Anything new happening or going to happen in Northwest Arkansas? It has been a while since any changes occurred. We need a new sound here.
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Anything New happening in Nortwest Arkansas?
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radioaircheck said:
And what new sound is it that you need?
GRC (a/k/a VDK), I did a whole 2 hours of live radio on KHOZ-FM yesterday. It included the new sound of my being able to spell KHOZ without writing it on my hand. Of course, that's not really northWEST Arkansas, more like south Branson.
Notice you wrote "We need a new sound here." Does that mean you're back in this part of the country?
Notice you wrote "We need a new sound here." Does that mean you're back in this part of the country?
Aha! A shout out from the Kudzooter.
No. It means I got snowed in for five straight days down here in 'Hotlanta and I had to start pretending I was somewhere else. ANYWHERE but here.
After three years of not being able to travel due Mrs. Cowboy's back problems, we were able to zip into and back out of NWA for a quick weekend last Summer. I tried to figure out a way we could come by and roust you but we had our plate full. I will drop you an off-line note about the trip. It reads like a Jerry Clower episode or something. "The Adventures of GRC who bought a car that is smarter than he is."
I haven't looked lately. Does KHOZ stream? I need to check on the quality of your work these days.
I quickly scan through the entire R-I index every day and Arkansas always piques my attention. There are six to eight names from that area that I have learned to actually open up the thread and read beyond the message title when they post.
So if I were back in the area, what do you think I would like when I turn on my radio?
Could you and I do anything that would make radioaircheck a happy camper?
No. It means I got snowed in for five straight days down here in 'Hotlanta and I had to start pretending I was somewhere else. ANYWHERE but here.
After three years of not being able to travel due Mrs. Cowboy's back problems, we were able to zip into and back out of NWA for a quick weekend last Summer. I tried to figure out a way we could come by and roust you but we had our plate full. I will drop you an off-line note about the trip. It reads like a Jerry Clower episode or something. "The Adventures of GRC who bought a car that is smarter than he is."
I haven't looked lately. Does KHOZ stream? I need to check on the quality of your work these days.
I quickly scan through the entire R-I index every day and Arkansas always piques my attention. There are six to eight names from that area that I have learned to actually open up the thread and read beyond the message title when they post.
So if I were back in the area, what do you think I would like when I turn on my radio?
Could you and I do anything that would make radioaircheck a happy camper?
Nope, no KHOZ streaming. And with changes they've made in the CR since my last stint of fairly frequent shifts, I don't even know how to aircheck anymore.
Whoo, boy, Goat -- honestly, almost never listen to radio except between Dimebag City and either Harrison or Branson, then mostly to Springfield's NPR unless it's when Jim Rome's on. Made a diagonal trip toward Mi'sippi a couple of years ago and dial-surfed just to see what the homestate folks were up to at the local level. Only heard one or two that I could really tell if it WAS local -- and seeing how we do the parts after 9AM, no longer sure about things I heard and said "cool, somebody's still got a hometown station."
The machines we used to warn the young 'uns would replace them if they got out of line -- have replaced us.
Whoo, boy, Goat -- honestly, almost never listen to radio except between Dimebag City and either Harrison or Branson, then mostly to Springfield's NPR unless it's when Jim Rome's on. Made a diagonal trip toward Mi'sippi a couple of years ago and dial-surfed just to see what the homestate folks were up to at the local level. Only heard one or two that I could really tell if it WAS local -- and seeing how we do the parts after 9AM, no longer sure about things I heard and said "cool, somebody's still got a hometown station."
The machines we used to warn the young 'uns would replace them if they got out of line -- have replaced us.
No one should expect to hear from kudzooter for a week or two. I just sent him a personal e-mail that will take him that long to wade through after it puts him to sleep from boredom several times before he gets it finished.
The two of us worked together many, many moons ago down in the rice paddies and duck swamps that were his home town. For anybody that wants a real trip down memory lane, go to my profile and check recent posts. I posted one today about MY hometown in Arkansas, which I leave un-named for the purposes of story telling, where the radio station was entered by going into a barber shop and going into the back room where you found not the mops and toilets but a real estate agent and then you went through his back door and found yourself in a radio station.
Isn't this wonderful business some of us got ourselves into years ago.
