Maybe the Ohana media group is failing with its "Good Times and Classic Hits." Their website has removed all promotional material for the station - including the listen live link http://www.classichitsq1045.com/ Maybe they'll be the next left-wing talk outlet replacing KPTK. You don't need a good processor for talk radio.
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Molre changes at 104.5???
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Funny you should mention....Yesturday morning actually, from 3am to about 6am, they fell back to the old "All Songs of the 60s & 70s" spots on their automation software. An error? Or sign of things to come??
Doesn't look like a format change after all -- They just updated the website and re-installed the link to the player. Back to the same burned-out 200 "good times and great oldies". I've switched over to www.vinylradionw.com
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KMCQ's website still says "under maintainence" like it has for several days.
The website is back up and running at www.classichitsq1045.com. We had a need to make some changes to admin side of the site which required us to take it down for brief period of time. Concerning the size of the playlist...it's well over 600 songs...in fact quite a bit larger than that. And about the old imaging airing in the middle of the night...the automation reverted to an old log due to a path problem inside the system...something that has happened to many a station...all fixed now. Thank you for listening....
Wolf2 - Wish I was still listening to 104.5, but Brown Eyed Girl and Moondance are not draws for me. Even as far away as Anchorage 20 years ago, those songs had gotten stale and lost their hip factor. I'm sure they are for many others in Seattle whose tastes are plain and will listen to the same "tailgate party hits" from time to time. I suppose they don't care much about what they eat (Dick's drive in would be gourmet) or how their houses look (a rambler don't need no paint!) - but as someone who has eclectic tastes and enjoys music as a foreground activity at times, and at other times as an accompanyment to reading, driving, or visiting with friends, the same 600 songs over and over and over again don't work so well for me. i come to the radio to expand my world, not just echo what I already have in my own music colleciton. And my TSL can be a lot longer than ten minutes, if I use the radio at night and weekends at home instead of TV for company. But listening has to be worth the investment in time, and not just like listening to the same songs, as if they were repeats of the same old third rate sitcoms again. (Disclaimer: I do enjoy Mary Tyler Moore on RTV on KVOX-TV now! But watching MTM and Dick Van Dyke are comparable to the thousands of oldies songs you purged from KMCQ.)
And since your featuring the same 600 songs I can hear on several other stations from now to kingdom come, or a format change, there's nothing at all special or attractive anymore about KMCQ, as I hear it. Great music is limitless, but it has become extremely rare to find a broadcaster who knows the magic in mixing music, even genres, and making segues and personality work to weave it all together into something greater than the sum of its parts. Especially if they can't copy in toto what someone else on the dial is already doing. What a self-congratulatory yawn the commercial radio industry has turned into.
Adding, or switching, to a lot of what KPTK will be dropping would boost loyalty for the station quite a lot, I think. But you have to give it more than three months to catch on, and promote it in different venues. And pay attention to "tune out cues" during station breaks. That takes more work than running a computerized playlist of 600 songs forever and ever, even if you end up depending on satellite feeds for everything. But plenty of people will love you for it. They just have to know you're there.
And since your featuring the same 600 songs I can hear on several other stations from now to kingdom come, or a format change, there's nothing at all special or attractive anymore about KMCQ, as I hear it. Great music is limitless, but it has become extremely rare to find a broadcaster who knows the magic in mixing music, even genres, and making segues and personality work to weave it all together into something greater than the sum of its parts. Especially if they can't copy in toto what someone else on the dial is already doing. What a self-congratulatory yawn the commercial radio industry has turned into.
Adding, or switching, to a lot of what KPTK will be dropping would boost loyalty for the station quite a lot, I think. But you have to give it more than three months to catch on, and promote it in different venues. And pay attention to "tune out cues" during station breaks. That takes more work than running a computerized playlist of 600 songs forever and ever, even if you end up depending on satellite feeds for everything. But plenty of people will love you for it. They just have to know you're there.
Wolf - Thanks for replying to the thread. Do you know if Charlie Dreifuss will ever spring for the new processor he committed to? The audio quality is half your battle
Re: More changes at 104.5???
Now that I see someone on this board works for KMCQ, I'd just like to say I'm a hater of the station now. Sure the imaging is fine but you're all over the place musically-speaking spanning 2 or (or 3) generations. It's a station for everybody.......or nobody. I think you're on in our office workroom but nobody seems to really care, just that it's the least offensive station that everyone can tolorate. Most of us are in our 30's, 40's and 50's. But we're not "active listening" and we're not listening to your commericials.
HOWEVER, I admit that I haven't tuned in much since the change from earlier in the year, so I'll take a listen and give you another shot. I used to enjoy KMCQ very much.
Now that I see someone on this board works for KMCQ, I'd just like to say I'm a hater of the station now. Sure the imaging is fine but you're all over the place musically-speaking spanning 2 or (or 3) generations. It's a station for everybody.......or nobody. I think you're on in our office workroom but nobody seems to really care, just that it's the least offensive station that everyone can tolorate. Most of us are in our 30's, 40's and 50's. But we're not "active listening" and we're not listening to your commericials.
HOWEVER, I admit that I haven't tuned in much since the change from earlier in the year, so I'll take a listen and give you another shot. I used to enjoy KMCQ very much.
Wonder if they will go Christmas to battle KRWM. I remember KJR-FM did it a few years ago and got big numbers, not as big as KRWM, but pretty strong. Given KJR-FM's troubles I wonder if they might go All Christmas as well.
I still hit KMCQ occasionally if they are playing a song I like, but not like before the switch. KGHO is much better for oldies - when I can get it. A replacement for KPTK would be great, there are a lot of liberals in the NW, KPTK had decent ratings, but a similar station on FM could do even better.
Re: More changes at 104.5???
If you cross your eyes and squint a little, you can see the word FAN in there.
If you cross your eyes and squint a little, you can see the word FAN in there.
Ever notice they say "call letters are irrelevant". And then when a stations changes formats, they change the call letters too? So apparently, they ARE important in some way. Because SOMEBODY made the effort of selecting them and filing the paperwork to change them. If they are just a mere top of the hour technicality, what's the point in changing them anyway?
I've had a lot of people on these boards argue otherwise, but this is the biggest disproof of the entire "call letters are irrelevant" argument.
I've had a lot of people on these boards argue otherwise, but this is the biggest disproof of the entire "call letters are irrelevant" argument.
Re: More changes at 104.5???
Looks more like K-Funk to me.Shiny Knob said:
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