Talk:KOAN (AM)

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 * The first time I ever listened to KANC in 1978, they were playing a rock format. Such a format was actually very rare in Alaska in the 1970s;  the only station I'm aware to have played such a format prior to this was an early incarnation of KGOT (possibly as KYAK-FM?).  I don't think it lasted very long.  All I remember is that KRKN came along not long after, pretty much dominating that format until KWHL launched a few years later.  I didn't look at the sources that carefully, but I cast doubt that the station played a Top 40 format.  At the very least, if they did, it didn't last very long, either.  KENI and KFQD (and to a lesser extent, KBYR) had that territory pretty much "covered like a jimmy hat" throughout the 1970s.
 * The station also dabbled somewhat with talk radio throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps the best-known talk show hosts were Fred James (Ayn Rand devotee and Libertarian Party shill - James lived in Palmer, yet with the exception of the Big Lake-based KABN, mostly broadcasted his various talk shows on Anchorage stations) and Edgar Paul Boyko (a show called The Roar of the Snow Tiger, a continuation of what began decades earlier as a newspaper column). RadioKAOS  –&#32; Talk to me, Billy  01:15, 22 November 2012 (UTC)