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KLJZ-FM Yuma (and other Yuma Stations)

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thegeneral

I just moved here, Yuma, from the northeast and am having a miserable radio experience to say the least. XM or Sirius is in my future.

Anyways...Can someone please tell me what the deal is with KLJZ 93.1 in Yuma?? The following is me not being an ass, I am simply explaining what I have heard/noticed. What format are they supposed to be and what format are they trying to transition to??? They try to sell 3 different lines: "Todays best music", "80's, 90's, and today", and "your variety". When I moved here in June they would play rap and/or pop any time during the day. Now they seem to be AC or Hot AC all day and a mix of AC, CHR, and maybe urban at night. That completes my format wonders.
They also play station liners/Legal ID's (which also sound CHR and AC depending on which one plays) over their satellite fed morning show, Bob and Sheri. They also play them over ads (which makes me wonder why anyone would pay for a commercial on the station!) These events have happened numerous times. It seems as if the computer program they use does not run off tones...just simply the local clock.

Not to pat myself (and the staff) on the back, but the college station I was in charge of before moving here seemed to be a much higher quality station. For a 100Kw station (that has NO all english stations one to compete with) I expect a higher level of professionalism.

I will say, 98.3 out of northern Mexico does a great job with playing a nice mix of English and Spanish CHR and some classic US oldies!!! Midnight to 5am 105.5 also plays some good English music. (forgive me for not knowing the call letters...I am still getting used to the 'K' ;)

Thanks for any disussion/info!

TheGeneral

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by thegeneral on 08/05/05 04:07 AM.</FONT></P>
 
Hi, I'm just curious if you've moved to Yuma to take advantage of some new electronic and mechanical engineering positions that should be opening up in the next year or so due to manufacturing company production move-ins..(?)
 
Hello,

I actually moved here because of a job offering in my degreed professional field, meteorology. I am one of the few weather/radio geeks around lol. I am interested to know what type of electronic and mechanical engineering opportunities are coming here. It seems to me Yuma could use some jobs of that type.

On a side note, I think any LPFM station that has real consistent programming and on-air integrity could blow the 100kw KLJZ out of the water. I cannot get over how they get people to buy ads on that station.




> Hi, I'm just curious if you've moved to Yuma to take
> advantage of some new electronic and mechanical engineering
> positions that should be opening up in the next year or so
> due to manufacturing company production move-ins..(?)
>
 
So Yuma only has one full-power FM? Even though it also has a TV station? Must be a very unusual market. I think you also have a few Class A FMs and a few AMs... but all of them I've heard are satellite, nothing local. Last time I was there I thought 100.9, a satellite Classic Rock station was decent but nothing special. But I wondered what offices and businesses listen to... there are no soft AC or soft jazz stations.

I suppose you're too far from Phoenix to pick up their 100 kW stations... or the FMs from the El Centro CA market. At one time a few Phoenix FM stations simulcast on AM as well. A friend of mine who drove a truck for a living says those AMs came in at distant rural locations when he'd lose the FM signal. So I suppose you can get KTAR and KFYI but maybe talk is not what you're looking for.

I'm surprised that Yuma is big enough to have a TV station and be part of the Yuma-El Centro TV market... but not big enough to have any decent radio, even if they were mostly satellite-delivered formats. Hey, at least you've got a lot of nice chain restaurants and stores huddled around the Interstate 8 highway exits. It's like an oasis between El Centro and Casa Grande.



Gregg
[email protected]






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> So Yuma only has one full-power FM? Even though it also has
> a TV station? Must be a very unusual market. I think you
> also have a few Class A FMs and a few AMs... but all of them
> I've heard are satellite, nothing local. Last time I was
> there I thought 100.9, a satellite Classic Rock station was
> decent but nothing special. But I wondered what offices and
> businesses listen to... there are no soft AC or soft jazz
> stations.

The Yuma/Wellton area has 4 commercial FM statons (one Spanish-language) and 2 commercial AMs. They also have 2 religious non-comm FMs and one NPR AM-FM simulcast from Arizona Western College. Nearby San Luis Rio Colorado, SO has 3 FMs and 5 AMs, all Spanish-language of course. Most of the stations that can be heard in the Yuma/El Centro market are located in Mexicali.

