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Pop Chronicles photo on Wikipedia

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DougKUCI

The photo at the Pop Chronicles wikipedia article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Chronicles raises some questions on LA radio history that I hope someone here can answer.

1) Who are the two unidentified people in the photo?
2) Are the other 3 people correctly identified?
and
3) When were the "Pop Chronicles" on KABC-FM? The caption for the photo reads "The 'Pop Chronicles' Team at KRLA, 1969", but the billboard they are posing in front of reads "Pop Chronicles: Stereo 95½ KABC FM Sundays 5-6 p.m." Can anyone explain this?

Thanks.
 
Unidentified person #2, between Sie Holliday and Thom Beck, is Chester Coleman... long-time KRLA engineer, who went on to own several small stations in California and a couple in Alaska. Coleman passed away several years ago. I do not know the name of unidentified #1. The other three names are correct: John Gilliland, Sie Holliday and Thom Beck. I have no information about the Pop Chronicles running on 95.5, but maybe they did.
 
stretched said:
Unidentified person #2, between Sie Holliday and Thom Beck, is Chester Coleman... long-time KRLA engineer, who went on to own several small stations in California and a couple in Alaska. Coleman passed away several years ago. I do not know the name of unidentified #1. The other three names are correct: John Gilliland, Sie Holliday and Thom Beck. I have no information about the Pop Chronicles running on 95.5, but maybe they did.
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Thanks, Stretched. I put Coleman's name under the photo at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Chronicles .

Since 95.5 dropped the KABC-FM in 1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLOS), that would seem to mean that The Pop Chroncles ran on KABC the same year (1969) that they previewed on KRLA. Is that correct?
 
"Since 95.5 dropped the KABC-FM in 1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLOS), that would seem to mean that The Pop Chroncles ran on KABC the same year (1969) that they previewed on KRLA. Is that correct?"

Sounds wrong to me - I don't remember the Pop Chronicles on 95.5. But Wikipedia is often a little...uh...wrong. If you read the Wiki article, it makes it seem that the format switched from all news KABC-FM directly to rock on KLOS. But I'm thinking that the station didn't become KLOS until 1970. If it was 69 - it was very late in the year. I started college in October 69 -lived in a dorm - and very clearly remember listening to KPPC, KMET, and the networked "Love" format with Brother John and Tony Pigg on KABC-FM. I'm quite sure I hadn't heard KABC-FM until that fall because I bought my first FM receiver (table model) the same time I started college.

I do remember that Gilliland left KRLA shortly after the original broadcast of the PC - probably by fall of 69. He was also in the Credibility Gap, but was from the original, more earnestly left-leaning Lew Irwin group - not so much in tune with the new performers - Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and David L. Lander, who were more comic, and slightly less dogmatic politically.
 
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