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KVI is Oldies

I'm glad to hear about a new AM Oldies station, I hope KVI adds some local jocks and promote the heck out of it.

But I'm disappointed with the music. KVI needs to add a few 50's and rarities into the mix like Scott Shannon's True Oldies or Crusin' 950 in Denver does. Just playing the same Classic Hits when there's an FM in the market (KJR) already doing the same will fail.

The webstream sounds like has a independent processor on it, the cut-in PSA's and KOMO promos to cover up the local spots are also heavily processed.
 
That by far is the worst music radio station I have ever heard in my entire 60 years. With all the choices available by would anybody spend more than 2 minutes listen to that crap. Absolutely the worst. Why would radio management think they could draw in a listenership with something that sounds worse that 2 tin cans and a string?

K
 
How do you really feel about the new format? don't hold back.

KCRadionut said:
That by far is the worst music radio station I have ever heard in my entire 60 years. With all the choices available by would anybody spend more than 2 minutes listen to that crap. Absolutely the worst. Why would radio management think they could draw in a listenership with something that sounds worse that 2 tin cans and a string?

K
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Now that is more like this board. Rip into a station that is trying something new. At least they are filling a void in the market, there are at least 3-4 conservative talk stations, 770 AM, 620 AM and a lot of 97.3 fm come to mind. Do we really need more?

On KVI Heard Elvis today and something else from 50's plus a song called Dizzy that I couldn't place era wise. That was just punching in and out. KVI is nothing like KJR which I actually like better. KJR is heavy on Bruce Springsteen, Heart, John Cougar Mellancamp (great older songs) with a tiny bit of 60s'. To my ear KVI is primarily lots of sixties and early seventies with the random 50's or 80's cut. I hope the jocks are live. That would actually be cool, except for the poster who liked Hannity. I wonder if KTTH will pick him up?
 
kcradionut: "by far worst music radio station ive heard in 60 years"

hahahahaaaaa......someone please play that 60 year old a few minutes of the rap-hop jive on KUBE.

i then would expect kcradionut to come back and post: KVI is no longer the worst music radio station in 60 years.

but, overall mostly positive comments on this thread on KVI so far......

but, just remember KVI/fisher, muisc burn out, can, and will eventually kill your station. keep the rotations adjusted regularly, and yes, you can go deep here and there amongst thousands of chart songs. you should also consider a few specialty fri, sat, or sun night music shows such as all requests, or all 50's, or 60's,70's, or select a year showcase, etc. we know you can do it KVI. dont burn out!!! ie: aint no one gonna change the channel cause you played floy joy, by the supremes, instead of baby love...get my drift mr music director man.

-truckin' bozo radio consultants inc.
 
Sorry for my regional chauvinism, but there was only one great music station on 570 AM and that was WMCA New York! "Fabulous 57 with the Good Guys!" "First with the hits, first with the news, first on your dial! WMCA!" "WMCA Yeah! Yeah!" That was the 1960s, when AM radio reigned supreme!

KVI seems to be playing a mix of oldies that are usually found on classic hits stations. That music seems better suited to FM. IMHO, KVI could carve out a true niche for themselves if they stuck to a mix of oldies from about 1955-70, the true "golden age" of top 40 radio on the AM band. That would give listeners are reason to hit the AM button on their car radios and lock a preset to 570, the music they can't find on FM anymore. :)
 
radioguy39nj said:
KVI seems to be playing a mix of oldies that are usually found on classic hits stations. That music seems better suited to FM. IMHO, KVI could carve out a true niche for themselves if they stuck to a mix of oldies from about 1955-70, the true "golden age" of top 40 radio on the AM band. That would give listeners are reason to hit the AM button on their car radios and lock a preset to 570, the music they can't find on FM anymore. :)
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And I think it's a mistake for KVI to run "jockless" for a few weeks. People hear about the station, but then tune in to hear just a playlist of songs with no DJ's.. and then never tune back. They should have had the DJ's ready to go the first day on the air.

If KVI runs oldies on the cheap with safe & tested music, voice tracked DJ's and little if any promotion it will ultimately fail.
 
Enjoying the new KVI north of the border too. With 600 now dark they blast up here interference free in the daytime (nights are a different story though). Can't wait until the live voices hit the air after Christmas.

What gives with the Talk programming remaining on the weekends though? That's a deterrent in my opinion.
 
I tried 570 on Monday on the way home from work and heard "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees. Forgot how much I actually liked thatsong. Felt good, and the signal is clear and strong all over the region. But then a Jackson 5 song came on that I could have done without, and I dialed away for a few minutes.

