How long has Shockwave been on the air?
The first show with Dave and other fen was September 19, 1979 (Year of our Moon Landing 10). It has always been weekly, but started off on Wednesdays, then Tuesdays and now Saturdays. For a while it was an hour long, but settled into a half-hour format over 10 years ago. • Do you plan on anything special for your 20th Anniversary? The whole month of September will be a restropective, and I hope many of the Shockwave Riders will drop by to say hello. The last show of the month, September 25, will be a special hour long program starting at 3:00, with Jerry rejoining the group for the event. • How did Shockwave get started? Shockwave was started by three programmers at KFAI, Charles E. Hamilton III, Everett Forte and Chris Dronen. At the time, the station was only a year old and was very small, broadcasting a 10-watt mono signal “exclusive to parts of South Mpls”. After a few weeks of playing sf music, Chris and Everett came to a local con and asked if anyone was interested in helping out
