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LA Radio History Falls To The Ground
2-27-2013
The tower of the once popular KHJ Los Angeles was pulled to the ground yesterday. KHJ-AM, which stood for kindness, happiness and joy, was a very popular Top 40 station before FM came along. The tower was prepped for four days and it took a few seconds to pull it to the ground. You can watch a video of the demolition here on KTLA.
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(2/28/2013 2:21:41 PM) A quick check of the FCC's AM Query at its website would have revealed that it had a CP to move from one set of coordinates (34/02/26; 118/22/14 to: 34/05/8; 118/15/24). AM directionals typically don't have much leeway in moving antenna arrays, so it's only a mile or two away apparently (from looking at Google maps/satellite view). The new towers seem to have a much shorter electrical height in degrees. |
| - Laurence Glavin |
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(2/28/2013 7:38:45 AM) Hey Radio Ink, what's the rest of the story? Is the station going dark? Or moving to a new xmtr site? Why leave that information out of the story. (sigh) Yet another air sandwich from Radio Ink.... |
| - Iconoclast |
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(2/27/2013 11:33:07 PM) I worked at WRKO, the RKO Boston version of KHJ, in the 70's both as a high school intern, and later as a salesman. Sadly, the RKO programmers like Bill Drake would have forgotten more, than most (though certainly not all) of today's programmers will ever know.The RKO programmers never "gamed the system" with such a pathetic, uncreative approach of today, with 45 minute music sweeps followed by 12-14 commercials in a row, that drives away listeners and shafts the advertisers. |
| - Bob MacKay |
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(2/27/2013 11:33:06 PM) I worked at WRKO, the RKO Boston version of KHJ, in the 70's both as a high school intern, and later as a salesman. Sadly, the RKO programmers like Bill Drake would have forgotten more, than most (though certainly not all) of today's programmers will ever know.The RKO programmers never "gamed the system" with such a pathetic, uncreative approach of today, with 45 minute music sweeps followed by 12-14 commercials in a row, that drives away listeners and shafts the advertisers. |
| - Bob MacKay |
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