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Composite: Kansas City CHR Stations | May, 1989

Steve West — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:10:54 +0000

This Kansas City offering brings us back to the tail end of the golden years of FM CHR. It was Top 40 radio’s second golden era (the first having been the AM Top 40 days that ended in the late 70s). A time of zany morning show teams, hot jingles and larger than life hits.

Some of the personalities have moved on to bigger things on the internet and elsewhere. People like Joel Denver (All Access Music Group founder) you’ll probably recognize instantly. Others haven’t been heard from in a while. But this composite has the middle of America written all over it, and literally sizzles with excitement from a time when it was still FUN to listen to the radio.

This starts with morning shows, and moves through an entire broadcast day sampling three stations in rotating order: KXXR, KXPW and KBEQ. Runs 50 minutes, courtesy of Robyn Watts.

Composite: Kansas City CHR Stations | May, 1989 is a post from: Airchexx.com

Composite: KISF "Kiss-FM" Kansas City | December 1993

Steve West — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:21:26 +0000

Courtesy of the fabulously enormous Robyn Watts Collection, we bring you a look at Kansas City’s 90’s CHR ‘Kiss-FM’. It’s another really great sounding Top 40 FM, which we can’t find a bit of history about on the web. Apparently the calls are in use in Nevada on an Hispanic station these days, so it’s a safe bet that this station went the way of the dinosaur.

Notables on this aircheck: Much of the morning show is featured here, at least a quarter-hour’s worth. Great large market sounding talent here – even if there is no music on this scoped presentation. This came to us on what appears to be a first-generation tape from an aircheck service called “Hecht Enterprises” – We’re not sure who or what that is, but in the interest of full disclosure, there you have it.

Click HERE to Listen!

Composite: KISF “Kiss-FM” Kansas City | December 1993 is a post from: Airchexx.com