Retro Dial: Wichita, August 1975

[TR1968]

from Wichita Eagle via Newspapers.com
Stations COLed to Wichita, unless otherwise indicated

AM Dial
550 KFRM (country)
900 KBUL (country)
950 KJRG Newton (variety music)
1070 KFDI (country)
1240 KAKE (variety music) ABC Entertainment
1330 KFH (variety music) CBS
1360 KOYY El Dorado (variety music)
1410 KWBB (variety music) ABC Information
1480 KLEO (rock)

FM Dial
88.3 KSWC Winfield (educational)
89.1 KMUW (Wichita State station) NPR
92.3 KJRG Newton (soft music)
95.1 KICT (country)
97.9 KBRA (soft music)
99.3 KOYY El Dorado (variety music)
101.3 KFDI (good time mellow music)
102.1 KSKU Hutchinson (soft music)
103.7 KEYN (rock) ABC Contemporary
107.3 KARD (soft music)

 

[Murfradiojim]

This was about the time KWBB switched to NBC's News and Information Service.

 

[TR1968]

The Eagle still listed it ABCi at that point- when exactly did the change occur?

 

[Murfradiojim]

Im not sure. It was July or August of 1975. I read a Wichita Eagle or Beacon article on it once. It is possible the paper had not updated the radio listings yet. I know that seemed to happen in the 80s.

 

[stan]

Wasn’t one of the FM stations automated using Drake Chenault programming?

 

[Murfradiojim]

Wasn’t one of the FM stations automated using Drake Chenault programming?

KBRA was automated using Schulke. KARD I think was Bonneville.