![]() KSHE would frequently play concept albums in their entirety, as well as entire album sides from favorites such as Rush. KSHE had a wide and varied play list, which popularized such rock artists as Lake from Germany, Stingray from South Africa, and rising bands from Australia and New Zealand like Midnight Oil and Split Enz, as well as playing the classics from the more well-known rock legends. ![]() Albums played in their entirety included such titles as The Firesign Theatre's Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, The Who's Tommy, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Gorilla, Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, and Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, just to name a few.ĭuring the 1970s and early 1980s, KSHE was influential in the growth of many midwestern bands such as Styx, Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon and Head East. In late 1967, '68 and most of '69 they would play whole albums in the late afternoon and late at night any day of the week. KSHE sometimes played music nonstop for hours without station identification, which eventually was brought to the attention of the FCC and warnings from the agency to identify as required. The very first rock song played on KSHE in November 1967 that ushered in their format change, was Jefferson Airplane's " White Rabbit". New general manager Howard Grafman was convinced by his friend Ron Elz to adopt a new format that Elz had heard on a trip to San Francisco on KMPX: album-oriented rock, with high latitude given to individual DJs as to what to play. In 1964, the station was sold to Century Broadcasting. After the first year, the format was adjusted to contain about 90% middle-of-the-road music and 10% classical, with nine daily news broadcasts. Unfortunately, advertisers were not convinced FM radio-particularly classical music on FM radio-had much of an audience. Listener loyalty was strong, and at times they would come to the station with copies of classical selections they thought were better than the ones being played on KSHE. The record library room doubled as an administrative office where Mrs. Most of the basement was used for the station operations, with the Associated Press Teletype installed next to the clothes washer. For a while, all the announcers were women. ![]() The station called itself "The Lady of FM," and had a classical music format. He built some of the equipment himself, and on February 11, 1961, the station signed on from the basement of the Ceries' home in suburban Crestwood. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station's studios are located in Creve Coeur, while the transmitter is located in Shrewsbury.Īfter working as an engineer for 20 years with the Pulitzer stations KSD and KSD-TV, Ed Ceries invested his life savings and his considerable engineering efforts in building his own FM station, which he called KSHE. KSHE transmits on 94.7 MHz and currently uses the slogan "KSHE 95, Real Rock Radio". KSHE (styled as K-SHE) is a Classic rock radio station licensed to Crestwood, Missouri which serves the Greater St. K-SHE (a reference to its original female-oriented beautiful music format)
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