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SEEKING KFRC FM IN 1976 AIRCHECKS

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knozall

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Looking for airchecks of K-106 (KFRC FM) circa 1976, particularly after 10PM. RKO then put it on the block and eventually sold it. Any help out there? I already know about audio.Ins.com. Thanks!
 
knozall said:
Looking for airchecks of K-106 (KFRC FM) circa 1976, particularly after 10PM. RKO then put it on the block and eventually sold it. Any help out there? I already know about audio.Ins.com. Thanks!
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After 10pm would've been when the simulcast was on with 610, but if I'm not mistaken, they were mono at that point...
 
Hey Guys:

I was wondering if you help me with a question I have.

Would anybody know if KFRC 106.1 was an MOR/Stds stations called "Cavalcade of Hits" from November 1966 to 1968 similar to KHJ-FM L.A. and KGB-FM in San Diego?

Thanks

T.J.
 
Ahh, "North America's only Top 20 Station", or did they actually say "Top 20 Research Station"? Back then it sounded modern to use words like research. You know, for what it was right before RKO stupidly sold the old KFRC FM to Century, a make-no-bones-about-it automated station, it really didn't sound that bad. All the voices for the most part came from KFRC-AM. I think Charlie Van Dyke voiced the ID's but I could be mistaken. It was cool to listen to once in a while, hearing your favorite 610 KFRC voices on PSA's n' such in a radically different format. I think that if RKO had held on to the FM, we might still have a current Top 40 KFRC FM. After all they did simulcast from 10 pm to 9 am already. So really it would have been a natural progression that RKO either didn't think of or didn't care about as they were going to lose all of their radio and television licenses eventually anyway. Don't get me wrong, older fans would hate what it would sound like in the present. They'd be on all of today's artists and they'd be what they were from the very first Boss Radio days, a station that's right on top and in sync with what the Bay Area wants to hear when it comes to hit radio.

Oh well, you can dream can't you?
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

I was wondering if you help me with a question I have.

Would anybody know if KFRC 106.1 was an MOR/Stds stations called "Cavalcade of Hits" from November 1966 to 1968 similar to KHJ-FM L.A. and KGB-FM in San Diego?

Thanks

T.J.
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T.J.:

The format (called "HitParade"...the "Cavalcade of Hits" was the temporary format playing music from 1950-1965 that Drake used before the launch of Boss Radio at KHJ) was more of an early adult contemporary than MOR/Standards. A mix of 60% current hits (usually songs also played on the RKO AMs, minus the harder rock) and 40% gold.

KFRC-FM carried it from 1968 until 1972, when it changed call letters to KKEE and went with Beautiful Music from Bonneville International.

In Fall 1973, the call letters were flipped back to KFRC-FM, which began its own automated oldies format "Golden Stereo 106" from 6AM-6PM and simulcast KFRC-AM from 6PM-6AM. On January 1, 1974, the simulcast hours were changed to 9PM-9AM.
 
Hey Michael:

Thanks for your input and the info. I actually have all that info already thanks to the billboard past articles.

What I am trying to find out is did KFRC-FM Simulcast the AM or have a format from 1966 till 1968 when it became KFMS and the "Hit Parade"?

Thanks

T.J.
 
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