YouTube links lead to radio file, as described, with illustrative still photo.
WYBC-FM 1969 air promo for "Saturday Night Diversion" program, hosted by Yale student Dean Pailler. Promo conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. Images: posters of the era.
WYBC-FM 1969 air promo for personality Judy Vecchione. Promo was conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is Judy Vecchione on the Old Campus of Yale during a bladderball game.
The generational culture war inspired this on-air promo for WYBC-FM's Saturday Night Diversion program, hosted by Yale student Dean Pailler. Promo conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is Kevin McKeown and Joyce Ireland, about that time.
My 1970 station presentation for boss rocker WNHC broke ground in several ways. It was the first known presentation for ad agencies to use complex collaging of airchecks to tell the station’s story, sans narration. The unexpurgated aircheck of a contest response near the end of the presentation was the talk of Madison Avenue, and actually banned in Boston where our ad reps advised against letting potential time buyers hear it.
My time at KROQ (1976 - 1978) turned out to be the last gasp
of non-corporate free-form FM rock radio in Los Angeles, predating the far more structured “ROQ of the 80s” format.
On-air talent included Shadoe Stevens, Jimmy Rabbitt, and the LA debut of Frazer Smith, co-hosting “Hollywood Niteshift” with Michael C. Gwynne and Phil Austin of the Firesign Theater, which also provided alternative coverage of Pasadena’s Rose Parade (much to the chagrin of the Tournament of Roses).
Then there was the night Frank Zappa played guest DJ on KROQ to air the lacquer masters of a new album his record company refused to release...
Kevin McKeown audio sampler for laradio.com