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Your dream Seattle radio dial

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bobdavcav

What would it look like? All stations I don't mention stay the same.
89.5 stay the same, but put a subchannel on that plays regular radio edits of songs that they play remixes of, although I'm not sure how well that would work out in the end.
92.5 bring back KLSY.
96.5 bring back KYPT, although I'm not entirely sure about this because I found I'm not liking the 80s music as much as I did a while ago. It would be better than Jack though. Jack could move to 96.5 hd2.
98.9 tweak Click's format back to what it was when it first launched.
101.5 format stays the same, but new imaging.
102.5 hd2 would stay the same, Boom FM moves from 96.5 hd2 to 102.5 hd3.
103.7 switch back to sort of an AAA approach, similar to KCDA in Spokane without the usual Hot AC titles, sort of a cross between KCDA and KINK.
104.5 keep format, but playlist and imaging similar to WCBS.
106.1 bring back the jingles and level of personality the station had around 2008-2009.
106.9 KQMV moves here at the return of KLSY.
 
Here is what I would love to see happen...

KIRO News/Talk resorts back to being on 710am (the ESPN format disappears). KBSG oldies returns to 97.3 OR, KIRO FM stays the way it is, and 710am becomes a 50's and 60's oldies station.

KKXA 1520 takes over the KMPS 94.1 frequency, and becomes a classic country station.

103.7 changes back to the mountain, and carbon copies the KINK 101.9 format.

KMCQ 104.5 can adopt a format such as WCBS (will not affect the 50's and 60's format I specified earlier).
 
Blow the whole thing up and not replace it. Make it a DXer's paradise for folks like crainbebo......
 
My dream Seattle dial...First, ZERO IBOC on ANY stations! Make it so that all adjacents are OPEN for E-skip, AND tropo. Not just S-9+20 IBOC hash on 93.1.
88.5 KPLU keep the same.
ALL 89.1 CSN translators can go off the air, for what I can say.
89.5 KNHC keep the same.
90.3 KEXP ditto
90.7 KSER ditto.
91.3 KBCS ditto
91.7 KXOT keep the TVW. I like this new format. "Your Olympia Capitol station, KXOT..."
92.5 KLSY "Classy 92.5" competes against KRWM
93.3 KUBE add some more hip hop, some old school rap from the late 80s and early 90s as well
94.1 KMPS add several HUNDRED more songs to the playlist, make it similar to 92.1 KTFW in Fort Worth with a mix of classic and new. And I'd love to hear some rare early-mid 2000s stuff (the ones that hit #10 and below) again
94.9 KUOW keep the same, but get that signal problem fixed. Multipathed EVERYWHERE in the market.
95.7 KJR I suppose keep the same so that the people who LIKE 200-song, tested by research group, and burnt-to-a-crisp oldies stations can keep their audience. All others can go to 104.5
96.5 back to KXRX with Robin, Maynard, Crow, West. Also Beau Roberts. Bring em all back!
97.3 back to KBSG, to ditto 95.7. But add more burnt-to-a-crisp-in-the-1980s 1950s hits. (Elvis, etc)
98.1 keep the same.
98.9 KWJZ Smooth Jazz, with a great playlist. Try to throw away as much Kenny G as possible. Play some good smooth jazz (Richard Elliott, Paul Hardcastle, Norman Brown etc), some R/B (Sade, Anita Baker, even Patti Austin would be great) and some latin guitar stuff.
99.9 KISW looks like I'll keep that the same...
100.7 Not sure what I'd do with the Wolf howlers. They do have a good audience at times. Maybe like KJR - a station so that the 200-song people can enjoy it, KMPS for the people who like variety.
101.5 KPLZ - new imaging, keep the format the same, I enjoy the '80s stuff now and then on KPLZ
102.5 KZOK - add some AOR stuff, add some old Progressive Rock, not just burnt to a crisp. Keep the classic rock, increase the playlist.
102.9 KNBQ - No idea. Maybe keep the "NOW" format, maybe the Q Country, maybe something else like Soft AC. Who knows.
103.7 KMTT - Bring back the "Mountain", with AAA. NOT, repeat NOT classic rock. AAA only or nothing. Sponsor with KINK 101.9 to promote tourism to Portland. Call it either "The Mountain" or "KINK Seattle".
104.1 KAFE - Probably stays the same format, make the music softer, add more AC ballads from the 1980s, 70s etc.
104.5 KMCQ - Bring back the "Oh wow!" oldies format, with a playlist of at least 3,500 songs. Go from Frank Sinatra to early Bruce Springsteen and then "In a Gadda Da Vida". Even put some old crossover Country stuff on there. Just keep a good "who knows" classic hits format. Don't play Billy Joel, Doobie Brothers every hour. If you want that, go to KJR's 200-song burnt to a crisp channel.
105.3 KCMS - Stay the same, add more religious preaching and teaching on Sunday, increase the power.
106.1 KBKS - Stay the same, so that all the teenyboppers can hear "Cups", "Thrift Shop" and "Blurred Lines" again and again
106.9 KRWM - Stay the same, go softer. Add more love songs, not just Lady Gaga. Even put some Carpenters if you want to. Just make it a softer, at-work format. Not something that KPLZ would try to do.
107.7 KNDD - Either Alternative Rock without Nirvana from 1991, or do KRAB and put who knows on there. Reggae, news from South Africa, 1930s blues, polka. A variety. My dad loved KRAB in the 1970s, because of all the old Blues music they had.

