Talk:KAAY

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 * KAAY, Cuban rockers and the Cold War. Did they know about it?


 * KAAY-Beaker Street was the sweetest taboo, the hottest radio show for the Cuban rock fans from the 1960’s, 70’s, and early 80’s. Despite the station was too far in Arkansas, one can turn in it using a “made in the URSS” transistor radio during midnight.


 * Beaker Street was listening in the houses, towns and countries across the western part of the island, and even in the “Cuban boarding schools” where communist doctrine were taught along with strong anti-American indoctrination. Can you imagine? How sarcastic! The “communist doctrine” teachers teaching hate to the children and when they turn their backs the children going straightfoward to the dorms, hide somewhere and listen to KAAY-Beaker Street.


 * Did the KAAY staff know the roll they were playing in the Cold War radio front?

--RBBrittain 00:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Help with editing
Kaay is a Spanish pop group as well. Awful with editing it, so could someone help? :) Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.42.137.215 (talk) 01:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

New KAAY Blogspot
http://mighty1090kaay.blogspot.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.151.198.180 (talk) 18:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

K Double-A Y in the Former Eighties
When I first tuned in KAAY in fall 1981, it still had some sort of a Top 40 format; even though softened to an adult contemporary sound with old gold in the mix. I tuned it in again a year later in fall 1982 and found that music was put on hold every evening for up to 9 hours of religious programming consisting of preachers and Christian music. The music programming was far different than what was heard on Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) at the time. Aside from adult contemporary currents and a little country music, no tunes released past 1977 were being played as I believe the station was now targeting baby boomers.Dandy883 (talk) 06:46, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

KAAY in Latin America
When the station was broadcasting in a north-south directional format at 50,000 watts, it could be taken for a local station in Minnesota at night, and could be heard well into Canada. I've been told that the signal penetrated effectively into large portions of Latin America as well,,,not just Cuba. One would like to read more about the extent of this southern reach and its cultural impact. Also, why didn't Cuba jam the signal in 1962? 2601:583:381:4850:DCC:5C3D:633F:EBA5 (talk) 06:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)