This would be a fantastic name for a Part 15 daytimer!
I'm actually tempted to figure it out, although Part 15 AM doesn't work so well on the low end of the dial. Doesn't mean it won't work, of course.
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I'm actually tempted to figure it out, although Part 15 AM doesn't work so well on the low end of the dial. Doesn't mean it won't work, of course.
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Pretty cool. I got one too. How about Country Gold or Pure Country 560? Its a dream too 😁😁
That's an interesting idea too.
It's kind of sad that none of this will probably ever happen (the odds are in favor of one of two things: KZAC will either be bought and converted into some kind of ethnic religious thing or maybe yet another Punjabi music station (can't have enough of those, it seems), or the license will be turned in and it will stay dark permanently), but it's fun to pretend.
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Good idea...S. L. could simulcast his Country Gold format on 560 which is now running on 1260 in the LA area and get 4 or 5 additional listeners!
That is so funny and sad at the same time.
Four listeners? In this economy?
And all the people there do is complain that he's not playing oldies anymore. When he played oldies, they complained about the playlist.
There was classic country in SF at one time. KNEW 910 used to play old country. Now it's BIN.
Not Top 10, yet as I was in South Carolina this week I encountered Audacy having a 100 KW massive signal on WYRD-FM 98.9 from Greenville that covers most of the state and even up into parts of North Carolina. Weekdays include quite a bit of local news and talk programming.
Audacy's KMOX St. Louis just announced it will add an FM simulcast next week.
More AM stations are shutting down operations around the country:
radioinsight.com
Twenty Cumulus & Townsquare Media Stations Cease Operations With More To Come
Cumulus and Townsquare Media both continue to shut down under-performing stations across the country. Following its shutdown of “ESPN Quad
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"When he (Saul Levine) played oldies, they complained about the playlist."
Was there someting unusual about the K-Sur 1260 playlist that turned people off ?
Was there someting unusual about the K-Sur 1260 playlist that turned people off ?
I'm a fan of oldies and the oldies format. When it was still KSUR I listened to it via stream a number of times and liked what Saul was programming. Good selection of songs, not many tuneouts, very little I'd object to.
Oldies format fans, generally, never met a playlist they think couldn't be bigger.
Individuals want big playlists until they hear songs they don’t know or like. I remember Guy Zapoleon pointing out that eliminating weaker or off target songs gave the impression that there was a better variety. Addition through subtraction. Somehow I remember someone saying that 1260 had a few thousand songs when it was oldies.
Guy's a friend of mine. A wonderfully gifted and talented programmer. He was one of the first people I met in Phoenix in 1986, when KZZP was at its zenith.
A lot of people in favor of "looser" programming point to Guy's history of taking "left-field" records and making them hits (most famously UB40's "Red, Red Wine" five years after its release).
What they don't understand is how Guy approached those records and how bulletproof the rest of the station absolutely had to be.
I remember him selling my PD and me as MD on a couple of songs in Sacramento. I really loved learning from him. He’s a great guy, pardon the pun.
Despite a 50kw transmitter, there are signal holes for the AM in the city. Plus, they have to fight the reality that some potential audience will never listen to AM. That's why sister stations such as WINS, KNX, KYW, WBBM and KCBS have all gained simulcast partners in the last decade. If your station has a strong format with unique elements such as Cardinals baseball, it makes sense to make it available as well. Odds are the previous hit music format -- which can be duplicated on Spotify or sat-rad -- had limited growth potential; moving forward, its audiences and ad revenues would only decline.
Check out Seacoast Oldies from Sanford, Maine. Great selection of 60s, 70s, and 80s. Streaming on the internet talk about very few tuneouts!
Check out Seacoast Oldies from Sanford, Maine for that bigger playlist.