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Tulsa Radio

Rene,

It will be good to have you back in T-Town, even if just for a while. Good luck with "Bloodline." A movie theme right up my alley.

Scooter B and others lurk around here, I'm sure you will hear from them.

I remember Kitty Roberts calling herself "Kitty Roberts, Girl Reporter." The San Antonio programmers didn't like that and squelched it. Go figure.
 
Rene, I never knew your real name, thought it was Kathy Chronister -- which is why I re-glossed you "Cookie Cannister." Sounds like good stuff happening in your life. But be careful back in the 9-1-8. That movie sounds like something sure to bring out the pitchforks and gasoline crowd. Scoot.
 
Rene Barnett said:
I live in Los Angeles now... as I have since shortly after leaving KAKC. I work in TV and film now and am returning to Tulsa this week with my first theatrical release, a controversial documentary called 'Bloodline' which investigates the idea of a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and a secret society called the Priory of Sion. It will be showing at the Circle Cinema Sunday evening (August 16), and I'll be there to chat and answer questions after the show.

I'm hoping to run into some of my old radio buddies and anyone I knew 'back in the day' and also look forward to making some new friends in Tulsa as well. Take care! René Barnett
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You ought to look up Beau Weaver, who now lives in the LA area. He was at KAKC near or slightly before the time that you were there.
 
Jim Peters is also in LA, working with the band Spirit Alley. He says Robert W Walker is also working with them, so guess Rob jets in from Miami. They were both gone from KAKC before you were with us, but left such large footprints and memories, you surely still felt their presence.
 
Wow, Stan. Saw that name on a list the other night, and wondered where it came from. This time, I'll write it in ink and take it to the library. Have you read any more Dorsey? He'll laugh you right out of finishing a chapter and going back to sleep. Try some Carl Hiassen, too.
 
Yep, read a lot of Hiassen. My listeners recommended Dorsey, Hiassen and Hess. Funny how they can pick up on your sense of humor.

Vegas has to get lucky soon....

stan
 
BTW What was the circumstances that caused KAKC to flip to MOR in 1978? That was a real shock at my High School in Bartlesville!

And also former KAKC jock Steve Suttle is doing afternoons for KRKE "Real Oldies 1600" in Albuquerque...good sounding station.

http://www.realoldies1600.com/
 
Rene Barnett said:
I don't have any new Tulsa radio news... maybe some nostalgia. I used to work at KAKC as a news reporter back in the mid 70s. Richard Dowdell was news director then, and I was known as "Kathy Chronister, KAKC Hotline News." I was on the air at the same time as Scooter Seagraves, Michael "Morning Mouth" McCarthy, Charlie Derek, Denver Fox, Gary "Ono" Stevens, Captain Fantastic, Johnny Rivers, and more. It was a hot time and the pretty much a last hoorah for AM music radio as FM was movin' in (KMOD was the 'cool' new FM station, and we all secrety listened to Kitty Roberts).

I live in Los Angeles now... as I have since shortly after leaving KAKC. I work in TV and film now and am returning to Tulsa this week with my first theatrical release, a controversial documentary called 'Bloodline' which investigates the idea of a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and a secret society called the Priory of Sion. It will be showing at the Circle Cinema Sunday evening (August 16), and I'll be there to chat and answer questions after the show.

I'm hoping to run into some of my old radio buddies and anyone I knew 'back in the day' and also look forward to making some new friends in Tulsa as well. Take care! René Barnett
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Had the opportunity to see Rene, nee Kathy an the film's showing Sundaynight at the Circle Theater. It was great to catch up. She is doing very well. The film is fun and well made. Rene should be proud. Another
KAKC alum kickin' butt!
FYI the film speculates that Jesus & Mary Magdaline were married and that their "BloodLine" still exists. I'm not sure about that...but I really don't buy the suggestion that Seagraves is JC's KID.
 
(Heavy, rolling echo) "You can't say that on the radio (or, on radio-info.com), Michael!!!!!" :eek:

BTW, went to Seattle this past weekend to see some relatives, and hooked up with Laura (Dalesandro) Martin. And brother Buzz was there, so we terrified a couple of islands in your name. He says "hi."
 
Stacker/Stan, finally got the first two 'Maggody' books. Thanxx for the tip. Judging by a couple of geographic clues, 'Maggody' would be pretty near Shack in da Woods. My ZIP is 72630; mentioned Hasty is 72640.

All: let's put our hands together for returning Tulsa brother Steve Clem on his selection -- and for TU's KWGS on its wisdom in choosing him -- as Operations Manager, re-upping with Jon Durkee and Marshall Stewart from previous lifetimes.
 
