Terrble DJ

[michael hagerty]

KING Broadcasting owned KYA AM and FM.  KSFO was owned by Gene Autry

Autry sold KSFO to King, which sold KYA AM to Bonneville, which owned KOIT-FM. KYA became KOIT-AM.

King sold KSFO years later to First.

In a thread a year or so back, Jerry Gordon made me aware that Autry sold KSFO, KVI and KEX because his first wife, Ina, had it in her will that those stations (somehow, KMPC in Los Angeles was exempt) were to be sold and her community property share donated to the Autry Foundation within five years of her death. Gene sold KTLA television, used the proceeds to buy out his partners in Golden West Broadcasting, sold San Francisco, Seattle and Portland and followed Ina's wishes.

After that was finished, Gene made a half-hearted attempt to rebuild GWB, buying an FM for KMPC (the old KUTE, Glendale) and WCAR, Detroit, but Golden West was never able to regain its luster.

[SFStatic]

King actually sold KSFO & KYA-FM to First. I worked there....longest damned call letters you ever had to say (or have sung, in the case of the jingles.) "KSFO-KYA-FM," blah, blah. It was a mouthful. Jerry Gordon's wife was the best damned Continuity Director ever while there. No better, before or since.

[recto101]

I'm wondering if the DJ in question is really the VO that does the stations promos and ID's

[DavidEduardo]

After that was finished, Gene made a half-hearted attempt to rebuild GWB, buying an FM for KMPC (the old KUTE, Glendale) and WCAR, Detroit, but Golden West was never able to regain its luster.

KUTE certainly played a variety of formats in its history.

There's the anecdote that during the days when it was K-LIT, the hyphen between the K and the L was removed several times from the raised brushed metal signage on the front of the TV building. The manager held a staff meeting to say that if anyone were caught stealing the hyphen, they would be dismissed.

On Sunset Boulevard, I think that the calls, without the hyphen, may have been more appropriate.

Then they switched to AAA and moved to studios near the west entrance to Forest Lawn in Burbank. I recall sitting in the same manager's office and being told that they had only gotten a 1.1 despite masterful programming because the signal was so bad. Two months later, under a "rent to buy" LMA, the station got a 6.7 and was #1. 

[DavidKaye]

KING Broadcasting owned KYA AM and FM.  KSFO was owned by Gene Autry

Not at that time.  Gene had sold KSFO long before. 

[1069_KIFR]

Time to get back on subject.

Did anyone ever find out for sure who was the person on air?

[michael hagerty]

Time to get back on subject.

Did anyone ever find out for sure who was the person on air?

I think we established back on page one that it was Andy Holt, the PD.

[1069_KIFR]

Wasn't 100% sure if it was him.
Also, attempting to steer this thread back onto the subject.

[stewie]

KOIT has DJ's?

Are we going to have a terminology debate?

DJs, Air Personalities, Announcers, Talent, Jocks. They are on the air, they play music. The terms are pretty interchangeable today.

I think you sometimes forget that many on this board (aside from yourself and many others mentioned in this thread) had successful careers in radio both in front and behind the mic.  I'm willing to bet many of the stations you listen to are using equipment my fingers touched at some point.  Yes, I know they have DJ's.

My point was obviously lost on you.

[DavidKaye]

Autry sold KSFO to King, which sold KYA AM to Bonneville, which owned KOIT-FM. KYA became KOIT-AM.

Ah yes, I remember the Great Hand-off when they tried to get the KYA 1260 listeners to tune in to KSFO for the morning DJ, whoever it was at the time. 

Interesting (well interesting to me, but probably to nobody else) is that the the original KOIT 93.3 was once 1260 KYA's original sibling.  But the KOIT callsign that went to 96.5 and subsequently to 1260 has no connection to the original KOIT.