Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All

[Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Similarly, KMPX in San Francisco broadcast album-oriented rock back in the
days when it was called underground.  The DJs were generally from Top 40 AM
stations who felt there was more to the music than what could be said in
three minutes or less.  KMPX became very popular in San Francisco, and the
owner decided that the DJs were getting paid too much money.  Out of the
kindness of his heart, he instituted a pay cut and they instituted a
strike.  They pooled their money and bought a floundering classical station
owned by Metromedia named KSAN.  They moved their format from KMPX to KSAN,
and KSAN immediately became the #1 FM station in San Francisco for younger
demographics, and also became the station that was copied in every major
market.  KSAN lasted from 1967 until it went country somewhere around 1980.

Mike Hawkins


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bob Young <bobyoung53@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I remember seeing the movie "FM" that that song was written for, I loved
> it even though it was widely panned. It was about a fictional progressive
> radio station that went on strike because a conglomerate bought it and
> ruined it (in their eyes), coincidentally the station I had listened for
> years to at that time, WBCN Boston had the same thing happen to it in real
> life no where near as exciting although much closer to what was happening
> in real life to those types of stations around that time. The station was
> run with scabs for DJ's for about a month and they lost so many listeners
> that the company capitulated, it was a great station, one of the first
> progressive rock stations in the country, went on the air in 1968, story
> here if you're interested :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBCN_%28FM%29
>
> Bob Young
> Millbury, Ma
>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:12:17 -0500
> > From: les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; am@xxxxxxxxxxx; abdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All
> >
> > A few days ago, The Los Angeles Daily News featured an article called
> > "When AM Radio Created Their own Versions of Songs". Within the article,
> > there was a reference to a version of the 1978 Steely Dan hit song, "FM
> > (No Static at all) that was created for KHJ. They had refused to air the
> > song because it seemed like a blatant endorsement of their competition.
> > So, a special version was created with the new lyric, "A-M- No Static At
> > All".
> >
> > I knew instantly that I had to hear that! YouTube to the rescue. Here's
> > a link to a song that only Medium Wave DX'ers could truly appreciate:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LHbyNTfd3Y
> >
> > You can also listen to a Podcast that contains several of these special
> > versions of songs recorded for AM radio stations:
> > http://laradiowaves.com/audio/RadioWaves37.mp3
> >
> >
> > --
> > 73,
> >
> >
> > Les Rayburn, N1LF
> > Maylene, AL
> > EM63
> >
> > Member NRC, IRCA, & Medium Wave DX Circle
> > Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA
> >
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