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The Last Mono FM Stations in Los Angeles?

Khof-fm

MadMan said:
You are full of it KM. KHOF and Doctor Gene Scott were mono way into the 80's, same with KMAX and I'm glad someone brought up KBOB as well. Please don't PM me anymore, nor attempt to write me at my personal email again, ok?
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I have read the thread regarding when, or if, KHOF-FM went to stereo. I thought I would try to clear up any confusion.

I was the Assistant Chief Engineer at KHOF. I was there from 1971 to 1977. We indeed converted KHOF-FM to stereo in the mid 1970's. I assisted in that project and remember when we had the stereo pair installed by Telco. Up until then we used a mono channel on the TV microwave. The project was initiated by the Program Director of KHOF-FM. The Chief Engineer and several of the engineering staff worked to make it happen. This was well before Dr. Scott became Pastor.

I left KHOF in 1977. Now, as to what Dr. Scott did with stereo on KHOF-FM after I left, I don't know. He may have turned off stereo and reverted to mono. Of course, none of the VTR's at that time had stereo capability and they mixed his program in mono. I know as a fact that the Telco loop from the Broadway studio to the KHOF-FM studio was mono, so transmitting in stereo was somewhat a moot point other than lighting the stereo pilot light. The only stereo capability we had were the turntables and maybe a few recorders at KHOF-FM. They were the source of stereo programming at that time.

You can learn a little more about it by going to this page and look towards the bottom of the "Fading Out" heading. http://fbn.faithbroadcastingnetwork.info/pgm_delivery.html

I hope this helps.

Joe Snelson
 
Thank you for that! I'm surprised that that KHOF actually followed the law by not using their Stereo Pilot while simulcasting Doc Scott's mono feed as they had such contempt for the FCC and the Federal Government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cAaIHdozI&list=PLC51EA7C8008356F1&index=1

God's Angry Man is a 1981 documentary film about Gene Scott, directed by Werner Herzog. The film was produced for television. The German title Glaube und Währung translates as Faith and Currency.

The film consists of footage of Scott on the set of his television program Festival of Faith and interviews with Scott and Scott's parents conducted by Herzog. The footage from Scott's television program focuses almost exclusively on his fundraising efforts and an elaborate rant against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Scott at one point refuses to speak until his viewers pledge an additional $600. After several minutes of silence, he yells angrily at the camera until a production assistant informs him that they have received $700. Scott represents the FCC on his show by a cymbal-banging monkey toy.
 
More on KHOF-FM

I have seen God’s Angry Man. That was produced after I left KHOF in June 1977. I left before the issues with the FCC surfaced. If anyone would like to learn more about KHOF-FM there are several articles under the KHOF-FM heading at the following web page.

http://fbn.faithbroadcastingnetwork.info/index.html#KHOF-FM

Bernie Marston and Byron Mobus posted some technical info on the station.
 
Its neat to see Doc Scott's parents that look and speak as normal as any parents and then watch Doc Scott staring into his House of Faith Cameras either not saying a word for up to 5 minutes or screaming at the top of his lungs. Great movie and everyone should watch it this Holiday season. Thanks to KM for originally letting us know about you and your work!
 
Pardon for the interruption but being from one of the fly-over states in the Midwest [Ohio, land of rednecks and crappy professional football] but a FM talk station here is still broadcasting in mono and have been ever since signing on. [Knowing the owners, they probably think that if they converted to stereo it would cost twice as much to operate]. WNIR
 
Yabadabado1 said:
Pardon for the interruption but being from one of the fly-over states in the Midwest [Ohio, land of rednecks and crappy professional football] but a FM talk station here is still broadcasting in mono and have been ever since signing on. [Knowing the owners, they probably think that if they converted to stereo it would cost twice as much to operate]. WNIR
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Greetings from another part of Flyover Country. Minnesota Public Radio's all-news WSCN in Duluth is as far as I know also still mono. Now back to the Coast...
 
This thread is about mono FM stations in Los Angeles. Since Arte Moreno insists that the Anaheim Angels are a Los Angeles team, then I'm going to claim that Salisbury, Connecticut, is also in Los Angeles. (It really isn't but that's how I justify this post on this thread.) WKZE 94.1 FM broadcasts in mono.

http://981kze.com/
 
LARadioRewind said:
Since Arte Moreno insists that the Anaheim Angels are a Los Angeles team, then I'm going to claim that Salisbury, Connecticut, is also in Los Angeles. (It really isn't but that's how I justify this post on this thread.)
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I've seen stretching the truth before, Steve, but this ... words escape me.
 
LARadioRewind said:
This thread is about mono FM stations in Los Angeles. Since Arte Moreno insists that the Anaheim Angels are a Los Angeles team, then I'm going to claim that Salisbury, Connecticut, is also in Los Angeles. (It really isn't but that's how I justify this post on this thread.) WKZE 94.1 FM broadcasts in mono.

http://981kze.com/
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Big enough earthquake and Salisbury could end up in LA.... :eek:
 
Hey, are you trying to scare me? In the past week, twelve earthquakes have occurred in Connecticut...and the front page of today's Daily News has a photo and article about the Northridge earthquake which occurred on this day in 1994. It registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, killed 57 people and caused $20 billion in damages. Scientists keep saying the Los Angeles area is way overdue for the so-called "Big One." A 6.7 was big enough---we don't really need or want a bigger one!

I found an article about FM mono broadcasting which mentions WKZE. Paul Thurst shows how FM mono allows for a greater coverage area than FM stereo. It has something to do with "free space power loss" and "inverse square law" and "modulation density" and a lot of equations which, to use a Groucho Marx line, I couldn't make head nor tail out of.

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2011/08/fm-stereo-vs-station-coverage/
 
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