“SAN FRANCISCO  So strong are the personalities at KYA, the leading Hot 100 station here, that Johnny Holliday once out-Pulsed a baseball game in audience ratings. His real strength at being able to influence his teen-age listeners also cropped up in Billboard’s latest Radio Response Rating survey of the market. He was leading air personality at influencing sales of singles records with 42 per cent of the votes of record dealers, distributors, one-stop operators, and local and national record company executives. Billboard’s comprehensive survey showed the station over-all leading the singles market with a hefty 63 per cent of the votes; last year, the station had only 49 per cent of the votes, though it still led the market, because of stronger competition from KEWB.”
This short sample of Johnny Holliday in morning drive at KYA was recorded during his last year in Top 40. Note the excellent PAMS jingles and the upcoming “Folk and Rock Festival”, featuring some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll legends of all time.