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CH-CH-CHANGES IN MONTEREY?

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Whats going on with Buckleys Monterey Based KYZZ? After gaining no ground on heritage KDON, Afternoon/APD/MD Q "steps down" from his post....possible format change? House cleaning? Has Tommy Del Rio thrown in the towel?
 
why would they change? in the ratings it looks like they gained ground on KDON
 
Shouldn't Monterey have its own board? Does anyone in the SF Bay Area care about such a small market? I for one have NEVER listened to Monterey radio (I suppose anytime I have been in Monterey, I have listened to it, but that is it).
 
Holding steady under a 2 share isnt gaining on the ratings. Plus we all know the main reason KYZZ exists is to bump down the Powerhouse KDON just enough to push their own AC KWAV to the top. Which I believe happened just one book about a year ago. So ratings wise, and since their other strategy just isnt working, whats next?

While we are on the subject of good old Tommy Boy, his Fresno ship appears to be sinking too, could he find himself alongside his Boy Q sending out his Resume?
 
I always wanted to work in Monterey...

The beach and the ladies???? ...Nice!

Can you imagine?

But, really the money would be so bad....

What does everyone else think?
 
Nice place to retire, but I wouldn't want to jock there.
 
how do they expect the station to suceed with a bad signal they have, they did pretty good to go up to 2.0 when they did
 
DeadAudicy said:
Nice place to retire, but I wouldn't want to jock there.
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Good enough for Robert W Morgan, Bobby Ocean, Jeff McNeal, Bob Ray, etc., but not good enough for you? Well...in the brief stint I did in the area I liked it myself. Monterey I think of surfers, The Endless Summer movie, carefree days, partying nights, and the waves hitting the shore...the word "Monterey" even sings that...Montereyyyyyyy as you see the wave rushing back out...
 
Good enough for Robert W Morgan, Bobby Ocean, Jeff McNeal, Bob Ray, etc., but not good enough for you?
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Correct, not good enough. I spent a third of my life around the Monterey Bay, and it is lovely for many reasons. DJ pay is not among them. Your implication, as a reply to my post, is that RWM, Ocean, etc are currently making their sole living as DJs for and in Monterey. Is that what you meant?

Maybe I should have written "Nice place to retire, but unless-I'm-just-starting-my-career-at-19-years-old-still-living-at-home-and-would-like-a-hip-and-easy-job-with-which-to-suppliment-my-paper-route-income...I wouldn't want to jock there"...but it doesn't have that snappy ring, does it.

Apologies for being unclear, and to anyone making over 30k on air in Paradise.
 
Correct, not good enough. I spent a third of my life around the Monterey Bay, and it is lovely for many reasons. DJ pay is not among them. Your implication, as a reply to my post, is that RWM, Ocean, etc are currently making their sole living as DJs for and in Monterey. Is that what you meant?
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No. You imply (or I infer) that Monterey was no place to be a DJ. Well, if you're implying about the current climate in broadasting rather than the past, then no place is a good place to be a DJ. DJs are out. iPods are in.

Apologies for being unclear, and to anyone making over 30k on air in Paradise.
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I was astonished to learn 15 years ago, no less, that the swing shift guy at the #1 music station in Portland, Z-100 (what, KKZW or something?) was making minimum wage. And, as I said, that was 15 years ago before the Web, and even before most people had CDs. I'm sure if there were some legal way for commercial stations to pay DJs absolutely nothing they'd do it.
 
ty567 said:
Holding steady under a 2 share isnt gaining on the ratings. Plus we all know the main reason KYZZ exists is to bump down the Powerhouse KDON just enough to push their own AC KWAV to the top. Which I believe happened just one book about a year ago. So ratings wise, and since their other strategy just isnt working, whats next?

While we are on the subject of good old Tommy Boy, his Fresno ship appears to be sinking too, could he find himself alongside his Boy Q sending out his Resume?
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Sinking huh? What ratings in bizzar-o-land are you looking at.... according to the good folks at arbitron that "sinking ship" in Fresno is neck and neck with the heritage rhythmic in the market. Which is amazing considering that said ship is broadcast from a house in Visalia (45 minutes from Fresno).

As for making ground on KYZZ... they've made much ground... PK's Playhouse is finally taking off in the AM, and there's nothing wrong with the signal... remember, CHR is a mostly "in-car" format... while I wouldn't put Smooth Jazz on KYZZ's signal, it does fine for in-car listening. I'm sure Q's reasons for leaving are personal.
 
