Despite it's years as a mainly R&B and Soul station, 1580 KDAY would earn it's place in the sun as what could be termed the very first "Rock 40" format…
Rick Dees began his career sometime in the early 1970s in the state of Mississippi. His first claim to fame occurred in Memphis, at 56 WHBQ, that powerful Top 40…
In September 1998, your webmaster was in Southern California on business... as a trucker with Transcend Carriers out of Gill, Massachusetts. When I took loads out to the L.A. area,…
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…
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…
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…
Courtesy of BigAppleAirchecks... Here's our first recording of the legendary Al Lohman and Roger Barkley of KFI. Here, they are featured essentially at the height of their approximately 30 year…
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…