MicroCheck: 610 KFRC Top Hour Transition | November, 1976
December 20, 2009 by Steve West
Filed under San Francisco
Absolutely the shortest aircheck ever featured on this website, your webmaster couldn’t resist putting up a 41 second recording of KFRC in 1976 featuring Big Tom Parker’s signoff and the start of Mucho Morales’ (WHTZ, as JoJo Morales) show. And, it’s a DUAL, AM/FM combo ID you hear at the top of the hour!
Gosh, we LOVE KFRC on this site… after all, your webmaster based his Amateur Vanity Callsign on it! Please, somebody do a TOH ID for K1FRC! Beau Weaver (KFRC, KNUS, KHJ) is W6KHJ…. I’m jealous HAHA.
Sample, KLLC “Alice 97.3″ San Francisco | April 26, 1998
July 7, 2009 by Steve West
Filed under Annonymous, San Francisco
Proof that radio rapidly cut staffs and costs after consolidation took hold is evident, not so much in this STATION, as the FORMAT. Alice is, apparently, jockless in this 6 1/2 minute scope of a 90 minute cassette side. KLLC is, in 1998, Modern AC (kind of a softer, Pop Alternative format) and rather quiet, with the exception of Alice imaging inserted every other song or so.
Good or not? You be the judge. This station is, after all, all about the music and not personalities, so perhaps listeners enjoyed it.
QuickCheck: George McFly, KXXX X100 San Francisco | 1988
June 21, 2009 by Steve West
Filed under George McFly, Robyn Watts, San Francisco
“East Coast Airchecks” was one of those ’90s professional aircheck services that sent out tapes to radio stations and other subscribers. We’ve featured plenty of these before, courtesy of Robyn Watts, who sent us lots of these tapes back in ‘04. Now, from one labelled “Classics II” comes this almost 5 minute listen to one George McFly on San Francisco’s X100. It’s high energy 80s formatics and a station that’s long gone which we think you’ll really like.
Composite: KYA San Francisco | March 1965
March 2, 2009 by Steve West
Filed under San Francisco
Long dramatic jingles, disc jockeys who comment about everything with lots of talk between songs, outdated news sounders and reverb on demand all highlight this first San Francisco top 40 station. This is quite entertaining, however, because while the formatics shown here on KYA are loose, a reminder of the early 60s, the jocks are very talented and the format comes off very tight. Nobody skips a beat or misses a cue.
Its a history lesson for those who never heard what radio sounded like in 1965.
Thanks to visitor Paul Duca for reminding us that crosstown KFRC’s “Boss” sound was still a year away, and at the time of this recording, KYA was the only game in town. Your webmaster had a senior moment…
Bobby Mitchell, KYA San Francisco | December 15, 1961
January 21, 2009 by Steve West
Filed under Bobby Mitchell, San Francisco
Going way back to the early days of Top 40 radio, a young Bobby Mitchell is heard here on San Francisco’s earliest hit station. This is where Bill Drake (yep, THE Bill Drake who pioneered the Boss format) honed his skills. Strangely enough, Drake would cross over and consult crosstown 610 KFRC later that year and blow KYA out of the water!
Starts out with a full newscast, then Mitchell plays the hits for the Bay area.
QuickCheck: Jeff Young, KSFO/KYA-FM San Francisco | December 12, 1987
December 5, 2008 by Steve West
Filed under San Francisco
Its December 1987 and we’re in the holiday season for this AM/FM simulcast with a capable Jeff Young at the helm. They don’t call it “Oldies” although its clearly that. Recorded from the FM side, here’s a scoped look at a different San Francisco outlet entertaining shoppers the best it knows how…
Denny St. John, KOFY San Francisco | December 12, 1987
November 30, 2008 by Steve West
Filed under Denny St. John, San Francisco
I know nothing about this station other than a search turns up that it was in San Francisco, and there is a KOFY Television station there today. This recording features a very good Denny St. John and a well produced oldies station gearing up for Christmas in December of ‘87.
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