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Evil Monkey99
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Geez man... one real FULL month so lets punt on a format? Who are you with the Yankees???
This wasn't a slight little flip... this was a pretty massive overhaul of the play list with zero marketing. What Kool stuff have you seen around town?? ZERO! And you think you should punt after one full month. Give me a break.
Calling for a format change after 2 months on the air reeks of... well... stupidity.
This wasn't a slight little flip... this was a pretty massive overhaul of the play list with zero marketing. What Kool stuff have you seen around town?? ZERO! And you think you should punt after one full month. Give me a break.
Calling for a format change after 2 months on the air reeks of... well... stupidity.
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KountryBill
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Maybe 106.1 could flip to Christian. Tulsa NEEDS another station playing religious music. Right? 
Maybe they could do a Christian CHR. Ok that's probably not going to happen. But if any city in America could support that many Christian stations, it's Tulsa.
Or maybe they could go country.
After all, at one brief point in the last 20 years Tulsa had a grand total of 5 country stations. I think it was circa 1994 you had K-95, Kick-99, KVOO FM, KVOO AM and K-Fox 103.3.
Maybe they could do a Christian CHR. Ok that's probably not going to happen. But if any city in America could support that many Christian stations, it's Tulsa.Or maybe they could go country.
After all, at one brief point in the last 20 years Tulsa had a grand total of 5 country stations. I think it was circa 1994 you had K-95, Kick-99, KVOO FM, KVOO AM and K-Fox 103.3.
First of all, it's not a full book under the new format. Second of all, it's not time to panic at KQLL. Finally, this was definitely not how Kevan Seal and the rest of the Clear Channel staff were hoping to start. I agree that it's not time for a format change, but they have some serious issues to work out. Continuing downtrends will seriously endanger the continued longevity of KOOL 106.1.
By the way, I would also agree about K-Fox 103.3. It was a decent station, and I seem to remember it usually being around a 4 to 4.5 share, which usually put it ahead of the other country stations not called K 95 FM. I wasn't much of a country listener when I lived in Tulsa, but, whenever I did stop on country, K-Fox was the one I listened to most. "There is no substitute, K-Fox 103.3!"
By the way, I would also agree about K-Fox 103.3. It was a decent station, and I seem to remember it usually being around a 4 to 4.5 share, which usually put it ahead of the other country stations not called K 95 FM. I wasn't much of a country listener when I lived in Tulsa, but, whenever I did stop on country, K-Fox was the one I listened to most. "There is no substitute, K-Fox 103.3!"
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BehindTheLines
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K-FOX 103.3
Weren't they right off of Admiral in a grey two story office building?
I went in there to apply for a job when I was 17. It was a really informal, comfortable, laid back atmosphere. I went in (tape in hand) and asked to speak with the Program Director about on-air openings.
The receptionist looked up from her nail filing and said "I think he might be in there." She pointed to a conference room door directly off of the lobby. Like an idiot, I casually sauntered over to the door and opened it. The pony-tailed man in a sport coat (see: Don Johnson) looked up at me and said "Can I help you?" I had apparently interupted a client meeting with the GSM and some advertisers.
He quickly got up out of his chair, took me by my neck and ushered me out of the room while giving a dirty look to the receptionist. Somebody ended up giving me a quick tour of the station. But I never actually spoke with a PD. And I never heard from them. Suprising, huh?
That same day I drove over to KRMG/KWEN to drop off a tape. This was quite a long time before they were owned by Cox. I went into the building and walked up to the receptionist to get her attention. I gently said "I'm here to see about job openings." She looked up and said in a snotty voice "Excuse me??!!!"
I had apparently interrupted her game of PC solitaire. I said "Never mind", rolled my eyes and walked out the door.
Weren't they right off of Admiral in a grey two story office building?
I went in there to apply for a job when I was 17. It was a really informal, comfortable, laid back atmosphere. I went in (tape in hand) and asked to speak with the Program Director about on-air openings.
The receptionist looked up from her nail filing and said "I think he might be in there." She pointed to a conference room door directly off of the lobby. Like an idiot, I casually sauntered over to the door and opened it. The pony-tailed man in a sport coat (see: Don Johnson) looked up at me and said "Can I help you?" I had apparently interupted a client meeting with the GSM and some advertisers.
He quickly got up out of his chair, took me by my neck and ushered me out of the room while giving a dirty look to the receptionist. Somebody ended up giving me a quick tour of the station. But I never actually spoke with a PD. And I never heard from them. Suprising, huh?
That same day I drove over to KRMG/KWEN to drop off a tape. This was quite a long time before they were owned by Cox. I went into the building and walked up to the receptionist to get her attention. I gently said "I'm here to see about job openings." She looked up and said in a snotty voice "Excuse me??!!!"
I had apparently interrupted her game of PC solitaire. I said "Never mind", rolled my eyes and walked out the door.
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JournalGuy
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K-Fox also had one of the best signals in the market at the time. (now KJSR) Kick had a horrible signal. KVOO-AM had that inredible 50,000 watt signal with the TRUCKER SHOW that covered 38 states. (long before Journal) Now that was kinda cool. When KWEN went county in the early 80s, the battle for the others was to be the #2 country station.
My next question is when is someone going to go after KMOD? KMYZ should be taking some of that share away. (There is plenty to share) Shamrock has a great opportunity to go after some of the oldies and rock audience. KQLL has left 60s & early 70s wide open. KRTQ left a good opportunity for someone to pick up some active rock product.
This was not a good book for sports talk. Country and Rock wins here.