Oh... those machines we used to tell people might replace them someday... the first one I ever saw was in Ft. Smith up at KFSA. They had the super-simple Gate Night Hawk or something like that. A Seeburg jukebox guts and a reel-to-reel tape machine. They two robots sat there and said to each other: "Tag you it. Next." The on-air guy took me in and showed it to me. They were using it like 7 PM to Midnight or something on an experimental basis. I asked him if it worked. He smiled real REAL big and said: Management told us when we learn how to use it and it works, one of us will get fired. So far it isn't trustworthy. The Seeburg unit can't deal with a 45 it if is the least bit warped. Then he pointed to the half dozen 45s laying on top of the Seeburg. With an even bigger smile he said: You know, if someone forgets and leaves records on top of the machine, they get warped enough to trip up the machine that night. Big "wink, wink" at that point.
Radio was so damn simple back then.... but boy was it a lot of fun between the episodes of emergency and terror.
The two of us worked together many, many moons ago down in the rice paddies and duck swamps that were his home town. For anybody that wants a real trip down memory lane, go to my profile and check recent posts. I posted one today about MY hometown in Arkansas, which I leave un-named for the purposes of story telling, where the radio station was entered by going into a barber shop and going into the back room where you found not the mops and toilets but a real estate agent and then you went through his back door and found yourself in a radio station.
Isn't this wonderful business some of us got ourselves into years ago.
Oh... those machines we used to tell people might replace them someday... the first one I ever saw was in Ft. Smith up at KFSA. They had the super-simple Gate Night Hawk or something like that. A Seeburg jukebox guts and a reel-to-reel tape machine. They two robots sat there and said to each other: "Tag you it. Next." The on-air guy took me in and showed it to me. They were using it like 7 PM to Midnight or something on an experimental basis. I asked him if it worked. He smiled real REAL big and said: Management told us when we learn how to use it and it works, one of us will get fired. So far it isn't trustworthy. The Seeburg unit can't deal with a 45 it if is the least bit warped. Then he pointed to the half dozen 45s laying on top of the Seeburg. With an even bigger smile he said: You know, if someone forgets and leaves records on top of the machine, they get warped enough to trip up the machine that night. Big "wink, wink" at that point.
Radio was so damn simple back then.... but boy was it a lot of fun between the episodes of emergency and terror.
With all the news the owners of KHOZ have been making lately, hope everything's okay with you, Scooter!
As for whether or not anything's happening in Northwest Arkansas radio, look for a change to happen soon at Y-94.9, but I'm not sure what the format will be, or even if it will be a format change. It's possible it could just be a new image. They're hinting they'll run a format Cumulus just introduced to Green Bay, but they've been doing that format on KKEG for quite some time now...
As for whether or not anything's happening in Northwest Arkansas radio, look for a change to happen soon at Y-94.9, but I'm not sure what the format will be, or even if it will be a format change. It's possible it could just be a new image. They're hinting they'll run a format Cumulus just introduced to Green Bay, but they've been doing that format on KKEG for quite some time now...
Yes, but I have notieced that The Keg has gotten rid of the Quality Rock Imaging and are playing more Classic Rock than they use to. Good to see that there might be changes at Y94-9
Kent..Which station in GreenBay?
Kent, KHOZ still gives me the chance to "play radio" every now and then. Like so many in our beloved once upon a time, all local and live industry, they're now mostly satellite delivered after Dan Timbrook's morning show. I get my licks in when the few remaining live bodies are going in too many directions at the same time and they need someone to do the local part of a remote.
The "machine" talk brings up a couple of things that just happened to KHOZ: The air-program computer crashed right at the beginning of the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl. Then, when it re-booted, it went to the satellite country programming and stayed there until Rob McBee was able to make it in from waaaay north of town and re-load the Razorbacks stuff. Then, a couple of nights later during a basketball game, the network guy either put up the wrong cue or didn't do one at all, so some in-game spots got missed. New mandate: there WILL be a live body sitting there to hit Start, if that ever happens again.
