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D.J.1144

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??? I am confused! WHY are there job openings posted at CC San Diego when the company has announced a nationwide hiring freeze? Didn't the cluster here just fire several news veterans {Wade Douglas, Marilyn Hyder}? What's the truth, there are obviously no real job openings at the San Diego stations owned by CC.
 
D.J.1144 said:
??? I am confused! WHY are there job openings posted at CC San Diego when the company has announced a nationwide hiring freeze? Didn't the cluster here just fire several news veterans {Wade Douglas, Marilyn Hyder}? What's the truth, there are obviously no real job openings at the San Diego stations owned by CC.


I'm looking at 16 job openings at http://sandiego.clearchannel.com/ but none are for news anchors/reporters.

If you're a board op or sales goon, there's a job for you.

dr
 
;D Vonrollskyone - from your lips to the Radio God's ear! I heard from a KGB listener yesterday that Bobby Hill will be back next month - could we be so lucky?
 
D.J.1144 said:
;D Vonrollskyone - from your lips to the Radio God's ear! I heard from a KGB listener yesterday that Bobby Hill will be back next month - could we be so lucky?

She'd be great in the afternoon: Cindy was a litle laidback, but Bobby's sounds like a rocker.
 
Don Layton talked to John Hogan about bringing back 136 KGB.
 
Well Garrett they can move XTRA to 95.7, and the call letters KGB are grandfathered to 1360 and no one else can have them. The call letters of 101.5 are KGB-FM not KGB. And for boss radio the 85th anniversary special proved that Clear Channel still has the master tapes of the Boss Radio Jingles. They have some really amazing talent that can go on the air, "boss jock" Chuck Cooper is still there and sounds better than ever, they can put Bryan Main on the air and there are some other really great jocks there that could step in and build that station back to her former greatness. Just throw out the Clear Channel pre made oldies format and do this one right! "Boss Radio 136KGB forever".

The point is is to show that AM is still a viable format for music, and that AM is still KING long live AM! It will also prove that if a format is done right that people will listen now matter how bad the signal or how bad the station sounds on AM.
 
I' be willing to bet that the vast majority, if not all, of the historical material and jingles for the Special came from sources outside Clear Channel...
 
Well actually 95% of the show's airchecks and jingles were still at the station. John Barcroft, the former chief engineer and former historian for the station had kept everything and stored them at the transmitter site. Only a the airchecks of Dean Goss Chuck Cooper, and Rich Brother Robbin were donated to the cause and they were sent in by the talents themselves. All of the other materials including the jingles and the transcription of the second owner, Arthur Yale, were all still at the station safely archived.
 
I'm well aware of how the KGB Archives came to be, and that John was the guy who had salted away literally thousands of items over the years. :>)

For some reason I had the impression that they were in his posession following his extrordinarily ill advised termination by CC. I can say from personal observation that there were dramitically fewer boxes in storage at the transmitter site last fall than was previously the case. I would personally like to see John write a book about his quarter-century-plus at KGB. As the stations' institutional memory, there is no one more qualified. (And, given John's powerful intellect and dry sense of humor, it would probably be a terrific read...)

When the plug was pulled at the Engineer Road building a substantial amount of material and equipment was moved to a storage unit in Kearny Mesa as well as to 52nd Street. Interestingly, it was the Jacor Engineering crew who saved the music library, (literally tons of vinyl), which wound up at Emerald Hills Programming wanted the CD's, but had no interest in anything else and abandoned thousands of LP's EP's and singles to the debris boxes and demolition crew...
 
John turned over most of the archives to one of the other engineers in the building, just before his departure, and he has been transferring all of the master tapes in his spare time at his own expense with his own equipment, over to cd. He has also been archiving and compiling the history of KOGO radio, which his article will hopefully be published in a couple of months. KOGO's history was never compiled previously.

There are a few people that still care about history, and try to save it. Most of the boxes at KGB's transmitter was old junk gear and not archives. The archives were moved elsewhere in the building to protect them from those trying to throw it away and the tapes are all being archived at this very moment.

By the way the 45's and EP's were all saved by someone so they were not destroyed, and he genuinely treasures them !
 
Are there any exisiting photos of the KGB building on Pacific Highway, with the cool
45 neon sign?
 
Yes there are, infact Shotgun has a copy of the artist's rendering of the building. But the name of that logo is the Silver dollar logo which was later motified with the rings of saturn.
 
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