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Bulletin: KSTN/1420 Shutting Down

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

I just received a message saying that KSTN/1420 will make its final broadcast today, and that KSTN-FM will continue on the air, but under new management (an LMA, perhaps).

No further details or confirmation.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
I just received a message saying that KSTN/1420 will make its final broadcast today, and that KSTN-FM will continue on the air, but under new management (an LMA, perhaps).

No further details or confirmation.
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Another nail in the under-radioed, under served Stockton market. Not many people will notice since while the market is under served, KSTN's format was not AM friendly and didn't play enough time tested hits to get ANY numbers.

This now leaves the Stockton market with 3 English language commercial FM's KWIN, KJOY and KQOD. Two English language AM's KWG (Catholic Radio) and sloppy KWSX 1280. There are two FM's out of Modesto that get signals and strong listenership KATM and KHKK...and Mediocre signal KHOP all Stockton advertizing on those add to Modesto's over inflated BIA numbers at the expense of Stockton. The rest of the stations that Stockton listeners tune in are substandard signals from Sacramento, Modesto and the Bay Area.

Spanish language stations KSTN-FM and KMIX do well. KSTN-FM could probably do better.
 
This would be an EXCELLENT opportunity for 1280 KWSX to snatch the sports broadcasts
that KSTN 1420 will abandon: Oakland A's, Stockton Ports, Stockton Thunder, UOP basketball...

But, as you said, Michael, the operative word is "Sloppy" with 1280; I, sadly, do not see
that happening...

R.I.P. - KSTN 1420: 1949-2010... :'(
--jay
 
RadioStarOne said:
Knox is rolling over in his grave! The FM will not be silent for long! More IHR to come?
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Doubt if IHR wants the FM, being it already has KWG 1230; I'm thinking, as has another
radio dude, Family Radio taking over 107.3...


B U L L E T I N!!
I have just been informed by DF jackson that KSTN 1420 is leaving the air at 6:15 tonight!!!
--jay
 
If the LaRue's have sold the station's why don't they just say so! What's the big Frigging Deal anyway? Family Radio on 107.3 Just what the Valley doesn't need, "More Screwball Religion!" We all know the guy is running on 1 and a half cylinders. IMHO. Thank the real goodness for satellite radio! Phlash Phelp's rocks the world! 60' on Six.
 
It's Official KSTN AM to go dark and the FM will become K-Love on Monday


http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100219/A_NEWS/100219834


KJOY, KWIN, KQOD, KMIX and severely neglected KWSX will now be the only ones left officially serving the market on a commercial bases and dividing the Stockton BIA advertising dollars. The rest of the stations are out of market and a few compete well there.

Pretty soon K-love will take over the dial at this rate. Actually, they're gaining a presence they've never had in the East Bay Area.
 
Talk about over kill! The FCC is falling down drunk on the job. One decent transmitter location in the east bay hills from a tower with decent elevation would cover the east bay, south bay, and the west bay all the way to the sierra's leaving signals available for other broadcasters to use. The same thing needs to be done in the north bay also! K-love (and others) are getting pretty greedy to say the least! I say it's time for a "New Radio Master Plan" to be implemented from sea to shinning sea! Enough with the hoarding of radio signals by a few companies. Give the listening public some real choices in radio listening. With today's modern computing power this should not be a problem at all for the FCC.
 
Really surprised that KSTN-107.3 will drop Spanish. I always thought that they were the money makers over there? I bet the folks at Entravision's KMIX-100.9 are celebrating. Really surprised that no latino radio group like Entravision, Univision or Bustos weren't the ones to lease 107.3. There is history there on that dial for the Latino audiences. I don't speak Spanish, but I would prefer that KSTN-107.3 remain Spanish than go K-Love.
 
Does anyone know what was the last song played by KSTN-1420?
 
Madmansam said:
Does anyone know what was the last song played by KSTN-1420?
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It was a modified version of Steve Carlisle's "WKRP In Cincinnati (Main Theme),"
where Steve sang the specialized tagline "I'm at K...S...T...N...in...Stoccck-tonnnnnn..."

Then engineer Paul Shinn said,
"And, for the last time, this is KSTN, Stockton, signing off."
--jay
 
I understand that KSTN-FM will go silent tonight at midnight, then will return Monday with the K-Love programming.

The venerable old Collins transmitter that wafted 1420's signal out into the ether is being dismantled.

The final few minutes of KSTN/1420's storied existence, handled with grace and dignity by Paul Shinn and John Hampton:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kstn/KSTN_2010-02-19_Final_(Excerpt).mp3
 
You Tube - KSTN Slideshow w/Airchecks

http://www.youtube.com/RadioAirchecks

Well they could have had ME a little longer than they did. John Hampton succeeded me and was there until the end.

Now does anyone know if KSTN will be just an FM stand-alone? Is it legal just to dismantle the station like that?


The final few minutes of KSTN/1420's storied existence, handled with grace and dignity by Paul Shinn and John Hampton:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kstn/KSTN_2010-02-19_Final_(Excerpt).mp3
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:-[ R.I.P. - KSTN 1420: 1949-2010
I hope the transmitter can be donated to the Haggan Museum
to preserve this piece of Stockton Radio History !

Paul, John and all staff at KSTN, I also share your tears tonight hearing the
dead air is overwhelming !
BUD
 
The Stockton Record has a more detailed piece this morning about KSTN shutting down:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100220/A_NEWS/2200313

[Robert] La Rue left open the possibility that KSTN might resume broadcasting on the AM frequency in the future.

"It doesn't mean it goes away forever. It could come back as something else, but nothing's been decided right now," he said.
 
RadioStarOne said:
If the LaRue's have sold the station's why don't they just say so! What's the big Frigging Deal anyway? Family Radio on 107.3 Just what the Valley doesn't need, "More Screwball Religion!" We all know the guy is running on 1 and a half cylinders. IMHO. Thank the real goodness for satellite radio! Phlash Phelp's rocks the world! 60' on Six.
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I am--or rather was-- a dj at KSTN up until yesterday, and while I cant say what the actual reasons were, I can say with relative certainty that the LaRue's did not sell the station...
 
radioman925 said:
I am--or rather was-- a dj at KSTN up until yesterday, and while I cant say what the actual reasons were, I can say with relative certainty that the LaRue's did not sell the station...
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I heard the reason, and I think it's the absolute wrong reason ... but what can you do?

Oddly enough, I'm going to miss the early Sunday morning gospel programming on KSTN. To me, it was one of the most amazing throw-backs to radio in the 1950s and 1960s: sloppy at times, with long gaps of silence and occasional coughing into the microphone, but wonderful music and energy.

I also think this means that Mancow's biggest affiliate is no more...
 
BossRadioDJ said:
radioman925 said:
I am--or rather was-- a dj at KSTN up until yesterday, and while I cant say what the actual reasons were, I can say with relative certainty that the LaRue's did not sell the station...
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I heard the reason, and I think it's the absolute wrong reason ... but what can you do?

Oddly enough, I'm going to miss the early Sunday morning gospel programming on KSTN. To me, it was one of the most amazing throw-backs to radio in the 1950s and 1960s: sloppy at times, with long gaps of silence and occasional coughing into the microphone, but wonderful music and energy.

I also think this means that Mancow's biggest affiliate is no more...
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Yes i have heard the reason as well, and i agree.
I will always remember Rev. Crosby shuffling in at 5 am when i would work the overnights.

I am really going to miss working there, not just because it's my 1st stop on radio, but because it was what radio SHOULD be.....FUN!!
 
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