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Clock is Ticking on KTRB all right

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HHalland

My bud Bill and I have been talking about this station lately. he and I went out to the Livermore site to listen on my GE Superadio, and it sounds sweet. I may not remember most of that music, but it sounds sweet all right. My Buick's AC Delco radio sounds good, but the rear speakers are all rattly sounding bcause of the stuff the guy sprayed in it to kill the ants. The front ones are okay, but they don't sound so good as the Superadio does. There aren't a lot of roads around there so you can only drive around the tower site just so much, but we found that if we parked in the weeds to the Northeast of the sticks on CA1151 you get a better fidelity. Do they beam better sound in that diection on purpose? Are there wealthier people to the northwest? or is it some electrical reason?

Well anyway I am collecting all of the newspaper articles that have been written and putting them into a Nifty Magnetic binder.. There was a neat article in the ContraCosta paper about KTRB AM 860..the HEAVY 860. OMG that is so fine! Also I have minidisc of the radio, and I will put them on a CD and sell them to KTRB during the big anniversary show that they have in 10 years.

You have got to believe that something really really great is getting cooked up in that station. Can you imagine the amazing things that are being decided on, and bought? Cart machines, and new recorders, and computers. Wow it must be amazing.

Howard Halland
thank you
 
Just got an audio cassette of the KTRB stunt from a friend in California. Sounds very interesting. He will be taping the March 1 start. Hopefully they will be starting streaming too. Nothing new on their website www.ktrb860.com Does anyone know when they will start their new format? (i.e. Midnight, 6:AM?)
 
If I read right, according to Ben Fong Torres in his Radio Waves column dated tomorrow, March 15th. Ben also said that Mancow will be the morning show, and John London will cover the afternoons.
 
That sounds like something that KSTN-1420 in Stockton, California would do! Mancow in the mornings and London in the afternoon. If that is true I won't be tuning in at all!
 
SFStatic said:
If I read right, according to Ben Fong Torres in his Radio Waves column dated tomorrow, March 15th. Ben also said that Mancow will be the morning show, and John London will cover the afternoons.
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If Hot Talk can't do well on the FM Dial (Free FM 106.9), What makes Pappas think it will do well on the AM Dial? But I wouldn't be surprise if they would go Hot Talk? I have seen crazier things happen!
 
RadioStarOne said:
That sounds like something that KSTN-1420 in Stockton, California would do! Mancow in the mornings and London in the afternoon. If that is true I won't be tuning in at all!
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No it wouldn't as KSTN-1420 has a FM oriented "Classic Hits" format on the AM Dial with "Mancow" in the morning and local sports. If KSTN flips to Hot Talk as KTRB is rumored to be doing, that would be one thing. KSTN should switch to Sports Talk, as Modesto's KESP-970 doesn't have that strong of a signal. Back in the days when I lived in Modesto, I used to drive to Stockton at night, and 970 would just disappear (This was back in the days when 970 was Adult Standards).Same thing for KSTN-1420. You can't hear them in Modesto.Citadel-Modesto seems to have a lock on ESPN Radio, Maybe KSTN can try either Fox Sports Radio or The Sporting News Radio.
 
FreeFm dosn't work because it is a WRECK they have nothing Local.... they have shows that arn't complete Broadcast. I think FreeFm will be changing Morning show host VERY SOON. If nothing comes of that change by the end of the year than we will hear Country music on 1069 KIFR (Kountry In FRisco)
 
jestin said:
FreeFm dosn't work because it is a WRECK they have nothing Local....
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And that is why the new KTRB will fail with their upcoming talk format.Just FORMER San Francisco DJ's broadcasting elsewhere into San Francisco.
 
Mancow and John London where once radio supreme in the SF area. I think we have to see what they do during the other 12 hrs of broadcast day. I think FreeFm has Horrible Direction, I am willing to give 860 AM a chance.
 
jestin said:
Mancow and John London where once radio supreme in the SF area. I think we have to see what they do during the other 12 hrs of broadcast day.
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Actually Mancow has 3 hours (6:AM-9:AM) and London has 4 hours (3:pM-7:pM). That is a total of 7 hours. Minus 24 hours leaves us with 17 hours, not 12. However if you factor in the Infomercials, maybe it is 12 hours remaining for the other talk programming? :D
 
You do understand midnight to 5:00am basically does not count in radio. Or do you want to give me the 3:00am - 4:00am arbitron breakdowns? Or the income generated from spot sales during those times?
 
jestin said:
FreeFm dosn't work because it is a WRECK they have nothing Local.... they have shows that arn't complete Broadcast. I think FreeFm will be changing Morning show host VERY SOON. If nothing comes of that change by the end of the year than we will hear Country music on 1069 KIFR (Kountry In FRisco)
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Carolla is the highest rated show on that station.

Chance of country on the 106.9 dial within the next two years --- Zero.
 
Sorry I was hinting at Ratings hours Rating arn't counting from 12am to 6am. They need a solid 17hrs or 18 hrs of programming to succed....6am to 12am
 
jestin said:
Sorry I was hinting at Ratings hours Rating arn't counting from 12am to 6am. They need a solid 17hrs or 18 hrs of programming to succed....6am to 12am
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Ratings are done 24/7. However, most buyers don't look at Midning to 5 AM, and few look at 7 to Midnight, either.

Many large market stations are selling 5 AM as part of Morning drive, and the hourly ratings support this.
 
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