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When did Kiss 99.9 move?

J

jtudor

I was listening to Kiss-fm 99.9 this afternoon, for the first time in a while. I heard a Legal ID at the top of the hour, that has me a bit puzzled:

WKSF, Old Fort, Asheville.

When did they more thier city of license to Old Fort? That station has always been licensed to Asheville do far as I know. Years ago it was WLOS-FM, and co-owned with the TV station and the AM on 1380.

Did they move thier city of license, has the FCC rule on legal Id's changed, or are they disregarding it? As I last remember, the rule was that while you could have other cities included in the legal ID, your actual city or license must be first.

Anyone able to throw some light on this?

John
 
Howdy John from Spruce Pine!

As for WKSF, Old Fort: the move came about when CC wanted to move the 104.3 stick to Fletcher and increase its Asheville coverage. That meant a city of license change, and the FCC requires a station that is the only radio service for a community to be replaced if it is moved. So, CC re-licensed 99.9 to Old Fort to meet the letter of the law, but not the spirit.

Kinda sad, huh?

wncmacs
 
As I have said many times:

I hate Clear Channel ! ! !

I hope the company implodes like Enron one day. I just hope that too many people are not hurt in the process.

John
 
If CC implodes as you suggest, the only people who will be hurt is the thousands of broadcasters who rely on them for jobs - and the many small stockholders (many of whom work, or worked for them at one time). What you really want is for the US Congress to change the ownership rules - which ain't likely to happen any time soon!

CC was an OK company until the Jaycor group took over. Mays boys, and the old man, were great local broadcasters who loved decentralized control. Randy Michaels changed all that!
 
Was that at the same time CC started butchering radio stations? In the last two years, CC has butchered WWMG in Charlotte, WTRG in Raleigh, and WFMX in Statesville--- not to mention three format changes at 94.5 in the Triad over the last five years (from rock to country to The Beat and finally to La Preciosa)--- and weak-as-dishwater signals on WGBT (now La Preciosa 94.5) and WFMX/WMKS (now 105.7 Kiss-FM). CC is doing no better in Raleigh; of the four CC Raleigh stations, only G105 is getting decent ratings, while Sunny, The River, and WRDU continue to suck ratings-wise. Coincidence? I think not...
 
The FCC will probably never change the ownership limits but the best thing that could be done is to drop the 20 mile rule for studios. If they have to have a STAFFED office and studio in the COL then all these groups would not want the extra expense for each of their fringe stations. Then they would unload the under-performing ones.
 
I will say that CC kicks up a lot of dust and likes to move things around. It gets just plain confusing! In West Palm beach they moved the call letters around on the AM stations they own WBZT, WJNO, and WJNA (when they owned it). In Cincinnati it was WKRC 550, WLW 700, WSAI 1360, and WCKY 1530. Those stations got all changed around WKRC became WLWA now it's back to WKRC, WSAI and WCKY swapped calls and now they are back to the way they were...at least I think so. I do know they moved the sports format from WSAI to WCKY after they tried liberal talk on 1530.

Someone should tell them to stop the madness and just pick a good long term format and stick with it.

I hope we see an end soon to over inflated prices for radio stations. That's one of the things that is killing the industry. That and Clear Channel's belief they must own every station they can get their hands on!
 
jtudor said:
As I have said many times:

I hate Clear Channel ! ! !

I hope the company implodes like Enron one day. I just hope that too many people are not hurt in the process.

John
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I know it doesn't seem quite fair to see a few big conglomerates own the bulk of stations...but in any capitalist society, opportunity IS fair game. The fault lies with deregulation gone terribly wrong. Many of our technical rules were outdated and overburdensome and needed change, but the ownership limits were working quite well, and ownership was diversified. My gut feeling is the consolidation issue will surface again some day, as the public outcry is growing with the loss of stations from the smaller communities to the bigger and more lucrative markets. The problem is simple, a public resource has in effect been reduced to a private commodity, and lawmakers are solely to blame.
 
Wanta make a difference? Buy some CC stock, then go to the next stockholders meeting and raise hell about the return on your investment and how they are destroying the business.
 
Clear Channel Saying Goodbye To Small Markets?

Mike Sheridan said:
and Clear Channel's belief they must own every station they can get their hands on!
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It was interesting that you said that. I've noticed that Clear Channel is starting to sell off their smaller markets. They have unloaded Aberdeen, SD within the past two years; they are selling some stations in Chattanooga; selling some stations in Roanoke-Lynchburg, VA; and now selling all of their stations in Fargo, ND. I've also heard the rumor that the company is going to sell all of their Idaho stations, except for Boise. Could this be a trend for the giant? ???
 
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