… On a million dollar weekend, every other record’s a hit from yesterday …
This partially restored exhibit is a composite of two different airchecks from April 16, 1966 and July 15, 1966. KFIF was a 50,000 watt AM daytime-only station licensed to Tucson, Arizona.
T. Michael wrote:
“The owner (John B. Walton, from Odessa TX) used to listen to us on a special phone setup… he came from an oil made millionaire family, and loved it when I dedicated “Sloop John B” to him. Anyway, we wanted badly to be fulltime (this being prior to multiple ownership in one market), and worked out a deal with the FCC. His idea was to donate the 1550 freq to the University of Arizona, and then purchase a fulltimer at 570 (KTAN). The FCC said “YES”, and the University had a real radio station for students and we had a fulltimer. That just killed everything else in the market. We became KIKX. I was offered the PD’ship, but also had an offer from K/MEN, and I so badly wanted to work in SoCal, so I turned it down and went to K/MEN. I loved (and still do) Tucson.”
Portions restored, the fidelity is uneven, but this is a rare piece of Arizona radio.