I would to love have that audio also since I recorded the sign off last night
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Bustos buying KXXO Oly
- Thread starter The New Chico
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Was about to ask the same thing. @DaveCowan?
I remember "The Mummer's Dance" I have the radio promo CD with the radio edit. It does well as a Halloween time song, if not really popular any other time.
I cant remember what happened to the KXXO tape I made when they signed on. It may have gotten lost with other tapes I had.
I have a cassette. I can't even listen to it much less digitize it.
Just heard the changeover on the stream as of about 1 minute ago - joined mid-song.
Is the some of the announcing and and any ads or promos they might have in English?
Playing some English language music does not make the station "bilingual". Stations all over Latin America play all or some English language music, but everything else is in Spanish. They are not "bilingual" in any way. They are just playing the hits.
I am curious if the owners will be selling off old carts, CDs, broadcast equipment etc. over the coming weeks. An "estate sale" of sorts at the Rockway-Leland Building?
The Bustos format reminds me of a station in the Tri-Cities that has a bilingual urban format. KYJJ 94.1 / K285FN 104.9
The Bustos format reminds me of a station in the Tri-Cities that has a bilingual urban format. KYJJ 94.1 / K285FN 104.9
I'm wondering about the digital music library, and who's the lucky recipient of that. 😊
Happen today according the the Kxxo website.
They have ads and imaging in English and Spanish
Interesting concept.
This has been tried a number of times in the U.S. going back to Super Q in Miami around 1980. It never worked then, but that was a half century ago!
It sure did happen. I laid my personal AKG headphones on a table and they walked. I mean we had post-it notes on EVERYTHING that was spoken for, but I really didn’t think I needed to label my damn headphones 😠
KOAI-FM (under a different callsign and owner if memory serves) tried the same thing starting back in the mid-2000s; that is, having announcers, music, and ads in both English and Spanish. That format was on that frequency for a while but I have to assume, given the location of the transmitter (north of Phoenix on the same mountain as the town of Crown King) versus where the Hispanic audience is (primarily in the southern part of Phoenix) plus the large number of Spanish stations in the Phoenix market that the ratings the station sought never materialized.
Where does it say that about a selloff of the station assets and CDs? I can't find it...
Someone mentioned their digital library. I hope this didn't happen, but the new owners may have wiped the hard drives clean during the nature sounds stunting early this morning. I had to return a battery to a car dealer that was one name when I bought it, and had been sold to another company a month later...and they wiped their hard drives.
I wonder how many songs KXXO had on their playlist? Definitely a bigger and wider playlist than WARM or KAFE.
Did the new owners buy all the tangible assets? If they did, it is likely one of the first steps is to remove all the "old" format content from digital storage. Many stations have a backup of their whole operation, including accounting, traffic, public file, "logs" and their music library.
The seller may have copied the accounting and compliance files to their own cloud storage or to hard drives.
So one question is whether the former owner wanted to save the digital music library. If they were ceasing all operations, they likely did not spend the time and money required. Of course, that is my guess...
Any physical music library may not even have been on the inventory. The new owner obviously does not want or need it. So many things could have happened, starting with the distribution of albums and CDs to the staff. that was leaving.
The new owner likely does not want any of that music to get on the air in their new format, so they might even have encouraged people to take the library with them.
It's not on the website because it's over. Bustos doesn't want our hard drives/server. They're taking hardly any of the studio equipment. They don't want the physical space and we're out by the end of the week.