Perhaps its subject has sailed?
Depends what you mean by mixing.
It may not have a constant BPM, but at least what Fever brings in tastes like vinyl.
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Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos
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It may not have a constant BPM, but at least what Fever brings in tastes like vinyl.
Betty Crocker?
(alt-text: picture of a box of Betty Crocker Super Moist Cake Mix for yellow cake with chocolate frosting)
Another reason for the growing irrelevancy of the radio dial in San Diego.
October 11th is the San Diego Yacht Rock Festival headlined by Ambrosia, and emceed by Captain Adam of Yacht Rock Radio. However, there is no Yacht Rock specialty show currently being aired here. The last one was on KFBG until the format change.
If any locale embodies Yacht Rock, this is it! But yet....
October 11th is the San Diego Yacht Rock Festival headlined by Ambrosia, and emceed by Captain Adam of Yacht Rock Radio. However, there is no Yacht Rock specialty show currently being aired here. The last one was on KFBG until the format change.
If any locale embodies Yacht Rock, this is it! But yet....
As we've said, because there's no money in it. Unless you charge people admission. Tickets to the festival are $130.
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You're referring to the music specialty programming as having no money in it, right? Then why does this type programming continue on large market music FM's? Some have multiple shows that air on a Sunday night. How much money would airing the Yacht Rock Radio program cost in the first place. It's a dead zone for listening, so offer something different for a niche audience that can be done without a budget involved, like syndicated shows.
You're asking two different questions. I'm not talking about the cost of the yacht rock program. I'm saying the audience demographic doesn't attract advertising. So a station playing it likely won't be able to get advertising for it.
Why do stations do specialty shows? It depends on ownership, but iHeart expects its owned stations to carry certain Premier syndicated shows. In San Diego, the main owners are iHeart and Audacy.
The Yacht Rock Radio show is independently syndicated. No major station ownership behind it. It's offered as barter, where the station has to run the program's commercials. I don't see a lot of iHeart or Audacy stations among their station list.
Even if Ambrosia paid me $130, I wouldn't go see them! This ambrosia is way better and costs a lot less:
On night skywave. It's 10 mV/m groundwave coverage does not even cover 100% of the Nashville market, just like WSB in Atlanta.
Yes, the FCC has a set of charts in the rules (Also seen in the NAB Engineering Handbooks) that show the equivalent of coverage vs conductivity for each small range of frequencies. The FCC also has charts of the ground conductivity in rather broad regions of the United States.
The variables are terrain conductivity, transmitter power output into the antenna, and the antenna's wavelength in degrees.
Maybe the WSM fans should move to NE Ohio, then they too could have nary a problem receiving it.
But only at night.
Then WSM could save 50 KWH's on their electric bill by keeping the transmitter off until sundown. How's that for a win-win?But only at night.
When the transmitter's off, maybe they can just specially tune some rusty bolts at a sister AM's transmitter site, and fill the frequency with a simulcast at no additional cost.
WRNJ in Hackettstown, NJ has a Yacht Rock show on Sundays from 6 AM to Noon, called "the Sunday Morning Sail". They describe it as "A smooth and easy start to your Sunday morning! Featuring the mellow and unforgettable hits of the '70s, '80s and beyond."