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KKLD - Cottonwood Oldies Station

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phil

I'm just curious if any of the oldies fans here are listening to KKLD Cottonwood 95.9, during the KOOL Christmas break?
 
Can't hear 'em in Fashionable South Tempe either. Doesn't look like they stream. Shame!
 
I've heard them on the car radio in east central Phoenix, and with
some success on I-10 going south to about the KDUS 1060 tower
site in Guad. Not in the 'Tuke however, at least not on radios at
home (too much overload from South Mountain).

Cloud 95.9. Hmmm, sounds familiar. ;)
 
Weren't those calls assigned to Tucson many years ago? Yes, they were..and it was pretty much an automated beautiful music station w/ occasional live assist. The late, great Bob Cooke even did an airshift there after falling out with the rock stations back "in the day".
 
wattsup said:
Weren't those calls assigned to Tucson many years ago?
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KKLD 94.9 Tucson, aka "Cloud 95," later "Cloud 94.9." Now KMXZ-FM, home of
Bobby & Brad...oops...Bobby Rich in AM drive. (Fall 2007 budget cuts.)
Positioner is "Mix-something-or-other." ;D

Calls were changed in the mid-1990s, IIRC, and about that time there was a
newspaper article about local stations and their formats, and the quote about
94.9 was "we don't talk about clouds anymore"...so of course here I've always
referred to them as Cloud 95 which totally ticks off one of the Journal engineers.
(But I've never heard a peep out of Bobby about it here on R-I. ;))
 
KKLD has a nice signal in the West Valley, and all the way up I-17. It sounds like a satellite feed, small medium market talent. Overall, a nice, easy to listen to radio station. Now and then I hear songs that are generally not heard on the big corporate stations...forgotten oldies I guess.
 
Radio_Eng said:
KKLD has a nice signal in the West Valley, and all the way up I-17. It sounds like a satellite feed, small medium market talent. Overall, a nice, easy to listen to radio station. Now and then I hear songs that are generally not heard on the big corporate stations...forgotten oldies I guess.
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I don't think it is satellite. I have heard things like the same very secondary oldie within the same daypart, or two days in a row in nearly the same hour. Kind of nice to hear not often heard songs, at first. But by the second day or so, it is annoying.
 
I heard them coming back from Tucson to Phx. Nice signal. I also listen when I am up north on Saturdays. Unlike KOOL FM they seem to have a playlist of more than 50 songs. I haven't heard "Lowrider," "Spirit In the Sky," or "Brown Eyed Girl" ONCE yet..... They do have a rather irritating weekend "voice" named "Dwayne Dancer " -- listening to him is listed in the dictionary right next to "waterboarding"
 
Ironic that you ask.
I replaced 94.5 on my preset with 95.9 just after Halloween (when Kool started the Xmas stuff)
95.9 comes in fairly good in the N/W valley.
I wish it was a tad stronger though.

I'd love to hear a good oldies station in the valley again. (50s thru early 70s)
 
KKLD transmits off Mingus Mtn which is about 8000 feet just south of Cottonwood, and is ideally situated to serve the Verde Valley and the Prescott area. They also have a low power transmitter/repeater in Flagstaff at 101.7.

THis is the old frequency for KZGL, which was a lot like KDKB is now. KZGL's format was abandoned not too long after KMGN FLagstaff adopted a classic rock format.

KKLD is a satellite feed. There are no local announcers, except for short weather forecasts, etc. They play a fair amount of 70s music, and even some 80s, which really helps create a lot more variety.

Their web site is www.oldiesradioonline.com which prompts you give a zip code, and then it links you to your local stations's web site which is basically the main web site with the local stations logo on it.

I have to admit, that their satellite feed is fairly seemless, and probably fools a lot of people into thinking that it is a local station.
 
David Owens said:
I have to admit, that their satellite feed is fairly seemless, and probably fools a lot of people into thinking that it is a local station.
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The fact that they run local weather and content, maybe in net breaks, and even remotes, makes it seem no different than 100% local. The problem I have is the overall music content, which relies too much on secondary hits, and the fact that the rotations are as bad as I have ever heard anywhere... the same B tier oldie in near the same hour two days in a row, for example.

Last week, I could deal with one day of it on in the background, but not two. Day two was the iPod.
 
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