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KLOS SHOULD FLIP TO PANDORA

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flyonthewall

I started a new thread for those of you who excused me of being a PR flack for the Sound. Below is my post tonight on the
Cumulus: No One is Safe discussion. Now you may accuse me of being a PR flack for Pandora. That is a gig I would like, though I am not a publicist, it would be easy to do PR for Pandora! LOL. Damn, that job is already taken.

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I have a better idea! Why doesn't KLOS flip to Pandora. I have Pandora's classic rock station streaming on my laptop as I type this, playing Edge of Seventeen. I also listen to Pandora's Rock Hits station. Playing right now on that, Welcome to the Jungle. I can get Aerosmith, Don Henley, Journey, and much more on both of these Pandora stations with no commercials.
Seriously, the last one out of KLOS, turn out the lights!
 
flyonthewall said:
I started a new thread for those of you who excused me of being a PR flack for the Sound. Below is my post tonight on the
Cumulus: No One is Safe discussion. Now you may accuse me of being a PR flack for Pandora. That is a gig I would like, though I am not a publicist, it would be easy to do PR for Pandora! LOL. Damn, that job is already taken.

Re: Cumulus: No One is Safe?
« Reply #19 on: Today at 11:37:15 PM »
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I have a better idea! Why doesn't KLOS flip to Pandora. I have Pandora's classic rock station streaming on my laptop as I type this, playing Edge of Seventeen. I also listen to Pandora's Rock Hits station. Playing right now on that, Welcome to the Jungle. I can get Aerosmith, Don Henley, Journey, and much more on both of these Pandora stations with no commercials.
Seriously, the last one out of KLOS, turn out the lights!
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Actually this is nothing more than a thinly veiled attack on your client's competition, KLOS. You can't possibly believe you are fooling anyone with this tripe.

But please do keep posting. I'm starting to enjoy your posts in much the same way I enjoy hearing Joe Biden talk. You're both great, if low-brow, entertainment.
 
This has nothing to do with the topic but how big is the studio compound in West LA for KABC and KLOS? What happen to the former Radio Disney studio for 1110AM. Did they move their studios to Burbank? Everytime I drive by the studios it looks almost vacant. Does 710 ESPN still operate at the same location or at LA Live?
 
wdb2003 said:
This has nothing to do with the topic but how big is the studio compound in West LA for KABC and KLOS? What happen to the former Radio Disney studio for 1110AM. Did they move their studios to Burbank? Everytime I drive by the studios it looks almost vacant. Does 710 ESPN still operate at the same location or at LA Live?
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KSPN 710's studio and offices are at LA Live. As for KDIS, I believe they moved to Burbank, but can't find an address listed. I do know that the network originates most of it's programming in Burbank, although much of it used to come from Texas. I heard they moved when Disney decided to sell of most of it's ABC stations.

As fore the topic of this thread, Really? Pandora? Wow, just to prove you're not a shill for The Sound? Okay, I'll act as if you're being serious. There is now way in hell that a radio station would turn over programming duties to Pandora, it's next big rival. They would be stupid to do it, and I doubt the exec's at Pandora would allow it either. They just want to bury terrestrial radio. But don't suggest this for real, as there may be some dumb-a&% bean counter that would actually think it's a good idea, which it is NOT!
 
calguy said:
wdb2003 said:
This has nothing to do with the topic but how big is the studio compound in West LA for KABC and KLOS? What happen to the former Radio Disney studio for 1110AM. Did they move their studios to Burbank? Everytime I drive by the studios it looks almost vacant. Does 710 ESPN still operate at the same location or at LA Live?
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KSPN 710's studio and offices are at LA Live. As for KDIS, I believe they moved to Burbank, but can't find an address listed. I do know that the network originates most of it's programming in Burbank, although much of it used to come from Texas. I heard they moved when Disney decided to sell of most of it's ABC stations.
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Yep KDIS is in Burbank off West Alameda. I would figure it would be by the Walt Disney animation studios or The Disney Channel building in Burbank. So only KLOS and KABC are the only two left in that big compund.
 
Calguy-- that post was called sarcasm. But it does speak to the state of radio today. Considering you can hear the same tunes that are on a classic rock radio station's playlist's-- on Pandora's Rock channels, and create your own channels as I am sure you are aware, Pandora is, you are quite right, a huge threat to terrestrial radio. The post was in reaction to someone saying KLOS should flip to a True Oldies format and take on K-EARTH.
If you notice, I have also posted about Jack FM, which is a great station because they really mix it up over there between 70's, 80's and 90's.
When I am in my car, I flip between Jack and the Sound. Channel Flipper--I am glad I amuse you and consider being called low-brow entertainment a compliment. Is there any other kind of entertainment these days.
 
