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101 KUFO now Simulcasting KXL-AM

DToTheJ said:
Meanwhile, as we eulogize the late KUFO, does anybody know what the last song that they played was? Was anyone even listening at the time? KUFO doesn't have a listing on Yes.com, or at least they no longer do as of this week.
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KUFO cut to KXL's program audio at 8:50am local time. Kidd Chris was on the air, speaking when the audio just cut over to KXL's program audio where they made the announcement.

Mike said:
what other former howard stern station is next ??
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KISW in Seattle has about 6 months left to go. They just had a nice bump up in the ratings yet the market has 3 Classic Rock Hybirds and 1 Straight Active Rocker. With the impending return of Bob Rivers to Oldies 95.7 in April, the ratings will get shifted all around again.
 
Thanks, NWO... I remembered Kidd Chris did mornings on KUFO but I forgot about the time difference. Though I think this is the first any of us outsiders are hearing that his show was flat-out cut off in mid-sentence. Wow. Then again, given the type of show Kidd Chris does, I probably wouldn't have given him a heads-up live on the air that KUFO is going to be blown up right that minute!
 
"saw on radio-info the projected pattern for the 3700w signal. It is impressive for that wattage. You are perceiving a slight that was not there nor intended." It's a full Class C2, 3.7KW @ 470 meters HAAT. This is the kind of confusion that makes KIIS look like they have a small signal because it's 8KW.
 
On KXL facebook page its getting real bad.People talking about shutting down the transmitter,lots of F bombs,People giving the stations managers home address.I have never seen such crazy fans in my life.All im saying,Those KUFO fans wont quit.Kind of scary. ???
 
It really doesn't matter if their Facebook page goes to 10,000. Same with petitions. This decision wasn't about Facebook.
 
True.Facebook helped getting a #1 Rated morning show back on the air in San Diego.More power to the Save KUFO page.If you start boycotting sponcers by not buying there products or calling them up in mad numbers,stating the situation,it helps.I got to admit,they are very determened to get it back on the air. 8)
 
Let me see if I have this straight. Former Active Rock listeners refuse to support the advertisers of a News/Talk station by not buying any gold coins or funeral plots. Is that about it? :)
 
DToTheJ said:
Yet another longtime Howard Stern affiliate not able to survive long-term after his departure from terrestrial radio. WBCN in Boston, K-Rock in Detroit, WJFK in Washington, virtually every single station that was wiped out in favor of that "Free-FM" debacle, and now... KUFO. Thanks, Howard.
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Radio has every opportunity to build a new Howard Stern. FM hot talk is not like AM political talk. Hot talk takes patience, risk taking, and more money, but if you can make it work then you can cash in big time, and you don't even need 100 affiliate stations to do it. Now, thanks to consolidation, over-leveraging, and going up to their eyeballs in debt, executives have decided that building a new hot talk empire is not worth the effort anymore. Even for those that have tried, the slightest of controversies is now enough to kick the hosts out on their asses.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
Now, thanks to consolidation, over-leveraging, and going up to their eyeballs in debt, executives have decided that building a new hot talk empire is not worth the effort anymore. Even for those that have tried, the slightest of controversies is now enough to kick the hosts out on their asses.
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I think the executives would LOVE to build a new Howard Stern. Although the fact he he wasn't "built" by any corporation. But the question is if the public would be responsive to a new Stern. Today, people like to tear down everything. I don't think anyone is interested in becoming "the next Howard." That's what it would take. Howard struggled for a long time for no money at radio stations that didn't appreciate him. How many people would be willing to do that today?
 
So, does Clear Channel respond by putting KEX on an FM signal as well? With the Clear Channel FM stations all doing so well (#1, 2, 4, 6 and 7), none is an obvious candidate to become KEX-FM. Can you remember when Portland was still using diaries to determine ratings and KEX was almost always near the top? Now KEX is in a four-way tie for #16.

Also, I'm not so sure killing KUFO was such a good idea. Its last book as a Rock station had KUFO/KXL-FM at #12. But I'm sure it was still one of the top stations to deliver young men. And that's a demographic that is hard to get, either with TV, radio, magazines, you name it. Yet those young men are entering the work force, don't have pre-determined brand choices yet, they've got money in their pockets and women to impress.

Lots of markets are dropping Glenn Beck for being too out-there. Is he going to bring new listeners to KXL because he's on FM now? Six hours of Lars Larson, doing the standard conservative talk thing... everything Obama and the Democrats do is always wrong, everything Republicans do is always right. Hold every opinion that Rush Limbaugh already holds? Is that going to bring in the young listeners? How about the overnight truckers' show... that's a real draw for younger listeners!

I'm not so sure in a year's time, if you add KXL-AM-FM's revenue together it will surpass the revenue of KXL-AM and KUFO.

Gregg
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Gregg said:
Also, I'm not so sure killing KUFO was such a good idea. Its last book as a Rock station had KUFO/KXL-FM at #12. But I'm sure it was still one of the top stations to deliver young men. And that's a demographic that is hard to get, either with TV, radio, magazines, you name it. Yet those young men are entering the work force, don't have pre-determined brand choices yet, they've got money in their pockets and women to impress.

Gregg
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Those young men are fleeing FM music radio for iPods, MP3s, satellite and internet radio. Young men 18-34 are more likely to have those gadgets, making it harder for FM rock stations to reach that once core audience. They can program their own radio station for the women they want to impress! :)
 
I guess an FM translator at 102.3 may help KEX a bit in and around Portland. But go a few miles south and I think KEX's translator will get drowned out by 102.3 KEHK Brownsville-Eugene and its 100,000 watt transmitter. Go north and KEX's FM translator probably gets drowned out by 102.3 KCRX Seaside. KCRX is not as powerful, only 25,000 watts at 330 feet, but it still limits the KEX translator. I wonder why they chose 102.3 for the translator. Also, it's only two channels away from KINK's full power transmitter on 101.9.

Meanwhile KXL-FM is a full Class C FM signal, with 100,000 watts at 1500 feet.


Gregg
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"Those young men are fleeing FM music radio for iPods, MP3s, satellite and internet radio."

Nope. They're fleeing it for CD players. CrApple I-Pods are just about as useful for audio playback (or anything) as a puddle of sludge. CD players are what the *real* men, the practical ones, amongst us use.
 
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