AM
570 KVI - Stay the same?
Don't need 630 KCIS - rely on FM 105 KBIQ...whoops, KCMS.
710 KIRO - News/Talk
770 KTTH - Can take the ESPN from KIRO
No 820 - WBAP nights
850 KHHO - Maybe try KH2O News/Talk again, like in the 1990s.
880 KIXI - stay the same, go a little more nostalgic like KBRD down south on 680. And keep that the same too.
950 KJR - Either simulcast 95.7's burnt to a crisp program, or keep the sports. I don't care.
1000 KOMO - News, Weather, Traffic, 24/7/365.
No 1050 KBLE
1090 KFNQ - Go back to Progressive Talk KPTK.
1150 KKNW - How about bringing back that audio feed of CNN?
1210 KMIA - Simulcast 97.3
1230 KWYZ - Keep the Korean format for now...
1250 KKDZ - Either keep the same or try KKFX's R&B again. CLASSIC R&B.
1300 KKOL - Keep the business stuff
No 1360
1380 KRKO - Make it a blowtorch Regional Mexican station. We don't need more than two sports stations in Seattle.
1400 KITZ - ?
1430 KBRC - Fix that audio and modulation up!
1460 KARR - "Karr 1460, All-Traffic for Seattle." Increase power to 50kw days, 5kw night with a pattern directly for 520/I-90 as well as 405/I-5 through the prime core of the Seattle area. Make it just like CHMJ 730.
1490 KBRO - How did the LGBT format go?
1520 KKXA - DEFINITELY keep. Andy, you are doing great with this format!
No 1540 or 1560.
1590 KLFE - Classic Alternative Rock as KJET.
1620 KYIZ - Keep the Touch format, get the signal coverage problem done and over with, I can barely hear KYIZ in Snohomish County.
No 1680 - SS Religion is not needed. Put that on Sunday mornings on the "Ke Buena" or "Mexicana" KRKO.

-crainbebo

P.S. - I'd blow up all IBOC sidebands and all religious translators. Some full-powered stations don't even need to be on (KROH, KQXI)

PPS: Dr Jerry, how about "KXRX-FM21" on 106.9 and "KXRX-FM22" on 107.7? All simulcasting Robin and Maynard telling everyone that if you want to find so and so format you need to go on the internet, because we RULE the radio?? :p

-crainbebo
 
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KRAB would be a great station to bring back (or at least it would be an alternative to all this Rhythmic/CHR overkill everywhere)
 
My picks:
91.7 KXOT - Now that it's located on Gold Mountain, a public/freeform radio station for Kitsap/Mason/West Jefferson County, featuring local news and issues, and local bands. Change call letters to KBPJ.
104.5 KMCQ - Flip to a Rhythmic Oldies/Classic R&B Format, with some disco in-between. Art Laboe show on the weekends.
1400 KITZ - Flip to a full-service 60s-2000s format like KRXY/KITI with news at the top of the hour, and add a Bremerton FM translator, all purely serving the West Sound.
 
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Hey Crainbebo, your list is awesome!

As you have seen from my other thread, I would personally like to see oldies return to the 97.3 frequency (50's and 60's, not like WCBS). If KIRO stayed on 97.3 and did not return to 710am, I would like to see the oldies return on 710 in AM stereo :D I loved the idea Crainbebo presented of moving the ESPN format to KTTH.

KJR can stay the same "beat it to death" 70's station it has always been. However, it would be cool is KMCQ different.

I would also like to see KZOK dive into more psychedelic 60's tracks during the regular hours of the weekday.
 
