Metal Authority

The time – 1982.

The place – KMSA, Mesa State College, Grand Junction Colorado.

The Creation – Metal Saturdays.

The Metal Merchant and others created Metal Saturdays. They would play Metal all day on Saturdays. At this point KMSA didn’t have a computer, so when someone didn’t show up there was dead air, as was the case all summer and winter break long. Around the time when the Magic Nose Goblin showed up in the mid 1990′s, Metal had expanded into 30 differant genres of Metal. With the help of The Morbid One KMSA helped push Metal Saturdays into being the most Diverse Metal shows on the planet. Then The Magic Nose Goblin asked the bosses if we could air during break time and make an all Extreme show called Satan’s Whorehouse on Friday late night. Both were a go. KMSA then installed a computer playlist so KMSA would never have dead air again. At this point KMSA was broadcasting around 26 hours of metal every week. In 2002 Big Steve O created the Friday Foreplay (metal from 7pm on Friday nights)and in 2008 Artos got rid of the Friday foreplay so that the computer can do the Friday show instead. and The Morbid One/The Necromancer created the Monday night Progressive Rock show Technical Ecstacy. At this point we were up to 31 hours of Metal and 2 hours of Progressive rock over the air waves at KMSA 91.3 The Metal Authority. Now in 2008 we have a Tuesday late night show from 10:00 to 1:00 a.m. mountain time. This brings us up up to around 36 hours of Metal being played every week on KMSA, which is by far the most live aired (30 live hours) Metal broadcasted in College radio today.