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Post by Mike on Mar 12, 2003 23:28:19 GMT -5
I've been going through tapes I recorded years ago of FM stations and wondered if anyone knows what happened to these stations/freqs for SLC/Provo UT.
KFMC 96.1 when did they go off or switch to KAYK?
KAYK 96.? was KAYK on 96.1 and did they switch to 96.3?
What happened during the time between KAYK and KFMY?
Was KFMY on 96.1 or 96.3 or when did they switch?
After KFMY it looks like it was KZOL and then KXRK on 96.3-----right?
Thanks in advance if you have any ideas or history.
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Post by radiorelic on Mar 12, 2003 23:49:55 GMT -5
KFMC was the sister station of KOVO... In about 1968 or 1969 as KFMC in the evenings there was a very progressive show by a guy named Randy Morrison that later went and made a splash in Denver radio and later put a class A FM on in Logan about 1978... but haven't heard anything about him since then. They did the show from "John CArlson's stereo living room" in Salt Lake... By the time I got in radio at the end of 1971... KFMC was automated and was playing the beautiful music sort of stuff... FM's time hadn't come yet. When 1st Media finally bought the station from the Court (it was in receivership from a deadlocked partnership betwen the two 50 50 owners..) they changed the call letters to KAYK... it was the brilliant move to be first in the phone book and to throw a little confusion because KEYY was pretty much top dog in town at the time. It was at this time that they did the K-96 moniker..about 1976 or 1977. First Media was sold to an Eskimo Indian Tribe... and the station went through some permutations and they switched to an Oldies format about 1986 and the KZOL call letters.. still at 96.1 and on Lake Mountain... About 1990 or 91 A group including Dave Grow and his brother bought it and kept the KZOL thing going for a while... eventually, a couple of years later, LMAing to the X-96 group headed by Jim Facer... Who ended up buying it a year or so later with United Concerts guy (his name slips my mind) for just over 900K. Now, I can't place the next move... whether it was before Simmons bought it or after that they moved the stick to Farnesworth and to do so had to change the Freq to 96.3... oh, I can't remember whether it was during the LMA or after the purchase that they changed the calls to KXRK. There you have... what a waste of memory!!
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Post by Yodar Critch on Mar 13, 2003 0:29:53 GMT -5
X96 moved to 96.3 around 1995. They made a big deal about it on the air at the time, even calling themselves X96.3 for a while.
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Post by x on Mar 13, 2003 1:17:40 GMT -5
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Post by SamSpade on Mar 13, 2003 2:23:40 GMT -5
You may also check out www.radioemporium.net because they have a call letter history for the area. They show KXRK abandoning in '95 (like mentioned). As I understood it, the move to Farnsworth is fairly recent? Am I off on that? At any rate, g'night, good luck. |
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2003 14:32:59 GMT -5
Great info on the history. I too remember the old "John Carlson Stereo Living room" right next door to "Tape Head". I'd go there to watch the DJ's and wish for my big chance in radio someday.
The FCC database was good too (except not showing anything on 96.1 or prior to KFMY). So that filled in the dates pretty good.
I appreciate the information.
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Post by Mike on Mar 13, 2003 18:36:53 GMT -5
Found another bizarre one:
KRMQ Provo (recorded around 81). I have no idea what freq it was on, considering they never said anything for a whole hour except a PSA and ID. Played rock/jazz fusion (Corea, Return to Forever, Han****,...etc) and threw in Beatles, Stewart and Scaggs.
Probably the last commerical station to ever broadcast like that in SLC metro.
