Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos

[TheBigA]

All or nearly all of the currents from that list were played during Full Metal Jackie's late Sunday night show in all probability:

Which makes my point that they often diverge from "the same 500 tired AOR records. They do it every week.

If you dig deeper into their playlist, you'll find Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion and a lot of other classic rock staples. But it's beyond cookie cutter.

 

[vw86]

Subscribers to special third party software can see next day data on meter levels... ie. How many meters were capturing a particular station at a particular time. This is generally displayed as a line graph, so you can see meters rising and falling through the day. Remember, most times there is no rhyme or reason as to why a meter leaves a station (did someone get out of their car? walk out of a store where the station was playing? There's no way of knowing.)

Do the major players like iHeart, Audacy, etc., use this software? And does it show meter exposure for anyone out of market that may be listening? Even though someone with a meter that captures a station from out of their home market won't count toward cume or share, can subscribers even see that a meter (or meters) were exposed either while traveling and/or via a stream with this software?

 

[KilowattKat]

Thanks, but I think the person to whom I replied was referring to a scenario involving a three song block at or near the top of the hour devoted to an artist, with a different artist featured each hour. I might be mistaken, though.

Yes, never an entire hour, 3 songs by the featured artist or artists right after the TOH ID, was how it was done by KUPD. Some of these weekends were inspired by or on the heels of a big album release, like Van Halen's 1984.

 

[vw86]

Also, I am listening to KLOS after reading this. Matt Pinfield is on right now and is taking it as seriously as any of his regular gigs. He's giving great tidbits and telling his trademark stories, it just happens to be about Yacht Rock today.

The liners are tongue in cheek and fully acknowledge it's an unusual move. And hearing "Yacht Rock Weekend" sweeps from the edgy rock voice guy and processing is fun.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

Yes, never an entire hour, 3 songs by the featured artist or artists right after the TOH ID, was how it was done by KUPD. Some of these weekends were inspired by or on the heels of a big album release, like Van Halen's 1984.

Back in the day, KLOS played seven albums in their entirety back to back every Sunday evening on the "Seventh Day" with Uncle Joe Benson.

 

[KilowattKat]

Their normal playlist diverges quite a bit from the "same 500 tired AOR records." Here's a sample of what they played last week. The Beatle songs are likely from their regular Beatles feature:

1		BAD OMENS	Specter		1	-1
2		BEATLES	Free As A Bird (2025 Mix)		1	-1
4		EVANESCENCE	Fight Like A Girl f/K.Flay		1	-1
6		SHINEDOWN	Killing Fields		1	-1
7		SLEEP THEORY	Static		1	-1
8		SLEEP TOKEN	Caramel		1	-1
	1	BEATLES	One After 909 (Take 3)	1		1	0.0321
	2	BUSH	The Land Of Milk And Honey	1		1	0.0063
3	3	DEFTONES	my mind is a mountain	1	1		0.0063
	4	FILTER	All The Good	1		1	0.0063
	5	GHOST	Lachryma	1		1	0.0063
	6	ICE NINE KILLS	The Great Unknown	1		1	0.0063
	7	JOHN MELLENCAMP	Wasted Days f/B. Springsteen	1		1	0.0339
5	8	NINE INCH NAILS	As Alive As You Need Me To Be	1	1		0.0063
	9	VOLBEAT	Time Will Heal	1		1	0.0063

That is NOT a tired playlist, for example playing a track by 'Ghost'. I really like the direction KLOS is going in, very intriguing.

 

[TheBigA]

KLOS played seven albums in their entirety back to back every Sunday evening on the "Seventh Day" with Uncle Joe Benson.

We call that easy programming. The record industry hated those things because people would record them off the radio rather than buy the records. They made it against the law to do those things when the DMCA was passed.

 

[KilowattKat]

Also, I am listening to KLOS after reading this. Matt Pinfield is on right now and is taking it as seriously as any of his regular gigs. He's giving great tidbits and telling his trademark stories, it just happens to be about Yacht Rock today.

The liners are tongue in cheek and fully acknowledge it's an unusual move. And hearing "Yacht Rock Weekend" sweeps from the edgy rock voice guy and processing is fun.

I like the one that goes... It's a KLOS Yacht Rock Weekend, we're...sorry. As well as Captain Stu Bing's hilarious onboard announcements. Great stuff!

 

[MarkW]

Which makes my point that they often diverge from "the same 500 tired AOR records. They do it every week.

If you dig deeper into their playlist, you'll find Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion and a lot of other classic rock staples. But it's beyond cookie cutter.

KLOS was much more adventurous before Keith Cunningham's new boss tightened the day to day playlist (which has resulted in improved AQH share), but yes, I agree that the cookie cutter label should not be applied to KLOS.

I remember in 2024 or 2023 giving the station kudos for its willingness to play "wow!" songs on occasion, and to my amazement, some folks disputed that the station played any songs that were atypical compared to a run of the mill heritage or classic rocker.

 

[TheBigA]

KLOS was much more adventurous before Keith Cunningham's new boss tightened the day to day playlist (which has resulted in improved AQH share)

Remember: Radio is a business. Which goes back to the article I posted earlier in this thread with Keith's new boss:

How 95.5 KLOS Achieved Its Best Ratings in Over 30 Years

Little of what we discussed isn’t available to most stations in markets of any size. The success isn’t a Los Angeles thing; it’s a radio thing.

barrettmedia.com

We can talk about music all day, but radio isn't in the music business.

 

[Huff]

And does it show meter exposure for anyone out of market that may be listening? Even though someone with a meter that captures a station from out of their home market won't count toward cume or share, can subscribers even see that a meter (or meters) were exposed either while traveling and/or via a stream with this software?

