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bossbill

Here's your opportunity...

Small town living, hunting, fishing, community involvement... be the morning person on the Washington Coast's most-listened-to radio station... first opening in fifteen years. The right person will enjoy interacting with our listeners, being out in the public, involved with community organizations, have a good sense of humor. You will get a regular paycheck and it will never bounce, medical insurance, YMCA membership, and the best damn boss in the world. Send your credentials to [email protected]
 
I'd jump at that in a heartbeat, but public transportation even here in Vancouver leaves a bit to be desired, though it's not too bad. I'm sure it's absolute crap out there if it even exists.
 
Actually, we have public transportation, thanks to government subsidies. Grays Harbor Transit connects with Pacific County Transit and Thurston Transit. Bus routes and minivan service allow most residents to get from point A to point B without a vehicle.

What is missing is the throngs of transit users crowding their way into the buses, and the traffic backups so common in the city.
 
Yes, I know that Grays Harbor Transit is still alive and well. They even have a route for Pacific Beach/Moclips (Rt 50)! Never rode them but saw the bus stop in town a few times when I was there on vacation. Gonna miss Rhys if he's retiring. Too bad KSWW didn't stream...I would have listened to Rhys Davis here and there out of town. A very nice calming on-air personality and he seemed to enjoy supporting the local community (ies). He always had interviews with local people during the morning show.

-crainbebo
 
bossbill said:
Actually, we have public transportation, thanks to government subsidies. Grays Harbor Transit connects with Pacific County Transit and Thurston Transit. Bus routes and minivan service allow most residents to get from point A to point B without a vehicle.

What is missing is the throngs of transit users crowding their way into the buses, and the traffic backups so common in the city.
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Interesting! I'll do some digging and thinking.
 
crainbebo said:
Yes, I know that Grays Harbor Transit is still alive and well. They even have a route for Pacific Beach/Moclips (Rt 50)! Never rode them but saw the bus stop in town a few times when I was there on vacation. Gonna miss Rhys if he's retiring. Too bad KSWW didn't stream...I would have listened to Rhys Davis here and there out of town. A very nice calming on-air personality and he seemed to enjoy supporting the local community (ies). He always had interviews with local people during the morning show.

-crainbebo
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Yes, we regularly do short interviews with local organizations, typically 2-3 per week. We'll normally book them to be on Sunny for several minutes, send them down the hall to The Jet, then if there's an opening, to our KBKW CoffeeTalk program for a longer interview. We archive the CoffeeTalk interviews, on kbkw.com.
 
Wow...an idea that KRWM would never do! Thanks Bill W for keeping it "local" in the mornings over there in Grays Harbor. And the satellite-fed AC programming from Westwood One beats anything that Warm 106.9 would air, or K103 in Portland. Some songs on the sat fed never get played hardly ever on the other ACs like KXXO.
We get Westwood One AC in the southeastern WA area via KQFM 100.1 Hermiston, OR. They, like you, used to be ABC/Citadel AC until the Westwood One takeover last year. Then went right to Westwood One. In Pendleton, there's 92.1 KUMA that I believe is also Westwood One and has been for years. The sister station in La Grande has seemed to quit the satellite feed (KWRL-99.9) and go to a local automated jukebox in the evenings.

-crainbebo
 
Our first opening in 16 years was made official earlier this week. Rhys Davis came to Grays Harbor 37 years ago and never left. We hired him when we put Sunny 102.1 on the air in 1998, and were still originating from downtown Raymond, WA. We need someone who can engage the listeners, and become part of our small community. Aside from the normal stuff, like a paycheck, YMCA membership, medical, free food from listeners, etc., we have one heckuva Christmas Party every year.

Our biggest problem is that there are few opportunities anymore for new talent to grow and gain experience. We don't want to put a beginner on the air in the morning, but that's what Rhys was 37 years ago. We want the person who develops enough to be desired by a larger market station. And if that happens, we just have to convince that person to stay put...
 
