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BRING BACK KSJO !
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airpab said:
Mr. Eduardo will have the final word on this (as he should), but I'll say what's been said a thousand times: there are no "Spanish stations" (meaning "Spanish-language stations," I think) in this market.
That's like saying "How many English-language stations can you have in a market?" The language is not the format; KNBR isn't the same as Live 105, and Kiss 98.1 FM isn't the same as KNEW, even though they are all English-language stations.
But back to the real subject at hand: what "active rock" is out there right now? Who is the audience? Is there demand for an "active rock" station in the Southbay?
jprg said:
But they aren't...
They're not...
Never mind.
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DeadAudicy
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Love it.
jprg: "Too many Spanish stations"
BRDJ: "Spanish is a language, not a format"
Airpab: "Too many Spanish stations"
BRDJ: (shotgun load and lock sfx)
jprg: "Too many Spanish stations"
BRDJ: "Spanish is a language, not a format"
Airpab: "Too many Spanish stations"
BRDJ: (shotgun load and lock sfx)
I'd love it if Active Rock came back to KSJO, but it's an 18-34 format and CC feels pretty good about their coverage of that demo with KYLD, KCNL, KMEL and KIOI. They want KSJO to be an upper demo station, which it currently is. The language is actually secondary to the age demo. Advertisers want to sell the same products to Spanish speakers as they sell to English speakers.
But when I visit other markets and listen to their Active Rock stations I always really wish we had one here.
But when I visit other markets and listen to their Active Rock stations I always really wish we had one here.
I'm pretty sure KSJO is one of the stations that CC is trying to unload. It's listed as the "Aloha Trust". So they're probably not going to devote much attention to it. Even if they did, the 96.7 in Lathrop (CC's version of "active rock") is nothing to write home about, compared to - for example - 98.5 in Sacramento (just MHO).
Dave B.
Dave B.
I tuned in to KUFX for the first time in quite a while and they have definitely hardened up their music a bit. I actually heard an Ozzy Osbourne song. I had never heard him on that station before. Also more AC/DC than in the past. So at least they're trying to fill the void a little bit.
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kenrayc
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Actually KSAN (the bone)107.7 and Live 105 is closer to ACTIVE ROCK than The Fox.CC does have a ACTIVE ROCK station in Fresno KRZR 103.7 that does very well considering Fresno has 2 classic rock stations and 2 ACTIVE ROCK stations.
DaveBayArea said:
It's not only that... KSJO is one of the stations that de DoJ required CCU to spin off as a condition for the privatization of Clear.
Actually, 96.7 is licensed to MANTECA with studios in MODESTO. That station is KMRQ or better known as ROCK 96.7. They were ACTIVE ROCK from January 23, 2001-February 27, 2005, stunted for a week then switched to MODERN ROCK on March 6 as NEW ROCK 96.7 and that lasted until December 26, 2005 when it switched to LA PRECIOSA Spanish Oldies (The Same At KSJO) and switched back to ACTIVE ROCK on September 5, 2008 and as ROCK 96.7. Problem with them is the selection of music isn't as good or as wide as KRXQ-98.5 SACRAMENTO and almost all of the DJ's at ROCK 96.7 are Voice Tracked from Fresno. Still, Believe it or not, there are a lot of people in that part of the Central Valley that are just happy to have the return of that Active Rock station, no matter how it sounds.DaveBayArea said:
In the early 90's there was KVFX 96.7 The Fox in Manteca. KSJO had been failing for years. Way too much "pop" hard rock and metal. Play a f-ing Pantera song once in a while. All their jocks seemed to share the same personality. Same dialogue, different voice. Plus that Mike Esparza (The Mikey Show) never got me laughing.
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punkdj
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create said:
acticve rock is pretty much a dead format. they would need to go classic rock or mainstream rock, or suffer less than a 2 share
- and yeah mikey show was terrible. not as bad as that tool they had before him called "ricker" but he sucked .
punkdj said:
I personally agree about Mikey, but little googling will point out that he is now a highly rated DJ in the San Diego market. I always wondered why most of his callers on KSJO had Southern accents...I assumed the show was voice-tracked from Texas. But it turns out that it was simulcast live on KSJO and a station in Dallas.
Apparently, Clear Channel put Mikey in place in SD when they lost Howard Stern...on KIOZ. I'm guessing that station must be (or must have been) a "K-102."
Madmansam said:
You're absolutely right. I got Manteca and Lathrop mixed up there. I remember when they were KVFX and pretty much competed with KDJK at the time. That brings back some serious memories. 95.1 was still the best rock station around IMHO. This was before HD and you could receive them in the Bay Area too. Do you know if there was a transmitter move for 96.7 at any time in this history? It seems like the signal used to be better in Stockton/Lodi than it is now.
Dave B.
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kenrayc
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DaveBayArea said:
I used to recieve KDJK here in Clovis from quite often before they moved there transmitter further north to Knights Ferry near highway 120.I agree KDJK and sister station KKDJ 105.9 were the best stations at that time,as far as 96.7 Idon't know if they moved there transmitter ,they were blocked by Alice 96.7 KALZ in Fresno.
Noted in another thread (see "Jingles"), but germane here as well -- it's interesting to note that, in the mid-1970s, KSJO was a straight Top 40 station, playing Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, Helen Reddy and The Carpenters:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/surveys/ksjo/ksjo_1975-01-23_survey.shtml
http://www.bayarearadio.org/surveys/ksjo/ksjo_1975-01-23_survey.shtml
The top 40 run was short indeed, but for those who heard it, memorable...one of the first attempts at FM Top...just didn't stick. KLIV and KFRC was just too big in San Jose. Bob Michaels, by the way, is actually Bob Coates (sp) who was at KBAY for years and years-until just recently. Mark Allen, I believe, became an attorney and is now Exec. Director of the Washington State Broadcasters Association. "Fast Eddy Mason" became a salesman for several local stations. Chris Lance, as everyone knows, has been at many California stations, Jeff Ser at one point was at KIOI and now does v/o in LA T.N. Tanaka was the AM news guy with J. Parker Antrim and later went to KROY in Sacramento with Uncle Byron. (His lockout: "This is T.N. Tanaka speaking for KSJO." The station used jingles, including some innovative (at the time) "whispers" from Peters Productions in San Diego. A classic in the package was one that sung "Stereo Spark 92, KSJO".
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