KLSX?

[RadioStarOne]

New Calls? KAMP?

 

[Skynet74]

I'll miss KLSX. I have friends who used to work there. Can't forget about how they introduced Stern to LA too. I was there on day one to record it. Damn... I know they've struggled a bit in the ratings, but I'm going to miss them.

 

[likeaboss]

Rumor has it there will be new calls. I hope they go with call letters that make sense for the old format (like KLSX) and go with KTLK or KFMT or something.

 

[DToTheJ]

I always thought the KLSX calls corresponded with their previous classic rock format, and not their talk format.

 

[Dr. o Fun]

New Calls? KAMP?

KAMP-FM is a 100-watt station owned by the Anthony Andrews School in St. Michael, Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea. Perhaps CBS can make them a generous offer for the calls.

dr

 

[scooty430]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

 

[davideduardo]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

 

[almaniac27]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

Exactly. Every generation has its "disposable, forgettable pop music". The problem is that I don't see this generation having a Beatles or Elvis that people will be listening to 40 to 50 years from now, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.

 

[4UH8SIMBKAGN]

New Calls? KAMP?

KAMP-FM is a 100-watt station owned by the Anthony Andrews School in St. Michael, Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea. Perhaps CBS can make them a generous offer for the calls.

dr

It's KAMP-LP

 

[radioresearcher]

New Calls? KAMP?

KAMP-FM is a 100-watt station owned by the Anthony Andrews School in St. Michael, Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea. Perhaps CBS can make them a generous offer for the calls.

dr

It's KAMP-LP

Call letters are more meaningless in PPM than diary. Why spend a dime? Bury them at the top of the hour and save the $$ ... JACK has done just fine as KCBS-FM and LA NUEVA just fine as KSCA.

 

[DToTheJ]

Not sure exactly where to post this, so I'll park it here:

There is already a Facebook group "Boycott The New 97.1"
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=kls...32e2e9a758a6c2b9bde3f5c024de1&gid=51718924711

 

[4UH8SIMBKAGN]

Boycotts of radio stations never work. The decision has been made. Movin in S.F. has moved towards Top 40. Per Adam Carolla, contrary to what Tom Taylor published this morning, New York has a change coming and this.

What I found most interesting on KLSX last night was the age the listeners started listening, many as teenagers. This is a demo that is so hard to get and they have them.

Bob Moore's multiple apprearances on KLSX the last two days say a lot to me. KLOS needs some these people.

 

[SpokkerJ]

I started listening to KLSX when I was 14. I would listen to Stern at 3AM and then listen to Conway and Steckler at night when their show started.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Boycotts of radio stations never work. The decision has been made.

Wow you just reminded me of the case of New York's WNCN's flip from classical to rock and around a year later flip back to classical. While it wasn't a boycott, it was a consumer/listener group leading the charge. Such a thing will never never happen again I believe. From one of many sources on the Internet, our friend and regular Radio-Info poster Scott Fybush capsulized the switch:

" in 1974, Starr flipped WNCN from its longtime classical format to rock under the new calls WQIV. Back when the FCC paid attention to stations' format choices, that flip was a big deal - so big, in fact, that the "WNCN Listeners' Guild" prodded Starr into flipping the station back to classical and selling it to GAF Broadcasting. (It was in the aftermath of the WNCN brouhaha that the FCC got out of the format-regulation business; 18 years later, GAF flipped WNCN back to rock as WAXQ without much of an outcry.)"

http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2008/080303/nerw.html

 

[Skynet74]

I always thought the KLSX calls corresponded with their previous classic rock format, and not their talk format.

This is true. They were KLSX well before they even went to a talk format.

 

[scooty430]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

-Shirelles are a great, classic girl group that until recently was still heard on the air. No one-hit-wonders by any means.

-Box Tops have one of the all-time classics, "The Letter," which spawned Joe Cocker's incredible cover.

-1910 Fruitgum Company is indeed terrible. No argument there.

-Looking Glass did Brandy. OK song, not horrendous. Still in heavy rotation on K-Earth. Not disposable.

But you are being selective with the past. What about the Beatles, the Stones, the Yardbirds, the Doors, Hendrix, Joplin, Led Zep, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Rush, The Who, Abba, the Bee Gees, Queen, AC/DC, the Carpenters, Peter Gabriel, Green Day, Nirvana, U2.... What artists today will endure like these (and hundreds of other) great ones?

Get back to us in 40 years, and we'll see if people are still listening to Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Rhiana. I seriously, seriously doubt it.

 

[oldies76]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

Seriously?? WOW, coming from someone who has been in radio for 50 years....... :

 

[davideduardo]

Get back to us in 40 years, and we'll see if people are still listening to Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Rhiana. I seriously, seriously doubt it.

That's exactly what kids of the50's and 60's were told by their parents, who referred to Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller and Perry Como as their idea of lasting music.

 

[davideduardo]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

Seriously?? WOW, coming from someone who has been in radio for 50 years....... :

Each generation if not each decade has it's own "personal" disposable music. It's of little interest to anyone older, or, later, anyone younger. It lives with its original partisans and, of course, dies with them. Perhaps a couple of tunes transcend the generation gap, but they are exceptions and don't invalidate the rule.

 

[oldies76]

Get back to us in 40 years, and we'll see if people are still listening to Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Rhiana. I seriously, seriously doubt it.

So very true! In fact, selective classic hits will still be aired then. Timeless classics will endure the test of time.
Most of today's acts cannot even compare to those that brought us rock and roll or influenced today's "Rock and Roll" (if it's even called that).