AIRCHECKS (PAGE 1)

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KOMO’s Del Olney voicing IGM’s “Sovereign” format on KSBY FM/San Luis Obispo – 1970 (1:39:01)

(BROADCASTING – June 9, 1969) IGM was founded 10 years ago by Rogan Jones Sr. when he and his associates ran into programming problems for the old Heritage FM network that operated on the West Coast from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., as well as for their still-owned KGMI -AM -FM in Bellingham, Wash. KPQ Wenatchee, Wash., is owned privately by Mr. Jones Sr. IGM started mastering tapes for the five-station network. And at the same time it began designing and later manufacturing automation equipment for those stations and others. Today, IGM serves 350 stations with its bulk-cued music tape programming.
Three years ago it was a scant 200. The music service accounts for about one-third of IGM’s total revenues which have been increasing at about 30% a year for the last few years. IGM has about 16,000 hours of music on master tapes. Each tape reel contains up to three hours of programming. The Bellingham company offers a series of packages, divided into “announced” and “unannounced” productions. By “announced,” the company means that one of its own announcers introduces each number and in many cases closes the selection with comments. The monthly packages include “Sovereign,” contemporary and traditional popular tunes; “Premier,” bright, medium, quiet music, ranging from traditional pop to conservative good music; “Concert Overtures and Encores,” good music to light classics, and “Heritage,” straight classical selections. To the unannounced series, IGM supplies “Downbeat,” principally traditional pop; “XL Stereo,” ranging from traditional pop to conservative good music; “Music Theater,” utilizing Broadway and movie show tunes; “Spectrum,” a melange of dance bands, pop vocals, smooth orchestra, plain orchestra, selected vocals, concert orchestra, light classical, and “Jazz Quartet,” which runs the gamut of tempos from “robust” to “satin” to “vocal.” On a weekly basis, also unannounced and also unformatted, is IGM’s “Spotlight” package, designed to provide the latest hit tunes for customers who can intermix them with their regular series or mix them with other program sources at the studio. For the unannounced series, stations usually use their own announcers. These programs are put together under the direction of Donald Hedman, a former Seattle disc jockey, who joined IGM nine years ago. The announced series principally carry the identified voices of Del Olney, an ex-Seattle disc jockey, and of Don McMaster, a former Portland and Seattle disc jockey. IGM also uses other announcers whose identities are not made known. IGM also provides customized services to individual stations that desire their own personalized programs, and it also syndicates programs developed by individual stations or groups. At the present time IGM is offering “Americana,” produced by Plough Broadcasting Co., which is headquartered in Memphis, a center for this idiom, and which consists of an announced stereo library service of country- and -western music. Also a part of the “Americana” series is “Spotlight,” a tape of 20 to 30 new selections, sent to subscribers twice a month. Rogan Jones Jr., who runs the firm, has a special view of the burgeoning automated programing field. “I think the hardest thing to do when you automate,” he said the other day, “is to understand your equipment. To make it do what you want it to do.” When Mr. Jones sells automation he sells not only dollar savings, but he tries to impress his prospect with a higher purpose: “By freeing your staff so it can be used more efficiently, you can make the station consistently better all through the week. Your station becomes a more valuable property.”
But Mr. Jones argues that without his saying so, seven out of 10 prospects immediately think of how they can re- shuffle their staff more effectively. “The broadcaster realizes,” Mr. Jones em- phasizes, “that he can use his best announcers and personalities over a greater number of programs.” Mr. Jones cites another reason for the movement toward automation: “Many stations, especially in the smaller cities, can’t get the right kind of people for programing or engineering,” he says. “What they get is marginal people. Or, if they get a good man, he doesn’t stay long: he wants to move up to the big city.”

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This is classic MOR [middle-of-the-road] Radio from the 60s. These are airchecks of the best small market radio station in the Pacific Northwest at the time, KASY Auburn. These airchecks showcase the great music, that “KASY Kind of Music”. The commercials and newscast are the only short breaks in the flow of the music. These airchecks from the summer of 1968 – when music still reigned on AM radio, are unscoped. At an MOR station, such as KASY, the delivery was kind of laid back and presented in an adult manner. No morning zoo types here. Sit back and enjoy! [Cue the Bert Kaempfert music]

Part 1 (32:48)

Part 2 (33:06)

aircheck courtesy of Rockwell Smith, Radio Engineering Manager, Journal Broadcast Group – Idaho, KJOT, KQXR, KRVB, KTHI, KGEM-AM, KCID-AM.

