Before Al Anthony was at KFXM, he was at KAFY in Bakersfield. For your comparison, here is the KAFY survey with Al's caricature, along with the KFXM survey of the same date. Quite a difference in survey song positions from radio stations with the same owners, not that far away from each other. Notice that the pick hits of the week were the same.
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It would appear that even then, in '62, Almondo Fiori was already working behind the scenes coordinating at least the music for Tullis & Hearne's radio group. Not bad for a college educated young man with lots of smarts and innate talent from the get-go!
Hey, Kenneth "Buddy" Goodwin, you
still haven't gotten back to me...
say, wasn't your father THE Tom Goodwin shown on this week's listing of KFXM disk jockies???
would like to reconnect with you, my
fellow alma mater friendlie and latter radio broadcaster alumni.
p.s. last time i we communicated was back around the mid-1970's!
I'm on Facebook Darth.
-Bud
Is Lord Darth on Facebook or does Lord Darth regard Facebook as a "Darker Side"?
Re: Cindy's Birthday
It appears to me that Del-Fi Records had a great relationship with retailers and radio in the Inland Empire. Johnny Crawford had at least one #1 on KFXM and appeared in a big '62 charity concert in SB.
-Bud
Found an interesting tidbit about Johnny Crawford's latter post-Rifleman career listed on Wikipedia:
"The Naked Ape was a partially animated 1973 feature film starring Johnny Crawford and Victoria Principal, produced by Hugh Hefner. In an article about that movie he became the first man to be shown in full-frontal nudity in Playboy magazine."
How's that for making your "mark"!!!
Buddy Goodwin, old mate, i don't want to leave you hanging. since i don't do F.B., you could obtain my direct email address from this blog's web administrator (The Dougmaster)...
for further reference, the last time i heard from you by written letter, you were doing a D.J. gig down around an Alabama station (if i recall correctly) somewhere during the mid-to-late 1970's???
i also published the newspaper from our old alma mater and worked for the late Robert F. Kennedy's '68 presidential campaign.
when i began seeing "Tom Goodwin" listed on the early KFXM pop sheets, that's when i began thinking about you again.
Based on the related appearance of the music surveys it appears that KAFY in Bakersfield was sort of a “farm” station (to use a baseball term) for KFXM and that KMAK in Fresno was sort of a similar role for KMEN. I would bet that since Bakersfield and Fresno are maybe 100 miles from each other the stations were not in competition with each other. Does anyone have any insight about whether there was any rivalry between KAFY and KMAK or what kind of interaction there was, if any, between the staffs of the those two stations?
As far as the Effective Coverage Area per F.C.C. records and by my own experiences traveling along Highway 99 between the two cities more times than I can count, neither KAFY nor KMAK were listenable to their respective target audiences (except possibly when the ionosphere was active late nights). Hence, neither station was in any real competition with the other. Besides, each Top 40 broadcaster had their own serious local competitors to worry about -- KYNO in Fresno and KERN in Bakersfield.
Yet, it is true that these stations were indeed handled (in some respects) as "farm" stations for their San Bernardino counterparts, KMEN and KFXM!
And the allusion to baseball terminology is quite apropos for these unique radio broadcasting ownerships (Colgreene and Tullis & Hearne).
Just ran into Al Anthony tonight. Got recent pics but don't know how to post?
The blogs only allow the administrators to post. If you have pictures you would like to post, you would have to send them to me at dcalgaro@netzero.net
I would also consider any comment, just let me know what you would like to say.
Thanks
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