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This is Dusty Morgan doing his gig on KYMS Radio. Take a gander at the gear in this photo. The 45's in the record rack, The RCA mic, Left and right turntables and of course like most jocks during this era, a cigarette lit with one most likely in the ashtray!
(KYMS was in Southern California)
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You forgot to mention the white shirt and tie, despite the fact that he isn't in a fishbowl studio.
I would guess the pic is probably from the late 60s or early 70s from the looks of the equipment.
Posted by: JoelintheBurbs | March 20, 2013 at 02:13 PM
Look on the equipment rack.
On top, the Apex reel to reel. For Sunday morning religious shows?
Sta-level & modulation monitor
EBS receiver
Patch panel
Gates board
Looks like a Kenwood amp (above his head) to drive the on air monitor.
Where are the memo’s from the PD?
Posted by: eman | March 20, 2013 at 02:54 PM
eman. OK, tell us what group is on the two albums shown in the pic.
Posted by: UrbanGent | March 20, 2013 at 03:14 PM
eman, the memo's from the PD are probably on the bulliton board to the right.
Posted by: Bob Karm | March 20, 2013 at 03:31 PM
And he's got the phone left off the hook... That's why we could never get through! Awesome pic!
Posted by: Dave | March 20, 2013 at 04:11 PM
FCC licenses on the back wall with boxes stack in front of some.
Posted by: Craig Addams | March 20, 2013 at 10:59 PM
What? No one mentioned the cart machines (only 2) above the Gates 8-channel Yard console. This is a mono board. Note the sign on the wall which lists the frequency as FM 106.3. An FM station in mono? I don't think this is from the '70's. I would guess early '60's. That tape machine is more likely an Ampex, not an Apex.
This looks like a low budget station.
Posted by: James | March 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Dusty was at KYMS in 1968, KSRF in 1969 and KWIZ in 1970. all LA stations.
www.440.com/namesm4.html
Posted by: UrbanGent | March 21, 2013 at 11:11 AM
I thought early 60s at first James, but I think the cart machines look a lot more recent than that. Most of the cart machines in the early 60s had a flat deck with knobs to the side to pull up the puck.
A lot of FM stations were still mono into the 70s. The Commission didn't even consider FM stereo broadcasting until the late 1950s and it was December of 1961 before Portland got its first FM stereo station.
Posted by: JoelintheBurbs | March 21, 2013 at 11:33 AM