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That station broadcasts on 93.1 FM and uses the "93 KHJ" on-air name and jingles. An aircheck sample of an old KHJ jingle is heard at the beginning of "AM Radio" by Everclear. Harry Chapin, on his Greatest Stories Live album, refers to KHJ in "WOLD" ("I am the morning DJ at 93 KHJ, playing all the hits for you, play them night and day") to the ...
Tarantino and his music supervisor, Mary Ramos listened to 14 hours of original 1969 KHJ-AM soundchecks to help create the soundtrack. It includes original Boss Radio jingles by Johnny Mann [3] and commercials, as well as the voices of Boss Radio DJs including Don Steele and Charlie Tuna, also featured in the film. [4]
Although developed earlier at other stations, the U.S. "Boss Radio" format is most closely associated with KHJ in Los Angeles, at 930 kHz AM.. KHJ, one of the first radio stations in Los Angeles, had gone on the air in 1922 and in later years was owned by RKO, a major U.S. corporation which produced movies, television and radio programming over its own stations.
Ron Jacobs (2004) Ron Jacobs (September 3, 1937 – March 8, 2016) [1] was an American broadcaster, author of books and magazines, record producer and concert promoter. He is best known as the program director of KHJ radio in Los Angeles during its ground-breaking "Boss Radio" period (1965–1969), and as co-creator of the countdown show American Top 40, and the seminal radio program The ...
Jingles, like all good brand publishing, serve as an auditorial—and sometimes also visual—form of brand storytelling. They tell a specific message about the brand, its products, or its values.
"AM Radio" is a song by American rock band Everclear from their fourth album, Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile (2000). The song was released as the second single from the album on August 22, 2000, and failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
Drake-Chenault was sold and eventually dissolved in the mid-1980s. In 1973, Drake left KHJ, along with Steele and Morgan, to program KIQQ-FM ("K-100") in Los Angeles. Bill Drake was a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.
The first format was Hitparade which aired on KHJ-FM in Los Angeles. In the early 70s with AM and FM stations in all market sizes coming under the FCC rule and following the large market model, Drake-Chenault entered the radio syndication business in earnest, making taped formats available to non-RKO stations.