Today is KOL's 95th birthday. Were the late Lan Roberts still there, I am sure that he would be playing Channel 95 jingles throughout his show, to celebrate. He'd done it before, on Hallowe'en 1969, when he spun a package of KJR jingle material on KOL's Garbage Record Festival.
Within the last week or so, I stumbled upon KOL's FCC records and was shocked at how many times they had applied for a change in frequency and been turned down, sometimes after an experimental period of actually being on the new frequency, all in a quest for higher power:
- 1933 - 850
- 1934 - 660
- 1934 - 850
- 1935 - 810
- 1935 - 920
- 1936 - 1040
- 1937 - 1020
- 1942 - 880
- 1945 - 820
Other than a few experimental changes, KOL remained on 1270 up to the mass frequency change of 1941 (Havana Treaty), when they switched to their current home of 1300.
Today in Broadcast History looks at KOL's Top 40 history.