It was more than a radio station... It was a big part of Southern California in the 1960s & 70s. 93 KHJ "Boss Radio" became a hit music station in May…
Many know today's 102.7 KIIS-FM as L.A.'s Hit Music Station. But I have been surprised by how many did not realize KIIS started as an AM station back in 1970.…
Chances are you remember Wink Martindale from TV gams shows. He hosted 21 different game shows, including “Trivial Pursuit”, “Can You Top This”, “High Rollers”, “Debt”, “Gambit”, and the long-running…
Humble Harve Miller arrived in Los Angeles in 1965 after some time at stations in Trenton, New Jersey. His first Los Angeles-area station was at “Super 15” KBLA Los Angeles.…
From the short lived WMYQ Top 40 era, this composite is donated by Russ Oasis for use and archival here on Airchexx. It's one of the best sounding airchecks in terms of sound quality that we've heard - and the jocks are some of the best in the business at that time! Just listen.
KIOI, known to it's listeners as K101 FM, was owned by engineering graduate and broadcasting magnate James Gabbert. It was a rather wild station. They had what could be best…
“It’s your engineer, Jocko, your Ace from Outer Space, way up here in the stratosphere! Back on the scene with the record machine, sayin’ oop-pop-a-doo and how do you do?”…
The New B-100-FM was so new, the ink had barely dried on station letterhead. At least in the radio world of 1975, when FM radio still hadn't reached parity with…