Retro: Phoenix AZ radio dial, 1974

[KeithE]

Stations licensed to Phoenix unless otherwise stated.
d = Daytime only

AM Stations
550 KOY (MOR/Mutual)
620 KTAR (News/NBC)
740d KMEO (Easy Listening)
860d KIFN (Spanish)
910 KJJJ (Country/ABC)
960 KOOL (MOR/CBS)
1010d KHCS (Religious, Tolleson)
1060 KUPD (Top 40, Tempe)
1190 KRDS (Talk, Tolleson)
1230 KRIZ (Top 40)
1280d KHEP (Religious)
1310 KBUZ (Easy Listening, Mesa)
1360 KRUX (Top 40, Glendale)
1400 KXIV (MOR)
1440d KDOT (Easy Listening, Scottsdale)
1480d KPHX (Spanish)
1510d KDKB (Album Rock, Mesa)
1540d KASA (Religious)
1580d KTUF (Country, Tempe)

These stations simulcasted their FM counterparts 100%: KMEO, KUPD, KBUZ, KDOT, and KDKB. KTUF simulcasted KNIX.

FM Stations
91.5 KMCR-FM (Public Radio)
92.3 KXTC (Jazz, Glendale)
93.3 KDKB-FM (Album Rock, Mesa)
94.5 KOOL-FM (Oldies)
95.5 KRFM (Easy Listening)
96.9 KMEO-FM (Easy Listening)
97.9 KUPD-FM (Top 40, Tempe)
98.7 KBBC (Top 40)
100.7 KDOT-FM (Easy Listening, Scottsdale)
101.5 KHEP-FM (Classical)
102.5 KNIX (Country)
104.7 KBUZ-FM (Easy Listening, Mesa)
106.3 KWAO (???, Sun City)
107.1 KSTM (???, Apache Junction)

 

[oldtimeradio]

KWAO, Sun City AZ was a Big Band station. Located in the Adult Retirement community of Sun City, they directed their programming to the people of that city and the surrounding area. The owners, being religious, ended their day with a two-hour block of religious programming.

KSTM was an MOR type station, but changed somewhere along the way to a rock format (I forget which genre). It wasn't my type of music, so I never tuned in.

As for KOY being affiliated with Mutual...I don't think so, unless they didn't carry the network news. I recall them doing the news from their own newsroom.



> Stations licensed to Phoenix unless otherwise stated.
> d = Daytime only
>
> AM Stations
> 550 KOY (MOR/Mutual)
> 620 KTAR (News/NBC)
> 740d KMEO (Easy Listening)
> 860d KIFN (Spanish)
> 910 KJJJ (Country/ABC)
> 960 KOOL (MOR/CBS)
> 1010d KHCS (Religious, Tolleson)
> 1060 KUPD (Top 40, Tempe)
> 1190 KRDS (Talk, Tolleson)
> 1230 KRIZ (Top 40)
> 1280d KHEP (Religious)
> 1310 KBUZ (Easy Listening, Mesa)
> 1360 KRUX (Top 40, Glendale)
> 1400 KXIV (MOR)
> 1440d KDOT (Easy Listening, Scottsdale)
> 1480d KPHX (Spanish)
> 1510d KDKB (Album Rock, Mesa)
> 1540d KASA (Religious)
> 1580d KTUF (Country, Tempe)
>
> These stations simulcasted their FM counterparts 100%:
> KMEO, KUPD, KBUZ, KDOT, and KDKB. KTUF simulcasted KNIX.
>
> FM Stations
> 91.5 KMCR-FM (Public Radio)
> 92.3 KXTC (Jazz, Glendale)
> 93.3 KDKB-FM (Album Rock, Mesa)
> 94.5 KOOL-FM (Oldies)
> 95.5 KRFM (Easy Listening)
> 96.9 KMEO-FM (Easy Listening)
> 97.9 KUPD-FM (Top 40, Tempe)
> 98.7 KBBC (Top 40)
> 100.7 KDOT-FM (Easy Listening, Scottsdale)
> 101.5 KHEP-FM (Classical)
> 102.5 KNIX (Country)
> 104.7 KBUZ-FM (Easy Listening, Mesa)
> 106.3 KWAO (???, Sun City)
> 107.1 KSTM (???, Apache Junction)
>
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[KeithE]

> KWAO, Sun City AZ was a Big Band station. Located in the
> Adult Retirement community of Sun City, they directed their
> programming to the people of that city and the surrounding
> area. The owners, being religious, ended their day with a
> two-hour block of religious programming.

My grandparents lived in Sun City at the time (in fact, I lived with them for a few months in 1964) so I'm familiar with the area. They didn't listen to KWAO, though. IIRC, they liked KOOL.

> KSTM was an MOR type station, but changed somewhere along
> the way to a rock format (I forget which genre). It wasn't
> my type of music, so I never tuned in.

I had the same problem with KSTM as I did with KWAO: I lived in NE Phoenix at the time and couldn't get either station well. KSTM became "The Storm" in the early '80s before becoming KVVA-FM, simulcasting AM 860 from 1987 to 1996, when the AM became KMVP.

> As for KOY being affiliated with Mutual...I don't think so,
> unless they didn't carry the network news. I recall them
> doing the news from their own newsroom.

I do remember KOY doing Mutual news in that era, but I don't think that it was there much longer. They had swapped CBS for Mutual with KOOL in the early '50s.

 

[X-Man]

> > KWAO, Sun City AZ was a Big Band station. Located in the
> > Adult Retirement community of Sun City, they directed
> their
> > programming to the people of that city and the surrounding
>
> > area. The owners, being religious, ended their day with a
>
> > two-hour block of religious programming.
>
> My grandparents lived in Sun City at the time (in fact, I
> lived with them for a few months in 1964) so I'm familiar
> with the area. They didn't listen to KWAO, though. IIRC,
> they liked KOOL.
>
> > KSTM was an MOR type station, but changed somewhere along
> > the way to a rock format (I forget which genre). It
> wasn't
> > my type of music, so I never tuned in.
>
> I had the same problem with KSTM as I did with KWAO: I
> lived in NE Phoenix at the time and couldn't get either
> station well. KSTM became "The Storm" in the early '80s
> before becoming KVVA-FM, simulcasting AM 860 from 1987 to
> 1996, when the AM became KMVP.
>
> > As for KOY being affiliated with Mutual...I don't think
> so,
> > unless they didn't carry the network news. I recall them
> > doing the news from their own newsroom.
>
> I do remember KOY doing Mutual news in that era, but I don't
> think that it was there much longer. They had swapped CBS
> for Mutual with KOOL in the early '50s.


Did Phoenix ever have full-time Urban station back in the 70's, the only station I remember that was a full-time Urban was back in the 80's and that was the old KUKQ-1060.