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Saul Levine is really putting together a nice radio station collection! In December of 2013, his Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters bought KNRY-AM/FM in Monterey. On June 9, 2014, the FM became alternative rock "Alt 106.7." The AM at 1240 simulcasts KMZT, "K-Mozart." Levine also bought KYZZ in Monterey, which had been carrying ESPN programming. Levine changed KYZZ's call letters to KMZT-FM and the station began simulcasting KMZT. On May 19, 2014, the format switched to country, launching with 10,000 songs in a row, commercial-free. The KYZZ call letters returned and the station is now known as "Z Country 97.9." In late May, Levine acquired Seaside/Monterey adult contemporary station KBOQ "B103.9" from Mapleton Communications, which had to divest one of its stations following the purchase of KWAV "K-Wave" from Buckley Broadcasting.

What station will he buy next?!?
 
One of my biggest regrets is that I never took the position offered to me at Saul's complex. It was a 6 month contract working with the Monterey station. As it is a format flip happened in about the 3rd month so who knows what would have happened? The man is really amazing enjoying what he has done in his 80 plus years!

Hey did Stoltz ever get KRCK on the air, no right? I know he listed his spot rates and staff members in the Broadcasting Yearbook. He would take personal calls from some homeless radio groupie (Robert) who would always check in at AM 930, an RKO Radio Station when I was one of the Brother John's!
 
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Talking about Saul Levine in a thread that is dealing with an award to Howard Levine is mixing apples and oranges. While both topics are interesting there is no connection. Shouldn't the above two posts be split into their own thread?
 
I originally was going to say that perhaps Steve missed the part where we showed it wasn't Saul, but his first post in this thread was the one where he quoted me as advising him it isn't.

So ... okay, Steve, Art's called you out. Why are we discussing Saul in this thread?
 
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Saul is always worth discussing? Its not like there is a ton of activity on the forum, and as we know no one manicured a Forum like you did KM. I want to learn more about Stoltz and that visionary Gerry Cagle?

"Gerry Cagle, corporate program director for KWOD-FM, however, countered that AM radio is likely to make a comeback because of advanced audio quality. "A lot of research is being done which shows that with a better stereo sound, people will go back to AM," Cagle said. "The audience has to know that AM is OK. We're realistic. We're not going to be the No. 1 station, but we'll get an audience."
 
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K.M., I mentioned Saul Levine's recent acquisitions because his name had already been mentioned in the original thread. The new Alt 106.7 debuted two days ago and I didn't want to start a new thread so I put the news on an existing thread. Now the moderator has split the posts into two threads so I assume that all is well. Regarding the above statement about AM radio, I wonder if a 1950s-60s oldies format could be successful on AM. We'd be hearing the songs that are no longer played on FM and we'd be hearing them on AM just the way we heard them originally. One of my favorite AM oldies stations was---here it comes, K.M.!---Saul Levine's KSUR, 2004-05, which emphasized lower-charting songs and seldom played the songs that were played to death on KRTH. I also liked the Cruisin' Oldies format of KSFN in Las Vegas, 1999-2001. Los Angeles has a lot of AM talk stations and a lot of AM Spanish stations, so why not an AM oldies station?
 
MadMan said:
Saul is always worth discussing? Its not like there is a ton of activity on the forum, and as we know no one manicured a Forum like you did KM. I want to learn more about Stoltz and that visionary Gerry Cagle?
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Please note that I was not the one who originally questioned the topic crossover. It was Art Landing.

I would sincerely appreciate it if you would not judge me today based on the job I did as a moderator two owners and more than five years ago.

As Art suggests, my personal opinion (and that is all it is, my opinion) is that a discussion of Saul Levine belongs in its own thread. Ed Stolz is tangentially relevant to this thread as he was the losing applicant, but I think a discussion of his past is also worthy of its own thread.

I also suggest that creating separate threads will better attract those who are interested in those two gentlemen and their broadcasting pursuits.
 
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One of my favorite AM oldies stations was---here it comes, K.M.!---Saul Levine's KSUR, 2004-05, which emphasized lower-charting songs and seldom played the songs that were played to death on KRTH.
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Let me phrase this in a way which prevents my sounding like my friend David Eduardo ...

Please note in your memory bank how little commercial time Saul managed to sell on K-Surf. And how relatively short-lived the format was as a result.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Please note that I was not the one who originally questioned the topic crossover. It was Art Landing.

I would sincerely appreciate it if you would not judge me today based on the job I did as a moderator two owners and more than five years ago.

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I didn't judge you K.M., you were fine. I would love to learn the true story of Stoltz someday . Also Cagle's comments were funny in that article. He couldn't have been more off target looking back retrospectively. Welcome to the forum!
 
Hey folks, there was no intent here to disparage anyone or start a flame war. I know little of the two Levines and less of KM. As far as I know they're all decent fine people.

I was simply raising a point of order in the interest of averting confusion. We social media impaired geezers tend to like dealing with things one topic at a time.

Like most here I simply try to contribute what I can, then learn from the contributions of others. To paraphrase the statement of the late Rodney King, can't we all just get along?
 
David Eduardo, Art Landing, K.M. Richards and many other posters here on RadioDiscussions are very knowledgeable about radio, ratings, formats, transmitters, coverage areas and other aspects of broadcasting. Those of us who are older than FM radio's "target demo" and have gotten involved in lengthy debates with them have, for the most part, not questioned their data and statistics; rather, we've expressed our musical preferences and lamented that FM radio no longer plays the songs we want to hear. We don't really care about the data. However, we don't expect a return of 1950s-60s music to the radio dial; we're just exercising our freedom as Americans to complain. Many of us disagree with each other but we still manage to "get along." There is no danger of a flame war.

By the way, Art, if you're going to talk about Rodney King, you should start a separate thread. :)
 
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