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Promos and Howard Clark, KYA San Francisco July 1972 (0:14:24)

… Every hour, KYA gives away thousands of fabulous Blue Chip stamps …
Following a composite of Rip-Off and Pick Your Own Prize promos, and a Rolling Stones collage, Ex-KFRC jock Howard Clark is heard in morning drive on KYA San Francisco. (Clark’s soft-scoped portion begins about 4:40 in.) There’s also a short portion of KYA news at the end. Read “KYA FORMAT BASICS”, a memo generated by Julian Breen on December 20, 1971 for KYA staff. (Acrobat PDF format, 149KB) During Julian Breen’s watch as PD at KYA, the station was very well-engineered and very, very tight. Except for a hint of reverb, you might not guess this format, complete with super-short jingles and jocks over music only, was programmed by the former assistant PD of WABC.

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