KMET was a
Los Angeles
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FM
radio station
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owned by
Metromedia
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(hence the "MET" in its call sign) that broadcast at 94.7
MHz
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, beginning on May 2, 1966. It signed off on February 14, 1987. The station, nicknamed "The Mighty Met" (among other nicknames), was a pioneering station of the "underground"
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
format.
History
As with many FM stations at the time, KMET featured an automated format (with female voices and middle-of-the-road music). The origin of KMET's
freeform rock music
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format came about due to events at a rival radio station. In 1967, popular
Top 40
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disc jockey
Tom Donahue Thomas or Tom Donahue may refer to:
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* Thomas Michael Donahue (1921–2004), American physicist, astronomer, and space and planetary scientist
* Tom Donahue (DJ) (1928–1975), pioneerin ...
(Rock Radio Hall of Fame inductee 2015) and his wife
Raechel took the FM underground rock sound to
KMPX
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in San Francisco, and soon, along with L.A.
Top 40
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personality
B. Mitchel Reed
B. Mitchel Reed (June 10, 1926 – March 16, 1983) was a successful American disc Jockey on both Top 40 and album-oriented rock radio stations, working in New York and Los Angeles during his 25-year career.
Career
Born Burton Mitchel Goldberg in ...
, to
KPPC-FM
KROQ-FM (106.7 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format known as "The World Famous KROQ" (pronou ...
in Pasadena. Both stations quickly became popular with their innovative formats, and brought the owners more success than they encountered before. But it was to be short-lived. After conflicts with the stations’ owners, the Donahues, Reed and the rest of the KPPC and KMPX staff left both stations and went on
strike
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People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
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*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
. As prospects for resolving the strike looked hopeless (the owners had hired
scabs to continue the rock programming), Tom Donahue looked elsewhere, and eventually convinced Metromedia to install KPPC's format at KMET in June 1968. They did likewise at KMET's sister station,
KSAN-FM
KSAN (107.7 MHz, "107.7 The Bone") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to San Mateo, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by Cumulus Media and it airs a mainstream rock radio format. It also s ...
in San Francisco. Many of the personalities at both stations transferred to Metromedia.
The KPPC format was only mildly successful. After leaving
KROQ AM/FM,
Shadoe Stevens
Shadoe Stevens (; ) is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of '' American Top 40'' from 1988 to 1995. He currently hosts the internationally syndicated radio show ''Top of the World,'' and co-host ...
was hired by General Manager L. David Moorhead in 1974 to create something new for the struggling format KMET had put in place. With a staff that included B. Mitchell Reed, Stevens, Jimmy Rabbitt, Brother John, and Mary ("The Burner") Turner, Stevens introduced a new rock format that retained some of Donahue's progressive freedom but gave it energy and consistency that featured programming and high production values similar to those that had been integrated at KROQ. Stevens also designed a futuristic billboard campaign called "Hollywood as seen from Mulholland Drive in the year 2525."
Artist
Neon Park
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did ads for KMET as well as the famous billboards. With this new programming design and branded marketing, in 1975 KMET became the number one radio station in Los Angeles.
KMET's
station identification
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jingle
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, "A Little Bit of Heaven, Ninety-Four Point Seven - KMET - Tweedle-Dee" was originally written by Michael Shuler, a friend of the Rainbow Choir—Sandy and Teresa Smith, Melissa Levesque, and Beth Underwood—performed live in the broadcast booth on the Jeff "The Gonzer" show. The group changed the words to Mr. Shuler's song to advertise the station. Sandy Smith and Underwood had also rewritten the lyrics to "
Deep Elem Blues
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", renaming that traditional tune "Deep L.A. Blues," specifically for Jeff Gonzer's show. After the live performance, KMET asked the Rainbow Choir if they had any other "stuff." This request was unexpected, and several station IDs were quickly created on the spot, all of them recorded, but only one was used. This ID "jingle" came to be emblematic for KMET. The live recording was used for years, but was rerecorded in the late 1970s or early 1980s with session singers.
Stevens left in 1975 to begin a production company and the station's programing was taken over by Sam Bellamy. Ms. Bellamy, who had been hired from ''Billboard Magazine'', had been Stevens' assistant for most of the time he programmed the station.
