… Channel 98, with seven of the top-rated shows in all of occupied Los Angeles …
The spots have been edited, and it sounds like all the classic hits were very nicely restored to this crisp recording of The Weedy One, the late Gene Weed (d. 1999), filling in on the Elliot Field frolic for Friday, March 27, 1959.
If you listen carefully, the clarity of this recording reveals cue burns and scratches on the jingles and spots! Evidently, most everything was on Electrical Transcriptions (acetates?). The KFWB engineers must have been plenty busy, juggling discs and cueing up a team of turntables. That’s right, no cart machines, certainly no computers!
There’s a Sports Scoreboard and a weather forecast, but the announcer isn’t identified. However, Gene does promote John Babcock as “coming up” with a newscast at the end of the hour, so maybe he is the mystery announcer.
