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the 1970's His FM / Hers FM

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BecTero

Back in the 70's there was a "HIS-FM" stereo 90 (now Z90.3) and "HERS-FM" 100 FM (next to KFMB-FM).

My question is what was the exact location of "100 FM" and why did the station go off-the-air? (moved to 104.5fm?)
 
I go back to 1975, and "Hers" was at 104.5 then. I believe the two stations were programmed at the time by Gary Allyn (Sorry if I got he spelling wrong Gary) and were the first ever run on cassette automation. I don't know of a conflict with an "FM100", but it may be that the frequency was moved before my time in San Diego. There have been numerous changes in frequencies/facilities in TJ over the years. Most of the FM's back then would have originated from Mt. San Anotonio. I recall these stations being owned and operated by Victor Diaz. If there was an FM100, Victor may have made a deal for a better facility at 104.5, but now I'm speculating.
 
The original frequency of this station was 100.1 FM until circa 1974 when I first got an FM radio at age 14.
 
Yes, I heard "His" when it first came on the air on 100.1. It came in clearly in Pomona. That station was the first FM out of TJ I ever heard. Does anyone out there know what station was the first TJ FM ?
 
Didn't XETRA-FM simulcast Xtra 690 Beautiful music at 91.1 on a horrible mono signal way before His and Hers (and the OB Ranger) came on the air?
 
Ah! From a cave at the foot of Sunset Cliffs comes... THE OB RANGER!!!

I wrote Gary a couple of years ago when he issued the original album on CD, to see if he would ever do a Volume 2. He wanted to, but was more inclined to do other stuff, he said ;)

-- Doc
 
I wrote him around 2002 and asked him to produce volumes 2 and 3. He did. I paid for the albums. I'm not sure what he's up to now.

DoctorWu said:
Ah! From a cave at the foot of Sunset Cliffs comes... THE OB RANGER!!!

I wrote Gary a couple of years ago when he issued the original album on CD, to see if he would ever do a Volume 2. He wanted to, but was more inclined to do other stuff, he said ;)

-- Doc
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Really?? That's great! Any idea where I might order them from now?

-- Doc
 
RadeoEngineer said:
Most of the FM's back then would have originated from Mt. San Anotonio. I recall these stations being owned and operated by Victor Diaz. If there was an FM100, Victor may have made a deal for a better facility at 104.5, but now I'm speculating.
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Victor, a member of the Diaz family from Guadalajara (which owned dozens of stations) did His and Hers in association with paul Schaefer of the automation company. They used Paul's equipment, and made a significant play in the developing days of FM in the market.
 
RadeoEngineer said:
Yes. In mono and I believe at 100 watts to keep it alive before we built it to full power.
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Like many FMs in Latin America, the early FMs in Mexico were studio to transmitter links. FM gear was easier to deal with than microwave in the 60's and even the 70's, so a hundred watts on FM was much more fault and path tolerant than microwave. A modified TV antenna or even a CB antenna could be used to radiate (I did both on occasion) and home-built FM transmitters were relatively easy to put together (did that, too). Since nobody wanted the frequencies for anything else, they were easy to license, and status could be monitored with imported consumer radios... all in all, a very easy solution to getting signals to the transmitter.
 
His played music for "him" and Hers played music for her.

Being a guy I listened to "HIS" and which had the totally fab OB Ranger - what were those guys smoking? I believe it would be former KCBQ'er Gary Allyn who wrote that, as well as some satirical radio spots, my favorite, a satire on "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" which I would love to hear again.

rickity
 
XHRM owned by the Rivas-Kaloyan family was one of the early FM's out of TJ....they even are granfathered at 4 call letters as compared to most Mexican FM's which have 5.
 
mj said:
XHRM owned by the Rivas-Kaloyan family was one of the early FM's out of TJ....they even are granfathered at 4 call letters as compared to most Mexican FM's which have 5.
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Lots of Mexican FMs have 4 letters, and some have 3. The reason that there are so many 5 letter calls is that the first two letters are defaults, XH. So to do anything meaningful, concesionaires asked for 5 letter calls like XELTN for "Latina." But even in Tijuana, we have XHFG, XHA, XHTY, etc. But since stations seldom promote in Mexico using the calls, it's not too meaningful a distincytion.
 
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