I am a 54 year old male living in the Antelope Valley area of northern Los Angeles county and have come to love KFXM 98.3! The thing I love the most is that they don’t just play the same old million dollar oldies like Beatles and Elvis stuff ad nauseum, but also play off beat stuff that K-Earth 101 used to play when I was a kid. I mean where else are you gonna hear ‘percolator twist’, ‘yeh yeah’, ‘Shannon’, ‘little arrows’, ‘bottle of wine’ and Dr. Hook’s ‘Cover of Rolling Stone’ among many other not so mainstream stuff…. Ironically, I consider them the ‘KROQ’ of my older years. I haven’t listened to KROQ in years, but I loved them back in the day when they started in the 80s and played true alternative stuff you didn’t hear anywhere else like the Cure and REM before they became the CURE and REM if you know what I mean. I get tired of hearing the same old golden oldies like those played on Sirius 60s station, etc…. Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just wanted to introduce myself and declare my love for KFXM despite their occasional outages…
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Just came here to declare my love for KFXM!!!
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Your "rant" is a familiar one. Little stations that play large, unresearched playlists of pop music from more than 50 years ago have devoted followings, but those followings are seldom large and never have any appeal to advertisers. Enjoy your station for what it is, but just don't overload the forum with talk of how more stations that play old music should be expanding their playlists. Cold, hard statistics will be fired back to shoot your opinion down.
I have a similar station up here in the Upper Valley of Vermont/New Hampshire: WFYX 96.3 Walpole NH and its translator at 106.7 in Woodstock VT. Big library of '60s and '70s hits, many of which don't test well enough to be played on stations in bigger markets. 106.7 lags badly in the ratings -- and most of its audience is likely over 55 -- but it survives as an oldies staion because this is a very small market with hardly any Black/Hispanic population, which means no profitable format holes to fill.
I have a similar station up here in the Upper Valley of Vermont/New Hampshire: WFYX 96.3 Walpole NH and its translator at 106.7 in Woodstock VT. Big library of '60s and '70s hits, many of which don't test well enough to be played on stations in bigger markets. 106.7 lags badly in the ratings -- and most of its audience is likely over 55 -- but it survives as an oldies staion because this is a very small market with hardly any Black/Hispanic population, which means no profitable format holes to fill.
KFXM also has very few commercial interruptions. Sometimes they'll play quite a few songs that they've recently played more than once, but on the whole is one of my favorites for oldies along with WSWO and Pop Gold Radio. I can usually count on hearing songs a bit on the obscure side along with the big hits on any of those stations which is alright with me. I'm 68 and like to wind down with music from back in the day for about an hour before I hit the hay.
When I was a kid I grew up in the Inland Empire and listened to the original KFXM when it was Tiger Radio and KMEN in the 60's. I lived in the LA area for a few years in the early 80's and enjoyed KMET and KROQ during that period, and K-Earth was also great for it's variety back when FM Radio was great before the bean counters spoiled a good thing by consolidating the industry, shortening playlists, and infesting the airwaves with intolerantly long ad sets.
When I was a kid I grew up in the Inland Empire and listened to the original KFXM when it was Tiger Radio and KMEN in the 60's. I lived in the LA area for a few years in the early 80's and enjoyed KMET and KROQ during that period, and K-Earth was also great for it's variety back when FM Radio was great before the bean counters spoiled a good thing by consolidating the industry, shortening playlists, and infesting the airwaves with intolerantly long ad sets.
Noncommercial radio is the place to find songs you can’t find on commercial oldies stations. I volunteer at such an LPFM, and my radio partner and I have a blast playing both well-known and obscure oldies. The advice you are receiving from those whose entire lives honing their craft cannot be denied. However, those of us with the luxury of going beyond what is heavily researched and tested can still give “oh, wow” moments with songs that are considered “stuffs,” but if it’s new to you, and you like it, then game, set, and match.
KFXM is what is called an LPFM, or Low Power FM. They are allowed to use only low power and a low antenna height, listenable for a few miles around. They can't run commercials, but they can run "underwriting" announcement that acknowledge business for their support.
KFXM is a good example of a station with programming that meets a narrow need that a commercial station could not survive on, but a volunteer run community station can thrive on.
What are "stuffs"? Is that a "stiff" mistyped, or do you have something else in mind?
Oops! Should have double-checked-“stiffs”. Thanks, David!
YESSSSS!!! KMET and KROQ back in the day!! If I remember right, Sunday nights was Dr. Demento or Demented, then I switched over to KROQ's 'Love Line' where people called in with love problems. And then later, Scott (forgot last name) would play Soft Cell's 'Its a Mugs Game' and/or 'Kinkle the Clown'.... I would listen to all this while trying to do homework from my high school years into my years at UCLA....
I guess KFXM 98.3 is now ‘dead’?!? No offense to the Spanish speaking members, but it appears that after a long outage, the station came back as Spanish music…. Oh well, so much for the excellent format of playing lesser played music from the 60s and 70s; because of them, I was able to build up my library in Spotify with plenty of music I had forgotten over the years from my childhood (I am 55). RIP KFXM and thanks for the memories!!!!
There is no transmitter at the KFXM site for 98.3. It might be a pirate.
The Spanish music you are hearing is KRCV in San Dimas.
Thank you for that information Frequency1!!!! So KFXM is really ‘dead air’ for now…. Again, I work an hour from home and KFXM made the drive that much shorter because I was able to sing along with so many songs from my childhood that I had forgotten because most current oldies stations only played the Golden Hits…. Anyway, thanks for the info and hopefully they come back again. I will keep 98.3 preset on my radio just in case….
KFXM posted on Facebook that Chris Compton, the owner/operator of KFXM, passed away tonight (Mon. Apr 24th)
I hadnt even realized i "liked" their FB page, and no idea whos runnign the page now ,but it just came up in my FB news feed
I hadnt even realized i "liked" their FB page, and no idea whos runnign the page now ,but it just came up in my FB news feed
The transmitter is in San Dimas, but the city of license is West Covina.
I saw this, too. I posted about it in the In Memoriam area.
Whaaat!!!!! I just happened to check this site and am seeing the post from ‘SomeRadioGuy’ back in April that Mr. Compton died!!! RIP Mr. Compton and thank you greatly and literally for the memories from my childhood. KFXM was a happy accident one night about 3 years or so ago and you made my long drive from Palmdale to California City or Tehachapi that much shorter.
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