KKIS 990, Pittsburg
Bill Plummer
March 1967
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My first employment at KKIS was in 1959 as a board operator for remotes, although I had done volunteer work on the station’s high school football broadcasts in 1958. This was part-time work.
After securing my first phone FCC license in 1959, I began work the following year at the station’s Collinsville transmitter site as a transmitter operator on weekends while attending college. I started as a disc jockey with a “middle of the road” music format on Sunday evenings in the spring of 1962 from the Collinsville studio.
With college graduation in June ’62, I entered broadcasting full-time doing the morning commute shift with an adult contemporary musical sound. This format evolved into the “KKIS Top 33 on 99” music. A combination of low pay, working from the transmitter studio and a reluctance to leave Pittsburg, I quit the full-time position in 1963, returned to college for a teaching credential and worked as a weekend and vacation relief deejay until the music changed in the 1970s.
Employed as a teacher at Pittsburg High School since 1964, I continued as a part-time and weekend announcer off and on until 1982. At the school I was the PA announcer for basketball and football. In 1999, after 35 years in education I retired and continue to live in Pittsburg.
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LISTEN TO BILL PLUMMER ON THE AIR! |
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A series of promotional spots for local sponsors and events, recorded for KKIS and KDFM. |
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Join Bill Plummer and Joe Albanese courtside for the action as the Pittsburg High Pirates take on the Albany High Cougars at Diablo Valley College Gym. |
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ORIGINAL PHOTO SIZE: 8×10 inches.
SOURCE: Bill Plummer Collection, Bay Area Radio Museum.
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