The Walrus sounding different lately

[Leonard M Page]

I've been listening to the Walrus and they're sounding pretty good. They finally got some decent sounding
jingles and they've changed the voiceovers. They sound so much better.

 

[600kogo]

You know what would make the Walrus sound better???....Turn it Off and save the power bill!

 

[Domino Rippy]

600, I tend to agree with you. Walrus needs more than new jingles, they need better on air talent, very stale in that department.

 

[600kogo]

The music is stale, the name Walrus is just stupid! Who wants to listen to a station named after a stinky fat festering sea animal that just lays around

 

[RadeoEngineer]

The music is stale, the name Walrus is just stupid! Who wants to listen to a station named after a stinky fat festering sea animal that just lays around

Nooooo, Walri are cool! Ever go to Seaworld and play with their whiskers? I like a Walrus.

 

[bossradiofan]

The story goes that when John Lynch looked to brand the station, that he wanted to call it The Grunion. "The Walrus" won out.

 

[Leonard M Page]

Okay, I admit, I'm not sold on the "Walrus" name, (I wish they could have did something with the
call letters, XPRS), But I'm not complaining. At least we have another oldies/classic hits station. We
had been without one for many years after the Clear Channel thing and KOOL 99.3. The syndicated
stuff like Casey's Top-40 and Tom Kent helps. BTW, the guy they have on Sundays, Mark Becerra
seems to have the energy for a classic hits/oldies station. Hey, it's no K-Earth 101, but they've
come a long way.

 

[radio-darn]

BTW, the guy they have on Sundays, Mark Becerra
seems to have the energy for a classic hits/oldies station.

During the height of Z90's success (before Clear Channel bought it) Mark was Z-90's night guy as "Mark in the Dark" and then as part of our effort to recognize that in San Diego urban radio was an Hispanic thing too, he was moved to mornings and became Mark en la Manana, doing a mostly music show after a succession of morning teams that had done nada. Mark later became PD for Califormula's country station and then moved to Arizona doing some radio in Phoenix.

 

[davideduardo]

(I wish they could have did something with the
call letters, XPRS),

What could they do with the calls? They have to start with "XH" so you have, in most cases, 3 letters do work with.

 

[Leonard M Page]

(I wish they could have did something with the
call letters, XPRS),

What could they do with the calls? They have to start with "XH" so you have, in most cases, 3 letters do work with.

Not the Legal calls. I mean modifying them as part of the nickname like XTRA. They could have used XPRS-"Express"
like they did with 1090 after changing the letters from XERB in the early 70's.

 

[davideduardo]

Not the Legal calls. I mean modifying them as part of the nickname like XTRA. They could have used XPRS-"Express"
like they did with 1090 after changing the letters from XERB in the early 70's.

You mean pick calls that match the name, such as XHWAL for Walrus or XHGLD for "Gold" or something like that? Arbitron's software masks the "H" in 5 and 6 letter Mexican call letters, so XHPRS or XEPRS shows up as XPRS... which does not matter if you are just looking for a match to the station name.

Of course, in PPM where people do not have to write down call letters or other identifiers, it really does not matter what the calls are.

 

[Leonard M Page]

Not the Legal calls. I mean modifying them as part of the nickname like XTRA. They could have used XPRS-"Express"
like they did with 1090 after changing the letters from XERB in the early 70's.

You mean pick calls that match the name, such as XHWAL for Walrus or XHGLD for "Gold" or something like that? Arbitron's software masks the "H" in 5 and 6 letter Mexican call letters, so XHPRS or XEPRS shows up as XPRS... which does not matter if you are just looking for a match to the station name.

Of course, in PPM where people do not have to write down call letters or other identifiers, it really does not matter what the calls are.

Yeah, I was thinking along those sort of lines. I thought that may have been what they had in mind when they changed
the call letters from XHBCE to XHPRS, but the name "Walrus" stuck.

 

[Garrett]

You know what would make the Walrus sound better???....Turn it Off and save the power bill!

Well Kogo, your opinion isn't shared by everyone, so maybe it would sound better to YOU but not everyone.

 

[Signal Geek]

The Walrus needs to improve two things: their signal (very poor reception in parts of La Mesa/Mt. Helix/East County, and Rancho Penasquitos/Sabre Springs) and their oldies mix. Need more of the great Motown soul classics (Jimmie Walker & the All-Stars, etc.) and fewer lame 70's tunes (heard them play "Billie, Don't Be a Hero", among other crap songs). The music mix is really what makes KRTH great-- they should study it and copy it.

The signal? I know their Mexico license probably limits them, but how about some on-frequency boosters to fill in the San Diego Metro coverage holes? Remember when Sets 102.1 had, like, 12 boosters around SD?

 

[radio-darn]

"Billie, Don't Be a Hero"...

I hated playing that when it was new: what kind of lame arse programmer thinks that deserves to be heard 40 years later?

 

[jefflaurence]

I hope they quit playing that and "the night Chicago Died". One of my rave raves from "the day"..or "heartbeat It's a Love Beat". Woo hoo. Fish in my shoes.

 

[radio-darn]

that and "the night Chicago Died"

Funny - I almost mentioned that in my post!

 

[fredcantu]

For a station digging up dead rockers, it could be XHUME. LOL

 

[Big 121]

When will we hear "The Streak", or "Convoy"?
Maybe since Walri have narrow auditory response, they don't know good music from bad.

 

[SDRadio]

Remember when Sets 102.1 had, like, 12 boosters around SD?

That was an engineer's nightmare that really didn't work efficiently at all. It wasn't used very much after the build out. Their solution was a two step move to Soledad.