I wonder if our modern intolerance for anything outside a limited sphere of taste will result in a lot of tune outs, or if listeners will be more open to variety, as we were back in the day when there were fewer stations and this more "mainstream" pop format was only on one or two stations. Would be fun to also hear the old jingles and stuff mixed in, instead of the "monster killer pro wrestler" voicers they're using, just to really stand out and make the AM signal sound like it's a plus as it recreates some of the fun of the format from when it was new, instead of making the AM signal seem like a compromise for the format. You know, the way we originally heard all of this great pop music when it first aired on AM radio "back in the day."

A little more soul and some of the R&B that was only heard on the "race" stations in the 1960s would be a real plus to enhance the format, in my opinion, and give us something "new" when we hear the original versions of songs that later became more famous by the white cover artists. There are some great compilation CDs out there with classic early pop and soul music on 'em. Hope they get to mix in some of that on KVI as well, even if only on a weekend speciality show. Maybe some trivia contests on the weekend and other "old school" interactive stuff, too, to make it fun.
 
Not to mention some real Seattle classics like The Sonics, The Wailers, Springfield Rifle, etc. would sound good in the mix.
 
Dan said:
Enjoying the new KVI north of the border too. With 600 now dark they blast up here interference free in the daytime (nights are a different story though). Can't wait until the live voices hit the air after Christmas.

What gives with the Talk programming remaining on the weekends though? That's a deterrent in my opinion.
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My guess is there are some contracts and/or advertising deals that were hard to cancel. If this is indeed a cost-cutting move, then it would be cheaper just to run those programs out than try and pay them off.

As for trying to make the format unique and local, there is more risk in doing that. I think KVI is in "safe mode" with this format...meaning the 350-400 best testing oldies from 1964 to 1983 or so. More of the same, ho hum.
 
searadiofreak said:
Dan said:
Enjoying the new KVI north of the border too. With 600 now dark they blast up here interference free in the daytime (nights are a different story though). Can't wait until the live voices hit the air after Christmas.

What gives with the Talk programming remaining on the weekends though? That's a deterrent in my opinion.
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My guess is there are some contracts and/or advertising deals that were hard to cancel. If this is indeed a cost-cutting move, then it would be cheaper just to run those programs out than try and pay them off.

As for trying to make the format unique and local, there is more risk in doing that. I think KVI is in "safe mode" with this format...meaning the 350-400 best testing oldies from 1964 to 1983 or so. More of the same, ho hum.
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If the powers-that-be are smart, they'll expand the playlist to include no less than 2,000 titles, and even that's probably a bit lame.
 
Bongwater said:
All in all, KVI has something going. Or at least more than it had. I really think KVI should have quit talk the day they lost Limbaugh. Very few former Limbaugh affiliates survive without him and it would have been cheaper and far more painless just to flip altogether.
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I could think of one exception to this rule - at least as of right now - with that being Baltimore's WBAL which is doing as well if not better than when they had Rush with an intensive news/talk format with drive times being almost all-news.
 
klutch00 said:
searadiofreak said:
Dan said:
Enjoying the new KVI north of the border too. With 600 now dark they blast up here interference free in the daytime (nights are a different story though). Can't wait until the live voices hit the air after Christmas.

What gives with the Talk programming remaining on the weekends though? That's a deterrent in my opinion.
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My guess is there are some contracts and/or advertising deals that were hard to cancel. If this is indeed a cost-cutting move, then it would be cheaper just to run those programs out than try and pay them off.

As for trying to make the format unique and local, there is more risk in doing that. I think KVI is in "safe mode" with this format...meaning the 350-400 best testing oldies from 1964 to 1983 or so. More of the same, ho hum.
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If the powers-that-be are smart, they'll expand the playlist to include no less than 2,000 titles, and even that's probably a bit lame.
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Well, a 2,000 title playlist might be interesting to music historians, but not the mainsteam. It simply won't happen. However, I might listen to it!
 
billyg said:
radioguy39nj said:
KVI seems to be playing a mix of oldies that are usually found on classic hits stations. That music seems better suited to FM. IMHO, KVI could carve out a true niche for themselves if they stuck to a mix of oldies from about 1955-70, the true "golden age" of top 40 radio on the AM band. That would give listeners are reason to hit the AM button on their car radios and lock a preset to 570, the music they can't find on FM anymore. :)
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And I think it's a mistake for KVI to run "jockless" for a few weeks. People hear about the station, but then tune in to hear just a playlist of songs with no DJ's.. and then never tune back. They should have had the DJ's ready to go the first day on the air.

If KVI runs oldies on the cheap with safe & tested music, voice tracked DJ's and little if any promotion it will ultimately fail.
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HUGE mistake launching before being prepared.

RR
 
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