It operated on 600, 780, 800 and 1040 kilocycles at different times in its early days. I wish we still did things like that,” Robbins said. Hope Patty is well.". really good face here.". I'm trying to actually work." He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world’s first The offices kept the heard from the Canadian border all the way to Cuba.". I apologize for the delay on some of these posts. Instead of the radio receivers being portable, the radio station was. that was out at the transmitter building for years. caller-driven "guy talk" format into national prominence, and programmed Good friend of this blog Doug Virden visited the transmitter site back in 2017 and grabbed a couple of items and shipped them to me. He played some of those recordings, including news programs, promos and jingles during Friday’s event. The station format is classic rock and is branded as "Tri-Cities Classic Rock 101.5 WQUT." Launched in July 1962, KAAY was the state’s only 50,000-watt station. pig from what we've been looking at for a few decades. It also featured news, Razorback football games, and beginning in 1966, progressive rock at night. Posted by "Pea Gee"on Facebook, a story about Phil Rowe, a.k.a. I think I started in the summer of 2003. awhile - Herman's Hermits and a lucky KAAY listener! And based on the I established the "Cougar" name and it became well known in the Radio and Records Industry. KAAY was founded as KTHS in 1924 in Hot Springs; it moved to Little Rock in 1953. don't think I've done this one before, but if I have, it's been quite Part 2 of 4 of the recording of the unscoped broadcast. year or two KAAY's studio number became 433-0059. I believe this ", "Picture with Barry Mac at his birthday celebration this past weekend. Those cell phones are only portable radios that are linked to physical phone lines somewhere, just not at your domicile. Barry and I are only a few days apart, I can't remember who's gt the lead, but I ain't fussing! was included in a sales staff package circa 1971. awhile - Herman's Hermits and a lucky KAAY listener! Robbins eventually left KAAY to have a long, successful career as a country music morning man at other radio stations in Little Rock, but has fond memories of how the industry used to be. in the fall of 1976 the studio number was 661-1212. Wayne is in his usual good form here. Hot Springs' radio KZNG. As an attentive listener resident in the U.S, you must have always enjoyed the series of news, music, and exciting programmes being broadcast on the radio channels. John Hein has Clyde's blessing as he has appeared on the show. The show's original announcer, Clyde Clifford, moved to FM in 1974 [1] as the rise in popularity of FM radio began to impact the operations of many AM stations. Glad I had the Clyde Clifford of Beaker Street 1090 AM KAAY Little Rock The ART FM Radio Pioneer Award recognizes individuals who transcend traditional uses of radio to discover new possibilities in broadcasting. (Dick Price said, "Johnny Scott, midnight to 5am."...????? KAAY. And based on the maybe it's this guy? I love it, Steve, I Could have been like the skunk festival that we pulled off, cow chip toss off, football rallies in downtown where they threw the footballs off the bank buildings. On April 3, 1985, a new owner changed the format to paid religious programming. It's KCCK-FM in Cedar Rapids IA. high he started hanging around real radio stations, sweeping the floors On weekends he traveled to Little Rock where he These are various commercials, aired around July 28, 1972 Topics: KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas, Radio commercials Airchecks and Radio Broadcasts At the time I received them, there was a lot going on in my life, so I didn't get to mention them and they went into storage. the time Phil Rowe was in the sixth grade at Greenwood School, he had Topics: KAAY, Beaker Street, Little Rock, Underground radio. Possible Sales Material from Barry McCorkindale, Barry Mac's Birthday 2016, with Doug Virden, Oct. 2016, Old KAAY Transmitter Remnants From Doug Virden, Info on Buddy Carr/Tom Bigby, per Doug Virden, Wayne Moss airchecks from 1976 & a Beaker Street anniversary promo. BOX 982 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90028. So many of The Greats are heading to Radio Heaven recently...rest in peace, Tom.... "This I was And a lot of people like me who grew up with this station… the era changes. "KAAY has a unique history," Miller says. really good face here. the time Phil Rowe was in the sixth grade at Greenwood School, he had I had started riding around in cars with some of my older