You caught me there, I am a radio-geek. Why else would I be on here? At least WTIR gives you an indicator that the ID is coming. Hey, aren't they in Brighton Reservation now?
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KNX onto … 97.1??
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What was WTIR is now WKQK
No indicator the ID is coming, listeners arent thinking about it and dont care.
A fabulous voice...here in SoCal Nick Michaels was also the imaging voice of KTYD. One of my favorites was, "99,9 KTYD Santa Barbara, California, The Beach is that way, the Mountains are over there, and HERE is your Rock!
Probably don't have it exactly right but you get the idea.
I've read through all 11 pages of this thread (whew!), but didn't see any mention of an obvious question. So, I'll ask it. Now that KNOU is no longer CHR, any guesses on what station might switch to that format -- and take on KIIS?
Probably nobody. Essentially the only players for English language listeners in LA are iHeart and Audacy. iHeart won't compete with themselves, and Audacy just bowed out.
Ya know, unless 95 year old Saul Levine wants to flip KKGO to a hot hits format.
Ya know, unless 95 year old Saul Levine wants to flip KKGO to a hot hits format.
Why wouldn't iHeart do that? Why not run two CHR stations, to effectively corner a mass-appeal format? That way, you grab the people who don't like KIIS for whatever reason. One of my relatives will never forgive them for replacing Rick Dees with Ryan Seacrest.
iHeart already has the market for English-language contemporary pop music cornered in Los Angeles.
KISS-FM has and continues to be the top dog in CHR and top-40 in LA. The KISS brand is so popular that it is copied by what I would guess to be around a hundred or so stations across the US and Canada (I was surprised to hear a KISS-FM station the last time I traveled up to Canada). Audacy had the audacity to compete with KISS and we all know how that ended up. IHeart is not going to compete with themselves so I think KISS will be the only game in LA for a while.
As far as the ID goes for KNOU-FM, I have a feeling that a change to KNX-FM is upcoming. My car radio now shows the HD signal of 97.1 as “KNX-HD.” When I was in Chicago, WBBM on 105.9 FM would flash as “WCFS-HD.” Also, unlike WBBM and KCBS, there is no reference at all to 1070 AM in their imaging or website. Since KNX-FM is available for Audacy to use, it seems to me to be a no-brainer that they would switch to KNX-FM to have everything under the KNX umbrella.
As far as the ID goes for KNOU-FM, I have a feeling that a change to KNX-FM is upcoming. My car radio now shows the HD signal of 97.1 as “KNX-HD.” When I was in Chicago, WBBM on 105.9 FM would flash as “WCFS-HD.” Also, unlike WBBM and KCBS, there is no reference at all to 1070 AM in their imaging or website. Since KNX-FM is available for Audacy to use, it seems to me to be a no-brainer that they would switch to KNX-FM to have everything under the KNX umbrella.
Does WGN still use their loud time tone at the top of the hour? That was always a great way to tell if you were hearing WGN in the background while DXing from the West Coast.
Yes, this is very true. Not just in San Diego, but also southern Orange County. I’ve noticed that if you live in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano or anywhere south of the San Joaquin Hills, KNOU 97.1 FM has issues with static and not getting an HD lock. This is a problem with a lot of the LA FM stations down in southern Orange County, except for KRTH which is a powerhouse even down to San Diego.
KNOU, KKGO, KOST and the like have some serious interference issues once you got south of the San Joaquin Hills. I think it might be because all those stations are first adjacent to San Diego stations running HD signals. 97.1 KNOU starts to get interfered with by 97.3 KWFN The Fan with their HD signal in southern Orange County, which is still the primary service area for KNOU, KKGO and KOST. In those areas, KNX 1070 is a better listening option.
I wonder if Audacy will invest in some booster stations down in Southern Orange County to help with the coverage issues of the new KNX FM? They have done that with 97.3 KWFN The Fan in North San Diego County and it has helped immensely with the signal issues. I think KNX-FM would benefit immensely from such boosters, especially in an area like Southern Orange County where their target demographics reside.
That pesky VTer is killing live radio messing up like that. Off with his microphone.
KBIG "104.3 MYFM - 90's to NOW" resembles an adult CHR in many ways, and for a large part plays the role of a secondary hits station to KIIS. It's not exclusively current hits focused, but complements KIIS sufficiently that it fulfills the role you seek of an alternative button to 102.7 for mass-appeal format listeners.
I think KSL still airs the bell at the top of the hour. But now I'm second-guessing myself...
The next challenge to KIIS won’t come until there’s another boom in CHR. Usually that takes a station having a six or seven share all to itself and a competitor thinking it could take half of that and make money with a 3 to a 3.5.
But—-that doesn’t always work. Example: 1983, when CBS, seeing KIIS with a 10 share, flipped 93.1 from KNX-FM to KKHR. Three years later, never having hit a 5, and near the end limping along with a 2, they flipped it back to KNX-FM.
And even if you do get a survivable piece of the format audience in a boom period, when the cycle changes and the available CHR shares go down, unless you’ve taken the lead, you’re probably below the survivable number and the leader, though weaker, is above it.
There is some strategic value in some situations to running a flanker intended not so much to win as just to keep a competitor in another cluster from dominance, but that was AMP/NOW’s approach, and I don’t know if you could call the last 12 years on 97.1 time well invested.
very surprise kiis didnt say welcome former 971 now to kiis
The 97.1 cume was almost entirely duplicated on KIIS. 97.1 was where some KIIS listeners went if KIIS went into a stopset or talked too much in the morning.
Just for fun, I wonder how many former listeners will still have 97.1 on their preset and discover KNX and actually listen? They said they are going for a younger crowd. My boss still has 980 AM on his car preset (along with 640 and 1070 AM) even though he doesn't speak a word of Spanish.
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