20081029
KPTR 1340 AM, Cathedral City CA (Part 2)
Pictured is the outside of the KPTR 1340 AM transmitter building (and antenna tower) in Cathedral City, CA.Also pictured is JONNY BRUCE, who hosts a Saturday morning op/ed show from the station's "satellite studio" in nearby Palm Springs.
KPTR 1340 AM, Cathedral City CA
Pictured is the KPTR 1340 AM transmitter building in Cathedral City CA.JONNY BRUCE hosts a Saturday morning op/ed show from the station's Palm Spring's "satellite studio" (also pictured.)
20081028
KPTR 1340 AM Transmitter Tower (2008)
The "mighty" 1340 AM KPTR transmitter tower "pumps out" progressive talk radio from Cathedral City, CA.
KPTR 1340 AM's JONNY BRUCE
JONNY BRUCE hosts an op/ed political commentary show every Saturday morning called "Coachella Valley Reports" on KPTR 1340 AM in Cathedral City, CA.
20081025
When JACK HAYES Jocked Noon-3pm On KFWB/98
Sunday personality JACK HAYES was given the weekday Noon-3pm shift on KFWB after the death of Don Mackinnon in June 1965, but after 3-4 days into his new shift, he was suddenly switched with overnighter Larry McCormick.
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KRLA's DAVE DIAMOND (Late 1971)
After Shadoe Stevens reprogrammed KRLA from Top 40 to Progressive AOR, it was planned that Dave Diamond, a Top 40 holdover, stay on in the 9-Midnight shift.However, the rumor goes that Diamond allegedly made a "jestful comment" that allegedly offended management honcho Larry Webb, so Diamond was quickly replaced by the more FMish Mikel Hunter.
20081020
When TOM MURPHY Was 9-Noon On KRLA
As soon as P.D. Shadoe Stevens began finetuning KRLA from Top 40 to Progressive AOR, he switched "high personality" morning-drive Tom Murphy with "low personality" Don Burns, moving Burns to AM drive, and Murphy to the miscast 9-Noon shift in the fall of 1971.Murphy had "too much personality" for a Progressive AOR in morning-drive, so 9-Noon was a way to phase him out.
In this miscast shift for Murphy, the "World Famous" part of his airname was dropped, and he tried to jock with the brakes on playing Stone Ground instead of Bobby Sherman.
Within a few weeks, Murphy would be OUSTED from 9-Noon and demoted to the Midnight-6am shift as a way to get him to quit, which he did in the late fall of 1971, going back to Seattle and KOL.
When JAY STEVENS Was Midnight-6 on KRLA
After Shadoe Stevens changed Top 40 KRLA into Progressive AOR, the Midnight to 6am shift was a "dumping ground" for those Top 40 holdovers that Shadoe felt did NOT fit the new format.First, Tom Murphy was moved into the Midnight to 6am shift causing him to go back to Seattle, and after Murphy left, JAY STEVENS, who had been jocking Noon-3pm was moved into the Midnight to 6am slot uopn the acquistion of B. Mitchel Reed in late 1971 who moved into the Noon-3pm shift.
Jay handled the Midnight to 6am shift from late 1971 until early 1972, when he TOO would bail out of KRLA jumping over to chicken-rock KIIS 1150 AM.
GREG SHANNON, an AOR-sounding air talent replaced Jay Midnight to 6am in the Spring of 1972.
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When JOHNNY HAYES Jocked Morning-Drive On KRLA
During KRLA's AOR/Progressive era (programmed by Shadoe Stevens) JOHNNY HAYES replaced B. Mitchel Reed in the 6-9am shift in late 1972 after Reed went back to FM....and a bigger audience.
KRLA's B. MITCHEL REED (1971)
In the fall of 1971, KRLA Program Director Shadoe Stevens scored a huge coup!He got B. Mitchel Reed OFF OF progressive FM, and on to the now AM AOR KRLA.
He gave Reed the Noon-3pm shift in the fall of 1971, dumping Noon to 3 Top 40-sounding Jay Stevens in the overnight shift.
In 1972, Reed would be promoted to morning-drive 6-9am as the "anchorman" of the new KRLA AOR format.
20081018
KRLA's TOM MURPHY (1971)
In the fall of 1971, MURPHY was demoted from morning-drive to the 9-Noon shift, (dropping the "world famous" handle in favor of only "Tom Murphy") switching with Don Burns, as Shadoe Stevens moved KRLA further away from Top 40 and into AOR, and felt Burns in morning-drive would be less "personality" than the former high profile morning man.Shadoe then decided that Murphy had "too much personality" for even the 9-Noon shift in the new AOR format so he switched Murphy with overnighter Johnny Hayes.
Murphy's last days on KRLA was in the Midnight to 6am shift, and were not very long before Murphy left the now progressive album-oriented Radio Eleven-Ten.
20081017
KIIS-AM's TOM & JERRY
"World Famous" Tom Murphy & Jerry Bishop (KCBQ's BILL BISHOP) teamed up for morning-drive on KIIS-AM in early 1979.
KGBS's DICK LYONS
LYONS left KFXM (Inland Empire CA) to join KGBS AM & FM in October 1968.By the first of November 1968, KFXM's Brad Edwards would join Lyons on KGBS, as the infamous KFXM strike had begun, and "The Jones Boys"- era of KFXM was launched.
EMPEROR HUDSON Returns To KRLA
After being fired from KRLA in July 1966, Emperor Hudson RETURNED to KRLA for the "reunion weekend" in October 1981.
This pic was taken the day of the press luncheon before the "reunion weekend."
20081016
Hot Fun In The Summertime, 2008
It's in the radio history books now.And we here feel that the "run" wasn't as long as it SHOULD have been.
But in the late summer (August, September) of 2008, "The Darin' " PHIL HERON did indeed COOK up the oldies from 9-Noon M-F on KXOK63.com (Manteca CA).
And you can't change history.
KFOX 1280 AM, Wilmington CA
This tower site, in the middle of an auto parts yard in Wilmington, is now KFRN with religious programming at 1280 AM.But "in the day" it was the legendary KFOX which in the early 1970s boasted major air talents like TED QUILLIN and ARLEN SANDERS.
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KFOX's ARLEN SANDERS (1973)
ARLEN SANDERS was one of the BIGGER air talent names that jocked on KFOX, licensed to Long Beach.The 1280 AM powerhouse transmitted from 1903 Blinn Avenue in Wilmington CA 90744 (pictured)
KRLA's BOB HUDSON (1985)
HUDSON returned to the KRLA morning-drive chair in early 1985 under the station's new ownership.
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