Talk:KMET (defunct)

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[edit] Tone

This article is in some need of an overall adjustment in tone. 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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