KHJ is part of kearth

Ok, I guess if this came from the actual station, it's a better bet you had all the elements laying around somewhere, still. Nice work. At least, Carlin thought so: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6bFoapsaNF-hck

If you told me in almost 60 years my focus would be tuning into 93 KHJ jingles I would think you were crazy.

jesus... they broke the mold when Don was born. What a titanic talent.

I hear shades of the 1978 Superman movie theme in the KHJ fanfare at 02:59.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3-3mqSGft6Gea8 ...kind of makes you wonder if John Williams took some inspiration from it :) Then again, I definitely hear some similarity in the Hanna-Barbera "Superfriends" theme songs.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJmwo2eed9yKfdk

The 20/20 news sounder is my ring tone!

I worked at KHJ as a request line operator! It was a fun job and got to see lots of performers that would stop by at the station. Happy days!

These guys were the BEST DJ's ever!!!!! Wolfman Jack, Charlie Tuna, The Real Don Steele w/Tina Delgado, Robert W. Morgan, Rick Dees and the one and only Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem. NOT these a..holes that are now on the air with all kinds of b...sht and paying the audience to listen them

2:17 🔥

Thank you for this Big93!

KHJ had a TV station (Channel 9), so KHJ Radio probably got free commercial time on their TV sister station to promote Boss Radio.

KHJ's "20-20" news was an interesting twist of the timing of hourly newscasts, at :20 before the hour, and I'm pretty sure that in drive times, there were headlines at :20 past the hour.

The beginning of a legendary radio format. If KHJ's format could have been moved to FM in the late 1970's, it probably would still be a Top-40 format.

Sam Riddle's reference to "Hollywood A-Go-Go" was because he hosted a syndicated TV rock music show by that name which ran for a year in 1965 and 1966.

Can't touch WABC even on its best day

Born in 1954...Grew up in the San Fernando Valley. This was the center of my musical universe. Boy , did we have it good then.

So good I could just laugh like the Riddler guess those secret seven digits and win a prize on 93 KHJ

Living in Culver City, I listed to KHJ on a crystal radio. A powerful 5.000 watt signal a mile away. I remember the format went from talk radio Michael Jackson [no relation] In '65 Drake Chernhalt came up this format that sounded so cool. Three letter call letters are rare.

How cool is this.

God I miss those Legal IDs. K-EARTH adopted a crappy Legal ID when they went HD.

These are wonderful, and throw us right into the sonic zeitgeist of the mid-60s!

"Let's go,all you BOSS Batfans". Burt Ward, nice job of over acting.

Zowie!!

Thank you thebig93 for these air checks. I learn something new constantly, that 93 KHJ did. These New Years Greetings from the Boss Jocks, are SOOOOOO Cool.

This is exactly how the Boss Jocks sounded on the air. These guys were the Cream of Top 40 radio. There may never be a group of DJ's that sounded so good on any radio station than these guys. 1967 - Johnny Williams, Robert W. Morgan, Frank Terry, Gary Mack, Real Don Steele, Johnny Mitchell, Sam Riddle. 1968 - Real Don Steele, Johnny Williams, Bobby Tripp, Sam Riddle, Charlie Tuna, Humble Harve, Frank Terry, Robert W. Morgan. 1969 - Real Don Steele, Johnny Williams, Charlie Tuna, Sam Riddle, Scotty Brink, Humble Harve, Bill Wade, Robert W. Morgan.

My favorite was "this J .Paul Huddleston !had a flair to the way he announced that !

There's something so weirdly comforting hearing these again. And yeah the feeling we've lost something. What a golden time. I was a SoCal boy until 1969 when we moved to Seattle and no one knew what "bitchen" meant up there.

Tina Delgado is alive... ALIVE!!

Clean call signs, just what I was looking for! Thanks! Would you happen to be able to send me the audio file or do I have to grab it off youtube?

Best DJ ever.

Holy clues Batman! PinG 📱 Pow💥 Boom 💥 Zoom 🏎

Well, hello there, Thunderball score.

93 KHJ was really an Iconic radio station not only for Los Angeles but for the whole U.S. Those Boss Jocks were great & Bill Drake was a programming guru too. Thanks for posting this great memory maker.

holy antennas

AM Radio AM Radio AM Radio

HOW TO SOLVE THIS CONTEST: In 1966, the Batphone Secret Number Contest ran on Los Angeles radio station 93 KHJ Boss Radio, giving the first person to guess the phone number of the Bat Phone the prizes of lunch with Batman and Robin at the 20th Century Fox studio, a ride to the Batcave in the Batmobile, and an expensive new TV. 530-7972 was the number, first guessed by Fred Jones of Reseda, CA. Batman and Robin announced ten math clues on the radio over several days, and contestants guessed the phone number by mailing one guess per postcard to the station, as many postcards as they wanted. Fred Jones said he stayed up all night and mailed 408 postcards. He must have done so before all clues were announced, since the answer is very easy once we have all the clues. abc-defg is what I'll use for the phone number to start with. Here are the clues: - none of the digits 1, 4, 6, 8 are used - digit 9 is used - only one digit occurs twice (none occur more than twice) - abc = 530 (5:30 was two hours before the Batman TV show aired at 7:30) - a+b+c+d = 15 - f+g = 9 - a+b+c+d+e+f+g = 33 So d must be 7 to get first four to total 15, and the last two total 9, so e is 33 minus those two totals, = 9. So we have 530-79fg, where f and g are only from 2,3,5,7,9, and they total 9, and one or both of them accounts for the one repeated digit. Since they total 9, they cannot both be the same digit, and with only one digit repeated in the entire number, the only possibilities are 530-7927 & 530-7972. Since that only needs two postcards, I'd say Fred must have mailed his guesses before he had all the clues.

johnny Mann singers did the jingles, beautiful.

Dave Garroway and Johnny Ray -- both the same way?

Gosh, so many of the formatics that we came to take for granted as part of the Drake format have not yet taken shape here in 1965. Digital time checks, for instance -- saying, "It's 2:25" rather than "25 minutes after 2," and talking on both sides of the jingle, as heard here. That became a no-no soon after this demo was made. (Oh, and jingles weren't called "jingles" in Drake nomenclature. They were "logos.") Still much refinement would come after this 1965 demo was made, until the Drake format came to embody many of the formatics radio still uses to this day (well, the stations that have a clue about making great radio do, anyway). Fascinating.

Love to think of all batman fans of all ages getting excited to hear this on the radio trying to figure out the digits

Wow! Blast from the past!❤️❤️

Postcard only. Please.

Never one millisecond of wasted air time when The Real Don Steele was at the mic!

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Genius, and a fun one at that.

He was no Jackson Armstrong, but this was pretty cool. I wonder if one of the reasons he did this, because they didn’t have any spots to play at this point and had to keep things going with the shot clock, so they just wasted a few minutes by him rambling. Just a thought

When I was a kid (60s) BOSS Radio formats sounded so simple and easy. It's only when you start to think through the technology they were using (cart machines and 1/4" tape) and then working out the timings...and the advert schedule etc., then you realise how gifted the best of the jocks were. Talk about chewing gum and walking at the same time!