I forgot a few in my original post,
91.3 if you're not going to run any subchannels, kill hd.
92.5 either move the South Asian programming to hd2 and sign off the hd3, or some sort of soft AC on hd2, similar to KZAL before they flipped to country.
Agree on the signal of 94.9.
98.9 again, move KKNW to hd2 or sign off hd and keep only KKNW on 1150. I don't know that I would sign it off though, since there are areas where am radio just doesn't do well at night. Either that or keep KKNW on hd3 and bring back smooth jazz on hd2.
As for other hd stations, the jazz on 88.5 could stay, but they need to fix the hd2, I can't seem to keep it.
89.5, if the subchannel ends up simulcasting or shadowcasting a lot, hd should be killed.
93.3, 94.1, and 94.9 stay the same on hd.
95.7, 96.5, and 97.3 stay the same, it's the am reception at night issue.
98.1 I'm not sure whether to keep it the same or kill hd and just have the one channel of classical. I'm not sure why there needs to be 3 channels there.
I'm not sure what to do with the 3 Entercom HD channels, 99.9 would stay the same, and probably 107.7 stay the same as well.
103.7 move the blues back to the hd2 channel when the AAA returns, and put comedy on 100.7 hd2.
105.3 definitely keep the religious-leaning AAA format here, sounds pretty good.
106.1 no idea what to do with the hd2 there, 106.9 would probably stay the same on hd.
 
Here is my dream radio dial by moving certain frequency.
89.5 KNHC--> move down to 89.3 FM
90.3 KEXP --> move down to 90.1 FM and move to Cougar Mtn.
90.9 KVTI --> move transmitter to cougar mtn and switch places with KBCS 91.3. Also move 91.3 to Gold Mtn from Cougar Mtn.
91.3 KBCS --> move transmitter from Cougar mtn to Gold Mtn and switch places with KVTI.
91.7 KXOT --> move transmitter to cougar mtn
93.3 KUBE --> move transmitter to West Tiger Mtn and upgrade to a full class C from C0.
94.5 KRXY --> move transmitter to South Mountain and upgrade to full class C directional
95.7 KJR --> move transmitter to West Tiger Mtn and upgrade to full class C from C0.
96.1 KXXO --> move (CP) transmitter to South Mountain instead of Capitol Peak.
96.9 KGY --> move transmitter to South Mountain and upgrade to Class C.
99.9 KISW --> move to 99.7 FM
100.7 KKWF --> move to 100.5 FM
101.5 KPLZ --> move to 101.3 FM and move transmitter to West Tiger Mtn and upgrade to full Class C.
102.5 KZOK --> move to 102.1 FM
102.9 KYNW --> move the transmitter to West Tiger Mtn.
104.5 KMCQ --> upgrade to Class C1
104.9 KBNW --> upgrade to Class C and relocate to South Mtn.
 
What would happen to KSWW and KPQ? KZOK 102.1 is NOT going to work. Also, CFRO would possibly cause problems with KKWF in the north end, ditto CBUF-FM9 as you head toward Island County on 99.7.

-crainbebo
 
e-dawg.. your comment makes me think.

Why do some of these stations bother broadcasting from Couger Mountain? Yes, the power output is stronger, but the range is much greater on Tiger Mountain. AND.. there are no residents around to be affected by any RF radiation.
 
KRAB 106.1 - but maybe another dream is for THEM to swap calls with 107.7 (Maybe go "106.1 The End" and restore the KRAB who knows format from the 1970s on 107.7...)

-crainbebo
 
I really doubt the Bakersfield KRAB would give up those calls. They've actually been there longer now than they've been in Seattle. But it was a shame no one in Puget Sound took those calls once they became available. But I also don't think they were on the block that long. You could only hold to a set of call letters without a station for so long and Jack Straw still had them in 1986, but no place to park them or KSER would be KRAB today.
 
I think e-dawg's idea of a NARBA-style FM frequency shake up (provided we could co-ordinate everyone between Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR) is a good idea in tight areas like Puget Sound. We could squeeze out a few extra clear frequencies this way. But I highly doubt that would ever happen.
 
Hey Bongwater, what is a frequency shake up and what would it take to make it happen?

I know Vancouver BC had a television network shakeup back in 2001, with a result of changing networks.
 
Yep, I could add to his idea. to make this work, KSWW and KPQ-FM would have to move to 102.5, and KRAO would possibly have to move to 102.1, causing KTSL to have to move to 101.7 and KEYF to 100.9. In order to make the KKWF move work, CKKQ would need to move to 100.1. CFRO would then have to move to 100.3, CFMI to 100.9. That shakeup would also result in a possible new 102.7 in Portland, provided KYTE moves to 102.9 or 103.1, allowing 102.7 to be a full C in Portland. I'm not sure then if KRSB could move to 103.3 if KYTE were on 103.1 or if they would have to move to 103.7 or maybe 104.5.
 
fordranger797 said:
Hey Bongwater, what is a frequency shake up and what would it take to make it happen?

I know Vancouver BC had a television network shakeup back in 2001, with a result of changing networks.
Click to expand...

To answer your first question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARBA

Local TV network shake-ups used to be very rare, but in the last 20 years, they seem to be getting more common. Should Fox buy KIRO, we're in for a REAL doozy.....

I feel the co-channel separation between Canadian and American stations is getting REALLY bad. Something also needs to be done about these religious translators and out of market repeater stations. They're really not needed in this day and age.
 
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