KOST 103.5 airing Air 1 and air 1 is on 92.7
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Thomps2525
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The Air 1 contemporary Christian format is carried on three southern California FM stations, each at 92.7: KYZA in Adelanto, KYRA in Thousand Oaks and KYLA in Fountain Valley. In 2012, those three stations were collectively known as Playlist 92.7 (with different call letters). Before that, they were Jill-FM (with different call letters). And before that, they were Lite 92.7 (with different call letters). Now they're Air 1 (with different call letters). I'm sensing a pattern here.
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K.M. Richards
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Sounds to me that EMF discovered what the rest of us knew all along, which is that the 92.7 trimulcast falls far short of full-market coverage.
But please explain why the OP said Air One was on KOST 103.5. Am I missing something?
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K.M. Richards
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No, but Jason could have made it easier in his original post.
The thread title refers to KOST's HD3 signal but he then failed to repeat that key bit of information in the post itself.
Apparently EMF is leasing the HD3 channel on KOST in an attempt to fill in where the 92.7s don't cover. To which I wish them the best of luck finding enough listeners among the 72 people in the market who own HD-capable radios.
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K.M. Richards
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Original call signs and changes for the 92.7s:
Thousand Oaks - KNJO at sign-on (4/1/63), then KMLT (7/24/80) as the original Lite 92.7, KHJL (3/20/07, Jill-FM), KLSI (2/9/12, Playlist), KYRA (5/22/13).
Fountain Valley - KOUG at sign-on (9/16/91, COL Avalon), then KLIT (1/15/97), KJLL-FM (3/19/07), KLST-FM (2/9/12), KYLA (5/22/13).
Adelanto - KACE-FM at sign-on (1959, COL Riverside), KCNW (3/74), KHNY-FM (3/76), KWDJ (3/2/83), KQLH (12/25/90), KXEZ (1/6/97), KELT (6/9/97), KAJL (3/19/07), KLSN (2/16/12), KYZA (5/22/13).
Lots of patterns, indeed. The only times the calls didn't change all at once was for Lite because Avalon didn't start simulcasting until January, 1997 and Riverside added the trimulcast in June of that year. (And, of course, the Riverside station had several incarnations before that.)
In many cities EMF leases HD subchannels from the Borg to feed translators. Perhaps they have one in the works that's within KOST's pattern that doesn't fit within the old Amaturo trimulcast?
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Thomps2525
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Neel asked about 90.1 in Yucaipa. Yes, KLRD carries the Air 1 programming. Neel, if you aren't aware of Don Barrett's LARadio.com website, you need to check it out. Here is what I contributed today:
LARadio Rewind: December 1, 2012. Air 1, a full-time contemporary Christian music format produced by Educational Media Foundation, begins airing on KLSN in Adelanto, KLSI in Thousand Oaks and KLST in Fountain Valley. The stations, each at 92.7 fm, would change call letters to KYZA, KYRA and KYLA, respectively. They previously had simulcast a variety hits format as Playlist 92.7. From 2007 to 2012, the stations were adult contemporary KAJL, KHJL and KJLL and were known collectively as Jill-FM. The Air 1 network began in 1986 with KLRD "K-Lord" in Yucaipa and is now heard on 221 radio stations and translators nationwide. Air 1 plays "Positive Hits" by such artists as Chris Tomlin, Jeremy Camp, Jamie Grace, Lincoln Brewster, Abandon, Newsboys, Switchfoot, Third Day, TobyMac, MercyMe, Casting Crowns, Audio Adrenaline and Group 1 Crew. Eric Allen and Mandy Young host the morning show.
K.M., after graduating third in a class of 80 at Career Academy of Broadcasting, I managed to get a one-hour on-air audition at KNJO. The program director chastised me because I played a Petula Clark album track (The Sun Shines Out Of Your Shoes). He told me---belatedly---to look at the back cover of each album and play only those songs which the manager had marked with a ✓. I never got a copy of the tape of that hour. *Sigh* Two of my fellow classmates got jobs in radio: one in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and one in Sandpoint, Idaho. Both worked overnights. I didn't want a radio career badly enough to move a thousand miles away and work from midnight to six. That was the radio industry's loss!
LARadio Rewind: December 1, 2012. Air 1, a full-time contemporary Christian music format produced by Educational Media Foundation, begins airing on KLSN in Adelanto, KLSI in Thousand Oaks and KLST in Fountain Valley. The stations, each at 92.7 fm, would change call letters to KYZA, KYRA and KYLA, respectively. They previously had simulcast a variety hits format as Playlist 92.7. From 2007 to 2012, the stations were adult contemporary KAJL, KHJL and KJLL and were known collectively as Jill-FM. The Air 1 network began in 1986 with KLRD "K-Lord" in Yucaipa and is now heard on 221 radio stations and translators nationwide. Air 1 plays "Positive Hits" by such artists as Chris Tomlin, Jeremy Camp, Jamie Grace, Lincoln Brewster, Abandon, Newsboys, Switchfoot, Third Day, TobyMac, MercyMe, Casting Crowns, Audio Adrenaline and Group 1 Crew. Eric Allen and Mandy Young host the morning show.