At the time, the studios of KMET and its local AM counterpart,
country-western
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KLAC
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, were located across the street from the
La Brea Tar Pits
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on Wilshire Blvd. In Summer 1976, both stations moved to the then-Metromedia complex where
KTTV
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Channel 11 was located.
KMET stood in direct contrast to other music stations of the era. KMET and other progressive-rock stations played more
eclectic
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* ''Eclectic'' (Big Country album), 1996
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artists with much longer songs and more socially-conscious lyrics than the
Top 40
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AM stations. The
disc jockey
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s talked far less, and in a more personal, relaxed manner. They voiced their opinions on controversial topics, such as the killing of whales, the spraying of marijuana with the toxic chemical
Paraquat, the
Vietnam War
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and
civil rights
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, and most importantly they chose the music that they played on the air. Emblematic of this approach was longtime KMET late-night host
Jim Ladd
Jim Ladd (born January 17, 1948), an American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, is one of the few notable remaining freeform rock DJs in United States commercial radio.
Ladd first gained national prominence as host of the hour long, natio ...
(fired October 25, 2011 by one-time rival
KLOS-FM Klos or KLOS may refer to:
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*Klos, Dibër, a town in eastern Albania
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and currently hosting his own show on
SiriusXM
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), whose laid-back philosophical ruminations usually led into a song, from artists such as
Bob Dylan
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,
John Lennon
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,
Pink Floyd
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,
The Doors
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or
Led Zeppelin
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- that underscored his point.
KMET often mixed
counterculture
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comedy skits by
the Firesign Theatre
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and
the Credibility Gap
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with the music. The Credibility Gap broadcast
satirical
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skits during Pasadena's Tournament of Roses Parade in the 1970s. Another KMET staple at the time was
Dr. Demento
Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograp ...
, whose
variety show
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began on KPPC-FM. The ''Dr. Demento Show'' moved to KMET-FM in 1972 and soon became the most listened-to Sunday evening radio program in Los Angeles. Following Dr. Demento on Sunday nights,
Mike Harrison hosted a phone-in talk show called ''Harrison's Mike''.
KMET aired live concerts that went on to become seminal recordings. David Bowie's show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 20 October 1972 during the Ziggy Stardust Tour was aired by KMET. Bootlegs of the broadcast were widely distributed, even in chain record stores, before it gained a
semi-official release in 1994 and then an
official release in 2008. According to author David Buckley, possessing a copy of the bootleg was the test of a "proper Bowie fan".
On July 7, 1978, KMET aired
Bruce Springsteen
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's concert live from the
Roxy. Many songs from that broadcast were included on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's album ''
Live/1975–85''.
KMET was a member of a group of progressive-rock stations that emerged across the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, along with
KSAN,
WNEW-FM
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in New York City,
WMMR
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in Philadelphia,
WBCN in Boston,
WMMS
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in Cleveland, and
KQRS-FM
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in Minneapolis.
The 1978 movie ''
FM'', written by former employee Ezra Sacks, was reportedly loosely based on KMET. The lead character was based around
Mike Herrington, the program director for much of the era preceding the film. Much of the history of KMET is documented in Jim Ladd's book ''Radio Waves'', where the station is referred to as Radio KAOS and many of the DJs are given pseudonyms. Arguably, 1978 was the pinnacle year at the station. The line-up was impressive. Jeff Gonzer, Bob Coburn, Cynthia Fox, Jack Snyder, Mary Turner, and Jim Ladd. Ace Young and Patrick 'Paraquat' Kelley provided the breaking news and views of the day.
The progressive format thrived on KMET throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s, at one time becoming one of the most successful FM stations in the country. But changing trends in music, culture and society, and the advent of strict formatting in radio eventually turned KMET into a relic. The station experienced staff turnover, radio consultants, tight playlists and an increasingly-impersonal approach typical of the more mainstream
album oriented rock
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Album-orient ...
format.
KMET is also notable for broadcasting the program The Mighty METal Hour, which was hosted by Jim Ladd on Friday nights from 10PM to midnight, and showcased the music of many then-up-and-coming hard rock and heavy metal bands, including
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ...