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Post by radiorelic on Mar 14, 2003 14:13:32 GMT -5
KRMQ is now KZHT!!! In 1973 or 1974 the folks that owned KEYY got the CP for the 94.9 Provo station... I remember all the action around the place running around like chickens with our heads cut off doing the ascertainment. Then I think the backers got cold feet because the big timers First Media were buying KOVO/KFMC and we were just all a bunch of punk kids that couldn't get real radio jobs and were content being 6 weeks behind in our paychecks... racing each other to the bank to cash 'em.. I remember the bookkeeper tellilng me "here's your check.. if you want it to clear you better go collect about 5 grand"... Anyway... the owners dragged their feet... and really didn't get it on the air before I left in january of 1980... They had Added on to the building but didn't get it on the air until the FCC said "use it or lose it!" They actually were negotiating with Eric Rhodes to buy it... Eric along with Jerry Clifton had been consulting the place in 1979. Back in those days they had the "3 year rule" you couldn't sell a station at a profit unless you had held it and operated it for 3 years... so the the AM 1450 KEYY was "sold" for I think 1.3 million and the Class C Fm for 300K.... KRMQ was supposed to mean "the Rocky Mountain Q" you know "Q" was the big deal back in the 70's.... anyway... when they finally put if on the air David James aka Clark Bowler had some 10 and half inch reels of stereo random jazz and stuff and they just rand them non stop for a few months... put 'em in there... started 'em rollling and didn't think about it... then out of the blue it showed up in the ARB with a 1point something share in the SLC Metro... back BEFORE UTC was part of the metro... I remember David then bragging about how he had planned it all out and was actually surprised it didn't do better! ho ho. Rhodes changed the Call letters to KLRZ "Color 95" now get this... He had just married a German girl and he had gone the meet the family in Germany... about this time I was over in Europe and the big Radio Luxumburg was "Radio im farbre' "Radio in color" I went to the car races at the Nurburgring the eiffel mouhtains west of Koblenz and there were the dj's do a lap on the track in ther station car.. emblazoned with the "Radio im farbre"... (I think I spelled it right... my ninth grade German is only 41 years rusty!) Eric's first morning man was "Kipp kraddick"... who is now big time and networked out of Texas... as "Kid Kraddick"... actually he had been at K-96 earlier... as "Kidd" but that's another story. I know I'm missing some versions of the station.. but it did time as "The Touch' KTOU with Max Sirstins as GM and Brad Stone as PD...... either before or after that it was KBNG "bright and gentle" rudely monikered by me as "The Bang" Dean Lindsay was the GM.... Then of course it went into the KZHT Hot 949 thing that it has been doing one version of or another since then I think it was about 1989 or something. Terry Schmidt was one of the Early GM's and really got it cooking.... It was taken over by the KBER folks for a while... then the same group with Starley Bush that had the KLOVE or whatever it was that Amanda got here start on... I think it was what is now KURR Rock 99! Anybody wanna wander any further down memory lane???
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Post by Mike on Mar 14, 2003 15:52:24 GMT -5
Again great stuff "radiorelic". I'm possibly the only one that's crazy enough to first--record all these tapes (why I recorded automated stations is still a mystery) and second want to make a list of them with the facts. I think you should write something about radio in the past around this area. With the proliferation of "sameness" and single owners, it would be a great history lesson+just plain interesting for us old timers. Have you ever checked out: www.440int.com ? Lots of good detail, but lacking some great stories. Thanks again. Mike |
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Post by Kevin on Mar 15, 2003 18:52:34 GMT -5
Hey does anyone remember the KRISP AM (KRSP) 1060 back then I think it was a top 20 station and the reason I say that they played the Double Dutch Bus 3 x's an hour but it was cool in those days and if I recall it use to sign off at dusk..
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Post by radiorelic on Mar 17, 2003 16:03:31 GMT -5
"crisp?" "peter St. John?" I think Tom Bach and Mark Van Waggoner and Doug Wright were part of it as well as Allan Hague and (I can't remember his first name) Marshalll was his last name and was production guy there... that was a lot of their "cool" sound... his spots still sound like "Crisp 1971" ads.... more or less.
No, I don't have time! don't get me started! I got tails to tell!
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Post by Friend Lee on Mar 17, 2003 22:33:40 GMT -5
...maybe I should break out that stack of red, white and blue KRSP bumper stickers I stashed away for moments just like this!! ;D
Friend Lee
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Post by Agent86 on Mar 18, 2003 1:01:03 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of old, does anyone like me have both Cheap Live X CDs, and the Radio From Hell tape?
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Post by radiorelic on Mar 18, 2003 2:25:27 GMT -5
hey, there isn't such a thing as an "OLD" cd... ALL Cd's are new compared to let's see... Cassettes ain't even old... 8 tracks... naw... 4 tracks (betcha didn't know there WAS such a thing.....'nother story" 45's naw... 78's.... now some 78's are old.... like when I was a kid i got Fess Parker's "Ballad of Davy Crockett" on a 78... and my baby brother broke it... they were brittle! 78's pre-ceded the Long Play 33 and a third rpm album.... want me to dig out the old 45's???
Come on... all you kids are trying to relive the 60's... the 60's as played in the movies in the 90's were quite a bit cooler than the 60's really were!!! How cool could they have really been??? I mean... Jim Morrison and the Doors played LAGOON!!! I mean it... in 1967!!!
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