> I suppose you're too far from Phoenix to pick up their 100
> kW stations... or the FMs from the El Centro CA market. At
> one time a few Phoenix FM stations simulcast on AM as well.
> A friend of mine who drove a truck for a living says those
> AMs came in at distant rural locations when he'd lose the FM
> signal. So I suppose you can get KTAR and KFYI but maybe
> talk is not what you're looking for.

At one time or another, Phoenix has had several AM-FM simulcasts: 740/96.9 (KMEO), 860/107.1 (KVVA), 1060/97.9 (KUPD), 1190/105.3 (KRDS), 1310/104.7 (KTYL, KBUZ, KZZP), 1440/100.7 (KDOT, KOPA, KSLX), 1510 (KALF, KMND, KDKB), and 1580 (KTUF, KNIX). I believe there was a 1230/101.5 simulcast in the late '80s or early '90s, but I don't know the call letters.

Also, there was a brief trimulcast of The Edge in 1999 on 1360/100.3/106.3 after the KGME studio & programming was sold to AMFM and moved to 550, but before the 1360 transmitter was sold to Salem.

Outside of 1360 (50 kW days), 1510 (10 kW back then) and 1580 (50 kW), I find it hard to believe that the AM signals did better than the FMs in any of these cases.
 
As the latest post states, Yuma does have some other radio stations...but they are of the same quality just about of KLJZ. 100.9 is now the only AC/listen in the office type station there is here. Unfortunately, the only classic rock station close to hear is out of Lake Hav. City which can only be heard 30miles north on 95. There is one or two christian, 1 country stations, and KLJZ. The others are from the Mexicali area.

I do not get any Phoenix stations on the FM dial for sure. I am not a huge AM talk fan, but I have been able to get one or two Phoenix AM stations when I try.

As far as the TV stations...we actually have two here! I do not know the ranking of the El centro/Yuma market, but it has to be low. I went to college to become an on camera meteorologist and have an uncle who is the sports director at a TV station back in VT..thus my critical analysis may be a little harsh..but the TV stations here are sadly also of poor quality. My love is radio anyway..which is why i am being very tough on KLJZ. I had a great mentor/advisor at college who was in charge of overseeing how the radio station I managed was run. He is a business professor who used to own radio stations of his own (and just bought one again!) and taught me a great deal about the all aspects, including business, about radio. We were a 2.75kw erp station (WWLR) with a great signal radius given the terrain and antenna placement. I learned with great power (ERP)comes great responsibility (listeners), i just think the big guns like 100KW stations should keep that in mind. It is a terrible thing to waste! (esp when your output module hiccups every so often while playing songs!...just another to add to their list)

Ok,i will sign off the book now lol

PJ

> So Yuma only has one full-power FM? Even though it also has
> a TV station? Must be a very unusual market. I think you
> also have a few Class A FMs and a few AMs... but all of them
> I've heard are satellite, nothing local. Last time I was
> there I thought 100.9, a satellite Classic Rock station was
> decent but nothing special. But I wondered what offices and
> businesses listen to... there are no soft AC or soft jazz
> stations.
>
> I suppose you're too far from Phoenix to pick up their 100
> kW stations... or the FMs from the El Centro CA market. At
> one time a few Phoenix FM stations simulcast on AM as well.
> A friend of mine who drove a truck for a living says those
> AMs came in at distant rural locations when he'd lose the FM
> signal. So I suppose you can get KTAR and KFYI but maybe
> talk is not what you're looking for.
>
> I'm surprised that Yuma is big enough to have a TV station
> and be part of the Yuma-El Centro TV market... but not big
> enough to have any decent radio, even if they were mostly
> satellite-delivered formats. Hey, at least you've got a lot
> of nice chain restaurants and stores huddled around the
> Interstate 8 highway exits. It's like an oasis between El
> Centro and Casa Grande.
>
>
>
> Gregg
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
>
>
> /
>
 
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