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TWO SPOKANE FM STATIONS GO DARK

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Anyone know more about what All Access reported 6/6/08?
--jay:

"ALL ACCESS has confirmed that PROACTIVE Top 40/Rhythmic KQQB (LIVE 104.5) and Classic Rock KAAZ/SPOKANE are off the air.

"There's word that whatever issue took the stations dark is now "in court," although there are no details as to what those issues are.

"Stay tuned as details unfold."
 
The last I heard about "Proactive" is the Greg Mack of Macknificent Broadcasting was buying them out, not sure if that deal ever happened.

Knowing how Mack runs a businness (not a station) this doesn't suprise me.
 
Does anyone have any more info on this? I know they did disconnect their office line but did they move out of their storefront studios? Sounds like they couldn't make their formats work in that market and you know it is a bad economic environment. I wonder if someone could get those stations for cheap now.....
 
Since I am here in the "Lilac City," I can tell you what the main problem was for both stations KQQB/104.5 and KAZZ/107.1..it was their signals. Many times my very nice Bose car radio in my Toyota would simply skip both frequencies when I hit the scan button.....and in-office and listening inside buildings was horrible....IF you can't hear a station---then you're NOT going to listen. Not when there's other top-quality signals in Spokane/Coeur d'Alene and of course satellite radio as well as folks listening to their own ipod's, mp3 players and cd's. KQQB/104.5 is licensed to Newport in Pend Orielle County---almost 50 miles away and their antenna is northwest of Newport, they have a booster here in Spokane with around 4000 watts, but it was spotty at best. And KAZZ/107.1 has their tower north of Deer Park(their city of license) and the signal shoots right over downtown Spokane, they do ok on the northside and on the south hill....but generally you can't hear them very well at all in buildings.

Their idea for the 2 stations was good, to have studios with windows where people could actually see the personalities performing their shows along with a coffee/espresso bar with some food served.....good idea, but after about a 2 year run, and letting go of all the personalities...apparently autopilot just doesn't cut the cake. One of my co-workers actually saw them removing their equipment from the buildiing....they were locked out for non-payment of rent---so I've heard. So it's sad that 2 smaller communities Newport and Deer Park now have NO local radio service...not that the most recent effort of programming the stations even served the audience.....like in rural northeast Washington and northern Idaho, they want to hear an urban CHR?? Don't think so, and KAZZ has always been a dog.....they did jazz, Radio Disney, Music Of Your Life, then when the new folks came along they changed to 70's and 80's, it was fairly listenable---but you couldn't hear the signal.

Be interesting to see if anyone buys these 2 signals.....Clear Channel can only buy another AM, and Mapleton and the KXLY group are also full up with signals. Pamplin sold 101.9/KTSL ad it just went non-com with KLOVE's "Air 1" Christian rock format, and fired all the local talent and now is totally off the bird....there's great local radio, eh??? Maybe Tom Read will buy them and expand his little radio empire.....right now he's got 106.5 and 630 here in Spokane. Weird, here in Spokane we have so many non-coms in the commercial band 101.9/KTSL 104.9/KEEH(Positive Life Radio owned by 7th Day Adventists),
106.5/KSPO (tom read's religious programming) and 107.9/KMBI(Moody Bible Institute's powerful FM). Just odd to see to many non-coms a part of the commercial end of the FM dial.

There's my 2-cents....
 
It probably didn't help that they got an FCC citation and fine for airing a phone call with the Davenport Hotel guy either.
 
Plus it's probably not worth much to have a rim shot unless it's got some real power and is adjacent to a much larger market.
 
so here is the full story..i worked a proactive doing imaging...jerry clifton owner of proactive did not notify anyone that he had been taken to court in April by the former owners when kqqb was kjmy...jerry owed the old owners over a million in a $6 million purchase. At the same time in May, Proactive was planning on moving to Airway Heights to be closer to the Kqqb tower, but we had a 12 year lease so the owner at The Fernwell Building was not pleased and we were forced not to move until the lawyers could sort out the issues. Then the old owners got the go ahead from the courts to take possesion of all the KQQB radio equipment(including the equipment at the tower site). They illegally extracted the equipment from KAZZ. there have been rumors of getting KAZZ's equipment back and turning the retro top 40 format into a curent top 40 format like KQQB, but no one is sure. It is all a big mess and lots of employees including DJ Manic, Dj Graffix, and myself have left the station all together.
 
SIX MILLION DOLLARS FOR A SPOKANE RIM SHOT? Isn't this the station that Jim Stargell sold to Tom Hodgins? Who got the big bucks on this deal? Was it Hodgins?
 
My wife and I did listen to Live 104.5 (kqqb, Spokane). We liked how the D.J's where allowed to broadcast out in the open in front of the people walking around downtown Spokane. And we got a chance to get to know a few of the D.J's personally and that was a cool experience.
I find it kind of hard to swallow that the owner did not know that one of the D.J's played the phone call from the manager of the davenport. And I think that one of the main problems was that there was more to the problems with the radio station's owner. And there seems to be a rumor going around that the stations are up for sale, and I hope that the station gets back up and running, and this is for Issac, I think that you and the other D,J's did a great job over the air and we all miss you guy's. So the question is if the stations get bought, and lets say the new owners came and offered you a chance to work for the station again, and I hope that you guy's do take the offer. Bu I would like to know what are you guy's doing now?
 
I'm not in Spokane, but I used to stream KQQB. It sounded like a pretty solid station to me. It's a shame that it ended like that for everyone there. What is the likelyhood of another Top 40/m starting up Spokane? Do you think anytime soon?
 
I heard that the station is up for sale and there have been people or other companies looking at the two stations, and I have not heard anything more about the two stations. And I hope that the station returns back on the air soon, because my wife is so board without Live104.5 on the air. I liked it because of the Techno that they played on Saturday nights and they did a great job of keeping their listeners will entertained. But if I hear any thing else this is the place that I will place the information first, and I hope that I can get a reply to some of the emails that I have sent out to some of the D.J.'s. But I have not heard from any of the D.J.'s in a long while, and that is ever since they went silent on June 5th of this year.
 
Boy, I hope that there will be another top 40 station like KQQB live 104.5. Because there are a lot of people that liked the music, and the D.J.'s, and the style of music that they played. My wife and I listened to the station all the time, and had a chance to meet some of the D.J.'s. We will miss them and we will never forget them. And all we would like to know is where are the D.J.'s now?
 
flamingmysticdragon said:
I heard that the station is up for sale and there have been people or other companies looking at the two stations, and I have not heard anything more about the two stations. And I hope that the station returns back on the air soon, because my wife is so board without Live104.5 on the air. I liked it because of the Techno that they played on Saturday nights and they did a great job of keeping their listeners will entertained. But if I hear any thing else this is the place that I will place the information first, and I hope that I can get a reply to some of the emails that I have sent out to some of the D.J.'s. But I have not heard from any of the D.J.'s in a long while, and that is ever since they went silent on June 5th of this year.
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WOW! Techno - ON SPOKANE RADIO!! Watch out world! Spokane's moving headstrong into 1998!.......
 
Is there any rumor that Bustos Media might buy those stations, too? Spokane seems like a fast growing hispanic market, but they don't have even have a community there. That's why communities out there need more spanish radio. What do you think?
 
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