KROY had an incredible radio team running things during this time.

In response, KROY hired Johnny Hyde away from KXOA to be the station's program director.

On April 1, 1996, in an April Fools ' Day stunt, KROY returned to the airwaves one last time ( on what was now KSEG ) as many of KROY's DJs-including Dave Williams, Johnny Hyde, and Martin " Wonder Rabbit " Ashley-reunited for an historic twelve-hour broadcast recreating a typical KROY broadcast day.

KROY continued to have high ratings and held its status as Sacramento's number one contemporary station with deejays like Uncle Byron Paul and T. N.

KROY would continue to play current hits of the day ; the " Big Bands ," Frank Sinatra, and other legendary crooners.

KROY would play the top hits of the days by artists including Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and the music of the British Invasion, Bob Dylan, the sounds of Motown, plus all the various dance sounds of the time ; the Twist, The Watusi, and the Mashed Potato.

Following the war, KROY increased its power to 250 watts and carried network programming from the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) In 1950, KROY attempted to expand its services with a 12, 500 watt FM station located at 94. 5 MHz.

Employees switched back-and-forth between the two stations, records were stolen from each other with claims " You heard it first on ...", even local favorites The Beach Boys recorded promos claiming " When we're in Sacramento we listen to number one radio ..." KROY had also moved its studios to 11th and J Streets ( 1010 11th Street ), occupying the second floor above the Country Maid Restaurant.

For a brief time in the late 1960s into the 1970s, KROY carried programming from American Contemporary Radio, a division of ABC Radio.

But competition from other stations finally caused KROY to leave the air permanently on November 12, 1990.

KROY was initiated in 1937 by station owner Royal Miller ( for whom the station's call letters were named ) and originally operated at 1210 kHz with 100 watts of power.

But with new ownership taking over by 1954, the FM station was abandoned in favor of putting all efforts into KROY.

This competition would continue through the 1960s with KROY usually winning the ratings.

Ratings fell sharply beginning in 1988 ( as documented in the Sacramento Bee ) as KWOD fell into third place in a three way battle with cross-town competitors KSFM and KROY.

In 1965, she was working as a secretary at Top 40 radio station, KROY in Sacramento, California, when one of her mother's compositions, " All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers " was recorded and became a No. 10 country hit by Merle Haggard.

KROY ( 1240 AM ) was a top 40 radio station in Sacramento, California known for its " music power " pop / rock format and on-air talent.

In its early years, KROY programmed live news reports and entertainment while carrying network programming and playing the popular hits of the time.

On March 29, 1941, KROY was reassigned to 1240 kHz where it stayed for the remainder of the station's history.

By the end of the decade, KROY had increased its daytime power to 1000 watts.

In 1960, KROY flipped to a Top 40 format competing against the stronger-signaled KXOA which had made the switch earlier.

The KROY transmitter, which had been located in the southeastern part of the city ( on KROY Way ), was moved to the Sacramento City Dump at 24th and A Streets where the organic materials supposedly increased broadcast output.

Supplemented by occasional ( and sometimes outlandish ) promotions for concerts, clothing, movies, and Cal Expo July 4 fireworks shows, KROY would become the number one radio station in the Sacramento area for years.

By 1974, KROY had adopted the Bill Drake format including jingles played on other Drake-Chenault stations.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

They enjoyed lemonade and cookies served before and during the concert by teenage sons and daughters of members of the White House staff.

Notably, the design team was led by Dirk Meyer, who had worked as a lead engineer on multiple Alpha microprocessors during his employment at DEC. Jerry Sanders had approached many of the engineering staff to work for AMD as DEC wound down their semiconductor business, and brought in a near-complete team of engineering experts.

Walsh served as 49ers head coach for ten years, and during his tenure he and his coaching staff perfected the style of play known popularly as the West Coast offense.

In February 2011 during one of three town-hall meetings on the ROTC ban, former Army staff sergeant Anthony Maschek, a purple heart recipient for injuries sustained during his service in Iraq, was booed and hissed at by some students during his speech promoting the idea of allowing the ROTC on campus.

Hospital staff, such as shipping and receiving personnel, custodial workers, laundry workers, and waste handlers, all have potential exposure to these drugs during the course of their work.

Two controversies arose during the campaign which tested him and his staff but were without effect on the campaign ; one involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust – Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates.

Wallach served as a United States Army staff sergeant in a military hospital in Hawaii during World War II.

With Brown, Leiter and Fernandez heading the rotation, and Robb Nen closing out games, the Marlins ' staff was almost systematic during their regular season run.

However, he says this lasted approximately a month, and he joined the staff of the Daily Bruin, UCLA's school newspaper, during his freshman year.

The Washington Post staff writer Hal Hinson would disparagingly comment in an aside during a review of Jarmusch's Mystery Train ( 1989 ) that in the director's debut, " the only talent he demonstrated was for collecting egregiously untalented actors ".

Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.

As the story goes, after the Ranger program had experienced failure after failure during the 1960s, the first successful Ranger mission to impact the moon occurred while a JPL staff member was eating peanuts.

Jones next served as director, Expeditionary Warfare Division ( N85 ), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the deputy chief of staff for plans, policies, and operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.

After the 23 July show at the Days on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, Bonham and members of the band's support staff were arrested after a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff had been badly beaten during the band's performance.

The editorial staff was automatically invited, along with freelancers who had qualified for an invitation by selling a set amount of articles or pages during the previous year.

This resulted in extra safety measures during the 2007 Vierdaagse ; for instance, a professional weatherman was added to the organisation staff, more free water refill stations were added along the route and an extensive research program was developed to monitor the effects of hiking long distances on the human body.

And illness and poor nutrition so crippled the staff of 6, 000 workers that it was normal for 500 to be too sick to come to work and more than 400 to report sick during the day.

Charles Williams, a friend of Lewis's, had been relocated with the Oxford University Press staff from London to Oxford during the London blitz in World War II.

In 1975, Giuliani switched his party registration from Democratic to Independent as he was recruited to Washington, D. C. during the Ford administration, where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Harold " Ace " Tyler.

From 1977 to 1981, during the Carter Administration, Giuliani practiced law at the Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler law firm, as chief of staff to his previous DC boss, Ace Tyler.

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