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Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos
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There are likely to be regional differences and not all kids paid attention to what Mom played or had fond memories of it.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I was reviewing my downloaded music logs (actually, I finally got around to making one big Excel file out of it) and what struck me is that it sounded remarkably like the AC station I programmed in 1978-1981.
Either I was ahead of my time, or history is repeating itself. Or both.
Either I was ahead of my time, or history is repeating itself. Or both.
Wanna bet? They just had a story about the combined sewer overflow at Edgewater Beach that may finally be getting a fix to quit dumping poo and pee into Lake Erie. No more sewage at Edgewater Beach? Sewer district pitches big fix Look at the size of that overflow pipe! Looks like it's part of a toilet that belongs to the Jolly Green Giant. And then there's this little factoid: An Edgewater Beach sewer overflow occurred on July 24, 2025, triggered by heavy rains that exceeded the system's capacity and caused a combined sewer overflow into Lake Erie. This led to a public advisory urging people to avoid contact with the water due to potential E. coli bacteria.
Take your grandkids down to the beach and whomever spots the most floating poo gets rewarded with a big ice cream cone. They get disqualified if they're caught dropping their pants to add to the mess in order to win.
Doubt anyone's yachting around there unless it's 30 miles north of the south coast of Lake Ewwww-ie.
Some samples of and commentary on KLOS's Yacht Rock weekend beginning at 44:35 in this video. "Distortion and angst returning Tuesday."
Another question I just thought of. Does this listening still count toward PUMM for the home market? Let's say a panelist is *only* exposed to out of market radio during an entire weekly or monthly period, be it due to traveling or only streaming out of market content (or listening to stations that do not subscribe in their home market, but do encode). It sounds like Nielsen subscribers will not see any information at all about that exposure (unless it's enough that allows that station to hit minimum reporting standards, which I know happens frequently in adjacent markets although we can't see it anymore in the public releases)
i.e. I live in Orlando. Let's pretend all I listen to are stations that I can pick up in the car from Tampa, streaming stations from out of state, and the new Party-FM which doesn't subscribe. If I had a meter, it sounds like even subscribing stations would never be able to see any data on any of that listening. But would it still count as PUMM for Orlando?
Our favorite radio columnist from LA, Richard Wagoner, mentions this discussion in his most recent column.
www.dailynews.com
KLOS FM surprised LA radio listeners with 3 days of yacht rock. How’d it go?
Plus, readers write in with Wolfman Jack memories.
www.dailynews.com
Me too. That may the first time I've been quoted outside of this site.
BigA's statements were the clearest definition of what KLOS was doing and why it made sense.
TheBigA has a big dislike for Richard Wagoner.
Not for him, just for some of his views on KABC. I love everybody.
I can see KLOS adding Yacht Rock as a specialty music show. Sunday night would be perfect.
EDIT: posted twice, due to site loading and responding very slooooowly. What's up with that?
In Richard's column, the story he tells about an e-mail from former L.A. air talent Pat Evans:
WROQ were the call letters Bill Drake and Paul Drew (who would have been PD) were planning to use for WGMS in Washington, D.C. had they been allowed to flip it to Top 40 from Classical. That was under consideration from January of 1972 until March of that year, when RKO backed out of the idea in the face of public protest.
Had they gone ahead, Charlie Tuna would have been the morning man at WROQ.
The new owners of KBBQ in Burbank applied for the KROQ calls in mid-July of 1972, while Tuna was at KCBQ in San Diego. The General Manager and station manager for KROQ were hired from KHJ:
The KRTH calls were applied for in late September of '72. Drake's original idea for 101.1 FM was to do his version of album rock, and he had always intended to go with K-Earth, as a link to the then-popular Whole Earth Catalog:
sites.udel.edu
But as Drake was working out the idea, he realized that KLOS was essentially doing what he would do with an album rock format. They out-Draked Drake. And so he cooked up the oldies format, which was also easier to syndicate in multiple markets, and when he was ready, he made the request for KRTH.
WROQ were the call letters Bill Drake and Paul Drew (who would have been PD) were planning to use for WGMS in Washington, D.C. had they been allowed to flip it to Top 40 from Classical. That was under consideration from January of 1972 until March of that year, when RKO backed out of the idea in the face of public protest.
Had they gone ahead, Charlie Tuna would have been the morning man at WROQ.
The new owners of KBBQ in Burbank applied for the KROQ calls in mid-July of 1972, while Tuna was at KCBQ in San Diego. The General Manager and station manager for KROQ were hired from KHJ:
The KRTH calls were applied for in late September of '72. Drake's original idea for 101.1 FM was to do his version of album rock, and he had always intended to go with K-Earth, as a link to the then-popular Whole Earth Catalog:
The Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1971 | Encyclopedia of the Anomalous Book
The Whole Earth Catalog housed an entire generation's philosophy on the back-to-the-earth movement and set the stage for DIY household projects.
sites.udel.edu
But as Drake was working out the idea, he realized that KLOS was essentially doing what he would do with an album rock format. They out-Draked Drake. And so he cooked up the oldies format, which was also easier to syndicate in multiple markets, and when he was ready, he made the request for KRTH.
Why doesn't Richard verify stories he gets in e-mails like that before he puts them in his columns like they're true?
That's one of the issues those of us on the board have with him. He'll look in and find a topic for a column, which is fine, but he won't interact with people here who can give him background and context.
I know the Drake story because I got it confirmed by Drake himself, but everything else I wrote was five minutes with worldradiohistory-dot-net.
Lazy.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And I sent him an e-mail an hour ago with essentially the same information, except that I included the fact that the late Art Laboe had confirmed it to me personally when we talked at the tribute luncheon that the late Don Barrett hosted about a decade ago.
A luncheon that Richard attended, BTW.
Richard is too busy building a false image as being the local "authority" on radio to take the time to actually research anything. If I had the inclination and the time, I could probably make a case for replacing him at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group myself.
He could do years worth of columns researching and debunking old stories about stations that people think are true, and make himself actually somewhat authoritative in the process.