Talk:KMET (FM)

Tone

This article is in some need of an overall adjustment in tone and air personality and program director listing. For example: Mikel Hunter joined KMET-FM as Operations and Program Director in late 1972, ending his stint late in 1974. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Mikey#KMET_.281972.E2.80.931974.29) [[Goodhelp (talk) 23:40, 29 May 2015 (UTC)]]

While content was created by one or more avid listeners, the adulation flirts with violation of NPoV standards in passages like:

"To its fans throughout the 1970s and mid-1980s, KMET's progressive rock radio format was what you listened to in Los Angeles if you were to be considered 'hip.'"

While such sentiments may have been found in some listeners, I doubt many of the people who listened to KROQ, KRLA, KIQQ or even KEZY could be said to feel the same way.

Harrison's Mike might be worth a mention as well (Sundays 10 PM to midnight as I recall).

Sangrito 19:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I revised much of the history here to give this article a bit of polish. For reference, I gathered up info from the web, and used Jim Ladd’s book to fill in some detail (though exact dates and facts are a little suspect here). Seems the history of the station depends on who’s telling it. The truth lies somewhere in the middle of it all, I suspect.

I hope the revision here meets with everyone’s approval. Much of the current article is terrible. It looks like a BMR puff piece (no offense intended here, of course). This paragraph, in particular, is ridiculous:

KMET has stood alone in pioneering the free-form style of rock radio. Everything from folk to acid rock to rockabilly to modern jazz to pop to R&B might be heard in one well blended set. The sudden death by heart attack of the unofficial dean of KMET B. Mitchel Reed (in 1983 after he had moved to KLOS-FM) and (likely) the event of a cocaine epidemic in the entertainment industry were likely factors in KMET’s demise.

A former employee’s death? Cocaine epidemic? Nah, I think it was an unknown killer on the grassy knoll. I corrected this, as everyone knows that changing times, corporate meddling and consultants killed this station.

As I understand, KMET and KSAN, it’s sister station in San Francisco, picked up the rock format after the staff of KPPC and KMPX (San Francisco) walked out of the station and went on strike. This was in Ladd’s book, as well as on a few websites. Anyone have the whole story?

This isn't finished yet. I'm still doing more research. --Fightingirish 18:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

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Defunct vs. (YYYY-YYYY)

I'm not sure where the style guide discussion for naming media-entity pages is. I started to move one that I came across, but see there are a lot of them. "(defunct)" doesn't make sense historically. Eventually /all/ stations will be defunct. We want something like "KMET (1972-1986)" or "KMET (FM)" (since that is currently unambiguous). – SJ + 21:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Any disambiguating term should be, well, unambiguous. "Defunct" is ambiguous. It doesn't tell the reader what this was before it was defunct -- nor would "YYYY-YYYY".

Since there has only ever been, as far as I'm aware, one KMET-FM, that would be the best name for the article, and then no additional disambiguating term would be needed (yet). If another FM station with those call letters appears, then a disambiguating term can be considered for one or both.--NapoliRoma (talk) 00:06, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Last shift/song

This is definitely WP:OR, but my memory is that the last shift was Mike Harrison, and the last song he played was "Highway to Hell". This probably doesn't contradict the (uncited) mention of the last song being "The End", because I also recall that they went to un-DJed programming in the runup to "The Wave".--NapoliRoma (talk) 04:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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Whoo-ya, Whoo.a, or Hoo Ya

This is a bit of vague ancient history. My best recollection was on a Harrison's Mike segment from 1980-something, one of the on air talents (Ace Young?) used to do a lot of on-air vomiting sounds for added drama, and the "fragments of spittle would hit the mic." The "vomit onomatopoeia" became Whoo a or Whoo ya. A lot of web searching turned up very little on the origin. Although somewhere there may be an interview clip that goes into the history. Group29 (talk) 13:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)