friends, and we spent a lot of time listening to the radio. sent Bud a few weeks ago. Hope Patty is well. KAAY. "KAAY has a unique history," Miller says. anyone remember this guy? "This is how I got the information that Mike passed away in January 2018. Speaking of call-in lines to radio stations, my wife used to be the Chief Operator at a local hospital and had a bank of lines available to her; when a local station had a contest going on, she could start calling and put them on hold, then come back and answer them. "radio shows" and play them over the phone to his friends. In high So, was this promo in error on the anniversary year? The prefix was set up to be able to handle a large amount of  do is post this vintage poster of a former Southwest Conference rival. KAAY add 28 KJR8 debut 24 KTLK add 29 KERN debut 27 KROY debut WISM on 27 WOSH KNDE on 39 -35 K100 on WISE add KRSP debut 26 92e adddd WJBQ add WEEO add KENO 35 … When KAAY premiered in September 1962 the studio and main office shared one phone number which was FRanklin5-5311. P.O. When DJs would leave, new DJs would rotate through the same list of names. ", Not Most were master tapes for commercials and news programs. system and if the lines went down there is really not anyone from the Are there any of the original DJ’s from KAAY who are still alive? reason the 433 prefix was established for radio stations in Little Folks, when I visited the transmitter in April 2012 with David B. Treadway and Jerry Sims, we could have carted away a truckload of stuff in the junk pile, if we knew we wouldn't get in trouble. “KAAY was the kind of radio station [where] you could have so much fun, you could do so many things, and radio has just changed a lot in that type of delivery,” Robbins said in an interview after the event. On the recording of that final hour, Clifford talked about how the station was full of former staffers, TV cameras, newspaper reporters, and lamented the change in his second-to-last break. Robbins moved to Little Rock from Georgia in 1972 to take a job at the station. WNEW/NEW YORK, and KFI-A and KOST/LOS ANGELES, and served as OM at In fact, in our area of Alabama, the phone company is quietly encouraging people to drop their terrestrial phone lines in lieu of all cell phone coverage. KTHS was an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network, continuing with the affiliation when the network was renamed ABCin 1945. A little of our life changes,” Clifford said. “I didn’t care about the money, I just loved doing it, but to know I could make a living was just a bonus. The Sonny Martin who spoke Friday night was the second person to have that air name, and he noted during the event that he stayed there the longest of the two. Also working there in the late 1960s was Charles Scarbrough, who was the the afternoon DJ going by the name Charlie King. KAAY (AM 1090) has been one of Arkansas’s most influential radio stations since it came into being on September 3, 1962. WQUT WQUT (101.5 FM) is a radio station in Tri-Cities, Tennessee. I've KAAY — with Clifford, station manager Pat Walsh and a host of Enough of that. ", FWIW our local FM station has a Beaker Street tribute hour. don't have time for that foolishness. KAAY 7th Street Studio Radio station KAAY’s 7th street studio in Little Rock (Pulaski County); circa 1964. '60s and '70s by the name of Monroe Looney, and I think he sold for reason for that and the reason for the establishment of the prefix for The 2nd pic is the phone This past weekend, many former employees of KAAY-AM 1090 got together to share stories and reflect on changes in the industry. KAAY Talk | 1250 KFOG Urban | 1350 KZTD Mexican | 1380 KZTS Urban Gospel | 1440 KTUV Spanish | 1530 KVDW Southern Gospel/Talk | V • T • E Cumulus Media AM Radio Stations: KAAY | … “He’d threaten to fire you, but never did. ), which was where Wayne Moss worked for a bit. “KAAY was an unusual radio station,” said station announcer and engineer Clyde Clifford. KAAY History. “What [Station Manager] Pat Walsh did and the people he surrounded himself with is that they made that station the very core of what the state of Arkansas was, who we were, from the music, to the personalities, to the newscasts that you heard,” Nelson said. 436 436. I'll have to look back at the timeline and see when she was calling the station, but I think Wayne was long gone before then. Phil's voice could then be I know, that was "loading the bases", but she was so successful, she won a lot of loot...and had to pick it up in different family's names, like her sisters and her mother's names. For 32 years, I've been working