Thank You Happy Easter

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:


First I want to say thank you to all of you for your help with my research on the history of L.A. Radio. All of your answers and stories have help me out a lot.

Everyone on the board has been very kind to me and I really appreciate that. My reserach is almost finished, just have to get my notes together in order to see what is missing.

Again thanks you very much and have a safe and happy Easter.

T.J.

 

[michael hagerty]

Hey Guys:


First I want to say thank you to all of you for your help with my research on the history of L.A. Radio. All of your answers and stories have help me out a lot.

Everyone on the board has been very kind to me and I really appreciate that. My reserach is almost finished, just have to get my notes together in order to see what is missing.

Again thanks you very much and have a safe and happy Easter.

T.J.

T.J.:
Just a heads-up: You may think your research is almost finished. It's likely only begun. I'm speaking from experience. Between rec.radio.broadcasting, the old Tanim boards, here at Radio-Info and Reelradio, I've been contributing bits and pieces of Southern California radio history for 15 years now...and I'm tripping over new stuff all the time. The availability online of Billboard back issues has been a big part of it, but inevitably, there will be tape that will surface that will contradict what's been assumed previously (or even put in print...Billboard was fairly error-prone, getting call letters and big DJ names wrong).

Don Barrett put a lot of time and effort into Los Angeles Radio People, Volume 1, the book that inspired the website, 14 years ago. But if you went through a copy of that today with a red pencil, there wouldn't be much left unmarked.

Don't get me wrong...I think it's great that you're doing this. But realistically, you can't compile more than a thumbnail sketch of almost 90 years of Southern California radio in a couple of months.

 

[thebeach33445]

Hey Michael:

I understand where you are coming from.

I do have a lot of great info than when I first started. And I do have a lot more to go.


Hope you had a Happy Easter.
Thanks again

T.J.

 

[AM FM listener]

Looking forward to seeing it when it's "finished".

 

[radiohistory]

I see a name here I haven't seen before, TJ, has been asking a lot of questions about various radio history topics in and around Los Angeles. I've been doing much the same type of research since 1982 on L.A. and Orange County radio history, and to a lesser extent, the Inland Empire. I still have many questions unanswered, mostly from the 1920s, about whether certain stations ever went on or off the air or were never built. Some are still mysteries to me. Anyway, good luck and if I can be of any help, let me know.

My work began simply as a history of call letter and frequency changes for AM stations from the 1920s to the 1980s and later, but we also now have a list of AM/FM call changes for the L.A. market, except the 1940s and '50s are not complete. My research later expanded to stories about station owners and announcers and other personnel and some programming stories, but I mainly focus on the 1920s to 1945, my main area of interest.

Oh, somebody asked about KGER-1390. I have my notes somewhere, but the country music lasted till about 1948 or so, when John Brown University in Arkansas bought the station and changed it to a religious format. The country music was a bit short-lived and only began around 1946 or so, after fhe death of of original owner since 1926-1927, C. Merwin Dobyns.

Jim Hilliker
Monterey