The way I acquired this KFXM survey was through an EBAY auction along with the posted letter that was attached.
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Letter from Roy L. Cordell station directer of KFXM and KAFY
Fun facts from this letter.
The Mission Inn studios for KFXM have just been opened.
8,000 surveys are distributed each week (maybe 8 or so probably still exist).
Al Anthony is mentioned as director of progrming at KAFY.
KFXM is number one in the ratings.
Mention that KITO has a new country format, started November 23, 1959
Their sister station is KFOX from Long Beach.
12 comments:
What a coup, man! how much did it set you back bidding for this remarkable piece of Inland Empire radio history?
do you wanna sell it??????
Hey Doug, you really have a love
for this stuff. A true fan.
What a pristine tune sheet.
That letter alone is priceless.
Is Cordell still around?
Al Anthony is somehwere in
midwest and hope he sees this.
Said he was writing a book but
haven't seen anything on that.
Hey, man, was that EBAY seller somebody famous connected with KFXM, huh??????
Say, has that letter from Cordell
been authenticated? could be a fake written up by his arch-enemy who replaced him!
Answers:
1) Good price, about 15.00
2) I'm keeping it
3) Have no idea about Cordell
4) Also heard something about an Al Anthony book, but no details.
5) Seller had no connection with KFXM.
6) Letter looks like it is mimeographed and not a carbon copy, (remember high school mimeograph machines?) and probably sent to many locations (notice the generic salutation, a radio form letter) It came with the survey, but too bad there was no envelope. These were the days before copying machines.
Thanks for the answers, Doug!
Mimeograph machines???
now that goes a long way back
before Zerox became a household word!
When did KDUO come into the
KFXMpire??
"In late 1961, KFXM Broadcasting Company acquired KDUO Stereo FM in order to provide an even wider range of service to Southland residents."
(from The KFXM Tiger Mag dated
November 15, 1958, Vol.5 No.45)
OOPS! make that Tiger Mag issue date to be 15 November 1968!
(a slip of the fingers, a typo)
Great detective work Doug, getting hold of that letter to record promoters from Roy! I wish I'd been listening to KFXM in November of 1959, but, I was still a little over a year away from becoming a radio freak, since I didn't get a transistor radio until the NEXT Christmas (late December of 1960).
I was always impressed how "someone" (perhaps the director of tunesheet color schemes) managed to juggle the print colors and background colors so that it would be so long between "repeats."
These were the FUN and EXCITING days of Top 40 radio and there will never be another era such as this.
Thanks for all the great work. You bring back so many GREAT MEMORIES!!
Bruce Chandler DG's KOOL GOLD and KRTH 101 (and former 2-6pm KFXM deejay late 1971-early 1974 :-)
HOWDY DOO, BROTHER BRUCIE!
(from U-Know-Who-When)
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