True Oldies? I believe that TO wouldn't make make an even pebble sized dent in KRTH. But listeners would still get the sneering voice of Scott Shannon, who also does some imaging for KLOS. But really, TO skews too old. KRTH would then eat KLOS for breakfast.
 
Okay something good about KLOS. I was in my car from about 5pm to almost 6pm tonight and flipped between Jack, first choice, The Sound, second choice, and I did listen to KLOS. At 5pm or thereabouts, I heard Uncle Joe Benson. It was great to hear him BACK in afternoon drive. Though I remember reading, a few years ago, that he was no longer doing afternoon drive but had been moved to weekends on KLOS. I did not hear him talk again. I kept switching to Jack mostly, but did hit KLOS before 5:30PM and heard The Five o'clock Funnies, really is that still on in the middle of the evening commute? To whomever still thinks I am a PR flack for the Sound, if Dave Beasing is reading any of these posts, he too, must be laughing his head off!
 
If you call a 2.6 doing well. KLOS had a 3.1 in May and actually beat Jack. Now it has fallen in a spectacular crash landing, from a 3.1 to a 2.6, for the last TWO books. The Sound, though ranked a little lower, is up from a 1.8 in May to a 2.1, 2.1, two books in a row. Jack is back on top with a 3.0-- to KLOS's 2.6, with a Cume much, much larger than KLOS. The Sound's Cume, it appears, is about 400,000 away from KLOS. Not bad for an upstart station in the market compared to a heritage station. So if you call THAT doing well, I guess KLOS is doing well? The numbers do not lie!
 
Buckethead said:
Dude, you could only dream of pulling a 2.6 in Los Angeles.
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Hey Fly, I thought I had already given you the latest "buzz" but maybe I need to spell it out for you. FM stations with full market signals that achieve 3.0 and 2.6 ratings continue with their formats, stations that range between 1.8 and 2.1, not so much.
 
Re: You could only Dream about getting a 2.6 in LA? Dude you apparently are not in the LA Market.
Let me fill you in.
July PPM's:

KISS 5.4.
KFI 4.7
KOST 4.2
KAMP 4.2 KAMP ties with KOST for the first time
KPWR 3.5
KBIG 3.5

Note, KAMP use to be KLXS. KAMP, Top 40 CHR, only LAUNCHED in the Summer of 2009 and has consistently been in the top five, now tied with KOST! Last three ppm's for KAMP: 3.8 4.0 4.2. Amazing performance for a two year old station.
So a 2.6 is hardly a dream number in LA!
 
flyonthewall said:
Re: You could only Dream about getting a 2.6 in LA? Dude you apparently are not in the LA Market.
Let me fill you in.
July PPM's:

KISS 5.4.
KFI 4.7
KOST 4.2
KAMP 4.2 KAMP ties with KOST for the first time
KPWR 3.5
KBIG 3.5

Note, KAMP use to be KLXS. KAMP, Top 40 CHR, only LAUNCHED in the Summer of 2009 and has consistently been in the top five, now tied with KOST! Last three ppm's for KAMP: 3.8 4.0 4.2. Amazing performance for a two year old station.
So a 2.6 is hardly a dream number in LA!
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Fly, since you are obviously here in LA and an authority on the market, I will just assume that you know that KISS is not licensed to LA but that KIIS is, and the former station you referred to as KLXS really had the legal ID of KLSX.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Fly, since you are obviously here in LA and an authority on the market, I will just assume that you know that KISS is not licensed to LA but that KIIS is, and the former station you referred to as KLXS really had the legal ID of KLSX.
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We all call KIIS by the same name they call themselves, "Kiss" as that is the way they are marketed.

KLSX / KLXS sure looks like a type to me; of course, around 8% of the population has some degree of dyslexia, and making that type of inversion is as common as typing "raido" instead of radio is for me...
 
flyonthewall said:
So if you call THAT doing well, I guess KLOS is doing well? The numbers do not lie!
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While Jack's 2010 billing was 40% below its 2007 peak, KLOS actually has registered small gains. Both are within a million or two of each other in billings, and that is what matters most.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Hey Fly, I thought I had already given you the latest "buzz" but maybe I need to spell it out for you. FM stations with full market signals that achieve 3.0 and 2.6 ratings continue with their formats, stations that range between 1.8 and 2.1, not so much.
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3.0 or 2.6 or 1.8 in 6+ are meaningless: find the 18-49 or 25-54.
 
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