Limbaugh, who is expected to show for a Rush lunch next month, was so excited about the opening that he mentioned it several times on the air, noting, "I love the fact that Washington's first Rush Room serves beef."įor sure, no vegetarians, animal rights supporters or garden-variety liberals have showed up on the reservation list - but not for lack of trying on Blackie's part. Even when angry callers call, he is never impolite, like Larry King." And another woman was overheard gushing, "You know what I like about Rush? He is polite. Indie Cather and her daughter, Gardner Grant, came from Alexandria to lunch with Rush. A couple of hundred listeners ate "ditto burgers" (bacon cheeseburgers) and tuned in to the three-hour, fuzzy broadcast of Limbaugh's syndicated show, heard on WMAL here. Rush Rooms can be found in nine major cities, and by the looks of the thick crowd yesterday, Washington's will be hot. I liberal nightmares," effused one well-dressed man who preferred anonymity. Richard Wagoner is a San Pedro freelance writer covering radio in Southern California.D.C.'s first "Rush Room" - a haven for die-hard fans to listen to mouthy conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh - opened at Blackie's House of Beef yesterday, complete with a Bill Clinton look-alike and commentary sheets that will be faxed directly to Limbaugh in New York.
Now I wonder if KMET’s (now KTWV, 94.7 FM) “Fish Report with a Beat” has any roots in Magnus. I found this clip, though I don’t know if it is an original or a remake. It would have been sometime in the early ’60s.”Ī I had not heard of that before, so I did a search and found that it was Johnny Magnus who did the bit, indeed called “Weather with a Beat,” I imagine on KMPC (now KSPN, 710 AM). Since my brother has passed, I can’t ask him, and I’d sure like to know because it’s driving me crazy. “I’m not sure it was called ‘Weather with a Beat’ but I think the name is similar. I believe it wasn’t a piece of music you could buy, I think it was just a tune someone wrote for this purpose. “The station would play a few beats of music, then silence, while a man would then say, to the beat of the music, ‘L.A., 68’ and whether it was Chicago or New York, he would always give it to the beat of the music. I can still hear the jazzy tune in my head after all these years. Q Could you please tell me what radio channel used to do ‘Weather with a Beat’? My older brother, who has since passed, used to listen to this all the time. The name “kiss” would not be used until later. KIIS, or “K-double-I-S” came on in 1970, the call letters being the closest “letter equivalent” to 115, the station’s shorthand frequency. In 1930 it became KMCS and in 1932 KRKD, to coincide with new owners and a move to the Spring Arcade Building in downtown Los Angeles. Licensed originally to Inglewood, 1150 signed on in 1927 as KMIC.
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(Please feel free to correct me.) To the best of my knowledge, here is the rundown: In the case of 1150, the last time the station was over a 1 share (and in fact was about 2.5 as I recall) was during the era of adult standards via Chuck Southcott and “The Music of Your Life” in the early 1980s.īut the list of call letters is interesting, and a little confusing. That’s right, the “savior” of AM radio, talk radio, really isn’t in most cases. But I digress.ĭavid Schwartz of cable television’s Game Show Network wrote to ask how many call-letter combinations 1150 has had over the years, and when was the last time the station broke a 1 share in the ratings? The second question is easy like most extremely low-rated AM stations, the last time it earned decent ratings was when it played music. On the other hand, I am an old-school radio fan who personally prefers call-letters and thinks “The Patriot” sounds lame.
EIB, as in “Excellence in Broadcasting,” the longtime slogan of Limbaugh’s show.Ĭonsidering the official on-air name of the new conservative station at 1150 will be “The Patriot,” the “EIB” portion will be secondary. In an apparent nod to Rush Limbaugh - or perhaps an olive branch offered to the host in exchange for moving his show from its longtime flamethrower signal at KFI (640 AM) to the much lower-powered KTLK (1150 AM) - Clear Channel is changing the call letters of KTLK to KEIB.
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