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playlist 927 is now AIR1!
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Thomps2525
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The Air 1 Christian music radio network is owned by Educational Media Foundation and is carried on more than 200 stations. If I'm not mistaken, the first Air 1 station was KLRD-90.1 in Yucaipa. They were originally known as "K-Lord" and had studios near the Oak Glen area (famous for its apple orchards and cute little zoo, restaurant and gift shops).
So...three more southern California stations will be satellite-fed instead of live and local. Sigh.
So...three more southern California stations will be satellite-fed instead of live and local. Sigh.
Yep, I turned it on earlier this morning to find another sucky religious station, just what we needed 
At least I knew it was coming, thanks to this board.
Not that PL-92.7 was all that great (or its previous incarnation as Jill-FM), but at least there was some variety! So tired of KOLA and KRTH, there really isn't a decent station in the area anymore. Sooooo many Mexican/Spanish stations, and religious stations, there's nothing left someone my age to listen to. I don't know how many Mexican stations there are in the LA area, but I start to feel like I'm living in a foreign land every time I change stations. I haven't seen even ONE of those stations go the other way on a flip - to oldies or Classic Rock from Spanish. I guess I'll be waiting a long time for that to happen. Hopefully there's so much saturation of those stations they will start killing each other off eventually. The best station for me ATM is KSWD "The Sound", but where I live in Rancho Cucamonga, the signal is too weak high up in the hills.
Anyhoo, I recorded about an hour of Playlist last night on my PC (recorded the stream) just for the heck of it, since I knew it would be gone by today. Now it's just another dead spot on the dial, as far as I'm concerned. I certainly won't be listening to Air1, ever, for any reason. Ah, for the good old days (c.1977) of KMET, KWST "K-West", KNX-FM/KODJ, KEZY, KLSX, or even KIQQ (remember Francesca Cappucci? Loved the way she announced K...I...Q...Q!). We need some kind of retro-stream on HD2 or something us "oldsters" (I'm 55, BTW) can listen to.
At least I knew it was coming, thanks to this board.Not that PL-92.7 was all that great (or its previous incarnation as Jill-FM), but at least there was some variety! So tired of KOLA and KRTH, there really isn't a decent station in the area anymore. Sooooo many Mexican/Spanish stations, and religious stations, there's nothing left someone my age to listen to. I don't know how many Mexican stations there are in the LA area, but I start to feel like I'm living in a foreign land every time I change stations. I haven't seen even ONE of those stations go the other way on a flip - to oldies or Classic Rock from Spanish. I guess I'll be waiting a long time for that to happen. Hopefully there's so much saturation of those stations they will start killing each other off eventually. The best station for me ATM is KSWD "The Sound", but where I live in Rancho Cucamonga, the signal is too weak high up in the hills.
Anyhoo, I recorded about an hour of Playlist last night on my PC (recorded the stream) just for the heck of it, since I knew it would be gone by today. Now it's just another dead spot on the dial, as far as I'm concerned. I certainly won't be listening to Air1, ever, for any reason. Ah, for the good old days (c.1977) of KMET, KWST "K-West", KNX-FM/KODJ, KEZY, KLSX, or even KIQQ (remember Francesca Cappucci? Loved the way she announced K...I...Q...Q!). We need some kind of retro-stream on HD2 or something us "oldsters" (I'm 55, BTW) can listen to.
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Mister SolidGold, I'm guessing you probably listened to KSPA out of Ontario. They had a mix of adult standards and adult contemporary and a much larger playlist than that of KOST. Unfortunately, they switched to a business news format on March 1. Except for Spanish-language and Radio Disney, there isn't much music on AM radio anymore.
If you like '70s music, you can register with Streema.com---it's free---and listen to Sky-FM's All '70s channel: http://streema.com/radios/Sky.fm_All_Hit_70s
If you like '70s music, you can register with Streema.com---it's free---and listen to Sky-FM's All '70s channel: http://streema.com/radios/Sky.fm_All_Hit_70s
LARadioRewind said:
LARR, yes, I have listened to KSPA "The Spa" some in the past (I can see their sticks from my house in the hills in Alta Loma). I liked their "Adult Standards" format. A few years ago, I lived for a while in Las Vegas and really enjoyed KJUL 104.7's "nostalgia" format. I haven't heard anything like it in the LA market, very distinct, so I listen to that station online streaming often.
You're absolutely right, there's little to no music on AM anymore, and FM is heading in the same direction, unless you like Mexican or Christian music. Sadly, I guess I'm just getting old and cranky
not being able to find anything I want to hear on broadcast radio anymore. In my car, I installed a receiver with USB flash drive input and just play what I want to hear from that, and rarely turn on the radio portion anymore. I wasn't in love with Playlist 92.7, but I did like that I could hear almost anything and rarely hear the same song within a day. Not true with KOLA, at least. How many times can I hear "More Than A Feeling" (as much as I love Boston, they did have a lot of other hits) before I switch it off?Thanks for the heads up on the steema.com link, I will certainly check it out!
kn3ick said:
I certainly wish they had. Anything would be better that having another religious station in the market. Maybe sometime in the future they'll sell it off? Was it part of the package with the other two FM's (KLST/KLSI)?
