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Re: [IRCA] Little Story about 1480 KVNR Santa Ana
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Little Story about 1480 KVNR Santa Ana
- From: The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:14:06 -0800
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Doug Pifer - KE6GMM wrote:
> I hadn't really paid much attention to KVNR's call and it's location, but as
> a kid I used to listen to them alot. I also remember my mom calling into
> the station and I'd hear her over-the-air. No, she wasn't speaking in
> Vietnamese, hi. As a matter of fact, this station taught me what "A Hard
> Days' Night" is all about. I believe KWIZ's office was on 1st. street, but
> the interesting point is, I always remember that they had a studio in the
> main drag of the Disneyland Hotel. Any of the "probably" millions of
> tourists could watch the "DJ's" at work behind the glass. KWIZ had a classic
> quick singing ID also. It would go - KW "pop" IZ. Sometime after that, 710
> KMPC started carrying Angels baseball (probably right when they moved to
> Anaheim, duh) so therefore, thanks to my mom who had the radio on at all
> times of the day (and still doe's) I got to continue growing up with likes
> of Gary Owens, Wink Martindale, Robert W. Morgan, Geoff Edwards, etc.etc.,
> right on up to when I started DXing.
> 73- Doug
>
Thanks for the KWIZ update Doug. I remember them well from the 60s & 70s too. + I even remember them by their preceeding call...KVOE....'Voice of the Orange Empire', or so it says on my
letter verie from them circa 1950 or 1951............
don k.
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