Actually, they both went on to have very successful radio careers. Both ended up as prime-time presenters on a competing station in the same market. In their later years, one ended up being a renowned lecturer on broadcast media at a number of universities, and the other a producer for sport on BBC 5 Live. Sadly one is now deceased. The other has retired.
So you're basically saying even the guys with shag carpeted-love rooms wouldn't listen to it.
Wouldn't surprise me if another reason why the format was short-lived is because they were receiving angry letters from metalheads who heard there was a station called "Hell" in town and tuned in excitedly, only to hear Snoop Doggy Dogg instead of Slayer.
This format wasn’t profitable?!Two months, Ted.
Here's the thread:
KNZR 1560 Changes Format
KNZR-AM 1560 Bakersfield, CA To Flip Formats To Spanish Talk Conservative Spanish-Language Talk On Tap For KNZR-A/Bakersfield Back when i was in Wyoming, i could hear this as late as 1030/11am in and as early as 3pm in winter. And every once in awhile, it and KNX would be audible all day.. mind...radiodiscussions.com
And really, anything shorter than that is going to fall into the category of stunting. And the grandaddy of them all was Jerry Clifton's "Porn Radio" at KFYE in Kingsburg, CA. It lasted about 10 days:
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(The Fresno Bee, July 28, 2006)
The station had been Christian K-Love, so this was bound to raise a few eyebrows.
On August 3, Clifton launched the real format...Sexy 106.3...a rhythmic AC. He changed the call letters to KSXE on March 30 of 2007.
He sold it after less than a year and a half...it's since been rhythmic contemporary, back in K-Love's hands as an Air1 affiliate and for the last six years has been the United Farmworkers' La Campesina outlet.
I don’t think two months is long enough to gauge profitability. They decided they’d rather do something else.
Yeah, some of those were transfers from other properties that Levine owned or had owned at one point. I grew up in Monterey and in later years he owned a number of stations in that market. KBOQ came from longtime Classical K-Bach up there and KSUR came from a station in Big SUR (hence the call letters) that also was part of his Classical network - they either simulcasted K-Mozart or K-Bach to that area. Since there are not a lot of Jazz and Classical stations signing on and desiring those call letters, it was probably relatively easy to get KMZT back in circulation when he needed it (perhaps with KBOQ as a backup) and maybe KJAZ as well (that had been in the Bay Area, where Levine had another station or two at one time) - KKGO he already had on the FM so was able to easily get that for his AM when he wanted it. KGIL had heritage in the LA area and probably not a lot of station owners demanded that set of calls. The KNNS stood for "news" and was paired with KNNZ in Costa Mesa that had been on 540 and the 540 in Tijuana, Mexico (that I don't think Saul had any ownership in) also joined up for the trimulcast. Did Levine own 540 for a long time? It was KSHO at one time doing Show Tunes and it was licensed to Costa Mesa but I think the transmitters were in Hesperia which was 80 miles away - I don't have a lot of info on that 540 but it went off the air because of the 540 in Tijuana.
Saul's 540 AM was approved as an extended band AM on 1650 in 1997, and under the provisions that allowed simulcasts initially in the X-band Saul had to either give up 1650 or take 540 permanently silent.The original CP made that a condition of the grant. Those calls for 540's are not right (they were KNOB, not KSHO, per the authorization).
With all respect, I thought KNOB was 97.9 FM, licensed to Long Beach. I found references to 540 having the KSHO call letters in the late 80s.
