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KXAM going silent?

Scottsdale's only radio station? That's what the AZ Socialist Republic is calling the soon to be late and not so great KXAM. Guess the journalists on Van Buren don't know it's licensed to Mesa with two towers sitting right next to the Mesa Cemetary. Nurse Jeff reminds them that Lumberyard 14~Forty is not only licensed to Scottsdale (along with KSLX), but the last time we checked the Tower of Power was sitting within city limits! Plus it's picking up a bunch of the time brokered talk shows KXAM has been running...so that means fewer nuggets from the Gold Mine! Meanwhile, we smell an end run as surrendering a fulltime license in the Phoenix metro makes as much sense as Michael Crow's decision on honorary degrees! Could it be the Gersons are taking it dark for $$ so a co-channel can power up elsewhere? Or will they pull a page from the KNUV playbook and become the 5th home for Airhead America? The Scottsdale Mesa plot thickens!
 
Here's a link to the latest piece of stellar journalism put out by the
Arizona Socialist Republic mentioned above:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/14/20090414sr-kxam0416.html

I smell Pulitzer Prize for this story--such expert knowledge of local radio! ::)


So when the current 4:30-7pm KXAM show shifts to the Lumberyard,
it'll be real interesting to hear what happens on air around 7:00 for
the rest of this month, especially now that someone finally reset the
lamptimer and 1440 is signing off just before 7.
 
Best of luck, Jeffrey, hopin' for a great new job for you. In answer to one of your questions, I'm happy to say that one of my favorite DJs from many years ago (he was a country DJ then) is the very reason I tune into the station he's on now, and long may the Luvable One last because you're right, it just rarely happens any more.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
Scottsdale's only radio station? That's what the AZ Socialist Republic is calling the soon to be late and not so great KXAM. Guess the journalists on Van Buren don't know it's licensed to Mesa with two towers sitting right next to the Mesa Cemetary. Nurse Jeff reminds them that Lumberyard 14~Forty is not only licensed to Scottsdale (along with KSLX), but the last time we checked the Tower of Power was sitting within city limits! Plus it's picking up a bunch of the time brokered talk shows KXAM has been running...so that means fewer nuggets from the Gold Mine! Meanwhile, we smell an end run as surrendering a fulltime license in the Phoenix metro makes as much sense as Michael Crow's decision on honorary degrees! Could it be the Gersons are taking it dark for $$ so a co-channel can power up elsewhere? Or will they pull a page from the KNUV playbook and become the 5th home for Airhead America? The Scottsdale Mesa plot thickens!
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I forgot all about one John Low and his "1TV.com, Inc." owning several frequencies in between 1240-1340 around Arizona, and his willingness to move KBSZ from Wickenburg to Mesa and KIKO (AM) from Miami to Queen Creek. I wonder if he was involved in the decision of the Gersons to shut down KXAM?
 
For the record... Culinary Confessions has not been a paid program on KXAM for a loooooooooong time.
They have made this station a considerable amount of money in the past.

Second... I think The Bandwagon hosts, Drew and Jordan are good enough to be hired on any sports station.

But before you bash on them calling them a brokered show, think about this:

Just because a company owns a radio show and pays for the time on a radio station, doesn't mean it's a bad show.
Sometimes... people like to make their own money and control their own destiny... as both shows have... they are continuing on and will have continued financial success. When you own your time... you can sometimes make a bunch more money than being just an employee.

Something to think about.
 
....goodbye for now?

..hope we get a chance to entertain and inform you again in the future?

The homepage for KXAM just smells fishy! http://www.kxam.com/ What are Nurse Jeff and I to do for our daily fix of Matt Gerson and Rusty Humphrey? hmmmm...wonder if we can talk the Master Blogger into bringing back the Satellite Sisters on KT'R?
 
No satellite blisters, NO!

I can't believe they are just shutting it down, something smells.
 
From the Republic story, Embee is turning in the license to the FCC? Then I don't think 1TV.com Inc. would be in this picture at all. Then again, this whole thing sounds too weird. As I see it, it's not the way a smart entity would do business, even in this economy.

Thanks, Embee, for serving your city of license so well... (cough-cough-choke!) So much for serving the public interest...
 