Air 1 is not a religious station. Religion is a system of man-made rules. Air 1 is a Christian CHR station with emphasis on pointing people to Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins.SolidGold16 said:
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Thomps2525
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I've been on other sites where the atheists and agnostics feel compelled to make sure all the Christians know that faith in a Creator is not "scientific" and therefore wrong. The pro and con arguments always escalate into name-calling and neither side ever convinces the other. With that said, I thank you, Mister Scanman, for pointing out that "religion" and "Christianity" are not necessarily synonymous. Unfortunately, a lot of today's contemporary Christian music is more concerned with messages of love and peace and joy than with the messages of sin and its consequences and atonement. Today's music is supposed to make the listener "feel good." I doubt that any contemporary Christian station would ever play, for example, The Old Rugged Cross.
SolidGold16 said:
Since it's an LMA at this point .. We don't know what EMF's plans are yet for the overlap. EMF is very good about divesting properties when they overlap and are not needed...
LARadioRewind said:
Air1's approach with youth is probably the best approach, as Hyms and worship music draw a much older audience.
KSGN for example used to have worship music back in 2002, but only had like 10,000 listeners at best, but when they changed to Christian Contemporary music, their listeners soared, now they hover around 300.000 people a week, and the ratings for the Riverside-San bernardino market place back it up, i also went to KSGN on FB, and they told me they are number 1, with females 25-54 years old!
Cumulus' KRUZ 97.5 Santa Barbara (soon to be Goleta) also started airing EMF's AIR1 format at midnight Friday night.
This was initially announced on August 31st (http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/70242/cumulus-emf-swap-stations/).
This was initially announced on August 31st (http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/70242/cumulus-emf-swap-stations/).
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Thomps2525
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According to the KRUZ Facebook page (which will remain up so fans can say goodbye), the AC format can still be heard at www.kruz.com -- but that link now goes to WKRU-106.7 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
kn3ick said:
CBS is selling its small market stations, and rumor has it that the whole radio division may eventually be sold.
Victorville is not a "good" radio market, and few operators want to buy stations there.
EMF can put Air1 on one signal and K Love on the other, perhaps. Or, as others have suggested, they may sell it... or perhaps re-engineer it again to go somewhere else.
In any case, it is pretty obvious that the deal with Amaturo was for the trio.
DavidEduardo said:
In most of these deals it's a "buy one, must buy all" sorta thing... so even if EMF has overlap or no need for one of the signals they would have to purchase to get the signals they want. I am guessing they'll divest of KXRD 89.5 if they can't put KLove on it or move it.
FM is going the way of AM: Music stations slowly vanish as 12-34s adopt new ways to consume music (Pandora, Spotify, other future innovations we can't imagine yet). What's left is a ghost town of minority and religious broadcasters, with 2-3 music stations and KFI/KNX tossed in there.
Just like nature, the weakest ones get eaten first. RIP 92.7
Just like nature, the weakest ones get eaten first. RIP 92.7
Religion = Superstition
Deep down I've always hoped it would go Dance... however, as a Christian, I like this too. I've been somewhat of a fan of the Air 1 network since I first came across it in 2003.
I'm not sure which would make more sense, to flip 92.7 or 89.5 in Victorville to K-Love or sell, because 92.7 overlaps with a translator in the Inland Empire on 92.7 which Air 1 has already owned. 89.5 overlaps with their other station KAIB in Bakersfield in the Antelope Valley up to Mojave out to Gorman etc, and it's also 1 click away from their station at 89.7 which covers Ridgecrest and the Antelope Valley.
I speculate that they may consider moving 92.7 in Victorville to Calico Peak near Barstow, to give them some highway coverage between there and their Vegas station 89.3, it won't totally close the gap, but it'll definitely help a bit. 92.7 in Vegas doesn't go too far south on the 15, I think it's pretty much gone by Mountain Pass.
I'm not sure which would make more sense, to flip 92.7 or 89.5 in Victorville to K-Love or sell, because 92.7 overlaps with a translator in the Inland Empire on 92.7 which Air 1 has already owned. 89.5 overlaps with their other station KAIB in Bakersfield in the Antelope Valley up to Mojave out to Gorman etc, and it's also 1 click away from their station at 89.7 which covers Ridgecrest and the Antelope Valley.
I speculate that they may consider moving 92.7 in Victorville to Calico Peak near Barstow, to give them some highway coverage between there and their Vegas station 89.3, it won't totally close the gap, but it'll definitely help a bit. 92.7 in Vegas doesn't go too far south on the 15, I think it's pretty much gone by Mountain Pass.
henry said:
Just image this in San Fran, the weak leak KREV also on 92.7 go Air 1 or K-love
Talk/News 106.9, 99.7, Sports 105.3, 95.7
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