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All Sinatra Coming to KKGO-HD3 Los Angeles

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Joey1986

This replaces the simulcast of KKJZ-FM 88.1 Long Beach.
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All Sinatra Coming To KKGO-HD3 Los Angeles - RadioInsight

Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters will flip 105.1 KKGO-HD3 Los Angeles to all-Frank Sinatra on Friday, July 23. "Unforgettable FM" will feature Jerry Sharell has an on-air host while Pat Welsh serves as Program Director. Mount Wilson's Russ Maloney and Dan Feely will be technical directors, Adam...
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I hope there are technical improvements to KKGO's HD-3. The station's simulcast of KKJZ is in mono not stereo, consequently there are some phase cancellation issues making the HD-3 not as enjoyable as KKJZ direct. (That is if you are in an area where you can clearly receive 88.1 FM) .
 
All of these are great stations, I just wish they were on a regular non-HD signal. I like K-Surf and the oldies format and I like the idea of a Frank Sinatra adult standards channel, but none of these HD radio signals are listenable in South Orange County or North San Diego County. Only the analog signal of KKGO comes in down here. It still blows my mind that there is no longer an oldies or adult standards station anywhere in Southern California. I’ll just have to try to listen to KYNO at night on their new (or old depending on how you look at it) 50,000 watt signal on 940 AM from Fresno!
 
I’m trying to think of other owners who have been as bullish on HD Radio subchannels as Saul has been.

Yeah there’s NPR member stations, but NPR is a colloquialism for public radio in general and none of them operate the exact same way. (Here in Cleveland, Kent’s WKSU has three individual feeds—all-classical, all-talk, folk music—as subchannels, while WCPN relays their all-classical sister WCLV on the HD2).

Point being, Saul can do whatever he wants with four potential distinct streams, even though the vast majority of people will listen to KKGO. More power to him.
 
TheBigA said:
I know all that. None of it explains why they're removing KKJZ and replacing it with a completely new station.
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It almost sounds like a preferential choice by Saul? This isn’t like flipping 1260 back to classical because of music royalties for 50s/60s/70s oldies that would be onerous for a signal-challenged AM; in fact, it feels like the opposite?
 
Nathan Obral said:
It almost sounds like a preferential choice by Saul?
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Yes obviously in that Saul is directly involved. That was made clear in the OP. He is listed as the General Manager. But Saul and Mount Wilson Broadcasters are also very involved in the programming and operations of KKJZ. So has something changed in his relationship with KKJZ that has led to its removal from his HD3?
 
I would guess that more KKJZ listeners are listening to KKJZ HD-1 than KKGO HD-3 so it might make more sense to do something else with it. Mr Levine already knows that the solution to the KKJZ SFV reception issue is either a booster station or moving the KKJZ transmitter to a more favorable location. So far that has not been successful. A translator is probably out of the question as there are may be no freqs available for one.
 
My only other thought is that since the KMZT 1260 translator K252FO is being moved from the Malibu hills to a tower at the Odyssey in the North Valley, and with a healthy power increase, that might be a good location for a booster station for KKJZ.
KBUA 94.3 primary and KOCP Oxnard FM-4 are already operating from that location.
 
Saul signed a ten-year deal to manage KKJZ in 2007. If the extension in 2017 was five years, they're coming up on a window. I can't find anything about such an extension.

A divorce would be messy. Saul moved the station into his building next to the 405 in Culver City six years ago. Most of the eclectic stuff from the KKJZ library was sold off in an on-campus yard sale and by now, the studio space has to have been long ago converted for other use.
 
michael hagerty said:
Saul signed a ten-year deal to manage KKJZ in 2007. If the extension in 2017 was five years, they're coming up on a window. I can't find anything about such an extension.
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That's the answer I was looking for. Before the pandemic, Levine's company Global Jazz had also applied to become the operator of another non-profit: KCSN. AFAIK that's still on hold.
 
The man who will host this new Sinatra station on KKGO's HD-3 is Jerry Sharell, who has been hosting Sundays With Sinatra on KJZZ:

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Interview with Jerry Sharell – KJAZZ

For fans of Frank Sinatra knowing of and about impresario Jerry Sharell is a must. Not only is Sharell the longtime host of “Weekends With Sinatra & Sharell” on KJAZZ, 88.1 FM, he’s a musician, song expert and raconteur par excellence.
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I guess a weekly 2-hour show was not enough for him.
 
I wonder if Sid Mark will also be brought on board. He has been hosting the excellent "Sounds of Sinatra" program for years syndicated out of Philadelphia's WPHT 1210.
 
UPDATE: I tuned to KKGO-HD3 yesterday afternoon, and it has flipped to the All-Sinatra format. Not sure when the flip actually happened.
 
Joey1986 said:
UPDATE: I tuned to KKGO-HD3 yesterday afternoon, and it has flipped to the All-Sinatra format. Not sure when the flip actually happened.
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According to the link in your post, it happened Friday:

"...will flip 105.1 KKGO-HD3 Los Angeles to all-Frank Sinatra on Friday, July 23."
 
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