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when did the Radio Bug bite you???

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only1deejayman

I decided to get into the radio biz, back when I was a hardcore KMEL listener, back in the dayz of rick chase, evan luck, john london, morning zoo, michael erikson, theo, rosary, renel, It all started when I went to a "remote" where the KMEL "mastercruiser" was with michael erikson, then I met rick chase, coolest guy ever, then went to chabot, then quickly left and went to better digs over at ohlone in fremont, then got a couple of internship's under my belt, did some time overnights, promotions, producer, mentor training, and decided that for the money and the "job security" or lack their of, to look into other jobs, but my heart is still in the radio arena.....your first love for radio...:)
 
I was bitten by the radio bug in 1955 when I discovered KFBK in Sacramento one night on my transistor sister. They had Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys live from some Hofbraugh on K Street. I was listening in southern California. Heard the morning show ("Turn back the clock") on KFI (Earle C. Anthony Incorporated) every morning before school. It was more stimulating talk radio back then, in my humble opinion.

It's been downhill ever since....
 
one saturday night, going up the radio dial, i found joe crummy (when he was on KFI weekends). thought he was super funny and entertaining. i fell in love with talk radio and kfi. i missed kfi weekends back then.. u had the idea that anyone could be on the air. mr kfi was great too.
 
> I decided to get into the radio biz, back when I was a
> hardcore KMEL listener, back in the dayz of rick chase, evan
> luck, john london, morning zoo, michael erikson, theo,
> rosary, renel, It all started when I went to a "remote"
> where the KMEL "mastercruiser" was with michael erikson,
> then I met rick chase, coolest guy ever, then went to
> chabot, then quickly left and went to better digs over at
> ohlone in fremont, then got a couple of internship's under
> my belt, did some time overnights, promotions, producer,
> mentor training, and decided that for the money and the "job
> security" or lack their of, to look into other jobs, but my
> heart is still in the radio arena.....your first love for
> radio...:)
>

I too was a big fan of those days at KMEL. Remember The California Music Channel (CMC) @ 3PM on Ch. 26?

It was a totally different time in radio when all the stations weren't owned by the same people. I also remember the serious competition between Wild 107.7 and KMEL; it was fun to be a radio listener then.

Made me want to get into it so bad. Then I finally did and the bubble was BURST! Computers, automation, voice tracking... What the hell was that?

-RadioEnginerd<P ID="signature">______________
If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything...</P>
 
> I was bitten by the radio bug in 1955 when I discovered KFBK
> in Sacramento one night on my transistor sister. They had
> Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys live from some Hofbraugh on
> K Street. I was listening in southern California. Heard the
> morning show ("Turn back the clock") on KFI (Earle C.
> Anthony Incorporated) every morning before school. It was
> more stimulating talk radio back then, in my humble opinion.
>
>
> It's been downhill ever since....
>

Could the hofbrau have been Sam's Hofbrau at 18th and J? Now Hamburger Mary's (the SF based chain)?

Did you ever catch Emil Martin and "Organ Moods?" Martin was the long-time program director of the station in its Sacramento Bee building days.

I got the bug listening to KCBS, 740, San Francisco when it was still in the Sheraton Palace Hotel, pre 1965. Visited there twice before I was ten... and got to see how they kept "McElhatton in the Morning" rolling along with Dave and Friendly Clyde at the grand piano in the eastern-most studio.

A lot of show prep on Dave's part... along with pre-production of various bits. Dave had a huge three ring binder in front of him with all the copy for the show.

KCBS kept three fairly good sized studios (really big by today's standards) in use during the day with a mix of locally produced programs and network feeds.

Don't know about you, but I really enjoyed the two longer morning and evening network newscasts, the CBS World News Roundup and 40+ years later can't recall the name of the evening cast. Do any stations take the full magilla anymore?

KUBA, 1600, Yuba City now carries CBS but doesn't carry the full cast. Wish they'd use the network tone cues to leave the net instead of the computer's clock. They're always off and either cut off the last sylable of two of the network spot, or don't get out soon enough and you get hooked on the next story... and the local news pops on.

Ted.



Ted.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TedL on 06/21/05 08:11 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> I was bitten by the radio bug in 1955 when I discovered KFBK
> in Sacramento one night on my transistor sister. They had
> Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys live from some Hofbraugh on
> K Street. I was listening in southern California. Heard the
> morning show ("Turn back the clock") on KFI (Earle C.
> Anthony Incorporated) every morning before school. It was
> more stimulating talk radio back then, in my humble opinion.
>
>
> It's been downhill ever since....

