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WKLO 1000
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Wklo am also use to reside here in louisville ky on 1080 am back in the day.
I remember this station. WKLO had 3 in-line towers on a ridge, along Rt 34 just East of Danville. It put a fairly good signal into Lexington. It was a Daytimer and for a while, toward the end of its existence, former late-50's Rock Singer and WNVL-1250 (now WVKY) talk show host, Dale Wright, worked there. I believe it pulled the plug around 1990.
In the 1960's, weren't WKLO and WAKY the two competing Top 40 stations in Lousville?
In the 1980's, the call letters WKLO belonged to the station in Danville.
Check this link:
http://www.cmaawards.com/2008/database/BroadcastDetail.aspx?artistId=1515
I am doing some research and should find more info on the WKLO in Danville shortly.
Check this link:
http://www.cmaawards.com/2008/database/BroadcastDetail.aspx?artistId=1515
I am doing some research and should find more info on the WKLO in Danville shortly.
The original call letters for this station in Danville were WOOP. It came on the air in 1980. It was built by Honus Shane. It appears that the call was changed to WKLO in the early 1980's. An ex-WKLO-1080 Louisville radio personality, Johnny Randolph was involved with the Danville WKLO operation for a time before being hired away by ex-WHAS personality Wayne Perkey, who owned WHIR/WMGE, also in Danville, at the time. Shortly after Randolph left the Danville WKLO, it went dark and it wasn't long before the towers were removed from their site east of Danville. It is clear however, the WKLO was still active in 1988 from the link I provided in an earlier post of mine. The information contained here comes from a great book published in 1995 called Towers over Kentucky, by Francis M. Nash. This nearly 400 page book, complete with lots of photos, contains histories of most Radio and TV stations in KY.
This is interesting....
While doing some Google-ing on WKLO in Danville, I found a Radar Weather site for the station. Here's the link...
http://www.findlocalweather.com/radar/ky/wklo-am+(danville).html
This site is a "ghost" and no updates appear to be there, but it is amazing it is still up after 15 years or so.
While doing some Google-ing on WKLO in Danville, I found a Radar Weather site for the station. Here's the link...
http://www.findlocalweather.com/radar/ky/wklo-am+(danville).html
This site is a "ghost" and no updates appear to be there, but it is amazing it is still up after 15 years or so.
KR4BD said:
..a little more info
Shane had wanted to team up with Randolph in a radio project. Randolph agreed if Shane could secure a license around Danville. WKLO signed on the air in the early 80's with Johnny doing mornings and GM, his wife doing middays and a local guy (Charlie something) doing afternoons. Shifts beyond that were part time since it was a daytimer. The newsman was Hershel McKendrick(?). Gary Burbank voiced the top of the hour ID and the old WKLO jingles were used.
The facility was really nice. All audio was on cart. Because of this, Randolph placed a sign in the control room saying:
These tapes will not play in an 8track player
The console and I believe the transmitter were built by Shane.
The details of WKLO's fall revolved around a gentleman's agreement between Shane and Randolph regarding transfer of ownership. Randolph felt slighted and upset that Shane didn't try to grab the Lancaster CP for 105.1, so Randolph along with his wife and the rest went to work at WHIR/WMGE leaving Shane high and dry.
Shane changed the format to oldies for a short time. Then Shane hired Rich Hunter to manage the station who switched it to AC. Hunter promised the world and tried to fulfill it with no budget. Dale Wright was hired away from WNVL for an afternoon talk show. Dale was there for a few days and left realizing what was about to happen. The money soon ran out and the station went dark.
All of the WKLO gold records and memorabilia from that time hangs on the wall of Shane's cafe in Pine Knob.
P.S...the Francis Nash book is well written book.
WKLO is now in Hardinsburg,IN on 96.9. Sadly, it's not using the calls like they were used back in the day...satellite delivered classic country.
radiorob2.0 said:
Honus, and the spelling of his last name is "Shain" and *not* "Shane", has a website (although with quite limited content) at ...
www.honusshain.com
dcgreene said:
You're right, my mistake. It was late when I wrote that and my mind was mush. I also blame too many years of RF and Pro 4AA's blasting that evil rock and roll in my ears killing brain cells.
Wasn't that the same guy who built all those control room boards back in the 60's and 70's? Seems like when I first got in the business back in the 70s', every little radio station I went in had one somewhere...control room, production room, newsroom...somewhere.
Rumor was at that time that this guy pretty much built them in his garage and 'you couldn't kill 'em' ;D
Wonder if any of them are still around?
Rumor was at that time that this guy pretty much built them in his garage and 'you couldn't kill 'em' ;D
Wonder if any of them are still around?
timespentnotlistening said:
Well ... since you mentioned it ...
I have no idea if any are still around, but it would be interesting to hear comments from current users.
Regardless, I spent four years in front of a "Shain & Young" board in the control room of WBGN, Bowling Green in the early 70s. It was a solid piece of engineering in my opinion. The switches on the turntable channels (#4 and #5 as I recall) were wired to perform remote (AC) starts and we thought that was pretty slick stuff back then. The board wasn't particularly feature-rich (maybe four or five additional alternate sources on channels # 7 and #8) but it was solid, well built, and sounded quite good on an AM signal in that day.
Question ... does anyone recall who the "Young" was in the name of a "Shain & Young" board?
Does anyone know how the calls got to Hardinsburg, IN? I can listen to this station, and enjoy it from time to time, but it will never be a Louisville station due to being on the same frequency as the Lexington/Paris station. In fact, I used to be able to pick up the other 96.9 at Corydon. I know this new KLO wants a broad coverage area, with their ID mentioning Hardinsburg, Corydon, and French Lick, and advertisers from Corydon to Washington and Bedford, IN!BobOnTheJob said:
KyDXIn said:
Well it will never be a Louisville station because it's too far away. The 1 millivolt service contour just barely covers the northwest corner of Harrison county. It doesn't even make it to Corydon.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM603703.html
It looks to me like they snatched up the calls when WKLO in Danville went dark. It was effective on 8/16/2000. And a familiar name was involved in that: Keith Reising.
greg.hahn said:
WKLO Danville went dark in the early 90's so they didn't just snatch up the call letters. There is a story on one of John Quincy's message boards about Keith Reising and the colorful way he acquired the CP for 106.9.
It's long gone but I did have a coverage map of WKLO Danville. It seems the coverage went to the NNE and SSW with nulls to the east and west.
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