All Beatles

["Russ Butler" <oldradio@earthlink.net>]

The "all-Beatles, all the time" format was on 1260AM in Los Angeles a few
years ago, not stunting, but 24/7 and it lasted (surprisingly!) for many
months.  The station ( with 20Kw at 1260 ) was also once K-JOY, then K-JAZZ
, All-Jazz, now it is all-nostalgia K-SURF with a duplicate signal at 540AM
(a Mexican station for San Diego.)  The owner also has KMZT-FM  "K-Mozart"
with free classical music for Los Angeles, its a commercial station.

"All-Anything" is not a new programming concept in LA, after all. When the
same Mt. Wilson Broadcasters owned 1650AM with 10Kw power, they were
"All-Traffic, all the time" - with just live freeway and traffic reports,
24/7  (well...they taped and repeated some short segments to get a cup of
coffee! After all, how many times can you say nothing about traffic
conditions?)  Now it's an "All Asian" format at 1650AM.

When 1150AM was duplicating KISS-FM  "Top 40" (KIIS 102.7FM) and was going
to change to a sports-talk format, the stunted with a looping a long tape of
only baseball stuff (songs about baseball, baseball's historic moments,
basball nostalgic interviews, yada yada) and that was on for weeks, 24/7 the
same, one hour tape every hour!!  Sort of an "All Baseball all the time"
kind of thing.

And, of course, KFWB is "All News all the time" 980AM.

Russ Butler  oldradio@earthlink.net