[BC] KOMA History

[Glen Kippel]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tom Dimeo <am at pa321.net> wrote:

> With the recent discussion of KOMA on this list I went
> searching and found an interesting history of the station.
> Living in Pennsylvania back in the fifties and sixties, WKBW
> was the big signal on 1520 and most of us teenagers listened
> to it.  Occasionally KOMA would be heard under Buffalo and it
> would be a topic of conversation the next day at school.
> Such a wonderful time for radio!
>
> http://www.komaradio.com/komainfo.aspx
>
> Tom
>
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Interesting story.  I worked with Chuck Dann at KIXZ in Amarillo in 1962.
KOMA was one of the stations that influenced my air sound -- Dick Biondi on
WLS and Bobby Newman on WNOE were a couple of others, along with Bob Elliott
& Ray Goulding on NBC.