in broadcasting and news. The final hour of the original KAAY was given to Clyde Clifford, who had hosted the late night program Beaker Street in the 1960s and ’70s, which dug deep into album rock, blues and experimental music. It was really the ultimate in portable radio, and it came to East St. Louis in January 1927. He obtained these and posted them on a KAAY Facebook group, and approved the re-post to this Blog. was included in a sales staff package circa 1971.". Rock. Radio Broadcasting History Radio People by Name (M2a) Alan McKay (Larry Waggoner) KEYN [Wichita] 1968 Now: Servicing stations statewide (Kansas) as a consultant engineer. Nowadays a team's name and logo are patented so something like this can’t be done anymore. ", https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10221026014132756&set=gm.10158790272664313. known as choke lines. It is our honor to recognize Clyde Clifford as the 2016 Recepient of the ART FM Radio Pioneer Award. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1394551784222439&set=gm.3760513833999417. It could have been like a new giraffe at the zoo and let’s get a name for him. After we were all brought under the same KAAY stories often revolve around the Funmobile, the trailer used for remote broadcasts. David B. Treadway, a familiar voice in Arkansas radio, once wrote of White: “The Funmobile was parked in a huge field some miles south of Little Rock for a big music festival headlined by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Thank you for all that you’ve done to do that.”, Legendary Arkansas Radio Program Beaker Street May be Coming to an End, Celebration Planned for Little Rock’s Once-Mighty 1090, KAAY, Welcome to the online home and archive of Michael Hibblen. And all the people that I got to work with, they really made it great,” Scarbrough said. By You're friendly, neighborhood phone technicians are slowly retiring and all you get is someone in India who can't speak in English wanting to tell you that your cell phone is at fault. adding corporate duties as VP/Strategic Programming for CBS RADIO. I need to be ashamed of myself...and they got here safe and sound. The kilovolt meter is just that: it measures how many thousand volts are flowing to a particular part of the system. "One of the original DJ’s at KAAY has passed away. because those particular phone lines won't transfer to the digital According to someone who currently works in the Cottondale building KAAY may have been the reason the 433 prefix was established for radio stations in Little Rock. Brent McKay Complete Your History … KAAY(AM)-1090 radio, Little Rock AR, top40 radio giant from the 60's & 70's. several other stations in addition to KAAY. Clyde Clifford speaking about being the last DJ on KAAY as a music station during the anniversary on April 3, 2015. it's from 7th Street, probably late '60s, and...it's a black guy in Thanks, Doug! “So there are easily a thousand tapes and this has been a 12 year project of mine now. ", https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/203183/tom-bigby-veteran-radio-programmer-passes-away. " “For those of us of a certain age, 1090 was the soundtrack of our childhood,” he said to applause. front of the control board! sure when THIS design came along, but that's a pretty different looking I believe this Courtesy of Greg Barman. WYSP/PHILADELPHIA before retiring and launching a consultancy in 2011.". I  ended up taking a meter and some tubes which I The station incorporated a successful mixed format of music, religion , farm reports, and news that was innovative for the time. too (see pictures below). Longtime KAAY chief engineer Felix McDonald (left) listens, while former Beaker Street host Clyde Clifford speaks behind a collection of station photos. Longtime KAAY DJs Sonny Martin and Bob Robbins speak at Friday night’s event. BEAKER STREET KAAY June 1970 In the summer of 1968 I was 15 years old and preparing for my sophomore year in High School. Let's go! Photo: Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News. By the 1980s, FM radio stations had grown in popularity and AM music stations were having a harder time competing. The station is currently owned by Cumulus, and its format is talk radio and contemporary Christian music. This photo is courtesy of Jeff Roteman and was taken in January And another tning- the hospital was only two city blocks away from WABB! Thanks, Doug, for sending these to me! The station incorporated a successful mixed format of music, religion, farm reports, and news that was innovative for the time. became "Phil North" on powerhouse KAAY. “This is just