Kudzooterheimer...read carefully. Given the proximity of the Shack-in-the-Woods, you may have already been written into the Hess stories.
 
OMG, kxojdj, are you trying to help Joan Hess write me into a story? I worked the summer of 1961 at
"Famous KMUS...with studios adjacent to Muskogee's luxurious landfill." Cellmates included PD Ron Kirby, Tom Lofton, Dean (Gilbert) Hall and Jim Ricks -- with the owner doing personal screeds under the rubric, "Comment and Controversy" (which we occasionally transposed from "Horace C. Boren's Comment and Controversy" to "Horace C's Boren Comment and Controversy"). Wonder if divulging this information will bring down the asking price?
 
That is cool. It is now owned by Radio Disney and licensed to Sperry. Was it on 1380? What was the format?

All of the programming comes straight from Radio Disney in LA now. They are one of the few AM stations in Tulsa running HD.
 
Both KMUS and KBIX had a mix of formats, although KBIX was pretty close to straight top 40 until 10PM when they wound down the day with softer, MOR stuff. As I re-read this, I remembered that KBIX also started the day with country, although not quite as primitive as what I'd play on KMUS. The summer I worked there, I'd sign KMUS on (yes, on 1380) at 5AM, then just segue real lowdown, gutbucket hillbilly til 6 while I typed stories for the news I'd do during Ron Kirby's morning show. 6AM til Dean Gilbert came on (not sure if 8 or 9PM), music was pretty much like A/C is today -- popular stuff, but just not anything really rocking or extreme. Dean would play Muskogee's version of KRMG's "Music til Midnight."
 
Now, added to the 1380 sale are two new radio rumbles:

99.5 format flip coming soon
106.1 format flip coming soon

predictions anyone? Closest guess wins like-new Pinto with a stereo 8-track deck. (under dash mount model)
 
kxojdj said:
Now, added to the 1380 sale are two new radio rumbles:

99.5 format flip coming soon
106.1 format flip coming soon

predictions anyone? Closest guess wins like-new Pinto with a stereo 8-track deck. (under dash mount model)
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At this point in the state of the radio industry, many of us are just starting to lose interest about who's flipping to what and when unless it affects our job directly.

Remember the days when flips were EXCITING and created waves and buzz? Not so much anymore. That horse had been beaten to a pulp. Flips are only really fun and intriguing when they're the exception, rather than the rule.

At this point (for a lot of radio groups) it starts to look like moving the chairs around on the deck of the Titanic.
 
Gary, I wish I could disagree with you... it's pretty much "does this affect my job?" these days. Still fun to speculate & think "what if", though. :)

Maybe 1380 could simulcast 93.5 Chome-FM... LOL... that AM signal is really a city of Tulsa-only signal, ESPECIALLY at night. Forget Sapulpa, forget Owasso.

The signal is so muddy right now (I think because of their digital overlay) it's hard for me to tell what is good signal & what is bad signal.

...It looks like Broken Arrow can hear you...

I have absolutely no CLUE what you could do with 1380 & be successful. I think it would take live / voicetracked local jocks to make it successful, but the cost would be too high to justify anything beyond automation / satellite. Maybe infomercials / purchased block programming?

If 99.5 simulcasts 1170, it's also possible 106.1 might go country, as bad an idea as I think that is. The idea would be to let 99.5 beat on KRMG, while 106.1 could beat on K95.5FM. If those two were dragged down, it might let CC's KMOD rise to #1. Just a thought.

I wondered how everybody was so sure 106.1 was flipping formats (besides the miserable numbers), and then a friend sent me this:

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/66226/seal-exits-as-kqll-goes-christmas-kbez-also

Which says, in part:

"Concurrently, PD KEVAN SEAL is out. Reach out to him at [email protected]."

...Which I don't think they would have done if they were going to keep the format, or do anything similar (70s, etc).

Does Kevan's leaving also mean the death of Chrome? At one time he was claiming that was his idea, & his baby. Wasn't his dad, uncle, somebody related, going to be doing afternoons at one point?

Although I absolutely HATED what Kevan did to KOOL, I don't wish a job loss on ANYBODY. He's a got a great set of pipes, & I hope he lands on his feet quickly... maybe in an even better situation. I believe he really did give it his all, & that's admirable. I've talked in the past about wanting to stand or fall on my own abilities and ideas, & amazingly it looks like that's what CC allowed him to do. If so, my hat is also off to CC... it's rare to get that opportunity.

One can only hope that if it was Kevan's programming that failed, that it won't keep Kevan from succeeding in other areas, & that CC will allow other talented individuals a chance to use their ability to program winning stations for them.
 
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