ACTIVE ROCK FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA

[ponderosaAZ]

Haven't found an Active Rock station yet. I listen to most music styles: CHR/Rhy on 102.9, Dance 101.1, Boomer Sunny 100 with Malone in the Mornings, and Hot A/C The Canyon 105.1 I would love to find an Active Rock outlet.

Is there an Active Rock station that I'm missing somewhere?

If there isn't there's a big market for it with a Flagstaff average age of 26.8, and a *HUGE* 18-34 demo...trailing off rapidly after 29 reference http://city-data.com

BTW, there is way too much FM bandwidth dedicated to NPR and its translators. At least a dozen stations translating NPR. There should be a restriction on the number of stations and translators dedicated to NPR and the BBC. NPR engages in non-competitive business practices when they get so many stations, since then the AM stations can't compete. And I'm not just talking about the liberal stations like air america - I'm referring to ALL the talk AM's. The other night listening to the BBC talking about coal plants in .... England! Who cares! I want to hear about domestic Holbrook and Farmington coal!

 

[fusejockey]

: I am not quite sure what exactly you are looking for, in N. AZ... Have you heard 106.1 in Kachina Village or 103.7 the Eagle with Sam in the morning? I realize that it has been a few months since this was posted.

I do listen to NPR - KNAU - for the morning news. There seem to be enough repeaters / translators for them to cover the holes created by the geography here. As far as too many translators, I think there are enough as I write this. There probably won't be any more...

 

[joffe]

Dear fusejockey,

May he never see your reply. In lieu of active rock, you suggest my 106, an insipid pop station, and 105.1, a schizophrenic mish-mosh???

Incredible!



Joffe

 

[joffe]

P.S. As for "National Petroleum Radio," there is waaayy too much to go around and very little local programming with the exception of KJZA which comes to life with Prescott voices on the weekends.

P.P.S. Still no movement on LPFM thanks in no small part to NPR!

 

[TheRadioVortex]

Formats missing in Flagstaff:

1. Full Service 5kW 24/7 AM News/Talk (KVNA doesn't count due to no news produced in Flagstaff city limits (it's produced by Arizona News Radio in Phoenix, and by Paul Davis in the Cottonwood Valley), and, horrible signals on both AM and 104.7fm)

2. CHR/Pop (plenty of freshmen girls at NAU for this)

3. Active Rock (every guy complains about this)

4. Adult Album Alternative (just like in any other mountain town, genuinely alternative, like Hutton's stations in Santa Fe, NM)

The Eagle (103.7); The Canyon (105.1); 106.1; and countless others are all carbon copies of each other and a waste of bandwidth.

If just ONE of these three would change to CHR/Pop, Active Rock, or AAA, they would beat the other two!!! 8)

 

[TheRadioVortex]

quote author=TheRadioVortex
1. Full Service 5kW 24/7 AM News/Talk (KVNA doesn't count due to no news produced in Flagstaff city limits (it's produced by Arizona News Radio in Phoenix, and by Paul Davis in the Cottonwood Valley), and, horrible signals on both AM and 104.7fm)

Pursuant to the other posts in the "my 106.1 thread," the crossed out portion is inaccurate. Paul Davis, lives in flagstaff, not cottonwood.

Sorry for the misinformation.

 

[phil]

BTW, nobody calls it "Cottonwood Valley." It is the Verde Valley, after the Verde River that goes through Cottonwood and Camp Verde.

 

[WHACKED]

One would think an "Active Rock" or even an "Everything That Rocks" would work in Flagstaff! KUPD shows up in the Flagstaff book and has a very marginal signal there so that proves that it is being searched for. If promoted correctly and if it had an airstaff that understood that local music envolvement would turn in to ratings and revenue, then Flagstaff could very well have an Active Rock format there that would attract the 18-34 demo. Active Rock also mainly targeting men, gets female listeners that want to hear Tool, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots and other "core" artists. Being 939 The Mountain and 967 The Wolf are going after each other, an Active Rocker would do well in Flagstaff.

 

[davideduardo]

KUPD shows up in the Flagstaff book and has a very marginal signal there so that proves that it is being searched for.

There's no Flagstaff book, but there is a Prescott-Flagstaff one. The average one share KUPD gets is almost entirely in Yavapai County, not in the Flag area.

 

[radio-blogger]

10 years ago Flagstaff had a full-out Active Rocker on 100.1fm as Loudradio. Decent signal and all. The folks in Northern Arizona were not ready for Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Pantera, and the on-air Z-Rock approach "Loud" offered. The station lasted about a year before switching to AC. Currently, KMGN squeezes in a few hard rock artists just like The Wolf 96.7 - but no current artists. This market is more upper demo skewed, so Active Rock - not.

 

[jeffinaz]

Formats missing in Flagstaff:

1. Full Service 5kW 24/7 AM News/Talk (KVNA doesn't count due to no news produced in Flagstaff city limits (it's produced by Arizona News Radio in Phoenix, and by Paul Davis in the Cottonwood Valley), and, horrible signals on both AM and 104.7fm)

2. CHR/Pop (plenty of freshmen girls at NAU for this)

3. Active Rock (every guy complains about this)

4. Adult Album Alternative (just like in any other mountain town, genuinely alternative, like Hutton's stations in Santa Fe, NM)

The Eagle (103.7); The Canyon (105.1); 106.1; and countless others are all carbon copies of each other and a waste of bandwidth.

If just ONE of these three would change to CHR/Pop, Active Rock, or AAA, they would beat the other two!!! 8)

FYI, The Eagle 103.7 FM KZGL is a AAA Format.