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KBRO – downloaded from OTR Annex – notations are from OTR Annex post. Both sides of the reel contain an aircheck from KBRO Bremerton, WA. June 24, 1974. Dated by reference in news broadcast regarding Tito’s visit to West Germany and the Supreme Court Jenkins v Georgia decision. There are a few edits but it sounds like mostly a continuous recording. The recording is in stereo and was recorded at 3-3/4 ips. Steve Schilling is the host. Scoped files have only the music removed.

(1) Easy listening music. News at 9am President Nixon’s Watergate issues; Tito visits West Germany; Puget Sound grocery clerks strike ends; commercial for Montgomery Ward.
Easy listening music. Traffic reports. Buy Swap and Sell Show. Announcer reads ads sent in by listeners.
News at 10am Trident submarine; Grocery strike; Alaska ferry; weather
Easy listening music. Job availabilities in the area.

KBRO Easy Listening (27:26)

(2) Easy listening music continues. News at 11:29am. Earl Nightengale and Our Changing World about 15 minutes of commentary. 12 noon Station ID and news; Mike Bentley reads; Nixon watergate; Trident submarine and environmental impacts; grocery clerk strike; electrical workers labor issues; US Supreme Court issues decency decision in the case of the film Carnal Knowledge; other local and area news; comment by listeners;
The Quarterdeck Show- Hosted by Steve Schilling interviews beauty pageant contestants. About 15 minutes of the broadcast.

KBRO Easy Listening (48:58)

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KETO Jingles

These KETO-FM jingles (2:40) were shared from a broadcast friend. I would think they date back to the early mid 70’s, but I really don’t know. Mr. Music Man, Duane Smart

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KGAA Jingles

KGAA Jingles AM 1460 Kirkland 1979 (1:34). Owned at the time by Wes Monroe, owner of KGA Spokane.

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The “YOU” package from 95.3 KGHO Hoquiam. Steve West got his start there when it was KHOK, Stan Foreman was PD there in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Other names from the station… Jimmy Powers, Scott Patrick, Von Williams, Richard Dee, Randy Roadz, Jim Willhight, Paul Thompson, Nic Scott, Charlie Mitchell, Gary Crow, Gary Shannon, Dale Hubbard, Ron Harris, Buzz Barr and a cast of dozens graced the airwaves of the Coastal Washington Powerhouse.

KGHO “You” jingle montage – (10:26)

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KGY jingle package

KGY was one of the oldest radio stations in the state of Washington. It was licensed in 1922 and began broadcasting April 15th, 1922, at St. Martin’s College, for a while out of a log cabin, as 7YS. “The log cabin station, where the cedars meet the sea.” The affiliated station KGY-FM began operations in 1992. The AM and FM stations’ studios were both located on Port of Olympia property at the southern end of Budd Inlet.– For most of the modern day period of KGY, the morning show was hosted by General Manager Dick Pust, who had been at the station since 1959. He continually hosted the morning show since 1967–the longest continually running morning radio show in the state of Washington, until Pust was fired after nearly 50 years at KGY. [Wikipedia]
—January 6, 2011 [Olympian]– After a career spanning 51 years with KGY Radio, local broadcasting legend Dick Pust’s career with the station ended suddenly Wednesday when he was let go as the station’s general manager. He hosted his final early-morning radio show Wednesday at the iconic station that overlooks Budd Inlet, the last installment of a six-day-a-week broadcast that began at 5:30 a.m. and has run since 1967.
KGY personalities: Ty Flint, Bob O’Brien, PJ Kirkland, Ed Evans, Willy Kelly, Smilin’ Jay Andrews, Randy Roadz, Rick Schaeffer, Mike Altman, Dick Pust, Bob MacLeod.

The Kerry family sold KGY AM 1240 to Sacred Heart Radio in 2014, ending family operation of the station held since 1939. Call letters changed to KBUP November 2014.

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1250 KKFX-Robert L. Scott/Brandi Walker (9:07)