Phoenix Radio of the 60s
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010Yesterday here on normradio.com in place of Friday’s Music, I aired an interview with Kit Carson who was with KRUX here in Phoenix back in the 1960s. We were both at the station at the same time. Today’s interview starts as I have just asked how he got along with the PDs, who followed Al [...]
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Interview with KRUX Good Guy Kit Carson (Part One)
Friday, May 14th, 2010Last Sunday, Mother’s Day, I had the opportunity to talk with former KRUX Good guy Kit Carson. We have not talked since I left the station back in 1965. There are two parts to the interview, starting today and continuing tomorrow. You can find promotional items , on the right of this blog, featuring pictures [...]
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KRUX Home of the Good Guys.
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Here are the men who were in the news department at KRUX when I arrived from Denver in the summer of 1965. I was very lucky to have found employment at such a fun station. As I remember it, the news department was actually Rod Peterson and Dean Murray . Len Johnson did Production, and [...]
Norm Talks with Bob Shannon. #2
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010We started our interview with former KRUX Good Guy Bob Shannon on yesterday’s blog. Bob and I worked at KRUX in the mid 1960s. I can’t guarantee that after listening you will know why you need a free seo tool , but listen anyway, you just might enjoy it. By clicking below you can listen [...]
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Living in the Past Two
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009The promotion department at KOOL AM?FM and TV was great. The newspapers in Phoenix at least once a month had great ads promoting the radio stations. The promo above is for the time I was on the FM. The studios had all RCA Equipment from the Microphone, turntables (16 inch models), to the Tape Decks. [...]
Living in my Past.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Today, since I don’t have wheels, it was a stay at home day, so I thought why not clean the closet in my office. My Past I guess has been crying out: “Find us again, Look at us…we miss you !” Right off the bat I found over 40 some letters from listeners up in [...]
Norm visits some of his Past.
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Today, our friends Rhonda and Scott took us to Downtown Scottsdale, the home of a Museum about broadcasting here in Arizona. Well, there aren’t any pictures of Norm there but there were a lot of interesting things from radio and TV stations, sadly no studio cameras, and a lot of pictures of friends. That in [...]
More about KRUX (Glendale-Phoenix) during the 60s.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008My friend Shari, who lives here in the Phoenix area, who I knew when I was at KRUX, sent me a couple items about me, that I thought you might get a kick out of. Once there you will notice on the right a second listing of my name, you can click there and see [...]
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