[BC] Where formats come from

[Mike McCarthy]

Chicago had Triad Radio on what is now WCKG and WSBC-FM, now WXRT.  The 
latter signed on in the early 60's and played the longer cuts from the 
start. They are still the defacto roots AOR station holding to their 
diverse playlist of rock artists known and new.  Triad was far more off the 
trail and it developed a cult following like no other station.  Granted, it 
was before my time, but I hear from folks who listened and it was their 
nirvana...whether their state of mind was chemically enhanced or straight.

Then there was the all woman station...WSDN.  Smack Dab in the Middle at 
97.9...on what is now The Loop...through 1975.

MM

At 11:11 AM 1/8/2006 -0500, Rich Wood wrote
>------ 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
>
>
>Rich Wood
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