Dr. Akbar said:
The homepage for KXAM just smells fishy! http://www.kxam.com/ What are Nurse Jeff and I to do for our daily fix of Matt Gerson and Rusty Humphrey? hmmmm...wonder if we can talk the Master Blogger into bringing back the Satellite Sisters on KT'R?
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And what airs (or aired) between 7-9 PM? According to the website, that slot is neglected...
 
JeffryOBrien said:
Wednesday night as I take the station through it's last moments, I will be remembering how I used to listen to this signal when I first came to the valley in 1984. 1310 was the AM simulcast signal for KZZP. Being a kid from Oregon I had only a little pocket AM that I slipped under my pillow at night so mom wouldn't catch me.... later that year I got an FM boom box... but for awhile... 1310 was how I listened to Top 40 music and Doctor Demento... and now... I get to be the one that has turn the signal off forever.

I do not like that... not even a little. How many people have ever had to do this... shut a signal OFF. It's sad beyond comprehension... a sale would be understandable, or turning this signal off so an adjacent could blossom to a blowtorch... but this... this is the wrong way to lay a perfectly good signal to rest.

To ease the pain... I will take it out the way I found it back in 1984... playing music.

That is all I will say about that at this time...
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In case the website dies prematurely altogether, the link to listen live is:
http://media.kxam.com:8000/kxam.m3u
 
This saddens me.. :'(
I may have to e-mail the good Doc and Nurse Jeff some pics of the KXAM transmitter site circa 1990.
That's if I could find them.
 
Sounds like Laura Ingraham is on right now, and not that "Culinary" show which is scheduled at this time. Will there be any regularly scheduled local programming today?
 
In addition to the two shows going to Lumberyard 1440, the R&R
story linked above also notes Laura Ingraham will move to KFNX
1100 "6-8am live" (her show airs 6-9am PT).

This begs the question--what happens to Don Imus, currently airing
4-8am on KFNX (per their website)?
 
So does anyone know why the Gersons wouldn't let employees buy the station? Was it contractual, ego, pride?

Seems like an ideal solution even if it meant moving the transmitter and studio sites to another location. No one would have lost on the deal, including the people of Phoenix. As it is, everyone loses.

C5
 
Carmine5 said:
So does anyone know why the Gersons wouldn't let employees buy the station? Was it contractual, ego, pride?

Seems like an ideal solution even if it meant moving the transmitter and studio sites to another location. No one would have lost on the deal, including the people of Phoenix. As it is, everyone loses.
C5
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It is more than a little odd. Nobody (as in NOBODY) just turns it off, knocks down the towers, and sends the license back to DC. Best bet is that someone is paying them a chunk of cash for whatever land is involved and they don't know (THEY DON'T KNOW????????) that the license itself--with no land, no building, no studio, no transmitter--can be sold for a tidy sum all by itself. In the nation's 15th largest market? Shoot, I'll give 'em $100 for it! Okay... $200. But that's my last offer!

And in the great range of oddball AM configurations one might encounter in today's jam-packed spectrum, relocating a non-directional 5-kw daytime signal with a two-tower 500-w night array isn't nearly as impossible as it could be. Try finding just the right patch of land for a 9-tower rig...

Hell, Dr. Mike & The Fourth Thoughts are looking for a station. That other guy with the Progressive Radio Dream is looking for a station. And then there's my idea for an Hispanic All Soccer All The Time format. Spanish soccer on the radio--it's the Next Big Thing!
 
What?!?!!??!??!?

Rusty Humphries was still on in Az for all this time and nobody told me?!!?

Not like anyone knew to tell me, but....
SO you mean to say that all this time I was thinking that I should just get over it and forget about Newstalk 1010, I could've still heard him somewhere else?

Oh well.....
Too late now... but looking on the bright side, I'm getting used to KTAR and my Podcasts, which will most likely become my new homes. KFYI was great since the loss of Newstalk 1010m even without Rusty, but I've been drifting away from KFYI, mostly because I need a break from it. KTAR feels more like "home" now.

Well, thanks to Rusty - He was the one who officially got me (back) in to talk radio to the point that I even liked it more than fm radio fro a while.
 
I was starting to enjoy Imus in the morning on my way to work.

Laura Ingraham? Bleah.

Every ten minutes she is OUTRAGED!

Boring radio.
 
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