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What stations should get a second chance?

wdb2003 said:
A good example of how much Hispanics like r&b oldies is KMJC in Houston...

It averages 92% Black audience (AQH)... the rest is Other and Hispanic.

Kiss of death in LA...

I never heard of KMJC in Houston was that a defunct station or where you talking about KMJQ 102.1
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Yeah, typo... I should have just said Majic.
 
musicman3355 said:
Indie deserves a second chance IMO, but put it on a stronger signal so more people can hear it.
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Let's see, if it got a 0.3 in PPM with coverage of OC and the West Side and parts of the Hollywood to South Central area, maybe it could get a 0.6 to 0.8 on a better signal.
 
RBB05 said:
94.7 KMET and Indie 103.1
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Unfortunately, you simply can't bring back great stations. You mentioned my childhood and teen favorite, KMET. I can remember 2/14/87 (24 years ago today, in fact), aka "The Day the Music Died" and "The Valentine's Day Massacre", when KMET signed off at 12:00 noon and we were treated to "The Wave" with its Kenny G and "New Age" music afterwards. The nightmare lives on to this day.

But, as we learned on the day the Sound held the KMET reunion in 2009, it simply wasn't, and couldn't be, the same. The jocks that were once legends had all become old (like the geezers they once mocked), the music was from another time, and the jokes that were funny then simply would not work on any level except nostalgia today. Frazier Smith still does his same schtick when he can find an audience, but who now thinks it's funny? And my FM radio hero back then, Pat "Paraquat" Kelley, who was not on that day, but has turned up a time or two as a guest on KLOS over the years, couldn't even get complete coherent thoughts out on air during those guest spots. It was really sad to listen to. He has been selling real estate for a long time and obviously lost his radio chops from non-use over the years.

So KMET can only live in our collective memories, not as a viable format or station. I still have a blue KMET t-shirt with the logo turned upside down, just like in the old days, which I wear once in awhile. Every now and then someone will notice it and start chatting me up about it. While it is nice to reminisce with them, I always notice that they all have something in common - they all either collect social security or have AARP cards. That's life.
 
I should move to San Fransico and listen to KMEL 106 much better selection of music. They play a good blend of the old and the new. Better than Power 106 but ain't got nothing on KDAY. KMEL is a good example of how 92.3 The Beat would be if it still existed but life goes on The Beat will never come back to L.A.
 
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