Here's the first in a series of airchecks from Maine! I've decided to try something a bit different. In the interest of accuracy, pasted below is the page from Wikipedia…
...the "All-New WNBC" - Bob Pittman's mostly failed attempt to remove the expensive personalities and streamline the station down to a more music, FM-style approach.
One thing listeners will notice right off is the lack of jingles or any other real 'in-your-face' production elements. One could suppose that since KHJ had all that up till later in 1977, Ten-Q figured they could just leave all the traditional AM elements to them. After all, KTNQ was a fresh start, in many ways!
BACKGROUND 610 KFRC was a Top 40 radio station serving the San Francisco area with only 5,000 watts. While the power was rather low for such a legendary station, the…