KADY (Missouri)

KADY signed on at 1 p.m. on April 3, 1958.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38867800/|date=April 3, 1958|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|page=3A|title=Radio Station KADY On Air in St. Charles County|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} The station broadcast with 5,000 watts during the day from a tower along State Highway 94 in Boschertown. Within three months of signing on, William R. Cady, Jr., an advertising executive, bought out majority shareholder Harman Moseley.{{cite news|title=W. R. Cady Jr. To Acquire Control Of Station KADY|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38867892/|page=16A|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=June 25, 1958|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} The remaining shares were owned by Jack Chenoweth, the chief engineer at KETC television, and the Schnatmeier family.{{r|acquire}}

KADY quickly expanded to FM. In May 1959, it filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to build a new FM radio station in St. Louis.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868182/station_kady_st_charles_asks_for/|title=Station KADY At St. Charles Asks For F.M. License|date=May 25, 1959|accessdate=November 11, 2019|page=3A|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch}} KADI 96.5 hit the air on December 22,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868323/|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|title=Radio Station KADY...|date=December 18, 1959|page=8F|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} duplicating KADY's programming and broadcasting after sunset; in 1964, it duplicated 63 percent of the AM outlet's programming.{{r|bcyb65}} The combination of KADY and KADI promoted itself as "The KADY Twins" and used a cicada-themed logo.{{cite news|work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat|date=June 15, 1961|title=The KADY Twins Present—— MUNY OPERA TIME|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868479/|accessdate=November 11, 2019|page=6W}} While the stations' programming consisted mostly of fine music, KADY-KADI snared the rights to broadcast Missouri Tigers football games in 1961.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868565/|date=September 10, 1961|title=Kady Will Air Mizzou's Games|work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat|accessdate=November 11, 2019|page=4}}

In November 1962, the sale of KADY-KADI to KADY, Inc., headed by former Filmways president Rodney Erickson, was announced.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868712/|date=November 27, 1962|title=Radio Stations KADY And KADI-FM Are Sold|accessdate=November 11, 2019|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|page=3B}} Little changed in operations until February 14, 1964, when the station left the air at 11:30 a.m. as eight employees walked out in a pay dispute.{{cite news|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=February 14, 1964|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868869/|title=KADY Off Air; 8 Employes Walk Out In Pay Dispute|page=4A|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} The employees, including four engineers, claimed they had not been paid in two weeks and paychecks were being issued late.{{r|dispute}} KADY-KADI, however, returned to the air on February 24, after 10 days of silence.{{cite news|date=February 25, 1964|title=Radio Station KADY Back On Air After Walkout|page=3A|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38868964/|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} By that summer, KADY-KADI had become affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.{{cite news|date=July 12, 1964|title=GOP Convention On Radio This Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869029/|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|accessdate=November 11, 2019|page=6H}}

Yet again, it was unpaid engineers who started the second—and final—strike in KADY history. The station did not sign on as usual on January 21, 1965; the local representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said that three IBEW engineers had not been paid for a month, and acting manager Homer Griffith shut the station down at the orders of ownership in New York.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869123/|title=Station KADY In St. Charles Is Off The Air|accessdate=November 11, 2019|date=January 21, 1965|page=3A|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch}} The next day, Griffith announced that KADY would remain off the air pending a "financial reorganization".{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38691754/reorganization_planned_by_radio_station/|date=January 22, 1965|page=8A|title=Reorganization Planned By Radio Station KADY|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|accessdate=November 11, 2019}} KADI was sold in August 1965 to Vanguard Broadcasting Corporation, which would return it to the air.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869179/|accessdate=November 11, 2019|title=Legal Notice|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|page=16A|date=September 11, 1965}}

In November 1965, Michael Rice of Webster Groves filed an application to build a new radio station on the 1460 frequency in St. Charles.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869190/|accessdate=November 11, 2019|title=Michael Rice of Webster Groves...|work=Warrenton Banner|date=November 4, 1965|page=7}} KADY still faced legal troubles: the FCC fined the station in February 1966 for failure to illuminate its tower—the first such fine the commission had ever issued—over the objections of the licensee, which claimed it was insolvent.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869244/|date=February 18, 1966|title=KADY Penalized $500 For Failure To Light Tower|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|accessdate=November 11, 2019|page=6A}} The AM outlet was never sold; the FCC granted the Rice application in November 1967{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=39607 |title= History Cards for KIRL|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards) and KIRL began operating from the former KADY site at Boschertown in the summer of 1968.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38869345/|title=KIRL, a new St. Louis radio station...|date=August 2, 1968|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|page=8D|accessdate=November 11, 2019}}

The license for KADY was deleted on March 24, 1967 {{cite thesis |last=Leffingwell |first=Robert Down |date=1983 |title=Causes and Indicators of Commercial AM Radio Station Failure: 1962-1976 |type=Dissertation |section=KADY |publisher= The Ohio State University |docket= |oclc= |id={{ProQuest|303192463}} |page=425}}

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