Henry Ochs said:
Susquehanna was the name I was trying to think of. According to Wikipedia, KFOG and Susquehanna's other broadcast properties were absorbed by Cumulus in 2006, so Hot 97.7 would have been purchsed under those former owners.
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remember 107.7 KSOL????
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Susquehanna was the name I was trying to think of. According to Wikipedia, KFOG and Susquehanna's other broadcast properties were absorbed by Cumulus in 2006, so Hot 97.7 would have been purchsed under those former owners.
I remember KSOL when it was on South Amplett Blvd in San Mateo. I actually wrote to the station back in junior high and got a letter back from the PD who was JJ Jeffrey. I still have the letter now! The letterhead on their stationary was cool. Great station and I have many of those songs on my iPod now. Miss it a lot
jprg said:
I worked at the 600 South Amphlett studio. This was just a little prior to JJ Jeffrey. The place was noisy as hell from the freeway, and though there was no transmitter there the place was still hot enough that windows had to be cracked open to cool it down. This sometimes made it sound like the the DJ was doing the show from a phone booth.
I also remember taking transmitter readings that varied wildly because the STL antenna was waving in the wind up on King's Mountain. So, we were told to take an average of the sway for each reading.
Something retro from the 70's
107.7, where the music lives....K-S-O-L, San Mateo!
107.7, where the music lives....K-S-O-L, San Mateo!
Hey Guys:
Thanks for all the responces to my question. I put together a timeline of 107.7 to the KSOL days:
1. Sept 1963 KUFY Beautiful Music (Backround Music)
2. April 1966 KVEZ Spanish/AC (Contemp/Spanish)
3. Dec 1971 KVEZ AC (Contemp/English)
4. Early 1972 KSOL R&B
Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these. Any imput would be great.
Would anybody know the exact date when KSOL started on 107.7 in 1972?
Thanks
T.J.
Thanks for all the responces to my question. I put together a timeline of 107.7 to the KSOL days:
1. Sept 1963 KUFY Beautiful Music (Backround Music)
2. April 1966 KVEZ Spanish/AC (Contemp/Spanish)
3. Dec 1971 KVEZ AC (Contemp/English)
4. Early 1972 KSOL R&B
Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these. Any imput would be great.
Would anybody know the exact date when KSOL started on 107.7 in 1972?
Thanks
T.J.
t.j. said:
I show KVEZ becoming KSOL in late September 1972.
My reference is Broadcasting magazine and a September 27, 1972, column by Bob Foster in the San Mateo Times: "In San Mateo the station which once was known as KVEZ is now calling itself KSOL. [The call letters] KSOL once belonged to the San Francisco station KEST."
KVEZ was still playing Soft Rock as "Request Radio" in the Spring of 1972, so I'd challenge that they switched to R&B in early 1972.
Add to the above, from Bob Foster in the San Mateo Times on Oct. 2, 1972:
San Mateo's FM station long known as KVEZ recently changed its call letters to KSOL. The new operation will be all soul music aimed at the Bay Area's black audiences. It will be the first FM station to devote itself exclusively to soul. A spokesman at the station said that the D.J.'s would be black and that the programming would be authentic soul type music.
San Mateo's FM station long known as KVEZ recently changed its call letters to KSOL. The new operation will be all soul music aimed at the Bay Area's black audiences. It will be the first FM station to devote itself exclusively to soul. A spokesman at the station said that the D.J.'s would be black and that the programming would be authentic soul type music.
BossRadioDJ said:
I was actually in the office at KVEZ when the manager (whose name I forget, but he had come from KPLX 106.5 in San Jose) was talking with someone at KEST about the callsign change and format change. He asked if the KSOL callsign was available. Gosh, I was there when history was being made.
BossRadioDJ said:
I had worked there as KVEZ and then came back for fill-in as KSOL, but my memory is spotty, so I can't fill in things very well. I think this had to do with trying to carry a fulltime school load and two jobs. I didn't get much sleep, and today it's manifest in a big memory gap from that era.
I do know that there were quite a few non-black people working there. I also know that the owner, Richard Eaton (United Broadcasting of Bethesda MD) tended to flip his stations either Spanish language contemporary or urban (aka black), so flipping KVEZ to urban wasn't any big stretch for him. At the time I believe he owned 14 radio stations and 2 TV. The TV's I think were indie and the radio were all Spanish language contemporary or urban.
DavidKaye said:
Where you at KSOL the same time as Lee Perkins?
ImListening said:
Yes, I'm pretty sure, but I never met him. J. J. Jeffries was PD and we had met via a mutual friend. I had told him I'd worked at the station earlier and he brought me in from time to time for fill-ins. This was before KSOL's rise to fame, so we're talking -- ugh -- 1976 and early 77. At the time I was into punk, not soul, and there were far better DJs than I was, so I got the overnight and various throwaway shifts, which was fine because I was promoting a couple punk bands at the time anyway...
I used to listen to 107.7 KSOL all the way in Gilroy! lol. That was one hell of a signal.
Yes, I'm pretty sure, but I never met him. J. J. Jeffries was PD and we had met via a mutual friend.
Wow, J.J. Jeffries who was on WLS once upon a time??
The world gets tinier and tinier.
Wow, J.J. Jeffries who was on WLS once upon a time??
The world gets tinier and tinier.
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