about it. got a quick fun Lyndae story. Friend of this blog, Doug Virden, sent in some interesting phone information: "This Photo: Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News. “Well he said a few tapes and I’m thinking 50, 60, 75, maybe a hundred. So, conference room right now?" "Barry Mac" posted this on Faccebook recently, I thought I'd share it here also: Per Barry: "Not Rex Nelson recalled for the crowd hearing KAAY while he was growing up in Arkadelphia, saying it inspired him to go into radio in his hometown as a teenager, before moving on to work for newspapers, serve as a political adviser, and today being president of Arkansas Independent Colleges and Universities. With a powerful signal that reached most of Arkansas during the day, at night KAAY’s secondary pattern reached much of the U.S., as well as other counties. Keep the interesting stuff coming! In 1985, KAAY was sold. The first is a composite aircheck of Wayne Moss doing middays on KAAY on various days in 1976, some of them from August 29 of that year. opportunity to celebrate his birthday with him. In junior In 1985, KAAY was sold. Launched in July 1962, KAAY was the state's only 50,000-watt station. Gave him a vintage KAAY sticker from the 70's. “Getting a call from Pat Walsh cussing you real bad because you said ‘damn’ or something,” Robbins said. Because the signal could be heard clearly in Cuba at night, … Talk about being honored, I think that’s probably one of the biggest honors I’ve ever had, to have my fellow disc jockeys at KAAY [let me] be the last one to sign off the big fellow.”. It was a lot of fun,” Martin said. Tom Bigby passed away Monday January 4th (2021, bs). This test confirms the foregoing. Also featuring a brief aircheck from Gary Gears. This photo is courtesy of Jeff Roteman and was taken in January expressions I see, Peter Noone is pretty much the only one putting on a It's on at 9:00 PM Friday's CST. And if so, This Sometime Had great fun. kcck.org is the website. He was 76. Courtesy of Bud Stacey Media Time Period World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - … currently in the Cottondale building discontinued their 433 numbers is Below is a story that originally ran on KUAR about the reunion on April 3, 2015. (April 6, 2015) It has been 30 years since a legendary Little Rock radio station changed formats, marking the end of a key chapter for Arkansas media. Working together we have kept the mighty 1090 alive. Here's what Doug said in his e-mail to me: "Let's not forget the reason I was able to visit the KAAY transmitter school Phil was a full blown broadcaster. Photo: Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News. KTHS was the foun… When KAAY moved to 2400 Cottondale meeting in the main conference room, probably in 2001 or 2002. government officials to bring the people of Cuba information concerning Within about a Another longtime DJ was Sonny Martin, who started with the station in 1966, staying for 11 years. building, the reason being was to pick up a remnant from the old RCA Airchecks and Radio Broadcasts. When I finally get out there and I look in the basement of the transmitter building, there’s a whole wall of tapes,” McCorkindale said. Charles Scarbrough, who used the air name Charlie King, on the air in the late 1960s. pig from what we've been looking at for a few decades. In 1969 I moved to KAAY Radio/Little Rock and subsequently adopted the transmitter for Bud. 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According to someone A Little LIN Broadcasting History 1962 KTHS (later KAAY) radio acquired by Lin Broadcasting Corporation 1962 buys KEEL Shreveport 1967 pays US$7.5m for KILT radio Houston 1968 LIN … don't think I've done this one before, but if I have, it's been quite those workers have pretty much retired.". Our amplifiers for our service are limited to 1,500 watts of power, so I think these had to have been driving the much larger tubes for full 50,000 watts potput. Rip Mike. Tom Bigby passed away Monday January 4th (2021, bs). After the TV station KTHV was created from it in 1955, KTHS was sold to LIN Broadcasting, who turned it into a Top 40 station in 1962 under its present call sign. The station debuted its top 40 format in September 1962, which would last 23 years. I am weeding through some e-mails that Doug has sent me, when I was in a bad period of my life. Barry got to take and reading the occasional weather report over the air. WLS Radio Am 89 - Showing the DJ Line up for some of 1971 using jock jingle id's and their pictures. In 1985, KAAY was sold. Sonny Martin, who left KAAY in 1977, came back to join the station on the air that final day and take many calls from saddened listeners. Those days, I hate to say they’re gone, but they’re gone, and it’s a sad thing.”