I remember listening to Wolfman Jack on my pocket transistor radio on XERB (Big-X)1090 kHz back in 1967 from the San Francisco Bay Area. XERB signal was strong enough to get by local KFAX 50 kw on 1100 kHz. I liked when his listeners would call in and talk to the Wolfman. Another favorite was Curtis Springer on XEMO 860 kHZ from Zzyzx Mineral
Springs, CA.
Dennis,
Salmon Creek, WA
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From: "Rick Lewis"<ricklew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 3:31:11 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Re; Dx Tip ( XE s )
Wolfman Jack didn't appear on XETRA (or its predecessor XEAK) in the early
days. I've seen that claim many times, but I think it'sjust someone's
misunderstanding that's been propagated on the Internet over the years.
Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith) started airing on XERB in early '66 (possibly late
'65), and became the station's manager that year, converting its
non-religious/Spanish hours to a soul format, eventually almost a Wolfman
Jack format.
As for 690, it aired some rock programming in 1956 and went top 40 (except
for an evening religious block and some other specialty shows in English
andSpanish in non-prime time) in either 1956 or '57.
It changed to an all-news format on May 6, 1961, and went Beautiful Music on
April 2, 1968.
They stayed with that format until September 26, 1980, when they went CHR,
changing to oldies around 1984.
It was in their oldies/talk hybrid format where they aired Wolfman Jack for
a while.
They had brief stints as a news station and with a talk format until
settling into sports Talk, I believe around 1990.
(When he went national, they were one of the first Rush Limbaugh affiliates;
their promos called him Limbo.)
I was outside the area then, but I think they briefly adopted an Adult
Standards format in their final days as an English-language station, after
XEPRS-1090 (the former XERB) took on the sports talk from John Lynch, who
was the man originally behind XETRA's sports-talk flip.
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Rick
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Rick
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