The Zoo KZEW launches today at NOON

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If you been in Dallas for a long time you probably remember KZEW radio. My friend George Gimarc is relaunching The Zoo today online.

https://vokalnow.com/stations/the-zoo

Now if he could only bring back KDGE.

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This brings back memories… I grew up in Commerce and the first thing you had to do when you got a car was go to the car stereo emporium (Wal-Mart) and get a Pioneer Supertuner car stereo. We were just on the fringe of being able to pick up KZEW and Q102 and most factory radios wouldn’t cut it. Even with Supertuner you’d drop the signal before you got to Cooper…

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Works great on mobile.

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Is he also selling car window stickers with the “elephant” logo, like I had on the back of my '74 Pinto?

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Pioneer Supertuner, haven’t heard that in a while. Brings back memories of my early 80’s college days working in a stereo repair shop.

We all loved to work on the Pioneer units with auto-reverse cassette mechanism because the cassette mechanism was so easy to remove:

  1. Single connectorized signal+control cable.
  2. Unsolder 1 ground wire
  3. Remove 3 screws, then lift the unit out.

Most other brands involved at least unsoldering lots of wires and many darn near required disassembling the whole unit, which was a lot of work to just replace a broken drive belt. As an engineering student that hands-on exposure to the Pioneer units gave me a true understanding of ‘design for servicibility’ .

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I grew up over 300 miles away. The lucky kids lived in households which had cable TV; they could hook the cable to their receiver and listen to The Zoo. The rest of us had to settle for our local stations, one Top 40 and one AOR.

Can any of you confirm or dispel this story? When John Lennon was shot, The Zoo broke into programming with the news, then resumed by playing Happiness is a Warm Gun.

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