Glad to see I'm not the oldest person here :)

I grew up in NYC, listening to WABC and WMCA in their '60s heyday, and (late at nite) tuning in to CKLW Detroit and WKBW Buffalo on my tiny transistor radio. And later came free-form FM on WNEW-FM and WABC-FM (which later became WPLJ). Which led to college radio and the ABC Radio Networks. I'm (thankfully) no longer in the biz.
 
A long time ago in a distant galaxy... I grew up listening to NYC's WABC. Cousin Brucie, instant replays of the Supremes Baby Love and every nuance of the Beatles run in the 60's. I evolved into a closet radio rocker in my tweens and early teens - WPLJ & WLIR. Late nights listening in my room to Jethro Tull and Zepplin..dreaming of being one of the first chick DJ's. Sadly...I never got into rock radio. I still apply, but instead of sounding like a raspy biker chick, I sound like a soccer mom. sucks to be me?

Favorite industry movie: FM - just call me "mother".
Favorite industry TV show: WKRP - I worked there at least twice.

Started in the biz when I was 19 doing overnights in Columbia, MO.

Gotta go now..have to go do another fill in shift for some upstart who needed the day off.
 
KXLA 1110 Pasadena in the mid 1950's, XEAK 690 in the late 1950's. But it was small market KUTY 1470 Palmdale in 1958,59 and 60 close to where I lived with Norm Woodruff and Bill Loren, later Bob Kingsley and Rog Martin that got me hooked. Those were better radio days.
 
> Could the hofbrau have been Sam's Hofbrau at 18th and J?
> Now Hamburger Mary's (the SF based chain)?

It was Sam's for sure. It's been a long time, of course, but I do remember that part.

> Did you ever catch Emil Martin and "Organ Moods?" Martin
> was the long-time program director of the station in its
> Sacramento Bee building days.

I never heard that. I do remember when Bill Drake's format hit KHJ and KFRC, I could hear AM 610 certain nights without too much interference. And KEWB was very much like KFWB in Hollywood. AM DX was much easier back then.

Many winter nights in the late 50's brought distant signals to my Admiral tabletop radio, including WBZ and KDKA, along with WHAS. WWL was a regular in southern California at night before the full-time use of 870 khz in Glendale. And I even heard the grand ole Opry in Canoga Park on WSM, despite the strong first-adjacent signal from KFI. Better receivers back then, even in the cars.

Those days are long gone, for sure.
 
Re: Modulate my Amplitude

Easy. In 1964. The Beatles were cartoons and I wanted to do radio ever since I saw the KYA tower from my backyard and tried to find it on a radio, figuring it would be the strongest signal since the tower was so close.

Since I've listened so long, I just shake my head whenever I hear programmers of oldies stations (and 70's to 90's Hot A/C stations) play nothing but Beatles, Beach Boys and Supremes whenever they feel like putting on 60's songs. There was a lot more to it than that, but I don't want to go into a whole shpiel about programming music.

KYA was the best. If I thought for a moment it would ever go away (not to mention KYA-FM when it was Y-93), I would have taped days' worth.
 
Re: "KYA was the best..."

Tom_SF wrote:

> KYA was the best. If I thought for a moment it would ever
> go away (not to mention KYA-FM when it was Y-93), I would
> have taped days' worth.
>

Gotcha covered, my brother. Just scan down the page at:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/pages/index.shtml

That should get you started. I've got another 30 or 40 hours of 1960s and 1970s KYA stuff waiting to get set up on the site.

DJ
 
O.K., After reading so many others, I feel ike a real pup adding my 2 cents. But here goes..........
Late 70's in Oakland I stumbled across this guy on the radio that was (hold on to your bobby sox) Talking to his listeners. I was drawn to it and ended up listening every night before bedtime.
Fast forward a coupla years. I am living in the Washington D.C. area and wake up one morning to these two guys "Don and Mike" on WAVA. They had this great way of making their listeners ( me ) feel like we were "in on the joke" and a part of THEIR day. Not vice versa( and still do ). Not to mention the Greaseman on DC101 and Stern as well.
Most kids have fond memories of summer days at the park or whatever. I remember bits from these guys. At that point I was hooked. I had to try and do ( I repeat, TRY ) what they did.
Fast forward a coupla more years and I am living in central Oregon and find my self with an opportunity to intern for KICE. I do, and along with two buddies get a shot at hosting 2 hours every Fri. night. And my bank account has never recovered, but I love what I do, and I'm still TRYING to do what those guys did for me as a kid.................
 
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