Christopher Cane, Chris Edwards, Last Contest KYA San Francisco January 25, 1973 (0:56:25)
Christopher Cane is assisted by Chris Edwards in selecting the first winner in KYA’s Last Contest on January 25, 1973.
The Last Contest was originally developed by Jack McCoy for KCBQ in San Diego a couple of years earlier. By 1973, McCoy was syndicating the contest to stations all over the country. In San Francisco, Program Director Julian Breen (former WABC Assistant PD) purchased the rights to the contest for KYA.
It’s possible that the promos for this contest sound better than the actual “moment of winning”. The big moment begins about 37 minutes into the exhibit and continues for 15 minutes. We listen to all the rules, then we are subjected to the first 29 callers (some of whom give their home addresses!) being told to “hang up and call again” and when we finally get to the specified Caller #30, incurable feedback threatens to trash the entire event.