The San Francisco Board To Close?

[tripton99]

Before anyone complains, this list is short and misses some key players that I just can't remember in my old age.

Some of the talent on the first KNEW (1966) Jack Lacy (from WBAL-Baltimore) Van Amberg, Dean Webber, Ron Dunn, Joe Dolan (10p-1am). The news department included Mike Forrest, Mike Powell, Gil Haar, Norm Woodruff, and Jim Simon.

The talk era of the late '60s included Dolan in morning drive, Pat Michaels (the '60s answer to Rush), and yes, Jim Eason. pre-KGO.

the second attempt at music included Ron Reynolds, Ron Lyons, and Jack Hayes

 

[pard]

If you heard Tall Tom play "Me and Mrs. Jones" on a KNEW aircheck, it was probably a current. The station played a handful of currents (always leaning MOR) at the time. I think it was four per hour. KNEW? Oldies? Bill Collins, Hal Pickens, Steve Newman, Eddie Alexander, Bob Raleigh. And of course, Jim Tharp, the All American Engineer. I think Don Bowman (KEWB) tagged Tharp with that nickname.

 

[davideduardo]

beginning[/i] to become popular..."

.... not even that.

The number of FMs on the air at the start of 1960 was around 600. At the start of 1950, there were over a thousand. So popular was FM that 400 stations, give or take, turned in their licences.

Take a look at the 1950 and 1960 Broadcasting Yearbooks at www.americanradiohistory.com

 

[DavidKaye]

BossradioDJ

Thanks for the airchecks from KNEW. I was Joe Dolan's producer at the time of his aircheck and I produced the entire 91-hour Sinatra marathon also in the set of airchecks.

What became of Joe Dolan anyhow? I thought I'd heard that he went into lawyering fulltime. Is he still around?

 

[tripton99]

Dolan?

I heard he was a judge down in Southern Cali

 

[BossRadioDJ]

Dolan?

I heard he was a judge down in Southern Cali

Here's a 1966 Tribune article about Joe Dolan -- "The Voice of Oakland" -- at KNEW from my collection of radio dross:

http://www.broadcastarts.org/knew/articles/trib_joe-dolan_1966-10-16.gif

Don Chamberlain's obituary is posted at:

http://www.sfradiomuseum.com/people/don-chamberlain_obit.shtml

Contrary to popular legend, Don is not/was not Candi Chamberlain's pappy.

 

[landtuna]

beginning[/i] to become popular..."

.... not even that.

The number of FMs on the air at the start of 1960 was around 600. At the start of 1950, there were over a thousand. So popular was FM that 400 stations, give or take, turned in their licences.

Take a look at the 1950 and 1960 Broadcasting Yearbooks at www.americanradiohistory.com

C'mon David, gimme a break. The topic was Bay Area (specifically S.F.) radio.

 

[davideduardo]

C'mon David, gimme a break. The topic was Bay Area (specifically S.F.) radio.

If anything, FM developed in the Bay Area later than many other markets because of the terrain. Again, look at the number of FMs in the area, like the 250 kw Mt. San Bruno one on 100.5, went away in the years before 1960.

 

[JEREMIAH]

JACK LACEY:

FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS HUGE IN N.Y. ON WINS....IT WAS "LISTEN TO LACY"
EVERY AFTERNOON. HE PLAYED THE POP HITS OF THE DAY. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WERE ROCK ON HIS SHOW. WHEN WINS WENT NEWS IN THE MID '60s HE EVEN STAYED ON READING NEWS FOR AWHILE (MUST HAVE HAD A CONTRACT) I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT WBAL IN BALTIMORE BUT DO REMEMBER HIM TURNING UP AT KNEW. METROMEDIA WAS TRYING TO IMITATE THEIR SUCCESS AT WNEW IN N.Y. THINKING THEY MIGHT TAKE A BITE OUT OF KSFO.
yOU KNOW TH REST OF THE STORY.


JERRY GORDON KNUU LAS VEGAS [email protected]

 

[DavidKaye]

METROMEDIA WAS TRYING TO IMITATE THEIR SUCCESS AT WNEW IN N.Y. THINKING THEY MIGHT TAKE A BITE OUT OF KSFO.
yOU KNOW TH REST OF THE STORY.

This has happened quite a bit. They tried to make KNEW-TV a clone of KTTV or WNEW-TV. Didn't work. The people who owned WPAT in Paterson NJ tried to duplicate their format out here with KPAT (aka KRE) and that failed, too. ABC tried the "Musicradio" format out here on KSFX and it didn't work. We're a picky bunch of listeners.

I guess one that did work was KDIA's emulation of WDIA in Memphis. That was a successful one.

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

C'mon David, gimme a break. The topic was Bay Area (specifically S.F.) radio.

If anything, FM developed in the Bay Area later than many other markets because of the terrain. Again, look at the number of FMs in the area, like the 250 kw Mt. San Bruno one on 100.5, went away in the years before 1960.

Actually it was on Mt. Diablo for a while with studios in Stockton before it went dark. KSBR 100.5 started in San Bruno and then moved.

David---I love your site! It saves me having to go to the library like I used to in San Francisco. Thank you for sharing the info for all of us geeks out there!

 

[JEREMIAH]

WOW! DAVID KAYE.....MEMORIES OF KDIA "LUCKY 13".... GREAT R&B...JOHN HARDY(WHO I LATER WORKED WITH AT KSFO)..... JEANNE BLEVINS LATE NIGHT JAZZ SHOW FOLLOWED BY WALLY RAY WITH MORE JAZZ ALL NIGHT.

I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF THAT STATION. EVEN "ROSCO" BILL MERCER WORKED THERE FOR AWHILE AS "SPACEMAN ROSCO" AT NITE BEFORE JEANNE.

ALL THOSE FOLKS SOUNDED TERRIFIC!


JERRY GORDON KNUU LAS VEGAS

 

[DavidKaye]

WOW! DAVID KAYE.....MEMORIES OF KDIA "LUCKY 13".... GREAT R&B...

As luck would have it, for just under a year I worked at Swan's department store in downtown Oakland (9th & 10th, Washington & Clay). In those days (1970-71) lots of musicians, KDIA DJs, and various people in the gospel movement came into Swan's. That's how I met everybody from A.J. Kemp (KDIA) and Lou Davis (KABL, et al) to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (Black Panthers). And over the years I went into Lois the Pie Queen's diner on Adeline and occasionally hung out at a couple of the gospel churches. Lois Davis, of course, was gospel singer Tramaine Hawkins' mother. And Tramaine had begun with the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") just a few years earlier.

Man, being in Oakland in those days was a heady experience! And KDIA was there with its music and its "truth in soul" news spoke to the Oakland community unlike any radio station has ever spoken to its community before or since. At least that's how I feel about it.

Y'know, I don't miss KFRC or KYA or even KEWB to anywhere near the degree that I miss KDIA. And I'm not even black.

 

[mightymoose]

Anyone on ths board ever work for Bill Weaver at KLOK??