. And many years later at wls. "radio shows" and play them over the phone to his friends. And Lyndae's response was, "Oh, Barry, I That may have been the end of KAAY as generations had known it, but many are working to keep the memories fresh. But unlike many stations before a pending change, the air staff was able to say goodbye to their listeners. Its been off the air as far as the KAAY that I knew for 30 years, but the memories live on and that’s what we’re here for tonight and I love it.”. radio programming pioneer who developed stations like WIP/PHILADELPHIA Here's something a bit more personal for you guys. 2016 a couple of years before he passed away. Rip Mike. Not long after KAAY launched he was kicked out of the studio by The memories, the good stories, the laughter. It’s at midnight the changeover occurs and KAAY changes formats and the end of, I guess, an era. Pat Walsh bought a history of KAAY/KTHS, when KAAY was in the 7th street studios. One of our readers, Steve, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sent us this information about a Beaker-Street tribute program that runs at a local station: Barry Mac posted this picture on Facebook and I had to steal it to post here: David B., you are sorely missed...you touched a lot of lives, including this poor ol' boy from Alabama. That would indicate that Beaker Street began on about that date in 1968. is a photo of Jim Hankins (Mike McCormick) 1st Program Director of Maybe just a visitor, but anyone have any past month the radio stations currently located at 2400 Cottondale Lane I  got to take me home a meter and some tubes coming out of the business office and through the sales area and saw “In fact, I was recording the whole thing at home and then I got a call [from] David Treadway to come in and do the last hour. ", Per Tom Bigby: " Worked for mike at kaay. In its heyday during the 1960s and ’70s, KAAY-AM 1090 played top 40 music during the day and progressive rock at night. KAAY went on the air Sept. 3, 1962, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Thanks, Doug! The Cuban Missile Crisis. Barry McCorkindale has also been engaged in an extensive project to digitize reel-to-reel tapes that were stored at the station’s transmitter site in Wrightsville. Here's a couple of new aircheck posts, courtesy of Russell Wells. company and the 7th Street number became 375-0105. KAAY first signed on as KTHS on December 20, 1924, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. When KAAY moved to 2400 Cottondale in the fall of 1976 the studio number was 661-1212. There’s a blog where many fans and former employees regularly share vintage recordings, information and stories. I apologize for taking so long in getting them posted... Folks, some sad news on Tm Bigby from Doug Virden: "One of the original DJ’s at KAAY has passed away. Phil would tape little There are a few inaccuracies but the early history is valuable to preserve and pass along. calls without blowing up phone circuits all over town. I will let Bud do the honors of posting what he received, here Phil would tape little [citation needed] Beaker Street began on Little Rock, Arkansas 50,000 watt AM radio station KAAY late in 1966 and ran through 1972. He was the night time DJ at 375-5311 number. He said longtime engineer Felix McDonald had been telling him for years about the recordings, and finally he went to see what was there for himself, not realizing what an extensive collection was there. For a time, it was perhaps the state’s most influential radio station with a powerful signal that at night could be heard in parts of 40 states and other countries. "KAAY was an unusual radio station," said station announcer and engineer Clyde Clifford. “We’d open the newspaper to see what we were going to do and that’s basically how we put the show together. roof on Wellington Hills Road off of Chenal, they were having a sales KAAY (AM) 1090 Radio, Little Rock AR -- "House of the Rising Sun" by Claude Denjean and the MOOG was the theme song for the late-night "Beaker Street" underground music show in the early 1970's. Rex Nelson then summed up the evening by saying, “So the KAAY that we knew, that many of you worked for, that KAAY has been gone for 30 years, and yet it lives on. The gathering also featured many former disc jockeys from KAAY, like Bob Robbins and Sonny Martin, who shared stories about their days there.
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