Back before it moved from Kaplan to Lafayette, 97.3/The Dawg was plain ole KMDL, and had what was probably pretty close to state of the art for the time. Alas, the time was the early 1980s, so that meant: four of the giant-sized reel-to-reels, and several of the rotating cart players. Kinda scared me back then, how good they could sound with something like that -- except: whenever one of Acadiana's very frequent thunderstorms occurrred, and the power went off ... when it came back on, EVERY damned machine would start playing. If Crowley hadn't already had an excellent Christian-programming station, I would have suggested to Ernie Alexander that he flip to "Southwest Louisiana's Radio Tower of Babel."
Back around the time Goat Rodeo Cowboy and I were KWAKing together, I visited KXJK/Forrest City. Lloyd Denney showed me their Seeburg Select-O-Matic, which played all their spots off station-cut discs. Pretty smooth, the way he could talk while the just-played spot was returned to its slot and the next one came up. Didn't know how to listen all that critically but don't remember any long stretches of dead air, or hearing him still be talking when a spot started.
BTW, GRC, too much NFL crashed me last night before I got your e-pistle. Check your mailbox, and re-up your Visine -- you'll find proof that I'm just as much as you, no candidate for Twitter. Hell, I can't even say "hi" in less than 140 characters. :
The "machine" talk brings up a couple of things that just happened to KHOZ: The air-program computer crashed right at the beginning of the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl. Then, when it re-booted, it went to the satellite country programming and stayed there until Rob McBee was able to make it in from waaaay north of town and re-load the Razorbacks stuff. Then, a couple of nights later during a basketball game, the network guy either put up the wrong cue or didn't do one at all, so some in-game spots got missed. New mandate: there WILL be a live body sitting there to hit Start, if that ever happens again.
Back before it moved from Kaplan to Lafayette, 97.3/The Dawg was plain ole KMDL, and had what was probably pretty close to state of the art for the time. Alas, the time was the early 1980s, so that meant: four of the giant-sized reel-to-reels, and several of the rotating cart players. Kinda scared me back then, how good they could sound with something like that -- except: whenever one of Acadiana's very frequent thunderstorms occurrred, and the power went off ... when it came back on, EVERY damned machine would start playing. If Crowley hadn't already had an excellent Christian-programming station, I would have suggested to Ernie Alexander that he flip to "Southwest Louisiana's Radio Tower of Babel."
Back around the time Goat Rodeo Cowboy and I were KWAKing together, I visited KXJK/Forrest City. Lloyd Denney showed me their Seeburg Select-O-Matic, which played all their spots off station-cut discs. Pretty smooth, the way he could talk while the just-played spot was returned to its slot and the next one came up. Didn't know how to listen all that critically but don't remember any long stretches of dead air, or hearing him still be talking when a spot started.
BTW, GRC, too much NFL crashed me last night before I got your e-pistle. Check your mailbox, and re-up your Visine -- you'll find proof that I'm just as much as you, no candidate for Twitter. Hell, I can't even say "hi" in less than 140 characters. :
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You guys at KHOZ do a great job. Killer signal, too. Since KARN-FM has been operating on flea power for the past 4+ months, you've been punching as far south as Conway on car radios!
Thanks, MN Maniac. But I'm not really much of a part of it, just doing the occasional local platform for a live remote. Still, I'm proud to have had as much contact with these folks as I've been lucky to have since shortly after moving up here from LafLA thinking I'd flipped my last mic switch and mispronounciated my last on-air word.
Despite the cutback to mostly-satellite programming after the morning show, they've continued to get all hands on deck when any kind of bad weather hits. After the something like 50 years they'd put into building the listeners' confidence that they would TCO them when the spam hit the fan, I was worried about how they might lose that -- but they're still on top of it, same as when there were a lot more people in the building most of the time.
Despite the cutback to mostly-satellite programming after the morning show, they've continued to get all hands on deck when any kind of bad weather hits. After the something like 50 years they'd put into building the listeners' confidence that they would TCO them when the spam hit the fan, I was worried about how they might lose that -- but they're still on top of it, same as when there were a lot more people in the building most of the time.
Y 94-9 is now "Crusin 94.9". Sounds like an Old School Alternative format. I have not heard most of the music on there. wonder if it will work here. That explains why "The Keg" has gone more classic rock.
No rumor. They start Monday.
I dunno. I don't see Derek leaving The X.. - Him and Jon are tight, but I don't see it. Unless there's something I am missing -
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