All this talk about 103.7 brought to mind 1130 WKED. From my foggy memory it signed on back around 1977 by several including David Roederer who was a jack of all trades. Roederer worked in TV production prior to KED and ten years later operated a brake store in Lexington then returned to radio. At one point he was a Clear Channel manager in Evansville earlier this decade. It was 500 watt directional daytimer playing Top 40, the signal was decent on the west side of Lexington. Long time WEKU classical host, the late Wayne Gregory was news director. He used to share stories of covering the 1978 flood. At some point Leigh Allen purchased WKED and in 1982 it changed to country using the brand new Satellite Music Network "Country Coast to Coast". Allen did some bizarre commercials for the station that aired on Lexington TV. Eventually it changed to "Stardust" and was under common ownership with WFKY/WKYW. The station went dark about ten years ago. Any memories?
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WKED (1130) Frankfort
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I remember Mike Edgerly as the first news director. Wayne G may have been there between his stints on WLAP-AM and WEKU-FM, but I don't recall that. Seems like he worked for state government after 'LAP (with Gary White and others). Dave Roederer and David Rogers (sp?) sort of shook up the market when they arrived. Ed Janeway ran a good shop at 'FKY/'KYW, but 'KED spiced things up. First DJ crew on 1130 was Woody Stiles (formerly WKLO) in the early a.m. (or whenever they were allowed to sign on), Mason Lee Dixon (KXOK, WAKY, WDXR, WVLK) in middays, and Steven Lee Cook (WAKY, WHAS) in the afternoon until sunset. Leigh Allan later got pre-sunrise sign-on authority, but Dave and David had to go with pure sunrise to sunset..........8:00 a.m. to 515 p.m. in mid-winter. Later (under Leigh Allan), several notables passed through 'KED (Mark Hebert of WHAS-11, Jo Jacovino (sp?) who was Terry Meiners long-time producer at WHAS-AM.) Johnny Randolph actually worked a weekend shift there in the mid-90's during one of his semi-retired phases. 'KED-am was not sold with the fm, but was LMAed until CBC pulled the plug. This was in about 2002. Seems like they were having transmitter problems, and they just gave up. In the CC days of 'FKY, 1490 diplexed with 1130 on one of the 2 1130 towers out west of town. Last time I was by there (it's been a while), both 1130 towers were still up even though 1130 has been OTA for 5 years. Available for a comeback?
That's right, I forgot Steven Lee Cook worked there. It was a fight between KED and FKY. Just think if someone had the smarts to put WFKY on 104.9, imagine the possibilities. I never understood that, especially since their AM always had horrible audio.
It's been years since I've seen WKED's directional pattern. Who did they have to protect? Eaton, Ohio comes to mind.
It's been years since I've seen WKED's directional pattern. Who did they have to protect? Eaton, Ohio comes to mind.
radiorob2.0 said:That's right, I forgot Steven Lee Cook worked there. It was a fight between KED and FKY. Just think if someone had the smarts to put WFKY on 104.9, imagine the possibilities. I never understood that, especially since their AM always had horrible audio.
It's been years since I've seen WKED's directional pattern. Who did they have to protect? Eaton, Ohio comes to mind.
I'm not a radio engineer, nor do I play one in Holiday Inn Express commercials. So this is gonna sound stupid (won't be the first or the last time for that). But if you plot the 'KED-AM towers on a map, draw a line through them, and extend that line 300 miles to the west you hit Saint Louis. So I always thought the 'KED signal was pulled back in to the west-north-west to protect KMOX. I know, sounds ridiculous now. But..........back when 'KED-AM went on, the clear channel signals were quite protected by the FCC. Anyway, that was their pattern.........strong to the east-south-east (right toward Lexington), modest to the south-west-south and north-east-north, and weak to the west-north-west.
KMOX is too far from Frankfort to warrant protection. Who did WKED protect during the day? My first guess is Eaton, Ohio but it might no been on the air yet.
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radiorob2.0 said:KMOX is too far from Frankfort to warrant protection. Who did WKED protect during the day? My first guess is Eaton, Ohio but it might no been on the air yet.
Not nessessarly. 680 in Louisville has to protect 680 in Atlanta at night. What was 1130's day and night patterns?
kyscott said:radiorob2.0 said:KMOX is too far from Frankfort to warrant protection. Who did WKED protect during the day? My first guess is Eaton, Ohio but it might no been on the air yet.
Not nessessarly. 680 in Louisville has to protect 680 in Atlanta at night. What was 1130's day and night patterns?
I don't beleive 1130 had any night service except for maybe single digit wattage in it's last ten years. The day pattern is a mystery though I beleive they threw much of the signal towards the Southeast since they had a good singal in Lexington.
WKED was directional primarily SE toward Lexington. There were nulls in the pattern to the North to protect WCTM (now WEDI) in Eaton, Ohio, which came on the air in the 1970's. There is another station on 1130 in Brazil, Indiana (East of Terre Haute) which has been there for some time. I know that this Brazil stations gets out quite well toward the Indianapolis area.
radiorob2.0 said:kyscott said:radiorob2.0 said:KMOX is too far from Frankfort to warrant protection. Who did WKED protect during the day? My first guess is Eaton, Ohio but it might no been on the air yet.
Not nessessarly. 680 in Louisville has to protect 680 in Atlanta at night. What was 1130's day and night patterns?
I don't beleive 1130 had any night service except for maybe single digit wattage in it's last ten years. The day pattern is a mystery though I beleive they threw much of the signal towards the Southeast since they had a good singal in Lexington.
See several posts above for their day pattern. Not a full null to the west-north-west, but pulled back pretty well. Other than authorization for pre-sunrise @ 6 a.m. and 2 hours post-sunset, 'KED-AM never had legal authority to operate at night. However, the chief engineer hoodwinked Leigh Allan for a couple of years into thinking he did have night-time authority. So for a while, they operated 6 a.m. - midnight. When Leigh discovered he had been hoodwinked, he got legal real quick and had his (by then former) CE prosecuted for fraud. Former CE was to pay restitution to cover some expenses (FCC fine?), but he escaped from jail and never finished paying. (I'm not making this up. This was a big story locally in the mid 80's when it happened.)
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