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KMET is back !!??????

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SuperRadioFan

Just got the e-mail of tomorrows headlines on LARadio.com...

"KMET ready to rock 100.3fm/The Sound"

The featured image on the e-mail is your favorite Lawndale huge billboard
showing the usual Sound stuff plus the image (photoshopped) of the upside down
KMET logo saying "KMET IS BACK"

Guess we'll know more tomorrow..........
 
SuperRadioFan said:
Just got the e-mail of tomorrows headlines on LARadio.com...

"KMET ready to rock 100.3fm/The Sound"

The featured image on the e-mail is your favorite Lawndale huge billboard
showing the usual Sound stuff plus the image (photoshopped) of the upside down
KMET logo saying "KMET IS BACK"

Guess we'll know more tomorrow..........
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the only bad thing about this is that "the sound" will still exist.....
 
I think it would be cool to have those calls back at a rock station in LA. However, according to 100000watts.com, there is a KMET at 1490 AM in Banning, CA. It is owned by Sunset Broadcasting. Can a company (e.g., Bonneville) obtain the KMET-FM calls if someone else has the AM calls?
 
AM FM listener said:
Can a company (e.g., Bonneville) obtain the KMET-FM calls if someone else has the AM calls?
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I believe so, we have a KDZA-AM 1350 and a KDZA-FM 107.9 locally here in Southern Co.

Too bad 94.7 is already taken.
 
oldies76 said:
AM FM listener said:
Can a company (e.g., Bonneville) obtain the KMET-FM calls if someone else has the AM calls?
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I believe so, we have a KDZA-AM 1350 and a KDZA-FM 107.9 locally here in Southern Co.

Too bad 94.7 is already taken.
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But KDZA AM and FM are both in the same market (Pueblo, CO) and owned by the same company (Clear Channel). I am wondering if one company (e.g., Bonneville) can obtain FM call letters from the FCC if a different company (in this case, Sunset Broadcasting) already owns the same call letters on the AM band.
 
AM FM listener said:
I am wondering if one company (e.g., Bonneville) can obtain FM call letters from the FCC if a different company (in this case, Sunset Broadcasting) already owns the same call letters on the AM band.
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Yes, the licensee with prior use can grant permission to another company to use, on another band, the calls. It's happened quite a number of times.
 
Word is it's a one-day on-air reunion of surviving KMET jocks, logical since Gonzer's there now. Not a format or call letter change.

---Michael Hagerty
 
"100 point 3 K-M-E-T" does have quite a nice ring to it.

It was 20 years ago, though. People move.

But, then again - even if you weren't in LA when KMET was on the air, it is a good name for a radio station.
 
michael hagerty said:
Word is it's a one-day on-air reunion of surviving KMET jocks, logical since Gonzer's there now. Not a format or call letter change.

---Michael Hagerty
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When is this one day reunion?
 
So KMET is back ..... and the point of it all is ???????? .............

So for ONE day they are resurrecting KMET's heyday. I didn't even live in Southern California until 1985 so I was only around the last two years of 94.7 KMET. I assume that there are many like me. I also assume that some (or many) of KMET's listeners are (pick one) a. deceased; b. retired and/or moved out of the area;
c. don't care about music anymore; d. don't care about radio or any radio stations; e. have other preferences of radio formats besides rock music from the 70s and early 80s. ...........

It's a nice gesture but there is nothing unique or original about playing a set of Bruce Springsteen, Yes, the Eagles and Jackson Browne. I think Sam Bellamy's best days (I didn't know about her and KMET until later) was with the old KMPC-FM 101.9/KEDG The Edge 1987-1989. Too bad The Sound didn't adopt a cutting-edge format as they could have filled a hole that still exists today in radio formats in SoCal. THEN if they did a retro show on KMET or even KMPC-FM that would be more entertaining. In My Humble Opinion.
 
Re: So KMET is back ..... and the point of it all is ???????? .............

SuperRadioFan said:
So for ONE day they are resurrecting KMET's heyday. I didn't even live in Southern California until 1985 so I was only around the last two years of 94.7 KMET. I assume that there are many like me. I also assume that some (or many) of KMET's listeners are (pick one) a. deceased; b. retired and/or moved out of the area;
c. don't care about music anymore; d. don't care about radio or any radio stations; e. have other preferences of radio formats besides rock music from the 70s and early 80s. ...........

It's a nice gesture but there is nothing unique or original about playing a set of Bruce Springsteen, Yes, the Eagles and Jackson Browne. I think Sam Bellamy's best days (I didn't know about her and KMET until later) was with the old KMPC-FM 101.9/KEDG The Edge 1987-1989. Too bad The Sound didn't adopt a cutting-edge format as they could have filled a hole that still exists today in radio formats in SoCal. THEN if they did a retro show on KMET or even KMPC-FM that would be more entertaining. In My Humble Opinion.
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I moved to Southern California in 1977 and over the next decade I listened to KMET, KLOS, KWST, KROQ and KMPC/KEDG. The Edge was my favorite of all of those stations. I liked the KMET jocks a lot but I came from NYC where I listened to WNEW FM and the music on KMET was sometimes too narrow after they went all balls out rock. I am looking forward to hearing the reunion and hope they play some of the more free form music they played in the earlier days of KMET.
 
