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R.I.P. KWFM

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Smiths and Smittys

With all the recent format changes Tucson is with out the KWFM call letters. It appears that 1450's call letters are now KTZR. Those who have been here longer will know all the history that went with KWFM. A very sad slow death for what was once a great Rock and Roll station and a pretty good Oldies station. Regardless of how you felt about the station during its time here, there is something very sad about this. Time keeps on slippin, slippin into the future....
 
So, the ratty van parked out in the parking lot at Oracle & Ft. Lowell that still has Cool 1490 plastered all over it might get a new wrap job?!

Audition channel to CC- might wanna park it close to the building during the next holiday if you're not getting rid of it anytime soon...that was pathetic! :p
 
Any smart thinking GM in Tucson would immediately try to get the calls. Same story with KCUB, Slone dropped the calls and they were picked up in Texas on an FM, Slone lucked out and got them back, so there was a KCUB-FM in Ranger, TX and KCUB-AM in Tucson. Also KCEE calls were dropped and of course Jim Slone was smart enough to grab them. Like I said, any GM in Tucson with any sense will make a grab for those calls, who knows, maybe Lotus or Cumulus or Journal? Even better would be a GM that not only grabbed the calls, but put back some sort of format similar to the original KWFM.
 
Call letters are nostalgic for people in radio. They aren't for listeners. A pretty good majority of Arbitron diary mentions are frequency only. Most of the reason call letters mean something these days is for advertising agencies who buy radio so they can differentiate one station from another.

Enjoy the nostalgia... but understand the general public doesn't get it.
 
hotdogsrule said:
Call letters are nostalgic for people in radio. They aren't for listeners.
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I disagree - at least for us *ahem* old timers. Calls for a lot of radio and TV stations indicated information for their location, ownership, purpose and were as much of an identify as a station could have in those old days. "Branding" was in its infancy back then and calls were the primary way of identifying the station.
 
Any smart thinking GM in Tucson would immediately try to get the calls

Thanks bobjlv.

With all the hate & negativity toward Dawn Avalon and Alan Michaels lately, your post made me smile.
 
I don't know Dawn Avalon at all, but Alan Michaels is beyond reproach. Anyone that even remotely has anything negative to say about him as far as his reputation and dedication to this community can kiss my grits. What is it with the mean spirited people in this town anymore? There's only one low level scumbag I have ever come across in all my years in Tucson radio. I wont mention his last name, but it was the opposite of "wrong". I hear he ended up being an ambulance chaser in Los Angeles.
Clear Channel royally screwed Alan Michaels, then again they'd screw anyone, wouldn't they? Alan had the dignity to NEVER utter anything bad about them to anyone, he just stayed positive and moved on. I wish positive things for Alan, and I know he will make positive things happen in this town. When anyone trashes Alan, they can bet I'm singing that old Merle Haggard song "The Fightin' Side of Me"
 
bobjlv said:
I don't know Dawn Avalon at all, but Alan Michaels is beyond reproach. Anyone that even remotely has anything negative to say about him as far as his reputation and dedication to this community can kiss my grits.
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Haven't gotten negative vibes towards Alan from these threads at all. More like "watch out what you're getting into!" warnings for him. What's the old adage about sleeping with skunks?
 
I lived in Tucson from 1992-2010. As much as I understand how some people value call letters, etc...I am a radio junky and I don't even remember KWFM. Most people do not/will not. Despite its history, it's still Tucson, AZ, not New York. It's time to move on from this.
 
Maybe it is a legacy thing. I left Tucson in 1979 but remember KWFM from trips down there.

Calls and frequency were always the foremost identification of a station in the old days although branding was beginning to take off. I'll always remember:

KTKT "Color Radio 99" "Radio Free Tucson"
 
2Son said:
I lived in Tucson from 1992-2010. As much as I understand how some people value call letters, etc...I am a radio junky and I don't even remember KWFM. Most people do not/will not.
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You're right.

The original use and legacy for the KWFM call was in the 1970's - see here:

http://www.las-solanas.com/kwfm/history.php
 
Hate answering my own post, but...

kwthom said:
The original use and legacy for the KWFM call was in the 1970's - see here:

http://www.las-solanas.com/kwfm/history.php
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Had some time to listen to the KWFM retrospective... http://las-solanas.com/kwfm/reunion_2010.php

Thanks for doing that & especially thanks for archiving it on the web page, really brought back some fond memories.


Oh, yeah, we were chatting out the current incarnation of the radio station that uses those calls today. :p
 
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