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[W9JEF]

I have a vague memory of visiting the KRPS studios.
(Something to do with our xmtrs' co-location.)

The strange thing is, as a Pizza Hut delivery driver,
had I not accepted the CE position at KKOW,
I'd still be working for this Gene Becknell, who
bought a series of Pizza Huts shortly after I was hired.

By the early 2000s, Pizza Hut entrepreneur Gene Bicknell
owned American Media Investments along with KOAM-TV
(reversing the 1981 split between KOAM TV and radio),
and AMI acquired a number of radio stations in the Joplin
-Pittsburg market with the newly relaxed ownership rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKOW_(AM)

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I have a vague memory of visiting the KRPS studios.
(Something to do with our xmtrs' co-location.)

The strange thing is, as a Pizza Hut delivery driver,
had I not accepted the CE position at KKOW,
I'd still be working for this Gene Becknell, who
bought a series of Pizza Huts shortly after I was hired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKOW_(AM)

I didn't know Gene Becknell, but I remember the name. Another big name in the area was Papa Joe Saia. I think the eastern bypass viaduct was named after him. When I moved to town, Papa Joe had a batch brewing in the basement that exploded and he was injured somewhat. Frontenac was huge back in the prohibition days and most people who lived there had surnames ending in "i" or "a", if you know what I mean. I bought my house from a Frontenac resident V. Macelli. Her husband used the house in Pittsburg as a getaway. He had passed on and she wanted rid of that hideous "miner's shack".

I have no idea about the studio. Wikipedia says that the KRPS studios is in Shirk.

Back in 1976-80, the transmitter was KSEK/KMRJ out there east of town. I am assuming that is where the KRPS transmitter is. They had a studio at the AM/FM transmitter. I guess I don't know where the KKOW studios were. I wasn't into country.

[W9JEF]

I didn't know Gene Becknell, but I remember the name. Another big name in the area was Papa Joe Saia. I think the eastern bypass viaduct was named after him. When I moved to town, Papa Joe had a batch brewing in the basement that exploded and he was injured somewhat. Frontenac was huge back in the prohibition days and most people who lived there had surnames ending in "i" or "a", if you know what I mean. I bought my house from a Frontenac resident V. Macelli. Her husband used the house in Pittsburg as a getaway. He had passed on and she wanted rid of that hideous "miner's shack".

I have no idea about the studio. Wikipedia says that the KRPS studios is in Shirk.

Back in 1976-80, the transmitter was KSEK/KMRJ out there east of town. I am assuming that is where the KRPS transmitter is. They had a studio at the AM/FM transmitter. I guess I don't know where the KKOW studios were. I wasn't into country.

This was in 1997...

The KRPS transmitter (along with KKOW-FM)
was southwest of town, on 103, near Weir.

KKOW studios were collocated at the antenna farm
on 126, east--about half-way to the MO border.