KDAY SOLD!

[ShawnHill1]

KNRJ 101.1 The Beat Phoenix, Arizona
WFQY 970 AM and 99.1 "BDay Jackson, Mississippi

If I can add another suggestion...KCEP "Power" 88.1 in Las Vegas; I go to Las Vegas at least three times a year, but up until my most recent visit, I never had a chance to listen to their local radio stations. I was actually pretty impressed with the music selection (a lot of current hip-hop and R&B mixed with stuff I've either haven't heard in years or haven't heard at all), and I would say it almost put the L.A. stations that play a comparable style of music to shame.

 

[bringbackradio]

Looks like urban radio is dead in LA, but then again it has been since 2006...

KJLH?

Oh, you mean the radio station with a weak class A that doesn't even cover the whole LA radio market with a market-grade signal? Nope, it is practically non-existent, IMO. Move up to a class B then it might have some relevancy. Urban radio in LA is dead.

Ever since the mainstream urban incarnation of "The Beat" died on 100.3 frequency has been gone since 2006 has how long it has been dead in LA. Blame it on Radio One or Clear Channel not seeing the use of the intellectual property of "the Beat" again to bring back something "CHRurban" back or Emmis with Power, but regardless it is dead in LA.

Unlike the former R&B stations like KACE or KUTE, KKBT was the only true urban in Los Angeles to have a full market signal. And keep in mind before CC grew overnight, KKBT's former owner was Evergreen Media, which also owned KMEL in San Fran. Both KKBT and KMEL were broadbased urban stations at their heyday in the 1990s in California. They had a unique approach to maintaining the format because Evergreen wanted both R&B outlets to have a diverse airstaff in order to have a diverse audience, hence the "No Color Lines" attribute. Money was made still, and they played whatever titles even if they did not crossover to the Hot 100.

Radio One's problem at the time was Cathy Hughes was not interested in non-Black audiences (at least at the time), and it showed in how they programmed KKBT after the frequency swap. That cost KKBT much of the Hispanic/Latino audience, and it was tweaked to death literally.

 

[XMportable]

WENN/Power 102.1 in Burmingham also does classic HipHop & R&B...All old school.

 

[Dave Atonement]

Don Barrett's laradio.com quotes the former owner Don McCoy, who mentions a "stockholder lawsuit," implying this could stand in the way of any impending station sale. I also noticed yesterday's initial news report has been amended in light of these comments, stating that no format change (or station sale) is imminent until these "potential legal issues" are resolved. Anyone know what's up with this? Who's suing whom, and for what?

 

[wdb2003]

Looks like urban radio is dead in LA, but then again it has been since 2006...

KJLH?

Oh, you mean the radio station with a weak class A that doesn't even cover the whole LA radio market with a market-grade signal? Nope, it is practically non-existent, IMO. Move up to a class B then it might have some relevancy. Urban radio in LA is dead.

Ever since the mainstream urban incarnation of "The Beat" died on 100.3 frequency has been gone since 2006 has how long it has been dead in LA. Blame it on Radio One or Clear Channel not seeing the use of the intellectual property of "the Beat" again to bring back something "CHRurban" back or Emmis with Power, but regardless it is dead in LA.

Unlike the former R&B stations like KACE or KUTE, KKBT was the only true urban in Los Angeles to have a full market signal. And keep in mind before CC grew overnight, KKBT's former owner was Evergreen Media, which also owned KMEL in San Fran. Both KKBT and KMEL were broadbased urban stations at their heyday in the 1990s in California. They had a unique approach to maintaining the format because Evergreen wanted both R&B outlets to have a diverse airstaff in order to have a diverse audience, hence the "No Color Lines" attribute. Money was made still, and they played whatever titles even if they did not crossover to the Hot 100.

Radio One's problem at the time was Cathy Hughes was not interested in non-Black audiences (at least at the time), and it showed in how they programmed KKBT after the frequency swap. That cost KKBT much of the Hispanic/Latino audience, and it was tweaked to death literally.

Hate to get off topic but was'nt 101.9 a full market signal in the late 70's and early 80's under KUTE?

 

[davideduardo]

Hate to get off topic but was'nt 101.9 a full market signal in the late 70's and early 80's under KUTE?

KUTE, even when on Flint Peak, was a B.