BTW, here are some radio sites that are Pittsburgh oriented that covered the British invasion and the Beatles when they came to the US and Pittsburgh. This first site covers KQV which scooped KDKA on the Beatles. At that time, it was a very amazing feat to beat KDKA at its own game:
Jeff Roteman's KQV Site
Another station that was somewhat strong in the mix at that time was 1360 WIXZ (Wick-Zee) although for a short time, they changed their call letters to WMCK for a while. Their big DJ was Terry Lee and there was a local McKeesport garage band called "The Fantastic DeeJays" which were somewhat of a local hit at that time.
Randy McDaniels' WIXZ 1360 MEMORIESTerry LeeFantastic DeeJays
I remember my fatherl istening to KQV and I vaguely remember Rush when he was Jeff Christie.
BTW, Mom works at a bakery of a local Giant Eagle and one of her co-workers I'm friends with, he;s a talkshow junky too and one day, he greeted me by not saying "hi" but "what in the Hell is going on at KDKA?" Well, I generally know what is going on but I rarely listen to them anymore. I do have the luxury of listening to the radio/walkman at work but where I'm at, we can't get AM so KDKA is out of the question for me. I know they took Mike Pintek off of the morning shift and put in some investigative reporter guy from KDKA-TV, his name escapes me. Ok, I remember now, Marty Griffith. O'Reilly was kicked from his regulat timeslot of 12 noon to 2 PM to 10 PM to 12 AM. Well, if I want to catch him, well, it works for me but I tend to stick with Mike Savage and the first hour of Glenn Beck repeats. They put on some loud mouthed economic guy named Kramer from 1 to 2 PM, I think, and I think John MacIntire (Mom says he looks like Bill Clinton a little bit) from 8 to 10 PM. I think KDKA is going down the commode.
I'm not as big on Rush as I used to be but he is the #1 talkshow host and the local Pittsburgh FM talker on 104.7 Mc ripped Rush from KDKA even when they were less than a year old, that is some major coup there. I'm hearing rumors that KDKA have a good chance of losing the Pittsburgh Pirates on the radio when their contract runs out. Would be nice to get them somewhere on FM since I work "deep in the dungeon" as we joke about it at work. B-)
BTW, Boo is doing OK, he goes for a checkup tomorrow.