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The highway stations
- Thread starter 30james
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They were set up as a group to cover the highly transited road from LA to Vegans. They are now owned by Richard Heftel.
Here's a story I wrote in 2005, when the stations' founder was still alive.
www.radioworld.com
Radio on the Road to Las Vegas
From Howard Hughes to 'The Drive,' Highway Radio Keeps the High Desert Tuned In
www.radioworld.com
Why would they segregate the Vegans away from LA? And why would such a road be so highly transited? Did the Vegans have to commute into LA for their jobs?
Inquiring minds want to bust your hump...
Didnāt they flip to a dance format for maybe six months?
I had to read this three times before I finally saw the joke.
I blame the heat. Or the lack of protein.
I think so. That's why the "Vibe" name stuck around.
Not to be confused with 94.5 The Vibe ā an excelled EDM station about a decade ago in Vegas proper (well, a rimshot signal into Vegas).
In 1983 there were two stations KRXV and KXVR, billboards on the I-15 advertised them as "KRXV 98/99 FM. Take the drag out of the drive."
The Highway Stations
"The Highway Stations" began in 1980 specifically to serve motorists driving between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. At...
radiostickeroftheday.blogspot.com
I remember those FM stations, when my wife and I drove from the SF Bay Area to Las Vegas, getting on I-15 in Barstow and you'd picked them up along I-15.
My problem was I was messing with the car radio seeing the furthest AM I could hear, even during the day!
Good old 1520 KOMA Oklahoma City came in LOUD after you got into the high desert at night . . . I mean REALLY LOUD, in Las Vegas too.
This was when KOMA was RnR in the 80's.
Also, this was way before KOMA's towers got destroyed by a tornado and they went 10kw night non-DA.
Al
My problem was I was messing with the car radio seeing the furthest AM I could hear, even during the day!
Good old 1520 KOMA Oklahoma City came in LOUD after you got into the high desert at night . . . I mean REALLY LOUD, in Las Vegas too.
This was when KOMA was RnR in the 80's.
Also, this was way before KOMA's towers got destroyed by a tornado and they went 10kw night non-DA.
Al
Vegans? Stations dedicated to non-meat eating people?
Believe it or not...
www.feelingvegas.com
What Are Las Vegas Residents Called? (Explained) - FeelingVegas
Some city names can be easily turned into nicknames that make sense. Others, like Las Vegas, make one wonder what its residents might be called. If youāre
www.feelingvegas.com
As the post before this showed, "Vegans" is an accepted name for people who live in Las Vegas. I find it kinda' amusing, too.
The PD of 94.5 The Vibe programmed the Highway Stations with a dance format after 94.5 was sold. That only lasted a few months before the owner wanted a Hot AC format. He stole the āVibeā name and kept it on the Highway Stations.
Why did they flip back at AC? I figured Dance would do better in Vegas of all places over hot AC
The difference is that "Vegans", meaning residents of Las Vegas, is pronounced:
VAY-gun
...and the word not in common usage when I lived in Vegas in the 80s, that we're all accustomed to now, for people who eat nothing derived from animal products, is pronounced:
VEE-gun
Letās use both in a sentence.
Some Vegans are vegan.
Some Vegans are vegan.
What vegan Vegans eat in Vegas stays in Vegas.
. They can be Vegans forever. I used to live in a part of Akron known as Kenmore. So we were all Kenmorons.
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