in the late 80s he aired on 1390 AM, whatever call letters they were at the time (WCSC, WXTC, WCSE).
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Harvey was on a few different stations in Charleston.......WCSC did indeed have him, and I think WTMA and WOKE took turns with him on the AM side as well. Not sure if WOKE picked up Harvey after WCSC flipped, or if it went to WTMA
 
I used to get annoyed when WFMX would have NASCAR qualifying at 6:30. Paul Harvey was supposed to air then. Can't they just put him on a few minutes early? I was relieved when a nearby station started rerunning The Rest of the Story the next morning, or for the Friday broadcast, on Monday. Then I realized they had gone back to doing it on that other station at 2:55. So I tried to listen each day at that time. I wish I had stopped the car when I was so far away that if the car was moving, I couldn't hear it. It was online for a while, and then it wasn't. I wish the reruns were somewhere.
 
deejaywestbrook said:
Growing up in Augusta, GA in the late '80s, Paul Harvey was on THREE TIMES a day on then, CHR station, 104.3 WBBQ. As a teenager I thought this was pretty annoying... chillin by the pool, listening to Janet Jackson, Madonna and Prince one minute and then having to sit through Paul Harvey. And then coming out of Paul Harvey, they would play "Pump Up The Volume" by MARRS 🙃🤔

Kind of strange for a pop station, in 1987. In fact, I've always wondered was any other CHR station, running Paul Harvey during that time as well??
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Perhaps a failed memory, but earlier in time, Paul Harvey was on WRDW, 1480, probably prior to the point where James Brown bought the station. I would have no idea when WBBQ picked up the rights to Paul Harvey.
 
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When I was in Arkansas for three years in the late '70s, Paul was on now-defunct KLRA 1010 Little Rock, which not only carried his daily news and commentary but his long-form feature "The Rest of the Story." KLRA was a country station. I moved to Connecticut after that and don't remember him on any station there, maybe because Connecticut was pretty much a country-free zone back then, except for a weak Hartford AM (WMLB) and, of course, the diluted country of WHN New York.
 


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