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1090 XEPRS Has Gone Back to Oldies Plus Wolfman - L.A. Daily News

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Daryl Lynn L.A.

Richard Waggoner in L.A. Daily News today Sept. 23 reports that 1090 XEPRS from Rosarito Beach, Baja, is playing oldies with a live DJ from 3-5 pm, plus old Wolfman Jack shows for 2 hours each day. Waggoner also speculates on who will replace Kevin and Sluggo on KLOS. Interesting article in L.A. Daily News.
Because 1090 is directing this programming content at Los Angeles, I'm including it on the L.A. board.

www.dailynews.com

There’s a radio station bringing ‘50s through ‘70s oldies to Southern California

Plus, who will replace Kevin & Sluggo on KLOS? Here are two possibilities…
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Wasn't XEPRS airing Spanish-language Catholic programming for a short time? That was after The Mighter 1090 Sports Radio ended.

Wolfman Jack died in 1995, so those tapes are 30 years old or more. I remember when Wolfman Jack's tapes ran overnight on 660 WNBC in NYC.
 
Gregg. said:
Wasn't XEPRS airing Spanish-language Catholic programming for a short time?
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It still is, outside of those brokered hours. Wagoner somehow managed to realize that in his last sentence ... before he (as usual) gave in to his overwhelming sense of nostalgia and suggested KHJ do the same.

Gregg. said:
Wolfman Jack died in 1995, so those tapes are 30 years old or more.
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That point was also made in the San Diego thread. We are presuming that Lou (Wolfman's widow) is getting a few extra bucks from this.
 
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michael hagerty said:
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure he reads it, though.
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Like K.M., I agree that if he is reading this, he is not assimilating anything about where radio is and was in the last 30 years.

There are a lot of true radio pros and experts, some with decades of success in their careers in management, sales, engineering and programming. None of them think that his articles have even a passing contact with reality. The piece of space junk that is passing by us about 7 million miles away is closer than he is about today's radio.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I'm amazed he noticed.

Already reported on the San Diego board a full week ago.

As for the rest of his nonsense, see our collective debunking in this thread.
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Sorry -- Didn't see this on the San Diego board. I posted it not because I necessarily agreed w/Waggoner, but because I thought it was interested that they were replaying old Wolfman shows. I didn't read it as implying Wolfman was coming back live on 1090. Always thought it would be a fun programming idea to play an hour or two of popular DJ's from long ago, maybe as a show for a Sunday night time slot when there are few listeners.
I know that most people here don't like oldies or classic hits formats, but I think they're really fun. To each his own. ;)
 
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Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
Sorry -- Didn't see this on the San Diego board. I posted it not because I necessarily agreed w/Waggoner, but because I thought it was interested that they were replaying old Wolfman shows.
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That's okay, Daryl Lynn. It takes people a while to realize that much of Wagoner's columns take place in his own imagination.
 
I can't believe the amount of character assassination polluting this thread (and in the San Diego thread about AM 1090 having several hours of oldies M-F afternoons). Richard has two decades of LA radio print media experience on his resume, which is impressive. He has direct access to many of the interesting people in this industry (EX: Saul Levine), and he has an appreciation of the powerful media platform radio once was. He also makes himself available to his readership and often seeks their input (for publication no less) and publishes his contact info (a practice which is quite rare from people who have attained some public awareness).

Those of you keyboard warriors dragging his reputation through the mud in protection of the far diminished state of radio today, would do well to realize that audio was and is an important medium (EX: the rise of podcasts), but the product quality radio is delivering this century is a far cry from the excellence it achieved in the 20th Century. Richard seeks to pursue such creative excellence and is not afraid to postulate about opportunities to create something akin to good ole radio. That is a sentiment to be cherished rather than mocked.
 
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