KOLA new music adds

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www.kcdx.com

Worth noting: KCDX is run as a personal jukebox by its owner. He's been doing it for more than a decade. There is no attempt made to sell commercials and the station doesn't subscribe to Arbitron.
Even when Arbitron listed ratings for non-subscribers, KCDX was most often a no-show and the few times they got ratings, they weren't anything you can sell.

Before someone suggests that maybe no one knows about the station, it's been covered by every TV station, the big daily and weekly alternative newspaper. Everyone who's been in town knows about it and has listened. But not enough made it a habit to make it an example of how a commercial station could succeed doing what they do.

Of course, it doesn't help that sometimes it's off the air, perhaps because of their budget. But even when it's off the air, you can still play it on your computer. And it's hard to pick up in some areas of Phoenix, particularly north of Camelback Road and south of Bell Road.

 

[kenb]

It has been awhile since I visited the Radio Discussions site... This is a subject near to my heart. I LOVE the Oldies of the 1950's & 1960's and early Seventies. My feeling is that if you grew up with a song or perhaps, if you had an open mind upon hearing a song... A GOOD SONG IS A GOOD SONG no matter how old you are!
For Example: What A Wonderful World/Louis Armstong, Since I Don't Have You/Skyliners, The End (At The End Of The Rainbow) /Earl Grant, La-LA Means, I Love You/Delfonics, I'm Stone In Love With You/Stylistics, With You, I'm Born Again/Billy D & Styreeta, Three Times A Lady/Lionel Richie & The Commodores, Colour My World/Chicago, Endless Love/Diana Ross, Chances Are/Jonny Mathis, I Only Have Eyes For You/Flamingos, For Your Love/Ed Townsend, Hold Me/Teddy Pendergrass, Always & Forever/Heatwave and etc.I could list more songs like Light My Fire/Doors or God Bless The USA/Lee Greenwood, but there is not enough room here.
As far as my favorite station to listen to for Oldies music, I choose to tune in to KXFM (LP) 96.7 FM on the internet. They play the lost oldies that I haven't heard since I was a kid listening on my SIX TRANSISTOR Radio. Love-It, Love-It, Love-It... Check them out!

 

[pjc1961]

www.kcdx.com

Of course, it doesn't help that sometimes it's off the air, perhaps because of their budget. But even when it's off the air, you can still play it on your computer. And it's hard to pick up in some areas of Phoenix, particularly north of Camelback Road and south of Bell Road.

Whenever I've tried to listen to this station online via the various methods listed on their Listen Live page, I've had no success.
Either the files are not found or the connections time out.

 

[Thomps2525]

In the April 2013 Arbitron ratings for Riverside-San Bernardino, Spanish-language KLYY is number one with a 7.8% audience share. At #2 is KOLA, which jumped from a 6.2 to a 7.3. KOLA dropped all the 1960s hits and now plays 1970s-80s-90s. Is the dramatic ratings increase an omen that '60s oldies are a "dying breed"? Or could it be that the increase is mostly because a lot of people are hearing about the station from friends and listening because the format is new and they'll quickly get tired of KOLA, especially the '90s music, and the ratings will start dropping?

Where is David Eduardo? We need him now to serve as "play-by-play analyst and color commentator."

 

[davideduardo]

In the April 2013 Arbitron ratings for Riverside-San Bernardino, Spanish-language KLYY is number one with a 7.8% audience share. At #2 is KOLA, which jumped from a 6.2 to a 7.3. KOLA dropped all the 1960s hits and now plays 1970s-80s-90s. Is the dramatic ratings increase an omen that '60s oldies are a "dying breed"? Or could it be that the increase is mostly because a lot of people are hearing about the station from friends and listening because the format is new and they'll quickly get tired of KOLA, especially the '90s music, and the ratings will start dropping?

Where is David Eduardo? We need him now to serve as "play-by-play analyst and color commentator."

KOLA went from 10th to 2nd in 25-54 in the last book, and the morning show, which had been declining, reversed the downtrend, although not as dramatically as the overall increases.

The cume has gone up a bit, but the TSL has increased dramatically. The station is getting the same people, for the most part, but keeping them longer. They are obviously pleasing the 25-54's much more than before.

 

[CTListener]

In the April 2013 Arbitron ratings for Riverside-San Bernardino, Spanish-language KLYY is number one with a 7.8% audience share. At #2 is KOLA, which jumped from a 6.2 to a 7.3. KOLA dropped all the 1960s hits and now plays 1970s-80s-90s. Is the dramatic ratings increase an omen that '60s oldies are a "dying breed"? Or could it be that the increase is mostly because a lot of people are hearing about the station from friends and listening because the format is new and they'll quickly get tired of KOLA, especially the '90s music, and the ratings will start dropping?

Where is David Eduardo? We need him now to serve as "play-by-play analyst and color commentator."

KOLA went from 10th to 2nd in 25-54 in the last book, and the morning show, which had been declining, reversed the downtrend, although not as dramatically as the overall increases.

The cume has gone up a bit, but the TSL has increased dramatically. The station is getting the same people, for the most part, but keeping them longer. They are obviously pleasing the 25-54's much more than before.

