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KKLF 1700 to comedy 2/1

txchipk

txchipk

So says Big Bob ... http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/01/the_new_library_of_laughs_geor.php

In Austin, the format runs on KGSR-HD3 and a FM translator there (no doubt almost all the listening is via the weak 102.7 translator and not KGSR-HD3). If you look at the Austin ratings on this site, KGSR-HD3 beats the AAA format on the main signal. Similar story in Kansas City where another HD subchannel-fed-FM translator has pretty decent ratings. It might have a tougher time on AM.

At any rate, with KKLF spun off into a trust, it looks like it finally will separate from its former Cumulus clustermates while a new owner is sought.
 
This wouldn't be the first time there was a 24/7 comedy radio station in the Metroplex - remember "Free-FM"? ::)
 
Now that's pretty cool actually.
I hope something can be done with 1700,
the Comedy Format has been doing very
good in the markets where its present.
I'd give it a try.

(Well There Goes my dream of buying 1700 and making it MIGHTY 1700 KKLF!)
 
I thought everyone was gun-shy over comedy after the FCC crackdowns. They will have to bleep some of those comedians like crazy. It will sound like an episode of Road Runner.

I like the idea though. Anything is better than the politicos, Radio Disney, 30 minute colon-cleanse infomercials or Asian programming currently on AM.
 
It's a great concept. I heard it while in Austin a few weeks ago, and was impressed. It moves well... if one comic isn't funny to you, there's another one in a couple of minutes.
Obviously this is just a place-holder format for 1700-AM, for now... but if it shows any success at all, (and I think it will) you'll hear this on a bigger and better station before long. Kudos, George Gimarc. You've got a winner.
 
Lancer said:
...They will have to bleep some of those comedians like crazy. It will sound like an episode of Road Runner...
Click to expand...

More like the old Emergency Broadcast System tone as if it were being delivered on an HD-2 subchannel. ::)
 
As of 9:28 KKLF is No Longer Simulcasting KLIF.

1700 is silent aside from KVNS coming in underneath a dead carrier.

Update: 9:30 PM KKLF resumes simulcast of KLIF. KKLF's feed is 10 seconds AHEAD of KLIF's.
KKLF sounds like its being fed by a stream of some kind. Looks like the flip will be at midnight.

Further Update: 1700 is silent again. It's only airing the commercials with KLIF. KLIF's actual talk programming is not airing.
 
What The Heck is Going on?
Did something go wrong?

(Or was this all just a joke in itself?)

Or a 6pm launch? I'm trying to figure this out.
 
After the Fox News Report at 6pm KKLF returned to silence for while KLIF played the Daily Wrap Up.
Looks like today KKLF only aired Local KLIF programs.
Any net programming is silent.

Obviously KKLF is parting with KLIF, but why hasn't the switch been thrown today like its supposed too? And why has there been no word on the delay?
 
AM radio is a ticking time-bomb, no new stations launches will succeed. The Ticket, KRLD, WBAP are the only relevant signals left in DFW. If any of those three sticks were to start up from scratch in DFW today, they would never EVER be able to build the listener base they enjoy now. Adults 18-25 don't even know how to spell AM, and cannot stand the generic sound it generates. If Howard Stern and Oprah both launched a new AM channel as partners...it would fail. Party's over for AM, terminal cancer with 5 years to live is the diagnosis. Sorry to break the news.
 
I dunno, 'neck... if you put something original, unique and compelling out there, available for all, available for free, you might just find some people interested in it. They might even go out of their way to get it.
 
I hear ya, but the under 30 crowd is more compelled to pull that original programming off the web on demand than tune into AM. I wish I was wrong, but I think I'm right.
 
Boo Hiss! ... but you're right.

I was tuning in between 1700 and 570 today and I too noticed the time shift (which makes no sense to me) and the long bouts of dead air. No Idea what is going on with that hot mess.
 
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