IT'S GOODBYE TO STANDARDS; HELLO TO TALK EN ESPANOL.Byline: - Daily News You won't be hearing the standards in all the old familiar places anymore. The music station known as the Fabulous 690 played its final song Tuesday - Frank Sinatra's ``One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)'' - before its format flip to Spanish-language talk Monday. The Burbank broadcaster, which spun new and old artists covering the Great American Songbook, was bought by Grupo Latino de Radio (GLR GLR Great Lakes Region GLR Global Learning Resources, Inc (Fremont, CA) GLR Greater London Radio GLR Generalized Likelihood Ratio GLR Glare GLR Gaylord, Michigan (Airport Code) ), the largest radio group in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . The company promises news, talk and live broadcasts of soccer games from Mexico and abroad. About a half-dozen DJs, including morning host/program director Brad Chambers and Daisy Torme (daughter of jazz crooner Mel Torme), were let go in the conversion. Tape of the 100 most popular standards will run until new voices are heard Monday. ``I've never experienced the kind of passion and devotion listeners felt for this music,'' Chambers said. ``It was absolutely amazing. (Contemporary standards singer) Steve Tyrell is here right now threatening to barricade himself in the studio.'' A slightly different approach to the format can still be heard on KKGO-AM (1260/540). FINAL KING APPEARANCE: ``The Tavis Smiley Tavis Smiley (born September 13, 1964) is an author, journalist, political commentator, and talk show host. Early years One of ten children, Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. Show'' tonight will replay his January 2005 interview with Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted civil rights leader, author, singer, and founder and former president of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. , taped at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. It was the final national television appearance of King, who died Tuesday at age 78 (11 p.m., KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology ). |
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