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New Oldies station coming!

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BossJock1947

I read on another thread about the Twister going oldies. Yes, It's a done deal. Early Jan'07 The Twister IS switching to oldies 60's 70's AND 80's! It will be run by someone BIG out of NYC and the PD will NOT be Chuck Brinkman. "Talks" have been underway with talent from KLUV and another un named station in Houston and Washington DC.

More to come when i hear more....
 
Well I really hope that they will do a better job than they did with memories.
 
I'd guess that this will be another "Sunny 97.1," going head-to-head with KVIL. If 96.7 has any luck with that, it'll surely drive KVIL further towards soft country and Christian to go up against KLTY. 96.7 does skew north, and that's where most of the Memories listeners lived...so maybe those people will return.

If discussions are already going on regarding ABC properties and formats, wonder what other changes Citadel is already "putting on layaway" for December...
 
Is it true that ABC will hold on to a couple of stations? If so, which ones will they keep?
 
I was told the the Consultant and PD has made several "Unofficial" contacts to several people about jobs already but apparently no offers have been extended yet. Could be because it's so far out. (Jan '07) Who knows this may be a smoke screen. I'll know more soon enough. The players are at ABC now and will be with Citadel when everything changes.
 
Well, if true, there is a stable of truly qualified DFW Radio Veterans who could make it work.
Tempie, Chuck Brinkman, plenty of ex KVIL/KLUV jocks, as well as Memories staff.

How Pugs & Kelly remain on air is a bit of a puzzle. Losing their time slot and losing hours on air.
How much longer will CBS radio keep paying them for doing 3 hrs a day. Roth radio was on the air for a solid 4+ a day.
 
It certainly bears watching. NYC? Scott Shannon ( no relation to mike;) perhaps as PD? THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING. I always felt competition between like minded format stations made for good quality radio. I hope it is "true competition" for KLUV(nothing against them over all) . It would make the market exciting once more,instead of the dullness it has now.
 
Seems like an odd choice since the market has never been able to support 2 oldies stations for very long...

If they try 50s-60s oldies, the audience for that has aged out the demos advertisers want (thus the mass shift of oldies stations like KLUV away from it over the last couple of years).

If they opt for less-old stuff, they'll end up playing the same thing as KLUV does now. If they lean a little more rock, it'll be a classic hits outlet like the old KRRW, which again runs into the same problem as KRRW of being squeezed on one side by KZPS and the other by KLUV...


I think it would be interesting to relaunch the country format into something more interesting -- either classic country or Americana. Based on their performance with signals that each basically cover only about a 1/4th of market, either KTFW 92.1 or KHYI 95.3 would clearly do better than what KTYS is doing on the 96.7 facility.

Or maybe try AAA again...KKZN was a pretty mediocre station and 93.3 a poor choice for a facility with that format. If done right, the format might be more viable on something like 96.7.
 
I'm still wandering where this rumor got started, so I can find it and read it
 
Really? What is that? I am up McKinney ways. I get nothing! Is this that station you can hear around the Valley View Mall area? If so it's pretty slick! What is that station?
 
Want 50s/60s Rock 'n Roll...try us: Radio Bop at www.radiobop.com !!

100s of listeners in 50 countries can't get enough of this stuff....

Harold Levine (KGAF-AM-FM 67-71)
Program Director
Radio Bop
www.radiobop.com
50s and 60s Rock 'n Roll without the 70s!
 
60, 70, and 80's competes with KLUV, KZPS, KJKK, and to some extent KDBN. Here's a silly question...Why not try something different like a AAA format tweaked for DFW? Citadel has a few AAA stations. It wouldn't be hard to do what they've already done.
 
50's? What market is that format doing well in? Consider 96.7's signal. A few reasonable choices are improving the current country format (ie less pop country repetition, better imaging, more local artists and "Texas country"), or a flip to classic country. Several posts have mentioned triple a. That might be a winner if the focus was on being freeform and different. Forgive me, but once apon a time, not so long ago, Dallas radio was much more interesting.
 
Formats we don't need any more of:

Country (it was a mistake to put the exact same format on the station directly next door to KSCS to begin with).

Rap/Urban

Any, and I do mean ANY flavor of Spanish. Hopefully Entravision will surprise me and do something non-Spanish with 98.3, but I doubt it.
 
The hole in the market is the format they were doing before The Twister. As I recall, soft pop Memories 96.7 had numbers in the 2 - 2.5 range, heavy on women. Very saleable demos. It was a cheap format to run, and must have been profitable. The late great John LaBella did mornings, taming back his personality.
The flip to the Twister was designed (IMHO) to be defensive against The Wolf, so ABC could chip away at 99.5's younger demos and add the Twister numbers to KSCS's buys.
 
HERE'S THE DEAL THE PERSON THEY ARE TALKING TO FOR MORNING SWORKED THE DFW MARKET FROM 1982-1986..AND....WAS ON 92 1/2 KAFM...STILL SHOWS UP IN CALL OUT RESEARCH 20 YEARS LATER CAN YOU GUESS WHO????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
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