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KMOZART

sdwulfdawg

sdwulfdawg

I was listening to K-Mozart today. I was very surprised to hear how sloppy their voicetracking is... voice announcements stepping on music, music stepping on voice announcements.

What really surprised me was that there is absolutely no advertising on the station. One would think that Saul Levine might put on some make goods/extra bonus spots bought on his other stations on K-Mozart. Advertisiing -- even if it is papering -- begats other advertising.

The website is terrible....and they want to be seen and perceived as a "competitor" to KUSC?
 
sdwulfdawg said:
I was listening to K-Mozart today. I was very surprised to hear how sloppy their voicetracking is... voice announcements stepping on music, music stepping on voice announcements.

What really surprised me was that there is absolutely no advertising on the station. One would think that Saul Levine might put on some make goods/extra bonus spots bought on his other stations on K-Mozart. Advertisiing -- even if it is papering -- begats other advertising.

The website is terrible....and they want to be seen and perceived as a "competitor" to KUSC?
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do you ever have anything nice to say about any radio stations, @sdwulfdawg ? I've never see anything from you but tearing apart stations.

what stations do you like?
 
Who would advertise on a Classical music station on AM? Even on FM, Classical is not sustainable as a commercial format, unless you're Saul Levine and treat the station as a hobby.
 
sdwulfdawg said:
I was listening to K-Mozart today. I was very surprised to hear how sloppy their voicetracking is... voice announcements stepping on music, music stepping on voice announcements.

What really surprised me was that there is absolutely no advertising on the station. One would think that Saul Levine might put on some make goods/extra bonus spots bought on his other stations on K-Mozart. Advertisiing -- even if it is papering -- begats other advertising.

The website is terrible....and they want to be seen and perceived as a "competitor" to KUSC?
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I don’t think Saul Levine sees himself as a competitor to KUSC. He is just running KMZT as he sees fit and if anyone doesn’t like it they can tune to KUSC or search online. I happen to think that WFMT Chicago and WQXR New York are both better than KUSC
 
ercjncpr said:
I don’t think Saul Levine sees himself as a competitor to KUSC. He is just running KMZT as he sees fit and if anyone doesn’t like it they can tune to KUSC or search online. I happen to think that WFMT Chicago and WQXR New York are both better than KUSC
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I can assure you Saul sees himself as a competitor to KUSC. I have watched what he says for many years and he believes (correctly) that he is in competition with every other signal in town, especially the large corporations like iheart, and large well-funded stations operating in his niche format area like KUSC.
 
ercjncpr said:
I don’t think Saul Levine sees himself as a competitor to KUSC. He is just running KMZT as he sees fit and if anyone doesn’t like it they can tune to KUSC or search online. I happen to think that WFMT Chicago and WQXR New York are both better than KUSC
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You missed a news article that he was bringing on Dr. Laura Brodian to be a competitor to KUSC. You are right. WFMT and WQXR are way better than KUSC.

Here is the article: https://radioink.com/2022/08/17/classical-clash-in-l-a/
 
ercjncpr said:
I don’t think Saul Levine sees himself as a competitor to KUSC. He is just running KMZT as he sees fit and if anyone doesn’t like it they can tune to KUSC or search online. I happen to think that WFMT Chicago and WQXR New York are both better than KUSC
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WFMT is a unique radio station...and very successful too...all spots are read by the on-air personalities.
 
TomásEstefan said:
WFMT is a unique radio station...and very successful too...all spots are read by the on-air personalities.
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I would not call those folks "personalities". ""Hosts", maybe. But not personalities....

"We just heard Rumaiskicoff's 47th Symphony in C Minor conducted by Aaron Kramer leading the Bemidji "Symphony of the Plains" orchestra...."
 
DavidEduardo said:
I would not call those folks "personalities". ""Hosts", maybe. But not personalities....

"We just heard Rumaiskicoff's 47th Symphony in C Minor conducted by Aaron Kramer leading the Bemidji "Symphony of the Plains" orchestra...."
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To me the wonderful Lisa Flynn is certainly a "personality".
 
DavidEduardo said:
I would not call those folks "personalities". ""Hosts", maybe. But not personalities....

"We just heard Rumaiskicoff's 47th Symphony in C Minor conducted by Aaron Kramer leading the Bemidji "Symphony of the Plains" orchestra...."
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My classical listening has been limited over the years, but I will say that CapRadio classical here in Sacramento goes way beyond the “announcer” type. Mike Nelson, Jennifer Reason and Victor Forman exhibit more personality than I hear on most commercial pop music stations.
 
I'm hoping that jokes are not required to qualify someone as a personality. As I previously mentioned WFMT's Lisa Flynn is a great personality, KUSC's Rich Caparella, and the veteran Jim Svejda are certainly good one's as well. On a Classical format station the only requirements are to be friendly/affable with reasonable knowledge of the music and a clear interest in it...On the otherhand a Classical "announcer/host" is someone who simply does intros and outros/segues and usually sounds like a broomstick is stuck up...well you know! Polite company would say that person sounds like a stuffed shirt.
 
NickD said:
Classical simply cannot compete on an AM signal. He’s running that format because he likes classical music. 105.1 is paying the bills
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If all it is is that he just likes classical music, then he could just listen to the much-better-sounding KUSC. Why put in so much effort to put it on his own station, with all that that entails? So it has got to be something more than that.

Like Michael said above, everything he puts on the station is going to be subsidized by KKGO. My guess is he feels classical is what needs to be subsidized the least. In fairness to him, he has tried most everything else.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
If all it is is that he just likes classical music, then he could just listen to the much-better-sounding KUSC. Why put in so much effort to put it on his own station, with all that that entails? So it has got to be something more than that.
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No it doesnt.. hes 90 something, rich... he can do whatever he wants.

Hes got a radio station in a major market he can do whatever he wants with.

I've futzed aroudn with pirate signals before because its a thrill to mess around with and hear stuff over the air.

1260 changes formats more then some people change their underwear and i dont think its because saul is impatient and sees something isnt making money and hoping somethign else will.. i think he gets bored and changes his mind.

If you were older then hell, rich and didnt have to care about anyone else or making money, wouldnt you probably do what hes doing, aka whatever you want?
 
The other aspect is he knows what he can do with oldies on this signal. It got him good 6+ numbers, but a lot of out-of-market streaming, which costs him money. He likely doesn't have that problem with classical.
 
TheBigA said:
The other aspect is he knows what he can do with oldies on this signal. It got him good 6+ numbers, but a lot of out-of-market streaming, which costs him money. He likely doesn't have that problem with classical.
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It did not get him good 6+ numbers. From Spring 0of 2017 through Fall of 2020, he averaged a 0.4. One book at 0.7, one at 0.6 and a bunch of 0.3 and 0.4 numbers.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
No it doesnt.. hes 90 something, rich... he can do whatever he wants.

Hes got a radio station in a major market he can do whatever he wants with.

I've futzed aroudn with pirate signals before because its a thrill to mess around with and hear stuff over the air.

1260 changes formats more then some people change their underwear and i dont think its because saul is impatient and sees something isnt making money and hoping somethign else will.. i think he gets bored and changes his mind.

If you were older then hell, rich and didnt have to care about anyone else or making money, wouldnt you probably do what hes doing, aka whatever you want?
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You’re overlooking that Saul sees 1260 as a testbed for digital AM, and Classical is a music form where fidelity is important.
 
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