,
Slayer
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,
Megadeth
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,
Anthrax
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,
Iron Maiden
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,
Queensrÿche
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,
Mötley Crüe
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,
Motörhead
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,
Y&T,
Metal Church
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,
Great White,
Armored Saint
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,
Dio,
W.A.S.P.,
Ratt
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,
Quiet Riot
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The original lineup featured Rhoads and Garni with lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow and drummer Drew F ...
,
Twisted Sister
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,
Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
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Riot
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,
Loudness
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,
Warrior
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History
Warriors seem to have been p ...
and
Agent Steel
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.
Metromedia fired the entire KMET on-air staff on February 9, 1987, signing off its album rock format at Noon on February 14, 1987, with The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers Medley" (Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End). KMET was replaced by the
new-age
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KTWV
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"The Wave". Today, "The Wave" has evolved into a
Smooth Jazz
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format, though now plays
Urban Adult Contemporary
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and is owned by
Entercom
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, which merged with
CBS Radio
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in 2017. The KMET call letters have been since reassigned to an AM
Talk radio
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station,
KMET in
Banning, California.
Tributes
On June 21, 2009, Los Angeles radio station
KSWD ("The Sound 100.3") announced that on July 10, 2009, it would do a one-day revival of KMET complete with the original
aircheck
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s and many of the on-air staff from the station's heyday. The Sound had another KMET reunion from November 1 to 3, 2013.
KMET was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the "Legends of Rock Radio-Stations" category in 2014.
On-air staff
*Billy Jugs
*
Richard Beebe
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*Sam Bellamy
*Barbara Birdfeather (1969–1971)
*
Bobby Blue
* Damion Bragdon, aka "Damion"
* Lynda Clayton
*Bob Coburn (
Rockline
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)
*
Al "Jazzbo" Collins
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Career
Born in Rochester, New York, in 1919, Collins grew up on Long Island, New York. In ...
(1966)
*Sky Daniels
*
Dr. Demento
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*
Raechel Donahue
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*
Tom Donahue Thomas or Tom Donahue may refer to:
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* Thomas Michael Donahue (1921–2004), American physicist, astronomer, and space and planetary scientist
* Tom Donahue (DJ) (1928–1975), pioneerin ...
*
Cynthia Fox
*Tom "Uncle T" Gamache
*Jeff Gonzer
*
Bob Griffith
* Mike Harrison
*Patrick 'Paraquat' Kelley
* Richard Kimball
*Frank DeSantis
*
E.J. Knight
*
Jim Ladd
Jim Ladd (born January 17, 1948), an American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, is one of the few notable remaining freeform rock DJs in United States commercial radio.
Ladd first gained national prominence as host of the hour long, natio ...
*John Langan
*
Pat Martin (broadcaster)
*
Brad Messer
*
L. David Moorhead. General mgr.
*
Deirdre O'Donoghue
Deirdre O'Donoghue (July 16, 1948 – January 21, 2001) was a disc jockey known for her shows ''SNAP!'' on KCRW-FM and ''Breakfast with the Beatles'' on KMET-FM and later KLSX-FM. She has been called the "most influential American DJ you’ve nev ...
(
Breakfast with the Beatles
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) (1983-?)
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Thom O'Hare
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Martin Perlich
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David Perry
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Jim Pewter
Jim Pewter is an american radio DJ, songwriter, producer, linernotes author and an authority about pop, rock, surf music/surf rock, rockabilly, doo wop, oldies, and jazz. Pewter was host of the daily radio program ''The Jim Pewter Show'', heard w ...
(1970–1973)
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Jimmy Rabbitt
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B. Mitchel Reed
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Career
Born Burton Mitchel Goldberg in ...
*
Billy Pearl
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William (Rosko) Mercer
*Rick Scarry
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Brent Seltzer
*Shana
*
Lee 'Baby' Simms
*China Smith
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Frazer Smith
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Early life
Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Career
Smith worked in Los Angeles at ...
*Freddy Zermeno
*Jack Snyder
*
Shadoe Stevens
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*
Bill Todd
*
Ron Middag Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald.
Ron or RON may also refer to:
Arts and media
* Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character
* Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character
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*Mary Turner
*Gabriel Wisdom
*Ace Young (1971–1983 and 1985–1987)
*Rick Lewis of The Lewis and floorwax show
*
Steven Clean (1973-1975)
References
External links
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Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1966
1966 establishments in California
1987 disestablishments in California
Radio stations disestablished in 1987
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