Do you remember listening to Radio Disney?

[radiofan2023]

I remember they would get really super faint signal at night time and you could actually hear some sports station on that same channel.

I remember they were broadcasting Hannah Montana's Best of both worlds and then just hearing the song disappear and hearing a much stronger signal talking about sports I think they were talking about the Iowa Hawkeyes.

That was probably bleedover from 1650 KCNZ in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

 

[amos1001]

of course this thread is about the nationwide radio disney. but how many of you remember listening to disney radio, 107.9 columbia florida. it was a 24 hour ad for disney world and the disney welcome center in ocala. "i'm going to disney world!"

 

[RFCCRadioAudio]

In high school and college I heard Radio Disney on the way, or coming back from road trips to Chicago either on WRDZ-AM 1300 in Chicago or on WRDZ-FM 98.3 in Indianapolis. At night, I also could listen to the aforementioned WQEW 1560 (RIP that clear channel signal) and WKSH 1640 serving Milwaukee (the first 1640 I ever caught)

 

[Chad-Stevens]

of course this thread is about the nationwide radio disney. but how many of you remember listening to disney radio, 107.9 columbia florida. it was a 24 hour ad for disney world and the disney welcome center in ocala. "i'm going to disney world!"

KA2XXC was the call sign. What was the story on this FM travelers information station with the experimental call sign? Why was it go on the FM band instead of the fringes of the AM band on a 10 watt TIS license? There's some audio of it posted at this Reddit page.

Incidentally, there are several Radio Disney stations still operating in Latin America.

 

[davideduardo]

Incidentally, there are several Radio Disney stations still operating in Latin America.

In Latin America, the Radio Disney stations are licensed, not owned. And they are aimed at upper and middle income mothers with children, not at kids. In other words, they are a target AC stations.

In general, the stations and the concept works very well. Remember, in Latin America ratings are principally broken out by income levels, not ages.

 

[knapfordsouthern1]

Remember, in Latin America ratings are principally broken out by income levels, not ages.

I remember reading a Wikipedia page for SBT, the Brazilian TV network, and learning that Silvio Santos, the guy who founded it, aimed the station towards lower middle class and working class viewers. So basically it's a thing across Latin America, whether its intended target demographics or radio ratings.

 

[umfan]

I put it on for my grandchildren on AM910, WFDF, Detroit.

 

[CatSoul]

The station I listened to was AM 1190, KPHN, Kansas City, in the late 00s/early 10s. I have specific memories of hearing Girls Talkin Bout by Mindless Behavior and I Like It Like That by Hot Chelle Rae.

 

[Bongwater]

I'd like to hear from those who grew up with or listened to Radio Disney when it was around (1996 to 2015, or 2021 counting the L.A. station and the web streams). I didn't really listen to it, but some guys from WMKI, the local affiliate in the Boston area (now WBIX with a Brazilian format), did come to my school once.

I was 28 when Radio Disney bought Seattle based would be rival KidStar 1250 KKDZ. So I can't say I grew up with it. (I DID grow up with 1250's predecessor, KKFX "K-Fox 1250, hence my avatar) But it was a reasonable CHR substitute for those times you're driving a cheap-arse 1990s company van with an AM only radio (digital frequency display. But AM only. Tightwads.) If you didn't mind Britney Spears back to back to Donald Duck's cover of "Stayin' Alive".

It filled a few niches.

 

[KyleSmith1988]

I remember for a brief time in Las Vegas there was AM radio 1140 known as KYDZ kids radio, but there was no Radio Disney in that City although at some point the Bakersfield Radio Disney AM station came in at night I think it was 1680

 

[KyleSmith1988]

I remember for a brief time in Las Vegas there was AM radio 1140 known as KYDZ kids radio, but there was no Radio Disney in that City although at some point the Bakersfield Radio Disney AM station came in at night I think it was 1680

Edit/Correction on my last post:
That was KAVT (Now KGED) AM 1680 in Fresno, not Bakersfield. Came in overnight Skywave in Las Vegas.

 

[randysradioarchives]

I remember listening to the radio Disney, but I listened to it on my phone and back in 2015 and enjoying the hits that I used to listen to it from Disney Channel, but at that time I remember it used to be on 990 WDYZ (but now it’s WTLN) because I am from Orlando

 

[LamptimerFan]

I never listened to it since they went defunct in my area (Phoenix, AZ) when I was 10 and long before I started following the radio scene, but KMIK 1580 had a pretty good run until they were sold off to become a sister station for Gabrielle Broadcasting's KXEG 1280 when they were still a Christian-formatted station.

Nowadays, KMIK is KQFN, formerly a sports station and currently silent as they undergo a liquidation process and KXEG underwent a chaotic few years itself after Gabrielle went bankrupt, but they seem to have found some amount of success under a new owner broadcasting Spanish music.

 

[davideduardo]

Nowadays, KMIK is KQFN, formerly a sports station and currently silent as they undergo a liquidation process and KXEG underwent a chaotic few years itself after Gabrielle went bankrupt, but they seem to have found some amount of success under a new owner broadcasting Spanish music.

While they may not be subscribed or even encoded, I can't see KXEG getting any listening. And Spanish language music stations on AM tend to get near-zero ratings when there are various choices on FM.

 

[LamptimerFan]

While they may not be subscribed or even encoded, I can't see KXEG getting any listening. And Spanish language music stations on AM tend to get near-zero ratings when there are various choices on FM.

Especially with the way KXEG is going about it too! They might still call themselves "Radio Xtasis", but they've become nothing more than a shoddy clone of iHeart's "El Patrón" Regional Mexican format with some pop sprinkled in here and there. The original format used to have such an insane variety and now it seems they're just a shell of themselves.

 

[knapfordsouthern1]

I remember for a brief time in Las Vegas there was AM radio 1140 known as KYDZ kids radio

So basically it was Radio Disney "at home"

 

[ThePowerCow]

You know you're getting old when they stsrt reminiscing about Radio Disney.

 

[gr8oldies]

Obviously I was never a regular listener to Radio Disney as I was well into adulthood, and it wasn't available on a station local to me for my kids to listen. I certainly was well aware of it, and the previous Radio Aahs. Aahs was DXable from the first X-band station in Elizabeth City NJ.

 

[ava ga]

Based on descriptions of the format, it seems to be the one Kids Stuff on Sirius and Kids Place Live on Sirius XM adopted (although they did occasionally play the odd "adult" song, like "Eye of the Tiger" - I remember one time where a DJ on KPL played it for someone's birthday and casually mentioned that he had to "check the words" beforehand)

is there Kidsstuff on Sirius different f rom kids place on siriusxm no correct? thanks

 

[Steel Nerves]

In St. Louis the AAHS-formatted "Planet Fun FM" signed on in 1995 and had the market all to itself for three years. But the station could never find an advertising base and struggled. Radio Disney came in in 1998 at 1260AM with a signal that managed to cover most of the metro area (during the day), and not dependent on local advertising, split the audience and drove the competition off the air in less than a year.