No. It only shows data for stations that have enough meters to regularly show up in the ratings. Plus, if I live in Las Vegas and have a meter and travel to LA for the weekend, my listening to LA stations would show up in the Las Vegas book (assuming there is enough to register.) Regardless, listening to a non-adjacent market enough to show up in a survey is extremely rare (it's happened a handful of times in several hundred PPM surveys.)

 

[TheBigA]

Matt Pinfield is on right now and is taking it as seriously as any of his regular gigs. He's giving great tidbits and telling his trademark stories, it just happens to be about Yacht Rock today.

I like Matt. If figures he'd do what I would do if I was there. Since I'm not, here's a story about Gino Vannelli. He was born in Montreal, but moved to LA after he graduated from high school. He was desperate to get a record deal. So he parked himself outside of A&M Studios on LaBrea, near Sunset. He spotted one of the label owners, Herb Alpert, leaving the building. He went up and pleaded for an audition. He got it and was signed. Ironically, he didn't record I Just Wanna Stop in A&M studios. Instead he recorded it in Davien Studios in North Hollywood.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

I like Matt. If figures he'd do what I would do if I was there. Since I'm not, here's a story about Gino Vannelli. He was born in Montreal, but moved to LA after he graduated from high school. He was desperate to get a record deal. So he parked himself outside of A&M Studios on LaBrea, near Sunset. He spotted one of the label owners, Herb Alpert, leaving the building. He went up and pleaded for an audition. He got it and was signed. Ironically, he didn't record I Just Wanna Stop in A&M studios. Instead he recorded it in Davien Studios in North Hollywood.

Ha! Heard Casey Kasem tell that exact same story on an AT40 rerun on XM 70s on 7 a few weeks back.

I have nothing against Gino, I like "I Just Want to Stop" and it is a Yacht Rock staple as it should be. Just don’t try and convince me it was on KLOS back in the day.

 

[TheBigA]

Just don’t try and convince me it was on KLOS back in the day.

I agree. I'm sure it wasn't. It was the antithesis of what they'd have played at the time. Same with Brandy and some of the others.

The Looking Glass guys were contemporaries of Springsteen, and they played some of the same frat parties around New Jersey in the early 70s. But the Looking Glass had a hit with their second single, while Bruce had to wait a while.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I am going from personal memory here, but although the term may have originated elswhere earlier, it was not part of the SoCal rock lexicon until KLSX signed on in 1986, playing nothing but "classic rock", a shot across the bow to KLOS and KMET who some felt had lost their way.

My recollection is also that I first heard that positioning liner on KLSX.

 

[K.M. Richards]

All or nearly all of the currents from that list were played during Full Metal Jackie's late Sunday night show in all probability:

Whiplash with Full Metal Jackie

Whiplash is 2 hours of hard rock and the heaviest Metal, hosted by renowned radio personality Full Metal Jacki...

www.955klos.com

Confirmed. The "out of place" songs on the list BigA posted show up between midnight and 2:00am on Monday the 18th in a Mediabase daily log for KLOS.

 

[ted chittenden]

We call that easy programming. The record industry hated those things because people would record them off the radio rather than buy the records. They made it against the law to do those things when the DMCA was passed.

Two points. First, as you pointed out earlier, the requirements were for radio stations that webcast their signals and not for those who didn't. KTWS-FM in Bend, Oregon, continued to play full albums in the late evening hous for many years after the DMCA was passed--until the station began webcasting.

Second, WHRB-FM, the station licensed to Harvard College in Boston, was able to continue playing whole albums over the web after the DMCA passed--but they had to receive written permission from the artist's label for each album they wanted to play. It turned out that since WHRB-FM (usually) played albums by unknown and little-known artists on smaller independent labels, those labels (usually) let WHRB-FM play the albums in their entirety over the Internet as they saw it as a form of promotion.

 

[Fighting Irish]

This thread has gotten so ridiculous that I feel it's about time to derail it, with my favorite current thread headline:

Who mixin on Labor Day

 

[radiofan2023]

Their normal playlist diverges quite a bit from the "same 500 tired AOR records." Here's a sample of what they played last week. The Beatle songs are likely from their regular Beatles feature:

1		BAD OMENS	Specter		1	-1
2		BEATLES	Free As A Bird (2025 Mix)		1	-1
4		EVANESCENCE	Fight Like A Girl f/K.Flay		1	-1
6		SHINEDOWN	Killing Fields		1	-1
7		SLEEP THEORY	Static		1	-1
8		SLEEP TOKEN	Caramel		1	-1
	1	BEATLES	One After 909 (Take 3)	1		1	0.0321
	2	BUSH	The Land Of Milk And Honey	1		1	0.0063
3	3	DEFTONES	my mind is a mountain	1	1		0.0063
	4	FILTER	All The Good	1		1	0.0063
	5	GHOST	Lachryma	1		1	0.0063
	6	ICE NINE KILLS	The Great Unknown	1		1	0.0063
	7	JOHN MELLENCAMP	Wasted Days f/B. Springsteen	1		1	0.0339
5	8	NINE INCH NAILS	As Alive As You Need Me To Be	1	1		0.0063
	9	VOLBEAT	Time Will Heal	1		1	0.0063

Once KLOS goes back to regular programming, I'll check out that Full Metal Jackie show next time it's on. Nine Inch Nails rule!

 

[K.M. Richards]

This thread has gotten so ridiculous that I feel it's about time to derail it, with my favorite current thread headline:

Who mixin on Labor Day

When I first saw that thread start, for a moment I had the fleeting thought Roger, Pete, John and Keith Moon had reunited for a mixshow. (Of course, that's impossible since Keith Moon departed this planet almost precisely 47 years ago, and John Entwhistle in 2002.) It would be interesting, though, if the remaining members did reunite: Both Daltrey and Townshend are octogenarians.