Aircheck: KQAM 1410, Oldies 10-5-87

[busterluck]

Does anyone remember DJ Ron Dennington at 1410 KWBB?  He went on to be a pd at some big major fm stations back in the day.

[Jay Walker]

Sadly I must admit to working the "Disco" phase at 1410. 
You are correct KEYN AM went back to a Hot A/C format until the format and call letter change when it became KQAM.

I don't have any of the old Time Capsule programs, or my favorite, "News Blimp".

[busterluck]

I visited KWBB in the 1970's  It has a rather large building containing the transmitters and studios and offices.  I recall a taller FM tower on the same property.  KWBB had a Collins 21E 5KW transmitter, and a GE 1KW tranmitter.  They had an unusual GE AM modulation and frequency monitor, the only one I have ever seen in my travels. I do not recall the format, but remember a lot of unused space in the building complex. Station had decent audio on the air. When did this burn down? Was this site ever rebuilt?

[Jay Walker]

It burned to the ground around 10 years ago and the building was never rebuilt.
When they re-built the transmitter building they put up a little pre-fab that holds a BE solid-state xmtr and phaser.

The 21E and the GE XT-1 were pretty good transmitters at the time. When I was CE there we installed a Collins Power Rock to replace the XT-1 and it was a sweet sounding site.
Super clean and real loud. I don't recall the freq/mod monitor you mention, I had a Potomic then a Belar when i made the xmtr change since I needed to measure positive peaks. When I first went to work in the building in the early 70's we had the Max twins from CBS. Over the years I change through a number of processors from Modu-Limiter to CRL.

Neat old place back in the day...

Jay Walker