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Radio Disney exits the IE

R

RadioFanBoy

Clear Channel has flipped KKDD-AM 1290 to
"Good News Radio" with a contemporary Christian music format. This one really is out of the blue! Radio Disney just had one of the 'Grand Prize' winners from this market, and until recently, a station van could easily seen out and about. Don't know if CC Riverside is still running 1290 or if they LMA'd it out to the people that run 89.7 fm (who now go by the moniker "Family Friendly" but ownership still says 'Good News Radio'). Or this could be just a temporary stunt until a genuine new format is in place.
 
I think KDIS 1110AM comes in just fine in the Riverside area during the day. At night the power is dropped. Certian parts of Orange county cant get it either. I actually forgot Radio Disney is still around.
 
Jeez, finally someone noticed! :eek: I've been wondering if I was the only one that ever listened to Disney on 1290, and I live just south of El Cajon, not in the IE! They were my preferred Disney station, even though KDIS and KMIK both have much better signals at my house, because they didn't run IBOC and had analog audio to at least 8 kHz. Last I looked a few days ago, their wikipedia page and Radio Disney's site and wikipedia all still said 1290 KKDD is Radio Disney.

They had dropped disney a few months ago, switching to a simulcast of 99.1 KGGI. I found this out while on a bus en route (via Santa Ana, etc) to an appointment at LLU dental school. I had been listening to 1110, switched over to 1290 cause 1110's signal was dying in the bus, then dozed a while. (I had stayed up late the previous night, and the signals were just barely cracking the noise level on my PL-606.) When I woke up hearing something on 1290 that definitely was NOT Radio Disney, I nearly thought I had died and gone to hell! What happened to my RD music?!? I was wanting to listen to them on my radio to keep my mind off the dental work. Data service is nearly non-existent in the dental school on my phone. I did have music locally on my phone, but I really wanted to use the radio and save my phone's battery.
BTW when I went again a few weeks ago, they had flipped to Good News Radio. I consider that an improvement over a KGGI simulcast, but I still want Radio Disney when I go there. :( (Are rbrucecarter5 and I the only ones on these boards who sometimes like listening to Radio Disney?)

So, for next time I go there (scheduled before Memorial Day weekend, pending my full recovery from a cold / sinus illness / something that's gotten to me the past week and a half), anyone got suggestions on how to bring a usable signal from KDIS inside the apparently heavily shielded building? For reference, 1290 KKDD indicates 65/25 outside the building (on the lawn) on the PL-606. The strongest signal, 1240 KEZY, indicates 76/25 outside and often 15/00 inside with no discernable signal. The Disney target, 1110 KDIS, indicates 47/25 outside, and naturally has virtually no detectable signal inside (except in a few spots that I may not be near).
What antenna would I need to buy or construct for under $30-50 that would fit in my backpack, I could set it on my lap while in the chair being worked on (preferably a different footprint than the Select-A-Tenna - something like a ferrite sleeve loop, for example - basically shorter and wider), and bring in a usable signal from KDIS (at least 15/07, preferably 24/25 or something like that) into the building and inductively couple it to my PL-606? I'm guessing it would need at least 30-50 dB or so of gain too bring in the desired signal.
 
Well... KSGN 89.7 has been doing okay beased on recent ratings, but I am not entirely sure CC would go after it.

This would be the forth religious station in the market.

There is alreadin 90.1 and 100.7, 89.7 and now 1290.

A while back CC flipped 1440 to an all comedy station.

Perhaps CC is looking to sell the stations?

If the cards are played right maybe the K/MEN will come back to 129 ;)

...they can just plug a feed into Harley Davidson's internet station ;D
 
Hello emailfailed. Funny you should suggest that KKDD run audio from www.kmen129.com. I'm told in recent days someone has been running the audio on an unlicensed transmitter at 98.5 on San Bernardino's north end from time to time. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I'm outraged. On the other, I think it's cool. Thanks for your support.

Harley
 
Did you just say you were going to pull out a Select-A-Tenna out in the dentist chair?

Have you ever listened to KYDZ 1140 (N Las Vegas) at night? I have been picking that up in Burbank. I know it isn't RD but it is similar.
 
If Clear Channel still operates the station, it will be found on IHeartRadio. Right now the station is not streaming and there is no website.
 
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