My next question is when is someone going to go after KMOD? KMYZ should be taking some of that share away. (There is plenty to share) Shamrock has a great opportunity to go after some of the oldies and rock audience. KQLL has left 60s & early 70s wide open. KRTQ left a good opportunity for someone to pick up some active rock product.
This was not a good book for sports talk. Country and Rock wins here.
Re: K-FOX 103.3
That would be them. KTFX was located at 8107 E Admiral Place between a McDonald's and a golf course. Not sure what's there now, but KTFX had at least a logo on the building after moving to 102.3. It seems like that logo remained there long after KTFX was sold to Cox and changed formats.
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. Shortly after I moved to Tulsa, KTFX was still a rock station, and they held the "Great Turtle Race" at the Mall 31 parking lot. I was all of about three or four years old, but I prodded my dad to get us a turtle and enter the race. Our turtle won, and we got a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax and a record each month for a year. At the time, they were located by 61st and Memorial in the same building as Garfield's, though it seems like it may be Varsity or something like that now. We lived at 21st and Sheridan, and it wasn't an easy drive at the time since 169 wasn't completed past 51st, which made traffic along Memorial terrible. Well, we went to the KTFX studios all of about twice as the staff was extremely rude, made us wait forever, and made it pretty clear they didn't want us around. By the way, somewhere at my parents' house is a Fox t-shirt, kiddie-sized, and my parents still have a ton of Turtle Wax in their garage!
When was that? I did an internship at KRMG/KWEN in '92-93, and it almost seems like I had an encounter with the same person!
BehindTheLines said:
That would be them. KTFX was located at 8107 E Admiral Place between a McDonald's and a golf course. Not sure what's there now, but KTFX had at least a logo on the building after moving to 102.3. It seems like that logo remained there long after KTFX was sold to Cox and changed formats.
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. Shortly after I moved to Tulsa, KTFX was still a rock station, and they held the "Great Turtle Race" at the Mall 31 parking lot. I was all of about three or four years old, but I prodded my dad to get us a turtle and enter the race. Our turtle won, and we got a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax and a record each month for a year. At the time, they were located by 61st and Memorial in the same building as Garfield's, though it seems like it may be Varsity or something like that now. We lived at 21st and Sheridan, and it wasn't an easy drive at the time since 169 wasn't completed past 51st, which made traffic along Memorial terrible. Well, we went to the KTFX studios all of about twice as the staff was extremely rude, made us wait forever, and made it pretty clear they didn't want us around. By the way, somewhere at my parents' house is a Fox t-shirt, kiddie-sized, and my parents still have a ton of Turtle Wax in their garage!
When was that? I did an internship at KRMG/KWEN in '92-93, and it almost seems like I had an encounter with the same person!
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BlaineMcDaniel
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Re: K-FOX 103.3
Interesting stories. Good to hear them.
The receptionist in the Cox building now is super cool. Chatty and sweet. She's a good first face to encounter. Cox should be proud they hired her.
Kent said:
Interesting stories. Good to hear them.
The receptionist in the Cox building now is super cool. Chatty and sweet. She's a good first face to encounter. Cox should be proud they hired her.
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BehindTheLines
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That encounter with the snotty receptionist was in the summer of 1992.
She would be proud to know that she had a lasting impact on our lives.
Someone should go down to McDonalds where she's flipping burgers now and ask her if she wishes she would have been more of a professional while she was there.
My guess is that Cox blew her out after they bought the stations. They have a way of weeding out people with negative attitudes. Good for them.
She would be proud to know that she had a lasting impact on our lives.
Someone should go down to McDonalds where she's flipping burgers now and ask her if she wishes she would have been more of a professional while she was there.
My guess is that Cox blew her out after they bought the stations. They have a way of weeding out people with negative attitudes. Good for them.
Back in the 1970s when I worked at KAKC, I had friends who worked at KKUL, then KTFX. They had some amazing stories of the studios on Admiral. At some point, while still basically a top 40 station, the Superfox had its studios at the Falls shopping center in south Tulsa. As I recall, they weren't much to look at, but passersby could view the air personalities at work.
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BehindTheLines
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kxojdj said:
My guess as to why no one is biting on the job is that no one wants to work for Clear Channel. Honestly, who WOULD want to work there? I used to work for CC, Tulsa. It was an absolute nightmare.
I doubt there's anyone at CC, Tulsa who is there because it was their top pick of places to work.
Sorry to sound rude. But CC is on the dreg bottom of the barrel of places to work in this town.
stan said:
I visited KTFX in 1978 at the Falls shopping center, picked up a couple of Superfox 103 bumper stickers and got to chat for a couple of minutes with one of the DJ's. From what I remember they had a big silver RCA control board, two Technics SL-1200 turntables, some mono cart deck and a Tascam reel to reel.. When did they move out?
Hey, guys. I am a Superfox alum. I started p/t before the move to The Falls in '78. The sales and office staff were housed in a double-wide about 50 yards south of 244, near 129th. The studio and prod room were next to that in the lime green blockhouse with the transmitter. There was actually a dirt floor in there. While you were on the air, various creatures of the field would saunter thru! At the Falls, there were plans to create a showplace that never quite panned out, but it was still a great location. The Center was full of restaurants (Tennessee Gin & Cotton Co.), shops, hair salon, etc. Sorry about the bad memories of coming in there, but I remember going thru a parade of receptionists, so little training was probably done.
As far as CC employment, they treated me pretty well in my time there, but how many people have we all know who have been hired, launched a format, and then got shown the door after 6 months or a year? Ouch...
As far as CC employment, they treated me pretty well in my time there, but how many people have we all know who have been hired, launched a format, and then got shown the door after 6 months or a year? Ouch...
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