Again, I wish the best for Rhys and the whole family at Jodesha Broadcasting. This is a sad time for Grays Harbor! Rhys was a Grays Harbor county institution for a LONG time.
When did KSWW move to the Simpson Ave studios in Aberdeen, from Raymond? Had to be early on...I remember seeing that building in 2006-2007 when KSWW was still on the ABC AC network. Really enjoyed that format. Westwood One is not bad, but it probably won't beat the format that KSWW originally had years ago.
I also remember being in Pacific Beach and years ago the bulletin board channel (ch 6) on Coast Communications would play KSWW's audio in the background. Thought that was interesting. Not sure if Coast still even has that bulletin board channel anymore on 6. Looked like late 1980s graphics...blue and red colors and white lettering.

-crainbebo
 
In 1997 I bought the Raymond station (original KSWW 97.7). In mid 1998 we began simulcasting 97.7 and 102.1. Late 1999, we moved to Aberdeen, took over the KAYO/KBKW studios after KAYO moved to Olympia. A year later I bought the building on Simpson Avenue in Aberdeen. We currently operate my 3 FMs (KSWW, KJET, KANY), KBKW-AM; we added HD to KSWW and operate HD-2, HD-3, and HD-4, all of which also feed FM translators. We have five studios in the building.

Rhys does his program on KSWW (Sunny 102.1) from the front studio with a view of Simpson Avenue.
 
How good are the FM translators going out to the west? I say this because 103.9 was a solid KVAS in parts of Ocean Shores and Westport, pre Quake. That may have screwed up the KVAS signal on the immediate parts of the coast. And with KSWW's HD, the rather strong KCRX 102.3 may have lost some immediate coast coverage. At Pacific Beach, 94.7 was a little weak, but not very bad...also could hear 100.9 (KPLU) and 88.7 (KAWZ) quite well. But no sign of KAHS-LP 106.5. That LPer at Aberdeen High is GONE 2 or 3 miles west of Hoquiam on 109, even though the CSN on 88.7 still goes for miles. Wasn't a bad idea to put KBKW on 100.5...that channel is open for dozens of miles. Wonder how far I could hear it south from Aberdeen.
The 101.1 xlator in Raymond seems to only get out a few miles to the west as well. Last time I drove 105 from Westport, past Tokeland to Raymond, 101.1 was a solid KXL for miles.

-crainbebo
 
For sure, 250 watt FM translators can't fully compete with full-power FM facilities, but they can cover core markets. KVAS is a problem on the coast and we're working on that.
 
I'm not sure when the move to 100.5 was, but when I was down in Ocean Shores in early August KBKW was still on 94.7. I always thought Bill should swap that translator to KGHO in exchange for 92.7, which has almost as good of a signal as KXRO's 101.7. I'm able to get that weakly at my grandpa's place east of Raymond. As for 101.1 I've never tried it out west, but at my grandpa's place 15 miles to the east I can get 101.1 in stereo sometimes on the G8.
 
Bill, any plans for classic rock fans in Raymond/South Bend who listened to the Quake? It was nice to have another static free option in town.
 
A good choice for "The Quake" could be 92.1. It's well open on the coast with only CBU-FM1 in brief faint bursts. That would cover the coast, and then some with 250W. 103.9 has competition with KVAS Ilwaco.
92.7's KGHO translator was not bad out there, as well as the 107.3 (well, that was in Ocean Shores) pre-KANY move. Last time I was at Pacific Beach, 89.5 was without KYAO-LP, so in the absence I heard weak signals of KTCB Tillamook and KNHC Seattle.
From Pacific Beach I had full line of sight (150 miles) to Lincoln City OR on FM...KCRF, KPPT and KYTE all in. No Coos Bay stations at all. In the Lincoln City area, they will come in, maybe with some Portland ones as well.

-crainbebo
 
Unfortunately, there is an existing FM translator in Aberdeen on 92.1. I wish changing translator frequencies were that simple. As a secondary service, FM translator rules are different. Thousands of FM translator frequencies were applied for over ten years ago, all based on frequency assignments at that time. Ten years later, as the FCC pulled their head out and sorted everything, some of us ended up with some of the channels we had applied for a long time ago. For the most part, we had to take what we got. I do have a Construction Permit in Raymond but in the case of The Quake, it is an HD-2 station, and any fill-in translator for it must be within the primary station's contour.
 
Bill: I enjoyed listening to the Quake on 107.9 the many times I visited the Long Beach Peninsula. What are the plans for that signal? Was it sold?
 
107.9 was moved in frequency and location. Now on 107.3 and licensed to Cosmopolis. Bigfoot Hot Country format moved from 93.7 to 107.3...
 
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