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Who Remembers "K-Lite" FM?

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hitliner

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Anyone else remember this 1980's lite rock station that (I believe) took over the dial numbers when KYA left FM? Mike Phillps (who would go onto KFRC and then create the current KOIT) was program director and Tom Parker was their morning man.

It was a great music mix with unusal call letters (Am I the only one who gets this?).
 
um, for someone born in the late 70's, refresh my memory, what were the call letters and freq.??? heck, I barely remember KYUU, I know, I'm young, what can I say???
 
> Quit bragging, young guy. "K-Lite 93" was KLHT, San Francisco. Hoping for KLIT weren't you? BTW- It wasn't "after KYA left FM" like the previous poster indicated - the same company owned KLHT as KYA, they were just trying a new "Lite" rock format and wanted the call letters to match. They went back to KYA-FM when they switched to Oldies. The KYA call letters were not retired until Infinity bought the station, and flipped the format to "Young Country" KYCY.
I didn't think much of the station - just a KOIT clone. A lot of the day's programming was poorly automated.

um, for someone born in the late 70's, refresh my memory,
> what were the call letters and freq.??? heck, I barely
> remember KYUU, I know, I'm young, what can I say???
>
 
I didn't think the call letters weren't KLHT..but oh well.

And I knew it was automated but Mike Phillips would deny that. I remember the automation being so bad that it would play the same song within a two hour period.

And I remember their tv commerical...set in a bar.

How long was it around?
 
> Anyone else remember this 1980's lite rock station that (I
> believe) took over the dial numbers when KYA left FM? Mike
> Phillps (who would go onto KFRC and then create the current
> KOIT) was program director and Tom Parker was their morning
> man.
>
> It was a great music mix with unusal call letters (Am I the
> only one who gets this?).
>

It was KLHT when King Broadcasting was in the middle of destroying two of the best radio stations in the history of San Francisco radio. They already ruined 1260 KYA and just got through destroying KYA-FM (Y-93). I don't think Tom Parker was ever there. He went over to KYUU.
 
> I didn't think the call letters weren't KLHT..but oh well.
>
> And I knew it was automated but Mike Phillips would deny
> that. I remember the automation being so bad that it would
> play the same song within a two hour period.
>
>And they didn't even bother to have the DJs ID the songs or sound live, so they'd come on every few songs and say something like "K-Lite 93 - Hi, I'm Paula Kelly." What's the point?
>
 
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