KPLM
KPLM is one of four Class B FM radio stations serving the Palm Springs, California, area and one of only two 50 kW stations. The others are 1960s and 1970s oldies-formatted 42 kW KDES Palm Springs at 104.7 MHz; contemporary album-oriented rock-formatted 26.5 kW KCLB Coachella at 93.7 MHz and beautiful music 50 kW KWXY-FM Cathedral City at 98.5 MHz. KPLM broadcasts at 106.1 MHz.
The station then called KPAL was founded in 1974 by Los Angeles radio personality Magnificent Montague, whose trademark shout, "Burn!" was expanded to "Burn, baby, burn" during the 1965 Watts riots. The construction permit for the station was the first issued to an African-American in four decades. Call sign "KPLM" became available in 1979 when a local television station was purchased by Esquire magazine. Today, that same TV station retains the call letters of KESQ-TV although Esquire no longer owns it.
KPLM was an easy listening station through the first years of its existence. By the early 1980s, Montague sold his interest in the station which soon featured legendary Los Angeles radio personality Al Lohman in the weekday morning drive slot. A change was made to a contemporary country music format on January 5, 1994 giving KPLM an exclusive audience; no other FM country music station was on the air in the area at that time. After signing off the old format with "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, the new format's first three songs were "Don't Rock the Jukebox" by Alan Jackson, "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks and "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus.
Podcasts:
Ka-blamo!
by: Lonely IslandListen, listen!
Here we go downtown
Oh boy
Oh, I gotta go all around
You can't stop
Feel the pull
You can't stay, won't stay away
Ka-Blamo!
You just won the lottery - that's ka-blamo!
You kissed Shannen Doherty - that's ka-blamo!
You joined a sorority - that's ka-blamo!
You lied about the lottery - not ka-blamo!
You met Fred Segal at a debutante's ball
You gave him your number, he gave you a call
He told you to meet him at the corner at eight
You met him at nine, that's right, you were late
You stupid idiot, you don't know what you missed
Fred Segal's a star, and you called diss
His pimping-ass, cooling-ass, mack-ass building
With iggidy-ivy on the wall but not around the lettering
You dissed Fred Segal, and everybody knows
Ha ha ha ha ha! You're not ka-blamo!
The doc fixed your artery - that's ka-blamo!
Your mouthwash is gargly - that's ka-blamo!
Your water is watery - that's ka-blamo!
I majored in pottery - not ka-blamo!
You're chillin with your dudes and they stab you in the face
On the way to the hospital you're bleedin all over the place
Your leg is amputated cause you got gangrene
And then you get cancer and you die in your teens
But then this really pretty girl who you always really liked
Shows up to your funeral and that's a real mixed blessing
Your jello is wobbly - that's ka-blamo!
You met Gilbert Gottfried - that's ka-blamo!
You're Harlem Globetrottery - that's ka-blamo!
You wash the disorderlies - not ka-blamo!
When you're mining for coal and you forget what coal is
And you're sure to be fired, because that's your job
When a mole's in your ass and you wonder where the mole is
You're screwed man, a mole is in your ass... job
The meaning of life is revealed to you
And all of the drinks are old English brew
Your whim is the word of the people on earth
But the whole mole-in-the-ass thing is haunting you... earth
When your fluids are bodily
That's ka-blamy!
What happened to ka-blamo?
I mean ka-blamo!
Good, that's better
That's ka-blamy!
Wait, I'm confused...
We said ka-blamo!