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bossbill

Anyone picking up on the new station on 98.5? North Pole radio...
 
fordranger797 said:
It's the new Amanda Park COL signal, KNBQ 98.5 with wall to wall Christmas music. Sounds good here in the south sound; I wonder what they have planned for it.
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I think Sunnylands also has the new CP for 103.3 in Oak Harbor. 1,500 watts off Little Mountain in Mount Vernon or so the CP says....
 
fordranger797 said:
it's the new amanda park col signal, knbq 98.5 with wall to wall christmas music. Sounds good here in the south sound; i wonder what they have planned for it.
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central park
 
That new 103.3 is going to cause large interference to CHTT Kiss FM in Victoria and CHQM QMFM in Vancouver. No thanks. Both boom in throughout the islands and in the San Juans.

98.5 won't be so bad...it's too far from CIOC to make too much problem. I heard 98.5 Victoria once at Pacific Beach, but it was very weak, hardly audible, way in the noise. No sign of KGHO-LP...it faded out near Ocean Shores. So 98.5 is WIDE OPEN for you Bill! Does say "102.9 Now" on Radio Locator...but we don't need that in Aberdeen as there's still KJET to listen to. How about a Soft AC...lite favorites from 1970-2000, ala WDUV Tampa?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
So 98.5 is WIDE OPEN for you Bill! Does say "102.9 Now" on Radio Locator...but we don't need that in Aberdeen as there's still KJET to listen to. How about a Soft AC...lite favorites from 1970-2000, ala WDUV Tampa?

-crainbebo
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When did you move to Grays Harbour?
 
I'm guessing that 98.5 KNBQ will upgrade and move to South Mountain and rim shot Seattle like the other stations that have moved there and be sold for a nice profit to an ethnic broadcaster who has no knowledge or care for the KNBQ call sign history.
 
crainbebo said:
That new 103.3 is going to cause large interference to CHTT Kiss FM in Victoria and CHQM QMFM in Vancouver. No thanks. Both boom in throughout the islands and in the San Juans.

98.5 won't be so bad...it's too far from CIOC to make too much problem. I heard 98.5 Victoria once at Pacific Beach, but it was very weak, hardly audible, way in the noise. No sign of KGHO-LP...it faded out near Ocean Shores. So 98.5 is WIDE OPEN for you Bill! Does say "102.9 Now" on Radio Locator...but we don't need that in Aberdeen as there's still KJET to listen to. How about a Soft AC...lite favorites from 1970-2000, ala WDUV Tampa?



-crainbebo
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Hmm...who cares? Get an I-pod if you want your own kind of music or at least a little FM transmitter that you can plug in a thumb drive and listen to in your car. Enough bellyaching for music that no broadcaster wants to play.
 
Lightingnut said:
I'm guessing that 98.5 KNBQ will upgrade and move to South Mountain and rim shot Seattle like the other stations that have moved there and be sold for a nice profit to an ethnic broadcaster who has no knowledge or care for the KNBQ call sign history.
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Can they do that with the placement of CIOC? I would think that the *new* KNBQ has a few more limitations.
 
Lightingnut said:
Hmm...who cares? Get an I-pod if you want your own kind of music or at least a little FM transmitter that you can plug in a thumb drive and listen to in your car. Enough bellyaching for music that no broadcaster wants to play.
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Here is a neat little trick that I like:
Buy an FM transmitter
Get the APP for whatever station you desire.
Plug cord into phone
Listen.
 
Lightingnut said:
I'm guessing that 98.5 KNBQ will upgrade and move to South Mountain and rim shot Seattle like the other stations that have moved there and be sold for a nice profit to an ethnic broadcaster who has no knowledge or care for the KNBQ call sign history.
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Call signs and 5 bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks. I'm amazed and amused at the importance some place on "call signs". I have a station in Grays Harbor that has been on the air for years, the leader in the market, and I'll bet not one in a hundred would be able tell me what the call letters are.
 
bossbill said:
Call signs and 5 bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks. I'm amazed and amused at the importance some place on "call signs". I have a station in Grays Harbor that has been on the air for years, the leader in the market, and I'll bet not one in a hundred would be able tell me what the call letters are.
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And radio stations like KYYO have proven to us that you don't necessarily need the exact call sign to use the branding.
 
bossbill said:
Call signs and 5 bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks. I'm amazed and amused at the importance some place on "call signs". I have a station in Grays Harbor that has been on the air for years, the leader in the market, and I'll bet not one in a hundred would be able tell me what the call letters are.
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Bill that may be true. So, please tell me why the call letters were changed from KBFR to KNBQ before sign on if they didn't still have some value? The calls could've been KRAP and no one but radio geeks would've noticed.
 
Lightingnut said:
Bill that may be true. So, please tell me why the call letters were changed from KBFR to KNBQ before sign on if they didn't still have some value? The calls could've been KRAP and no one but radio geeks would've noticed.
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I always hear how meaningless call letters are in the radio industry. But with almost every new format at any given station, they still keep being changed.

So maybe, deep down, they mean just a little?

The filing fee at least will buy a few lattes for the office. And maybe donuts....
 
Playing Christmas music sure makes it easy to ID them. No waiting for call letters. I got them on the south end of Vashon. Obviously a good way to test drive the signal, no wondering what they are playing or are you listening to KNBQ or some one else playing Christmas music in April.
 
But have you heard Little Saint Nick from the Beach Boys? I mean, since they won't be able to play Kokomo..
 
Hey Bill,

Hope you make a boat load of money. Kinda tough when you don't have the pop. You know what would be cool. If you could get the backing of a bill'nair and make a run for the NW. I know it's "Just a Dream". You have my support! Hope to meet you some day. That should be a goal of this board...to bring us all together sometime. Again, just a dream.
 
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