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KMET returns - for a day
Wow... a lot of good memories *sniff*
A friend went to KMET that last day to picket the closing. He turned out to be the only one there. I think it was covered briefly on the news.
[trivia]
The Roger Waters album Radio K.A.O.S. features some recorded bits from 94.7 KMET-FM (surf report, fish report with a beat, etc.) in the background, and the voices of Jim Ladd and others from KMET.
Jim Ladd wrote a book, titled Radio Waves, about a fictional radio station called Radio KAOS (really about the history of L.A.'s Mighty Met in it's heyday.) The first track on that Roger Waters album is also titled Radio Waves.
The callsign KMET is now owned by Sunset Broadcasting with an AM station in Banning, CA on 1490kHz. While that station is licensed for 5kw I think they cut back to 1 or 2 kw at night since I couldn't pick them up very far. |
