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News From Monterey Bay...

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

The Dial-Global Good Time Oldies format on KOMY/1340 in Santa Cruz (licensed to lovely La Selva Beach) has been pulled off the air, and KOMY is currently simulcasting co-owned KSCO/1080. I had a long talk with Michael Zwerling this morning, and he says the simulcast is only temporary.

Meanwhile, KIDD (Magic 63) in nearby Monterey has dropped its Adult Standards format, and will re-launch as Oldies 630 on Monday morning (April 6), playing "the greatest hits of all time":

http://www.Oldies630.com/

I heard from KIDD morning man Mike Cleary this afternoon, who confirmed he will no longer be doing the sunrise shift -- but will be doing promos, spots, spec spots and remotes for the station.

"It's nice to still be involved and wonderful to think that I can now sleep in," he told me.

In addition to Mike Cleary, Magic 63 had featured Sean O'Callaghan, another 1960s KYA alumnus, and the station had been consulted by Clark Reid, who directed KABL (960 AM and 92.1 FM) in its final iteration under Clear Channel.
 
>>The Dial-Global Good Time Oldies format on KOMY/1340 in Santa Cruz (licensed to lovely La Selva Beach) has been pulled off the air, and KOMY is currently simulcasting co-owned KSCO/1080.>>

Too bad, I liked that station. Listened to it on my visits there.
 
Maybe Zwerling will pick up the "Standards" format KIDD abandoned...
;D

P.S. - the simulcasting of 1080 - whatta waste of KOMY's signal...
--jay
 
I say bring back the standards back on KSCO like they had in the late 80's when I was there. They used to the Transtar Network at the time. Sounded good then.
 
jprg said:
I say bring back the standards back on KSCO like they had in the late 80's when I was there.
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Of all the various scenarios that could happen, that is the one scenario that won't happen. KSCO's infotalk format is firmly entrenched on 1080.

They used to the Transtar Network at the time. Sounded good then.
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I think that the format you mentioned, Transtar's "AM Only," is now Dial Global's "America's Best Music." A good choice, but the odds are against it happening it on KOMY.
 
Hi Folks:

Too bad about Mike Cleary. He is such a great radio personality. I have listened to Magic 63 before. It went too deep into the playlist for me. In contrast, KABL didn't go deep enough.

Mike
 
What a dunder-head move!

They were at a 2.8 last summer?? So they trended down in the last books?...That's how this market is.

Monterey/Carmel/Pebble Beach is chock-full-of KIDD faithfuls and has the Demos for this format.

What makes them think that Oldies on AM is going to work? Doesn't in most other places? Adult Standards or News/Talk are the only things that seem to work on AM anymore?

What a mistake!!
 
radioman148 said:
Panic is controlling the radio industry.
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I realize that you deal only in one-line non sequiturs, but I have to ask: where is the "panic" as it relates to this thread?

The owner(s) of KOMY/1340 didn't make a decision in panic; they knew this was coming for months and months. They have several options that they are mulling over; in my conversation with MZ on Sunday, he said he was in no hurry at all to make a decision.

He thinks that going the route they did with Jones/Dial-Global was a bad decision. He wants to make sure that he makes a better decision this time around.

As for KIDD, in dropping Magic 63 for Oldies 630, there was nothing in their decision that sounds like it was made in panic. They were obviously aware of the situation in the market, and they decided that they could improve their own situation by dropping Adult Standards.

Meanwhile, according to a post in ba.broadcast:

David Kimball et al have lost KRML 1410 to their bank. The station is in foreclosure and the word is that the bank will liquidate the station. ... KRML is currently operating illegally - no remote control, no legal id's and no eas tests. Their studio and store have been shut down in downtown Carmel and the way the station is staying on the air is thru a 5-tray CD player at the xmtr.

They have not powered down at sunset for months as required by their license.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
radioman148 said:
Panic is controlling the radio industry.
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I realize that you deal only in one-line non sequiturs, but I have to ask: where is the "panic" as it relates to this thread?

The owner(s) of KOMY/1340 didn't make a decision in panic; they knew this was coming for months and months. They have several options that they are mulling over; in my conversation with MZ on Sunday, he said he was in no hurry at all to make a decision.

He thinks that going the route they did with Jones/Dial-Global was a bad decision. He wants to make sure that he makes a better decision this time around.

As for KIDD, in dropping Magic 63 for Oldies 630, there was nothing in their decision that sounds like it was made in panic. They were obviously aware of the situation in the market, and they decided that they could improve their own situation by dropping Adult Standards.

Meanwhile, according to a post in ba.broadcast:

David Kimball et al have lost KRML 1410 to their bank. The station is in foreclosure and the word is that the bank will liquidate the station. ... KRML is currently operating illegally - no remote control, no legal id's and no eas tests. Their studio and store have been shut down in downtown Carmel and the way the station is staying on the air is thru a 5-tray CD player at the xmtr.

