'91 HEADLINES OF S.L.-AREA RADIO NEWS

Nothing illustrates the numerous changes in the Wasatch Front radio market more than the annual list that looks back at the almost gone 1991. And this long list is only a fraction of the changes that took place! JANUARY: Bob Jennings, former KRSP-AM disc jockey becomes the morning man on KSFI . . . Gary Zane and Max Wulf leave KCPX and are replaced by Greg Smith and Dain Craig . . . Mark Eubank returns to KSL TV and radio with in-depth weather news, as only he can do . . . Lou Simon, KZHT program director leaves the station for the No. 5 spot at RCA Records. He's replaced by Rich Summers . . . "Dean & Roger" leave KRSP-FM. They are replaced by Evan Lake . . . KFMY breaks off simulcasting sister station KZOL and becomes an all-new information station for Utah County with the Russ Limbaugh show and WNN, motivational radio . . . KSL and KCNR's audiences skyrocket with the gulf war . . . KLVV stops playing Madonna songs . . . Kelly Monson leaves KRSP-FM. He's replaced by "Steve-O Carlson . . . Monson lands at KLZX (with old buddies "Jon & Dan") 10 days later.FEBRUARY: A lot of war, patriotic tune requests because of the gulf war . . . Tammy Sanders leaves KCPX, replaced by Mick Mackay . . . Wayne Courtney, KCPX general manager resigns for health reasons . . . KSL radiothon raises a record $122,000 for Primary Children's Medical Center . . . Competition between rival rock stations, KBER and KRSP, heats up . . . Mick Martin is appointed KRSP's music director . . . KZHT's new morning team of Rich Summers and Paul Cramer debuts . . . KLCY's Michael O'Brien is named the adult contemporary program director of the year . . . Jon & Dan shave their heads . . . KCNR starts simulcasts of KTVX, Ch. 4 news on the radio . . . "Kevin" leaves KBER and "Cory" moves to afternoons. "Greg and Ron" become KBER's morning team . . . Russ Novak leaves KSFI and is replaced by Randy Stewart.MARCH: KBER celebrates its fifth birthday . . . Lynn Arave survives being on the Jon & Dan show . . . KZOL becomes "K-96" again by switching from oldies to adult contemporary . . . "The Breeze" (KBZN) drops its satellite programming in favor of live personalities and music . . . Tom Barberi signs a five-year contract extension at KALL . . . Jon & Dan announce their candidacy for Utah governor.APRIL: April Fool's Radio pranks mostly involve giving the wrong time to listeners, and KISN's "Fisher and Todd" are blamed for one woman's speeding ticket as she rushes to work believing it to be one hour later than it actually is . . . KALL and KLCY reportedly go up for sale but no one makes an offer . . . KKDS resurrects some of the "Imagination Station" network programming by linking up with a station in St. Louis . . . Bob Jennings leaves KSFI and goes to KMGR . . . Four of Utah's top morning radio teams appear on KUTV's "Take Two."MAY: KBER wins a Utah Jazz bet with a Phoenix rock station, and the Arizona station has to play a full 30 minutes of Mormon Tabernacle Choir music . . . KJQ's "Milk Beast" vehicle continues to attract huge crowds . . . Brent Dangerfield and Rob Olsen join Joe Redburn's morning show on KTKK ("K-Talk") . . . KSL eliminates four on-air positions and creates three new jobs. Bob Schildmeyer, Greg Wrubell and Tracie Cayford are hired for the three new positions . . . Danny Kramer leaves KZOL and moves to KTKK . . . Jim Debakis and John Prince start a two-man show . . . "Monty Zoma" starts doing mornings on KLVV . . . KSL's Doug Wright is selected as one of 20 national finalists for Radio Awards personality of the year, and the clear channel station itself is a finalist for the RAB's Crystal Award . . . "TNT," (Todd and Tyler), a new morning show on KRSP-FM.JUNE: Tom Barberi (KALL) travels to England to cover the Winter Olympic bid announcement . . . The "Utah Outdoors" show premieres on KTKK . . . KJQN gets another special vehicle, the "Moo-Rese," a trailer that spreads UDOT's anti-litter message . . . KLVV changes its call letters to KUTQ . . . KKAT continues to dominate the radio ratings for the Spring Book, with a 14.6% audience share . . . Clyde Lewis moves from KLZX to KZHT . . . Darryl Steele leaves as general manager of KCPX. He's replaced by Ernie Kovacs.JULY: KALL's Tom Barberi hits his 20-year mark at the station . . . James Tensley premieres with his own Sunday night talk show on KTKK . . . KMGR begins calling pay phones to give away $107.50 . . KNKK changes format from county music to '50s rock and roll music and becomes KSOS-AM, alias "Kool-Gold 800" . . . KZHT rents KRPN's FM-107.9 frequency and doubles its power from 100,000 to 200,000 watts, in the first case of "time brokering" in Utah radio . . . Bob Lee has an incident where he doesn't realize the KSL microphone is on and a few swear words go over the airwaves . . . KUTR raises $5,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.AUGUST: KISN gives away a $20,000 convertible car to the listener contest participant who kept his lips on the car the longest . . . KLLB switches to a Black Gospel/Christian Music format from a "Heart and Soul" format . . . KLCY announces it will broadcast play-by-play for University of Utah football and basketball games, a rarity for FM radio . . . KSOS-AM starts the "Elvis Presley Music Hour" series