About Bonneville

[KOHS]

Ditto.

As for Bonneville, the program great stations in terms of quality. They invest more into KSL than they need to ... which is why it's still #1. Both Arrow and FM 100 are very tight with good air staff, all live from 6a-6p, and some nights they are live. Not bad in a day-and-age where most stations have only a morning show and a few tracked jocks.

That said, don't expect Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go" to air un-edited. Nor would I expect anything much edgier than Classic Rock or a Hot AC-leaning CHR.

I don't see any obvious holes in the Los Angeles market 100.3 could fill. I wouldn't discredit news, but it'd be a very tough market against KNX and KFWB. If CC (unlikely) blew up KBIG or KYSR, I could see Bonneville trying Hot AC.

It's about tiem somebody said it! This board seems very anti-Mormon and anti-Bonneville, when the company has done a superb job with most of its radio stations. What is wrong with Bonneville keeping their stations in-line with their beliefs, when they can get ratings doing it, and can make people happy for not succuumbing to the deteriorating culture we have in this country today. I'm not uptight, but Bonneville is a great company and should be commemorated on these boards for their commitment to local programming.

I wouldn't call this board anti-Mormon, at least not from anything I have read in this post. And I wouldn't call it anti-Bonneville, either.

Some, including me, have been critical of programming decisions made by Bonneville (see the Phoenix board for more fun), but that is just constructive criticism.

I, for one, would work for Bonneville in a heart beat!

 

[henry]

Me too. Still hope to!

Maybe I can get a job at LA's "News 100.3" ... mopping the floor! ;D

 

[avtosalon]

Bonneville used to own 'The Loop', WLUP in Chicago, a harder-leaning classic rock station mixed with a few currents. For a while they used the slogan 'Classic Rock that Really Rocks'.

I don't think beer companies were allowed to advertise when they originally bought the station.

IMO under Bonneville's ownership, the station was better managed than the previous owners and the current owner (Emmis). In 2004 Bonneville traded WLUP + $70 million to Emmis for three stations in Phoenix.

Bonneville flipped WLUP to a harder sound, never used automation, voice tracking or syndication, never had comedians/wacky morning personalities who do not play music, and streamed 24/7 on the internet.

 

[ceejay]

Oh, dear ...... and this must be why KZLA was so family oriented in the beginning.
After emmis took over, they started playing stuff with lyrics I was afraid I would hafta explain to my Grandkids!

What beginning? Bonneville got KZLA when they traded it for KBIG. KZLA went country in 1980.

LOL, OK..... in my beginning with KZLA. I Guess I didn't discover it until KIK-FM became too difficult to listen to, Craig Powers was giving me a headache, and I started looking for something else. I ran into Shawn Parr on KZLA one day and looked no further. It was good hearing a familiar voice.

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

Bonneville used to own 'The Loop', WLUP in Chicago, a harder-leaning classic rock station mixed with a few currents. For a while they used the slogan 'Classic Rock that Really Rocks'.

I don't think beer companies were allowed to advertise when they originally bought the station.

IMO under Bonneville's ownership, the station was better managed than the previous owners and the current owner (Emmis). In 2004 Bonneville traded WLUP + $70 million to Emmis for three stations in Phoenix.

Bonneville flipped WLUP to a harder sound, never used automation, voice tracking or syndication, never had comedians/wacky morning personalities who do not play music, and streamed 24/7 on the internet.

Funny thing about Bonneville up in the Bay Area...I remember a jock on the air at KOIT giving the current temperature in San Francisco something like this..."it's 58 in Corte Madera and right now in the Castro district here in The City...it's 55 degrees"

I'm sure nobody in Salt Lake City heard about that.


I know a couple of people who have worked there and they say the same thing. Bonneville is professionally run and they treat their employees with respect.

Of course now the station is owned by Entercom.

 

[KOHS]

Bonneville used to own 'The Loop', WLUP in Chicago, a harder-leaning classic rock station mixed with a few currents. For a while they used the slogan 'Classic Rock that Really Rocks'.

I don't think beer companies were allowed to advertise when they originally bought the station.

IMO under Bonneville's ownership, the station was better managed than the previous owners and the current owner (Emmis). In 2004 Bonneville traded WLUP + $70 million to Emmis for three stations in Phoenix.

Bonneville flipped WLUP to a harder sound, never used automation, voice tracking or syndication, never had comedians/wacky morning personalities who do not play music, and streamed 24/7 on the internet.

Bonneville, is, I think, rather picky when it comes to certain types of advertising. While I have heard gaming ads on Bonneville stations in Phoenix, I can't say that I have ever heard a commercial advertising alcohol. Sadly, of course, I miss hearing the 'Real Men of Genius' ads on Bonneville stations.

 

[Kent]

Bonneville, is, I think, rather picky when it comes to certain types of advertising. While I have heard gaming ads on Bonneville stations in Phoenix, I can't say that I have ever heard a commercial advertising alcohol. Sadly, of course, I miss hearing the 'Real Men of Genius' ads on Bonneville stations.

That's a switch! I was told Bonneville didn't take casino ads when they owned KZLA, which is why the revenue shot up after Emmis acquired them. I generally don't listen to the Bonneville stations closest to me (St. Louis). I'll have to check sometime and see if they're taking casino ads as both the Missouri and Illinois sides of St. Louis are loaded with casinos. However, I'll probably wait until the flooding goes down!

When I lived in Dallas, Bonneville owned KZPS and KDGE. Neither station advertised the casinos a few hours away in Louisiana, though they were all over the other stations in the market. "I can leave Dallas at 8 in the morning and be eating a steak at Harrah's before noon!", is a sentence I heard so often I can still remember it 12 years later! KZPS and KDGE used to take beer ads, but the stations had to account for them as "beverage." I was told it was standard practice around the company.

 

[ajhenderson]

Bonneville isn't supposed to air alcohol spots, but I was driving home and heard a BevMo spot advertising great deals on beer and wine on KTAR.

 

[henry]

Before Bonneville blew up Smooth Jazz in St. Louis, they ran Budweiser spots.

 

[DavidKaye]

Funny thing about Bonneville up in the Bay Area...I remember a jock on the air at KOIT giving the current temperature in San Francisco something like this..."it's 58 in Corte Madera and right now in the Castro district here in The City...it's 55 degrees"

I'm sure nobody in Salt Lake City heard about that.

While the LDS church doesn't seem to appreciate gay folks, gay men I've known who have worked there (and weren't particularly closeted) didn't seem to have any problem with them as an employer. In fact, one of them couldn't believe that Bonneville was actually a unit of the LDS church. He thought I was completely mistaken -- that shows how little LDS policy enters into how they run their stations.

 

[LKellerIII]

"Funny thing about Bonneville up in the Bay Area...I remember a jock on the air at KOIT giving the current temperature in San Francisco something like this..."it's 58 in Corte Madera and right now in the Castro district here in The City...it's 55 degrees" I'm sure nobody in Salt Lake City heard about that."

Why would Bonneville (or the LDS Church for that matter) - disapprove of reporting the temperature in the Castro District? Letting gay people know the temperature in their neighborhood is not the same as approving of their lifestyle. That's just KOIT's way of letting people know that they recognize and appreciate listeners throughout the reach of their signal. It's like Lloyd Lindsay Young's (KGO Weather reporter) shoutouts - "HEEELLLLOOO, (fill in name of town here)!"

Besides, if you travel through the Castro District these days, you are just as likely to see affluent straight couples pushing baby carriages as you are gay couples. Conversely, many gay people have moved to the suburbs - you're likely to see them on the street these days in Concord, Hayward, or Mill Valley. GASP! They're everywhere.