They have not powered down at sunset for months as required by their license.
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Sad news about KRML. A bit of historical trivia - KRML was the station where disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) worked in the 1971 film Play Misty for Me. Jessica Walter has given me the creeps ever since.

As for standards formats - if the Oldies format is dying, the audience for Standards has got to be (almost literally) dead.
 
Yes very sad about KMRL. One of the last commercial jazz stations around. Looks like the web site is still running though.
 
Lkeller said:
Sad news about KRML. A bit of historical trivia - KRML was the station where disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) worked in the 1971 film Play Misty for Me. Jessica Walter has given me the creeps ever since.
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And, in honor of that connection, KRML's most recent schedule included "Misty Red" (weekdays 10 PM to midnight) and "Misty Blonde" (weekdays midnight to 7 AM).

The station and "company store" are (were?) located in the Eastwood Building at San Carlos and Fifth streets in Carmel ... known as "The World Headquarters For Jazz."

As for standards formats - if the Oldies format is dying, the audience for Standards has got to be (almost literally) dead.
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...And how's Jazz doing? Any pulse at all as a commercial format?
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Lkeller said:
Sad news about KRML. A bit of historical trivia - KRML was the station where disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) worked in the 1971 film Play Misty for Me. Jessica Walter has given me the creeps ever since.
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And, in honor of that connection, KRML's most recent schedule included "Misty Red" (weekdays 10 PM to midnight) and "Misty Blonde" (weekdays midnight to 7 AM).

The station and "company store" are (were?) located in the Eastwood Building at San Carlos and Fifth streets in Carmel ... known as "The World Headquarters For Jazz."

As for standards formats - if the Oldies format is dying, the audience for Standards has got to be (almost literally) dead.
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...And how's Jazz doing? Any pulse at all as a commercial format?
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I would say NO. The problem with public radio is that after awhile, you get used to the lack of commercials. Because of NPR, I haven't been able to listen to clutter-filled commercial news stations (KCBS or the KGO news blocks) for awhile now. It's just too irritating.

It's been a decade or more since KJAZ left us, and I've been listening to real jazz on KCSM, and more recently KKSF-HD2. I doubt I could make the switch back.
 
Adult Standards dead?

Take a look at the ratings in Las Vegas & Tucson (both signal packed) and full of elderlys (like the Monterey Area) and tell me how dead this format is?

Tucson has 2 AM stations that are neck and neck with a combined 4.4 share! Vegas' is on FM!
 
Regarding KRML-1410, I recall they had a CP many years ago, maybe in the 1980s to increase power to 5,000 watts, but I guess they could never afford to build the antennas and DA set-up. Also, KRML has illegally run 500 watts at night for at least 10 or 15 years!!! Not months! I guess the FCC doesn't have the manpower or care about such violations anymore...Same with KSCO 1080, illegally running 1,000 watts non-directional at night for several years, when they're suppsoed to be 5 kw with a DA! Also, KRML has had transmitter problems on and off in the last few months, and I've heard them off the air for several days at one point.
Anyway, end of an era if they go dark. They had been getting out a bit better on 1410 since 1380 in Salinas went dark in the fall of 2004.

About KIDD-630, the ratings have always been pretty good. I heard the format change from pop standards to rock oldies came from corporate owners, Buckley Broadcasting in New York, due to lower ad revenue, blamed on the aging listenening audience. KIDD-"Oldies 630" will however keep longtime DJ Ed Dickinson with his Big Band Way Back Now Show on Sat. and Sunday mornings, 8 am to noon...Ed, in his 80s, has been with KIDD about 14 years with his show and has done this show for about every AM in the Monterey area since 1959; he started in Monterey in 1952 at KMBY-1240 when it was owned by Bing Crosby.

Jim Hilliker
Monterey
 
A quick PS on Magic 63-KIDD beocming Oldies 630. I saw the item on KPIG making cutbacks, etc. KIDD-Magic 63 made staff cutbacks letting 2 or 3 air personalities go a month or two ago, due to the economy,
including Lee Durley's 7 pm-mdnight show. So, I don't think KIDD was responding to any changes made at KOMY/KSCO, there were already troubles at Magic 63 taking place in lower revenue from spots, especially national spots, so Buckley decided to make a change. Anyway, that's how I see it, but who know. Also, the phone has been ringing off the hook since Monday morning at the KIDD-KWAV-97 FM complex, with angry seniors very mad about the change from Magic 63 music to rock oldies!! They had a lot of loyal listeners to that station for nearly 15 years.

Jim Hilliker
 
Interesting to know that Bing Crosby owned that station way back when. Radio is in deep deep deep trouble. I fear its going to get a lot worse before it gets better. No wonder no one cares about the power issues with all of these stations.
 
Isn't KOMY the station that screwed with John Mac Flanagan? He was going to make a return to live radio. Then they pulled the rug out from under him?
 
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