K.M., after graduating third in a class of 80 at Career Academy of Broadcasting, I managed to get a one-hour on-air audition at KNJO. The program director chastised me because I played a Petula Clark album track (The Sun Shines Out Of Your Shoes). He told me---belatedly---to look at the back cover of each album and play only those songs which the manager had marked with a ✓. I never got a copy of the tape of that hour. *Sigh* Two of my fellow classmates got jobs in radio: one in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and one in Sandpoint, Idaho. Both worked overnights. I didn't want a radio career badly enough to move a thousand miles away and work from midnight to six. That was the radio industry's loss!
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K.M. Richards
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I did some relief shifts at KNJO in the summer of 1978 when Bob Hughes was PD and I remember those stickers on the album jackets all too well. The "selections" were by Alan Fischler himself for the most part ... if a LP got into the control room before he could listen to it, you would cringe as you played anything because if Alan was listening and didn't like the song, you would get a call (while it was still playing) telling you to segue immediately, remove the album from the active library and leave it propped up against his office door for him to listen to in order to find out what else he found objectionable. It was worse if you were on-air during business hours; Alan would come into the control room and rip the album off the turntable. Bob and I used to think he should have just bought an automation system and a canned format (except that he probably would have had us editing songs out of reels instead).
Could have been worse: When I was weekends/utility at Y97 in Santa Barbara I was asked to forego my usual Saturday afternoon shift to instead do live reports that morning for our sister news-talk station, KTMS, from a 15K run sponsored by the County Bar Association and which we had somehow gotten roped into being the "official radio station" for. So I dragged myself into the station way too damn early to get the remote gear, drove down to the beachfront where the run was taking place, and filed the reports. Now for the "worse" part ... they had the midday guy covering my afternoon shift and decided to give a potential new weekender an on-air audition during the midday shift.
To say he was awful would have been kind. He was a complete train wreck. Stepped on vocals, faded out of the weather bed before it could finish with the produced imaging, and then (the ultimate insult) he told the listeners "here's inks-ess!" Yes, he meant INXS.
He had only been on the air for a little under an hour when I got back to the studios to stow the remote gear, and the PD (Steve Smith) called looking for me. His question was: "You've been a PD, so let me get a second opinion ... is this guy as awful as I think he is?" With no one else available, he had me take the guy off the air and finish the shift, after having already been on duty since around 6:00am for the remote. We got the midday guy to come in an hour early, but I'm amazed I got through that one without falling asleep at the board.
Many years later, I found out that the mystery jock was Richard Wagoner, who now writes a weekly radio column for the Daily News. We were on the phone chatting, and he was relating "this awful experience he had back in 1987 when auditioning for an on-air gig" ... as he made his way through the story I realized I'd already lived through it. He got a good laugh from finding out I'd been the one who replaced him. I think you were much less embarrassed at what happened at KNJO, Steve.
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Thomps2525
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I wasn't embarrassed---I just wish I had been informed of the "rules" ahead of time. At least I was allowed to let the song finish.
Richard Wagoner. Wow. I can imagine how frustrated he was at the time, but I'm relieved that he can look back at his "awfulness" and find some humor in the situation. Did he really think INXS was pronounced "Inks-ess" or was he just trying to be funny? I once heard a KPPC DJ play Universal Soldier and announce the artist as "Buffy Street-Marie." Apparently the record label said Buffy Ste.-Marie and I never knew if he was trying to be funny or if he really thought "Ste" was "Street." I don't remember which DJ it was. I guess I can forgive all the many DJs who called Petula Clark "Petch-u-la" in 1964. Until Downtown, she wasn't well known in the US.
Richard Wagoner. Wow. I can imagine how frustrated he was at the time, but I'm relieved that he can look back at his "awfulness" and find some humor in the situation. Did he really think INXS was pronounced "Inks-ess" or was he just trying to be funny? I once heard a KPPC DJ play Universal Soldier and announce the artist as "Buffy Street-Marie." Apparently the record label said Buffy Ste.-Marie and I never knew if he was trying to be funny or if he really thought "Ste" was "Street." I don't remember which DJ it was. I guess I can forgive all the many DJs who called Petula Clark "Petch-u-la" in 1964. Until Downtown, she wasn't well known in the US.
There are certainly at least tens of thousands of cars in greater LA that have HD capable radios. Of course, getting people to understand that and how to use them is the big issue. As far as portable or home units, yes, those are very scarce.
I got my first HD Radio-capable tuner in 2005 (my truck), then another in 2006 (another car radio), then another in 2007 (tabletop), another in 2008 (portable), another in 2009 (audio receiver), and the last two in 2011 (iPod-connected and another tabletop model). I have at least 7 of those 72 radios!
That said, I find myself constantly complaining about the excessive dynamic range compression on the HD1 stations, too. What are the broadcasters thinking? They're often squashed more than the analog. Take that Omnia.11, crank it to 11, and break off the knob?
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