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Any stations like these left?

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bobdavcav

When I was little I used to like KLSY here in Seattle, but they changed in 2002. Another station I liked was KAST-FM in Long Beach, WA, but they've since been through two format changes. Are there any AC stations like these two left in the country?
 
I believe ClearChannel's KOST/Los Angeles and KSNE/Las Vegas are very good AC stations. KSNE are a little bit aggressive, but they play a lot of good old stuffs too. I believe Renda Broadcasting's KMGL/Oklahoma City is also a very good AC station, IMO. KMGL are a little bit aggressive, but they play a lot of good old stuffs too.
 
I'm listening to KMGL now, and they're pretty good. Let's see how good they are during the week, they're doing a flashback weekend.
 
bobdavcav said:
When I was little I used to like KLSY here in Seattle, but they changed in 2002. Another station I liked was KAST-FM in Long Beach, WA, but they've since been through two format changes. Are there any AC stations like these two left in the country?
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What did they used to do? How did they sound?
 
Not sure I can point that out. The thing that reminded me of it a couple years ago was an aircheck that can be downloaded from jingles.com of KVIL at the turn of the century. If I remember right, this is about what KLSY sounded like at that time as well. As for KAST, we didn't discover them until 2006 I think it was. I don't really remember what it was they did, I remember they played a wide variety in just the right presentation. There are some good AC stations out there today, and I think KMGL is the closest I've come to the sound I'm looking for, let's see how they hold up.
 
KAST (92.9) kind of had a sound like AC's used to have in the 80s. Certainly a good thing when I was DXing it between 1997-2000, when everything became overly voice-tracked. With the exception of the "Delilah" programme at night, it sounded like there were live human beings in there.

KAST went belly-up a few years ago when their operations moved to Portland and became the current KRYP. I don't think there will be another like it, except for maybe KXXO in Olympia, which can also be received at the coast and sounds like it's still human-operated to some degree.

(F.Y.I., KAST was based in ASToria, not Long Beach.)
 
Darth_vader said:
KAST (92.9) kind of had a sound like AC's used to have in the 80s. Certainly a good thing when I was DXing it between 1997-2000, when everything became overly voice-tracked. With the exception of the "Delilah" programme at night, it sounded like there were live human beings in there.

KAST went belly-up a few years ago when their operations moved to Portland and became the current KRYP. I don't think there will be another like it, except for maybe KXXO in Olympia, which can also be received at the coast and sounds like it's still human-operated to some degree.

(F.Y.I., KAST was based in ASToria, not Long Beach.)
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You and I are thinking of two different incarnations of the same station. After some confusion spawned by your previous post, I did some digging and found that the 92.9 signal was bought by Sailem in 2006 and was moved to 93.1. KTIL moved from 94.1 to 94.3, KDCQ moved from 93.5 to 92.9, and I don't remember the calls of the country station that moved from 93.1 to 93.3. The other station, 94.3, licensed to Long Beach, moved from 94.3 to 99.7 and picked up the AC format and KAST calls. This was the station I was thinking of, which is now hot AC KLMY. So far, KMGL is the closest I've been able to come to the sound that station had, even in 2009 when they flipped to sports.
 
I just thought I'd update things here. KMGL and WSPA, two very similar stations, were the best I'd found until yesterday. I decided to try out Icicle Broadcasting's AC KZAL in Wenachee, WA, let me know if you don't know where that is, not sure how many people would unless you live around here, but it's market 176. Anyway, to find it, the easiest way I've found is to go to tunein.com and search for KZAL. It's very well done, despite the fact it's automated 19 hours a day.
 
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