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The Mighty 1290 KEOS Radio Flagstaff, Arizona
Welcome to the Blog that will eventually become a website featuring the life and times of KEOS Radio. Enjoy and please give us you comments and leads to KEOS photos, tapes, documents that might be fun to post on this site. We are looking for photos of 1960's Flagstaff, Arizona. Contact:
hank.tester@gmail.com
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KEOS 1290 Flagstaff "A Service in Sound to Northern Arizona"
"By God this radio stuff works!" This is the story of a little radio station that could. A daytimer, funky power, but with the right mix of music, sales staff, on-air personalities, and leadership that for a magic time in the 1960's was the radio trend setter in Northern Arizona. Ledgendary KEOS DJ Clint Wager and KEOS DJs Dennis Alvord, Tony Armenta, and Hank Tester are working up a history-time line for the station. As we used to say "stand by for much more music on the Mighty 1290!"
Former station owner, Jack Bird, won 690 KEOS in a poker game! The station struggled to turn a profit because instead of selling clients air-time, Jack would “trade” for services, like gas and food. Jack even used to visit the station to take the quarters out of the soda machine. Employee paychecks occasionally “bounced” for lack of funds.
The main rival to 690 KEOS was 600 KCLS. Some deejays (circa 1980) of note were Doctor Dick Raymond (morning drive) Carey Edwards (“tradio” midday) Steve Sapp (afternoon drive), Tom Anthony, and Russ Knight. Other notable personalities included Al Sigala, Dave Allison, Bart Graves, and Barb Cortese. The station engineer was Jon Swett and the mgr was JIM Manley.
KEOS was located on Huntington Drive in Flagstaff and changed its call letters (1981-82?) to KZKZ for a brief time.
I worked the station in 74-75, Russ Huntington was manager, jon was the engineer. I believe Eric Michael ? was program director. it was located on Huntinton drive in the middle of the field. AP was both the teletype and network feed. While there, jack was involved with some kind of altercation with law enforcement and shortly after we were told the station had been sold. two fellas showed up claiming to be the new owners and essentially gave us all our 90 day notice. Russ and others bailed pretty quickly, Russ going to Sedona I think. he bought a Mexican restaurant there. I moved to Ventura ca and worked radio there until I changed fields.