every Sunday . . . KCNR names Van N. Williams as station news director. He becomes the first black news director in the Salt Lake market . . . Gary "Wooley" Waldron leaves KISN-FM and is replaced (temporarily) by Randy Rose.SEPTEMBER: KBER's Greg and Ron sleep in a bed at a Salt Lake 7-Eleven store to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy . . . KCPX sponsors a bungee jumping celebrity event in Logan . . . Steve Klauke of Aurora, Ill., joins KISN-AM as the station's producer and announcer on the "SportsTalk" show with Dave Blackwell and Ron Boone . . . Allison Strong becomes the station's weeknight personality on KMGR . . . Bob Jennings is moved from nights to full-time production assistant and the spot of permanent guest host on "Magic" 107.5 . . . KLO picks up the Denver Broncos play-by-play broadcast contract . . . Price broadcasting sells all of its non-Utah radio properties so that it can concentrate on KCPX and KUTR . . . KISN sponsors a mail-in contest for the biggest Utah fish and teams up with Utah Transit Authority for a "Hysterical Bus Tour" of Salt Lake City . . . Tom Barberi begins simulcasting on KLCY, renamed KALL-FM. The revamped KALL-FM begins an oldies format and KALL-AM retains it full-service radio identity . . . Jay Kelly leaves the KCPX morning team and heads for Minnesota.OCTOBER: KZHT morning co-personality Clyde Lewis gets married . . . KLO's morning king, Len Allen, reaches another milestone - 44 years at the station . . . Greg Smith is promoted by KCPX to program director . . . KUER (FM-90.1) helps create a study guide to accompany its "Soundwaves" program, designed to introduce young people to classical music. The station also launches new campaigns to promote its three main areas of programming - news, jazz and classical music . . . KUTR holds its annual "Give Us a Sign II" contest . . . KBYU starts a new membership drive - "The Case of the Secret Listener" - to try to get more listeners to contribute to the non-profit station . . . Phil Conrad lasts only a day as the program director for KALL-FM . . . Randy Rose is at KISN as program director for only a few days . . . Gary Zane returns to KCPX and joins Mick MacKay on the morning team . . . KLZX starts its "Incredible Garage" promotion; KDYL stages its "$100,000 Golden Sweepstakes" contest and KSFI gives away 100 trips for four to Disneyland . . . KZHT's Clyde Lewis gets married one week and the next week he moves to KMGR and joins Mark Van Wagoner's morning show . . . Biff Raffe, the "KJQ" music director for 31/2 years, leaves the station to start a new rock station in Austin, Texas. He's replaced by Dom Casual . . . KSL Radio and KSL-TV team up for an overnight news service . . . Jan Snyder leaves KISN and is replaced by Charla Haley . . . John Dimick leaves KBER and is hired as the program director at KISN.NOVEMBER: Robert S. Schildmeyer settles his age discrimination lawsuit with KSL Radio out of court . . . "Fisher and Todd" put together one their zaniest stunts yet, by purchasing the Salt Lake City-County Building . . . KKDS revises its on-air lineup . . . KSL radio makes major changes: moves "Sportscentral" with Chris Tunis to 4 p.m., instead of 6:30 p.m.; expands that sports show by one hour; lays off Dave Hebertson; expands Bob Lee's show by one hour; begins simulcasts of the KSL-TV, Ch. 5, 6:30 p.m. weekday newscasts; and begins to stress its hard news coverage over its talk format by having shorter interviews and more news . . . KCPX hires Lynn Taylor as a newsman . . . KCPX holds a "Turkey Shoot" contest and station DJs Dain Craig and Gary Zane participate in a stair-climbing competition . . . Mike Summers, program director at KJQ resigns just before the station gets a new general manager, Scott Gilreath. He stresses rumors of KJQ's possible format change are not true . . . KSRR's long-awaited transmitter finally puts the station within listening range of Salt Lake County . . . Kristy Ellis is named the new general manager at KZOL.DECEMBER: KFMY begin simulcasts of sister station KZOL, preceding a format change in early 1992 . . . KMGR co-sponsors "Toys for Tots" with the U.S. Marines . . . Clyde Lewis of KMGR does a parody of Michael Jackson's "Black or White" song with his "Dark or White" rendition . . . KSRR and KSFI continue their annual holiday traditions by broadcasting almost total Christmas music during December . . . KSL stages its annual "Quarters for Christmas" campaign to obtain shoes for needy children . . . KJQ's staff problems escalate and resignations total 20 of the 25 original employees . . . The public affairs department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distributes public service announcements to radio stations nationwide, designed to raise awareness among teenagers that beer is a drug . . . KJQ hires four new DJs - Allison Strong, Jon McGann, Jayne Ramone and Justin Kase . . . KBZN promotes Leigh Armstrong to the position of music director for KBZN . . . Numerous stations play continuous Christmas music for the holidays . . . KSL adds three new employees: Rebecca Marshall, Mark Giaque and Aaron Wilhelm. Three other employees - Tracy Cayford, Greg Wrubell and Tim Loosle have their radio schedules juggled . . . KZHT plans to celebrate its third anniversary on Dec. 31.