Looks like Hartford's WDRC-FM is going the KOLA route. After a month or so of timidly dipping its toes into the '90s water with "Believe" (old artist), "Mambo No. 5" (old song), and "The Motown Song" (old artist reminiscing about old songs), it did a full belly-flop into the decade this past Monday. Everything is being thrown out there, from Red Hot Chili Peppers -- four tracks deep, if you can believe it -- to Wilson Phillips to Chumbawamba. From three '90s songs a day to three an hour overnight. They're still spinning one '60s track an hour but I can't see that lasting very long. "Dock of the Bay," "Ruby Tuesday" and "Help Me Rhonda" sound totally alien in this context.

Here's last night's 8-9 pm hour:

Margaritaville -- Jimmy Buffett
Stuck With You -- Huey Lewis & the News
Rhythm of My Heart -- Rod Stewart
Driver's Seat -- Sniff 'n the Tears
I Heard a Rumour -- Bananarama
Your Smiling Face -- James Taylor
Sexual Healing -- Marvin Gaye
Free Fallin' -- Tom Petty
Lotta Love -- Nicolette Larson
Bad Blood -- Neil Sedaka & Elton John
Tears of a Clown -- Miracles
Kyrie -- Mr. Mister
One Way or Another -- Blondie

The next hour, we got "Wild Thing" and "Father Figure," "Mama Told Me Not To Come" and "Human Nature," "Working for the Weekend" and "I'm Your Boogieman." Maybe this whole thing settles down after a few weeks, but to these ears, it sounds like they're throwing everything at the wall just to see what sticks.

 

[Thomps2525]

If I was a teacher---which I'm not...and I don't even play one on tv---I could assign an essay question: Which two decades of music fit together better, the 1960s and 1980s or the 1970s and 1990s? For twenty years I expected that oldies radio stations would start playing mid-'70s to mid-80s along with the 1955-72 hits and they finally did. But now they want to be known as "classic hits" stations and most have dropped the pre-1964 hits and I expect that eventually all the '60s music will be gone and replaced by '90s music. Do people who like '90s music also like '70s music? I tend to doubt it. Maybe someday there will be stations that play 1990s-early 2000s exclusively.

 

[semoochie]

"Tears of a Clown" was from 1970. I only bring this up because there might be fewer 60s songs than previously thought.

 

[michael hagerty]

"Tears of a Clown" was from 1970. I only bring this up because there might be fewer 60s songs than previously thought.

Ditto "Mama Told Me Not To Come".

 

[CTListener]

"Tears of a Clown" was from 1970. I only bring this up because there might be fewer 60s songs than previously thought.

Ditto "Mama Told Me Not To Come".

My mistake on "Tears"; I knew that "Mama" wasn't a '60s tune and was using it only for contrast with "Human Nature." Anyway, looking over today's logs, it seems that there are more '60s tracks -- usually one, occasionally two an hour -- being played in the daytime than at night, when they seem to get played only every other hour. 5 to 6 p.m. is a request hour with the stipulation that all songs asked for have to be from the '70s or '80s, so obviously there's never a '60s track there.

Looks like updates of '60s/early '70s songs are just fine, though: Kylie Minogue's "Locomotion," Huey Lewis' "It's Alright" and Paul Young's "Oh Girl" have all been heard.

Sorry to take this off-track. Continue with your KOLA talk.

 

[barman]

If you're a former listener to KRTH, KOLA, KDES, KOOL, or WCBS-FM, you don't have to listen to any one of them because there are a number of online stations to choose from to get your 50s-60s-70s music. The ones I prefer are the decades channels on Sirius XM (channels 5, 6, and 7), but there are countless internet stations as well. Not only has the music changed but the number of choices has changed.

 

[Radio Owl]

Barman mentions several other channels. Just North of the LA area about 400 miles is Modesto.
In Modesto along with a cluster of Clear Channel stations and also a Cumulus cluster is "The Vine".
This is an independently owned AM with an FM translator that is not afraid to play the Good Ole Good Ones mixed with the Standards. This is truly a "hybrid" station. Half the day (late evening to 9:00 AM) KVIN is on Dial Global's Standards format, and the other half the day it's a unique mix of Oldies (many from the 1st decade of Rock and Roll) and 60's and 70's mixed with the Standards. Certainly a long play list, with many instrumentals, novelty songs, Country crossovers, and all the differents kinds of music that was once on the TOP 40. This weekend is Graffatti Weekend in Modesto, and The Vine is going to be there doing remotes both Saturday and Sunday. The movie American Graffatti is now 40 years old and this year's celebration centers around this. Special show tonight at 7:00 with info about the movie and even some words from George Lucas, himself.

Good that there are some Independent broadcasters that dare to be independently different


Website and streaming: KVIN.net

 

[ajc_trw]

Agree with Barman and if you just want the music there is Pandora, Slacker, IHeartRadio and more where you put in your favorite band/artist and the playlist flows. IMHO with better playlists than the best FMs. ;D

Also apps like radio.com have formats which should fill the bill, it did for me with classic alternative.