Tommy, that must be you. Shouldnt you be busy trying to save your job rather than posting on radio boards? PK's Playhouse taking off in the ratings? You obviously havent seen the last book.
 
I loved not only working in Monterey/Santa Cruz...but living there as well. It was great. Ihad the time of my life working at KDON and then CD93. And at both stations, we did fun radio. Yeah, there wasn't a lot of money, but you live by a budget and love life. Good times...great memories...awesome friends. If the timing was right, I'd go back and program a mainstream CHR and enjoy it. :)
 
I realize this is an ancient thread, but as one of the names mentioned as having worked in Monterey, here's the straight dope.

It was a great place to live and work in radio. But I wouldn't have wanted to hang my hat there, for any length of time on a radio salary. While I loved the six months I worked there, please bear in mind that it was my first job in radio, period. I would have gladly moved to Stockton and done the all night shift on a temporary basis to get my first start - and could have - but opted for the "mystery" shift in Monterey that Billy Moore offered me over the phone in 1978.

The shift turned out to be PM Drive for a whopping $650 a month. So, I never had the chance to dine on lobster, drive a classic Jag XK roadster or live in a cool cliffside pad like Clint Eastwood did in "Play Misty For Me". My dilapidated studio apartment at the end of Eddie Burns Lane ran $170 a month, and I earned more on the side job at Bassackwards than I did at KIDD. But I absolutely love Monterey and was just there for a visit this summer. First time back in 25 years. Still lovely as ever. The accomodations at the Monterey Plaza Hotel were considerably better than my former apartment...
 
Jeff McNeal said:
I realize this is an ancient thread, but as one of the names mentioned as having worked in Monterey, here's the straight dope.

It was a great place to live and work in radio. But I wouldn't have wanted to hang my hat there, for any length of time on a radio salary. While I loved the six months I worked there, please bear in mind that it was my first job in radio, period. I would have gladly moved to Stockton and done the all night shift on a temporary basis to get my first start - and could have - but opted for the "mystery" shift in Monterey that Billy Moore offered me over the phone in 1978.

The shift turned out to be PM Drive for a whopping $650 a month. So, I never had the chance to dine on lobster, drive a classic Jag XK roadster or live in a cool cliffside pad like Clint Eastwood did in "Play Misty For Me". My dilapidated studio apartment at the end of Eddie Burns Lane ran $170 a month, and I earned more on the side job at Bassackwards than I did at KIDD. But I absolutely love Monterey and was just there for a visit this summer. First time back in 25 years. Still lovely as ever. The accomodations at the Monterey Plaza Hotel were considerably better than my former apartment...
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Jeff, KDON was as bad (or worse) in 1977 than KIDD for pay..

KDON offered me either $600 or $650 to do the all-night shift in January 1977. I think KDON's overnight shift was Mid-6. I probably would have taken it but KNDE/Sacramento had already offered a whopping $700/mo. to do 2-6 AM there. (The actual jock pay at KNDE was less than $700 but they were going to take part of it out of the engineering budget and make the 2-6AM jock take tower readings each AM after pattern change)

Even worse than that (as far as pay) was $550/mo for overnights at KDES/Palm Springs in 1975 and the competition for KSLY in San Luis Obispo in about 1973-74 that was offering $530 for each airshift when they were staffing up (the PD said that all th jocks were going to start at "530" which I first took as everyone had to be at the station at 5:30AM each day for some reason, until I figured out he meant pay was $530/mo...

But let's not forget the lying weasels at KERN/Bakersfield who offered $700/mo. for 7-midnight but lowered it to $600/mo. upon arrival..(late 1977). That makes KIDD's $650/mo seem bigtime when they're paying more than Bakersfield!
 
Hasn't it always been typical for smaller media markets to pay peanuts?

Speculation from a non-media person, here - but it seems to me there will always be too many young people anxious to break into TV or radio by starting in a smaller market - compared to the number of jobs available. And won't they work cheap to get the experience? It's almost like a paid internship.

I can get KSBW-TV 8 from Salinas/Monterey over the air in San Francisco. I used to tune in their news occasionally in the 90s, and was impressed at how professional it looked. News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) owned the station then.

I remember hearing that Dina Ruiz (their main weekday anchor in those days...the one that married Clint Eastwood) was making something like $12 per hour. The cost of living down there is not much less than in the Bay Area. I'm not sure how you live on $12 hour unless you live with your parents or live in a shack in a Salinas artichoke field.
 
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