[BC] Where formats come from

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:13 AM 1/8/2006, Dave at integer.pobox.com, 
Hultsman at integer.pobox.com wrote: -------

>At KLIF in Dallas,  Jimmy Rabbit  (of the Rabbit Report)  was our 
>music director and night time jock.  He was allowed to broaden the 
>top 40 format from 8 to midnight getting in the "heavier stuff"on 
>KLIF.  Then the company decided to left him develop the format for 
>KNUS-FM our heavy little sister FM which was running 3 hours of "Sam 
>Seeburg" oldies and 3 hours of morning drive on KLIF for minimum 6 
>hours operation daily. So in 1967 KNUS-FM began a 24 hour mono 
>underground format.  Mainly with no announcers,  just groupie board 
>ops.  Within 6 months we had listeners and sales on the FM.  Went 
>stereo and upped the 19 kW. ERP to 100 kW.

KNUS-FM did some wonderful Fantasy Concerts while I was living in 
Dallas. If you were a tourist driving through you'd swear some 
monster concert was happening with some of the greatest talent 
gathered in one place. I doubt commercial radio would do it today. 
Beautifully done.

Rich


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