You lived in NYC? I was born and raised in the New Brunswick area (central NJ) and I was an avid WNEW-FM listener as well. Guess having that in common with you makes sense if we both loved the old 101.9 KMPC-FM. I listen more to WXPK 107.1 FM The Peak in White Plains over the 'net and that station is a good representation of what I like in radio. I wouldn't mind hearing a revival of WNEW-FM though it would be very difficult with the absence of Scott Muni and Allison Steele (R.I.P.).
 
This is an awesome idea!!

Unlike the lame "Battle of the Classic Albums" stunt earlier this spring, this promotion has a real purpose; is something that the listeners can actually identify with; and brings the halo effect of the association of the KMET brand to the Sound. It is a particularly good idea since the Sound playlist now sounds like the Bellamy KMET (the narrower, more focused, less-free form version they went to in the late 70's and early 80's).

Super, you are right, many listeners are new and don't care or understand the history, but there are many that still do, and KMET was a beloved station which many people still recall fondly. A high percentage of their listeners (including me) know very well what KMET represents: good, free-form radio, and local radio in particular. (Note to Super - if you only caught the last two years, I feel sorry - it was a shadow of its former self and needed to be shot). Also, KMET was always more than the music, it was also about the personalities and the SoCal attitude of the 70's, which was pretty much born at KMET and exported elsewhere. It was the station the cool kids listened to. In any case, this positions The Sound (rightly or wrongly, most likely wrongly) as the keeper of the KMET flame in the new era. Side thought: Now that gratuitous name drop of "good ol' KMET" that I heard Mike Morgan spew the other morning now makes more sense. Hmmm....

For those who don't know or remember KMET, this will be all be a non-starter and before someone comes to point it out, I'll save you the trouble. Yes, KLOS nearly always beat KMET in the ratings, and they were the most listened-to station, and they won the rock radio wars, but it was also the station that narrowed down the playlist and tossed out the Joni Mitchel and Bob Dylan records so they could get more Boston and Kansas records on in a given airshift. In short, they were the leaders of the commoditization of crappy AOR radio that every succeeding generation has learned to dislike, but still be stuck with. Which is why one never hears the term "good ol KLOS", even though they have had twice the lifespan.

If the Sound was smart, they'd stick that old KMET sign near theirs like the photoshop that is on Don Barret's site.

BY the way, in response to another post, Yes MetroMedia owned KMET, KLAC and Channel 11. The MET part of the call is derived from MetroMedia. All were housed in "MetroMedia Square" at Sunset and the 101.
 
Maybe you had to be there (SoCal in the 70s), but I never understood what was so special about KMET. I can understand what was so great about other L.A. stations that have achieved legendary status like KHJ, KFWB or KMPC.

But even in the late 1970s when KMET was at its peak, KROQ was the better radio station. Rodney Bingenheimer is far cooler than say Jim Ladd.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
For those who don't know or remember KMET, this will be all be a non-starter and before someone comes to point it out, I'll save you the trouble. Yes, KLOS nearly always beat KMET in the ratings, and they were the most listened-to station, and they won the rock radio wars, but it was also the station that narrowed down the playlist and tossed out the Joni Mitchel and Bob Dylan records so they could get more Boston and Kansas records on in a given airshift. In short, they were the leaders of the commoditization of crappy AOR radio that every succeeding generation has learned to dislike, but still be stuck with. Which is why one never hears the term "good ol KLOS", even though they have had twice the lifespan.
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ChannelFlipper:

Actually, from 1978 on (at least until '84 or so), KMET killed KLOS. http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=132452.10 Wasn't even close. And KMET during those years was bigger than KLOS was when it was winning.

Doing this for one day is a good idea. It limits risk to KSWD if it ends up not coming off as well as imagined, and it gives the people who are still living in Southern California and were KMET listeners a single targeted day to tune in.

If nothing else, it's a good way to let Jeff Gonzer's former KMET listeners know they can hear him on KSWD every day.

The question, as David Eduardo has brought up in many other threads about many other stations, is how many listeners to KMET between 25 and 31 years ago are still alive, still living in Southern California and still care. Even if that raw number seems substantial, does it translate to a significant enough share of the gajillion people now living in the market to make a difference in ratings and revenue?

A couple of things for perspective before we start thinking that this is a baby step toward a KMET revival:

If you were 23 in 1978, you're 54 now...the absolute last year of the 25-54 demographic.

And, if a radio station in 1978 were discussing having a reunion of a station from 31 years before, it would have been a station from 1947.

---Michael Hagerty
 
briancraig said:
Maybe you had to be there (SoCal in the 70s), but I never understood what was so special about KMET. I can understand what was so great about other L.A. stations that have achieved legendary status like KHJ, KFWB or KMPC.

But even in the late 1970s when KMET was at its peak, KROQ was the better radio station. Rodney Bingenheimer is far cooler than say Jim Ladd.
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Brian:
I think you did have to be there. KMET sounded just right for the time and place...blowing out the cobwebs of the singer-songwriter era and providing a polar opposite to disco. Personally, I think KROQ was even more on-target...but it took a while for the mass audience to catch up.
And I'd argue that both Rodney and Jim are extremely cool...in totally different ways.

---Michael Hagerty
 
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