APRIL 1ST. TODAY IN PORTLAND RADIO HISTORY
1922 Bob McCarl was born in Portland. Later KXL Program Director & Air Personality in the 1950's.
1923 KGW began Weather Reports on the designated weather wave, 485 meters (618.1kc).
1923 KFEC began sharing time on the designated weather wave on 485 meters (618.1kc) with KGW.
1924 KDYQ 360 meters (832.7kc) reduced power from 100 to 50 watts.
1929 Jane Powell was born in Portland. Regular on KGW's "Stars of Tomorrow". KOIN programs 1941-43.
1931 The UBC Network folded. KEX continued to carry programs from NBS in Seattle, based at KJR.
1936 The Real Don Steele was born in Hollywood. Later KISN Program Director & Kisn Air Personality.
1947 KGW-FM 95.3mc raised power from 250 watts to 5.1kw from its transmitter site on Healy Heights.
1948 KGW-FM 100.3mc raised power from 5.1kw to 54kw, the N.W's most powerful. Began simulcasting.
1951 KEX debuted "Paul Harvey News & Comment" from ABC, Sunday at 7:00pm & Noon weekdays.
1953 Rich Johnson was born in Hillsboro. Later KUIK News Director, KGAR, KPAM-FM, Fox News Radio.
1959 KWJJ affiliated with the ABC Radio Network when KGW dropped ABC, going independent.
1959 KPDQ became Portland's 1st full-time Religious broadcaster, since the short lived KFQN in 1924.
1960 Oregon Broadcasters Limited sold KPAM/KPFM to Chem-Air, Inc. for $200,000. (Bill Boeing, Pres.)
1963 Yamhill Radio Co. (Jerry Carr, President) sold KMCM to Ray Andrew Fields for $100,000.
1967 Malloy-Breyer, Inc. sold KLIQ to Cascade Broadcasting Corp. for $300,000. (David M. Jack, Pres.)
1968 KLIQ-FM 92.3MHz affiliated with the three month old American FM Radio Network.
1974 KOIN-FM 101.1MHz began 24 hour operation. Hours had been 6:00am to midnight.
1980 KKSN signed on the air from its studio-transmitter at 4617 NE 158th Ave. as "Brave New Radio."
1983 Gaylord Broadcasting Co. sold KYTE & KRCK(FM) to Charlton H. Buckley, Inc. for $3,750,000.
1986 FVBC, Inc. sold KCNR 1410 to Gothic Broadcasting Corp. and switched format from A.C. to Jazz.
1992 KKGR signed back on the air after almost a year with an soft Adult Contemporary music format.
1995 KKBK 1230KHz Gresham became KMUZ again after one year.
1997 EXCL Communications, Inc. sold KOTK 620KHz to Jacor Communications, Inc. for $8.3 Million.
1997 "Music Radio, 95 KXL-FM" changed it nickname to "Mix 95.5" The Best Mix of The 80's & 90's.
1998 KKSN became KFXX "Sports Radio 910, The Fan". Sunny's "Standards" format had moved to 1520.
1998 KFXX became KKSN "Sunny 1520". "The Fan" had moved to 910KHz.
2009 CBS Radio Stations, Inc. sold KLTH(FM), KXJM 107.5MHz to Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
Not that there was anything wrong with West Salem, as I only lived less than a song from the old building.
