Operation Relocation

As the station was preparing to move to the new studio at 419 Lovett Blvd, KPFT embarked on a crash fundraising program, which included a 24 hour marathon programming block.

Thanks to https://archive.org/details/kpft-relocation-marathon-1974 a portion of that marathon has been preserved.

Per the archive.org page referenced above the sample here is a "recording of the station being received in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada via sporadic e-skip propagation.  This occurred on June 15, 1974 while they were running a relocation telethon.  The only equipment used was a multi-band Realistic portable from Radio Shack. "

Thanks to the KPFT signal bouncing off the ionosphere at exactly the right angle, Houston's own 90.1 was recorded from 1,300 miles away.

On-air voices include "Captain Macho."

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1. Relocation Operation Marathon

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