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The great thing about San Diego radio is....

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Bob_Hudson

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that it really also includes Los Angeles stations. If you grew up in Southern California and consider "old school" to be something that was played a lot longer than five years ago, then it doesn't get any better than cruising up Coast Highway late on a sunny afternoon, listening to San Diego's own Shotgun Tom playin' the oldies' on K-EARTH 101. That station really does keep alive the spirit and even the sound of KHJ (and KGB) Boss Radio. Shotgun has been on the air now for 40 years but makes it sound like he's havin' fun.

I hope you folks in the South County can pick up K-EARTH and you folks in the North County, when you need a lift, hop on Coast Highway, tune into 101, cruise from Solana Beach to Oceanside (or vice-versa) and hope they start playing the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean when you hit one of those stretches where the highway runs between a lagoon and the beach and you're totally surrounded by sun, sand and water.

Now if only I can figure out how to put down the roof on my mini-van...
 
I grew up in the northern part of the city, it was pretty common to flip the dial and listen to KFWB or KRLA or KDAY.
 
Back in the days when they still had the likes of Gary Owens, KMPC was one of my first choices during San Diego County commutes. It would be interesting to see how LA stations fare in ratings for just North Coastal San Diego County.
 
Or how about the late 80's when I you had to listen to KIIS FM on 1150 because there were no mainstream CHR's in San Diego (unless you defined Q106 as mainstream at the time).
 
Bob_Hudson said:
that it really also includes Los Angeles stations.
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Man, am I hearing you Bob. I've been into jazz since my teen years, so I used to listen to KKGO and later KLON. As you can tell by my screen name, I'm none too pleased with the direction L.A. jazz radio has taken. (BTW -- Shotgun is a jazz-loving buddy of mine.)
 
Or how about the late 80's when I you had to listen to KIIS FM on 1150 because there were no mainstream CHR's in San Diego (unless you defined Q106 as mainstream at the time).


Amazing....truly....
 
I was surfing the other City boards and found that I could totally relate to this subject...but in reverse :) Back in my Jr High days we used to listen to the Mighty 690 in LA/Orange County for our music as most FM's back then had classical, beautiful or AOR only and the Mighty 690 was the place to hear the top 10 songs each hour! Also in the 80's I think I could pick up Q106 at night. I used to love scanning the dial and listening to distant signals. The farthest I could get was an AM station in Lincoln, Nebraska...lol.
 
jojocookin said:
Or how about the late 80's when I you had to listen to KIIS FM on 1150 because there were no mainstream CHR's in San Diego (unless you defined Q106 as mainstream at the time).


Amazing....truly....
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Haha, Jo-jo WAS ON Q106 back then!

Jo-jo, did you consider "the Q" to be a Mainstream CHR back then?
 
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