Talk:KFAT (defunct)

Radio stations policy

It is not Wikipedia policy that radio stations get distinct articles for each individual call sign change in their history; they get one article at the last call sign attached to the relevant FCC license. Did KFAT simply cease to exist, or did it continue with a different call sign and format? If the latter, then this article needs to be moved or redirected to that call sign. Bearcat 23:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Dude it's KFAT - If you have to ask you'll never know. I was not a listener, but I understood KFAT's cultural & historical significance even as I mocked the people who did listen. talk 05:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

@Bearcat: You'll be happy to know that I merged the (few) outstanding features of this article into a section at KBAY. It only took twelve and a half years (and an audit of dozens of (defunct) pages)... Raymie (t • c) 04:36, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Wow, last decade's coming back at me hardcore tonight... Bearcat (talk) 04:55, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

The story of KHIP, see source at the bottom of this talk page, a continuation of the KFAT legacy, is not told in this article, the new merged version or on the KHIP page. I don't really feel qualified to write it either, especially not seeing the original source. My concern is that this will get lost on the unlinked talk page. This is now another source from the firewalled Mercury I ( or someone else more local) need(s) to look up the next time I can spend time in a San Jose Public Library. Trackinfo (talk) 05:19, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:KFAT1982.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Article

I am not a an expert on this station. However I did see this article while doing other research so I will put some of it here for anyone interested. It came from the San Jose Mercury News July 13, 1986 FROM FATTIES TO HIPPIES THE SIGNAL'S WEAK THE MOOSE ISN'T LOOSE YET, BUT COUNTRY RAUNCH RADIO IS BACK
The nail polish bottles still rattle in the trays at the beauty parlor upstairs. Despite the mounds of insulation plastered on the walls, it's just too dang noisy for the neighbors who share space with KHIP radio in the old Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital here. Only 15 months ago, KHIP radio (93.5-FM) burst onto the airwaves out of the ashes of the homespun, honky-tonk country music station KFAT, lamented throughout the Bay Area since it was yanked off the air in January 1983 after years of money and management turmoil. In the meantime, station manager and mainstay Amy "Airheart" Bianco has cooked up a scheme to start a corporation independent of the station that will package and feed the same rowdy format into other affiliated stations around the state. That way, if KHIP ever folds or faces the same kind of off-again, on-again crises that KFAT did, the corporation can keep putting the music out there. What she has in mind is a full-fledged corporation -- yep, the kind that requires a board of directors, bylaws, and private stockholders. If it all sounds a bit starchy for the kind of laid-back and loosely run station that KFAT used to be, that's because the KHIP crew has grown weary of starting all over, weary of bounced checks and bruised egos, and weary of worrying that they won't be able to play the kind of music they like. The new owners, Western Cities Broadcasting, were more interested in profit margins than in KFAT's kind of music, and within weeks the station had been transformed into KWSS, with a Top 40 format designed for "contemporary mass appeal." 'When KFAT died, it was like losing your mother and your dog at the same time," says Airheart, who sold her Toyota and took off for six weeks in Europe. Other KFAT employees drifted into different jobs; some collected unemployment. But the biggest affront came when the new owners boxed up the station's collection of 2000 records and carted it off to the Gilroy public library -- without even giving the airstaff a chance to make a bid. After a two-year lull, Uncle Sherman and Airheart got a hankering to "do radio" again. Together, they made a pitch to the owner of KHIP, then a lackluster rock 'n' roll station in Hollister that had been around since 1979. Vern Miller bought the idea; his station wasn't making money anyway. Airheart, Uncle Sherman and other former FATties pooled their personal record collections to get the station going. And the old gang started drifting back. Out of 15 airshifts, 10 were filled by former KFATers. They started out in March 1985, with a tiny studio on a side street in Hollister and production facilities that couldn't compete with most home stereo systems. After six months, a fire in the building wiped out $60000 worth of transmitting equipment, and they were forced to vacate. The month of September was spent broadcasting from a trailer at a truck stop in Gilroy. Then they settled into their current humble headquarters on Hawkins Street Libro0 (talk) 00:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)