KFXM and KMEN the Top 40 stations of the Inland Empire (San Bernardino/Riverside)in the 1960's. This site will bring you information and pictures from these two stations KFXM 590 and KMEN 1290. For other musical and miscellaneous interests take a look at.........................http://djsgone.blogspot.com/
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Friday, October 22, 2010
KITO
The best copy of the only KITO survey I've seen (October 1959). In 2 1/2 years will become K/MEN
I lived in Riverside from 1959-65 and fuzzily remember KITO mostly as a more "Middle of the Road" station that carried network news on the hour and LA Dodgers Baseball games, which my father religiously listened to. I believe KFXM carried the games in 1959, the first year I lived there. I also seem to remember a brief attempt by KITO into Country and Western. In early 1962, when K/MEN took over the 1290 spot, radio in the Inland Empire changed for many years! They really shook things up!
This is great to see.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting it for all
to share.
I still have no recollection
of this station at all back
then. Nothing. They did not
publicize well at all.
Any airchecks around anyone??
I lived in Riverside from 1959-65 and fuzzily remember KITO mostly as a more "Middle of the Road" station that carried network news on the hour and LA Dodgers Baseball games, which my father religiously listened to. I believe KFXM carried the games in 1959, the first year I lived there. I also seem to remember a brief attempt by KITO into Country and Western. In early 1962, when K/MEN took over the 1290 spot, radio in the Inland Empire changed for many years! They really shook things up!
ReplyDeleteTom in Lexington, KY
Doug, you really amaze me when you come up with goodies like this. It blew my mind to see a KITO survey, I didn't know any even existed.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Helm