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Category: Los Angeles
Composite: 1020 KTNQ Los Angeles, “The New Ten-Q”
Listen to the collection of voices in this long composite! Narrated by Jimi Foxx, this includes the station’s 1976 launch, then continues on to profile the (then) current airstaff and their ratings performance. I’m guessing that this was produced in 1977, perhaps as a sales tool or for an industry trade publication. This was contributed…
Flashback to the 90s: 93.9 KZLA Los Angeles | September 5, 1998
Two formats and over a dozen years ago, the only Country music station in Los Angeles was KZLA. Bonneville still owned the station at that time, and 93.9 used a very Adult Contemporary approach to its Country music format. Listen and you’ll hear a very pleasant sounding female jock, only goes by the name Wendy…
Rick Dees in the Morning, 93/KHJ Los Angeles | May 24, 1979
Courtesy of Matt @ BigAppleAirchecks is this classic episode of Rick Dees’ Morning Show on 93 KHJ. For those not familiar with Dees’ show, his was full of characters (played by Dees himself and his wife, who did the female characters) and zany phone calls. No wonder after his tenure at KHJ, he would go…
Charlie Van Dyke & Mark Elliot, 93/KHJ Los Angeles | June 18, 1976
Courtesy of BigAppleAirchecks, here’s a wonderful taste of 93/KHJ during the Charlie Van Dyke era. KHJ is full of excitement and personality oozes out of the very pores of this radio station. Outside of the Drake era, it really didn’t get much better than this for KHJ. The audio quality of this recording is nothing…
Peter Johnathan, ‘Car Radio’ 93/KHJ Los Angeles | December, 1984
The final format of 93/KHJ was a very unique attempt at an all-traffic report station, blended with music which was mainly recurrents. They called it “Car Tunes, Great Songs In Your Car”. Everything about the format seemed to revolve around cars. There was a traffic report after every two songs, and an upbeat jock to…
