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Which Defunct San Diego Station Brands Deserve Another Chance

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hipman2

This idea is borrowed from the L.A. Radio board.

Are there any stations that used to exist in San Diego that you think deserve another chance
to be on the air (even if they're resurrected as an HD radio subchannel.)

My picks:

Q106 - for bringing back a Q format for another generation of top 40 music fans
from 1987-1998 with lively deejays and music to match.

KKOS (early to mid 90s era) - a mixture of grown up rock, blues, and more.

Rock 102.1 (the era when it was new in the early 90s) - I remember the Z-Rock 50 countdown
that used to exist and Rock carried it Sunday afternoons to evenings.

KGB-FM as a progressive adult rocker - with so many Internet radio stations playing new rock
music, and 91X is spiking into the top 10, it's about time KGB dumped the Led-centered generation
and moved into the present.
 
The Mighty 690! One of my all-time favorites is San Diego's Music Power KS103.Captain Fogal,Mike Preston,Tonya,Karen Kay,Scoot in the morning,Crazy Dave Otto.What a fun station back then.Dancin in the Streets at SeaWorld..
 
JON BRUCE said:
The early 1980's "Mighty 690" with Kris Anderson and Michael Boss.
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Mike Boss was the epitomy of AM Top 40 jock and a wonderful guy. I don't know where he is or even if he's still alive, but I very much enjoyed working with him.
 
Boss Radio 136 KGB with production work by Bobby Ocean (late 60s)..Or the recycled KGB when it became progressive in 1972 (Ocean was still doing production work).

Any station that had Rich Brother Robbin (KCBQ, KBEST/95). The latter was an oldies station that had great energy, great pacing and was not just a lame jukebox with lame, boring DJ's like The Walrus.

XPRS, 1090 with Wolfman Jack...I remember the night he left in the early 70s.

KMLO AM 1000 circa 1980 when it had a 5 share with big band music.

91X during its first 5 years as a cutting edge station 83-88.

Maybe B-100 late 70s early 80s.

Funny you should mention the Flash....that format (classic alternative) is being looked at now for a certain local frequency. Not saying its for sure...just that its being looked at.

I don't think there are too many stations on now that we will miss in 10 years.
 
KLSD giving voice to the politics of sanity, peace, and prosperity. At a time when the middle class is voting itself into oblivion because all it hears is the destructive delusional nonsense of Limbaugh and clones we would all be much better off with just one voice of reality.
 
jprg said:
KLSD for sure and Stacy Taylor & Co.
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I think that KLSD could come back but Stacy is too defunct. Unlike, say, George Carlin, Stacy never learned to create an entertaining angry liberal character and at the end of the day (or at the start of your shift) radio is an entertainment medium and just being PO'ed is not entertaining. Rush Limbaugh knows how to entertain as he steps up to the soapbox.
 
Q106
B-100
KCBQ

All should be retried but as CHRs.

hipman2 said:
This idea is borrowed from the L.A. Radio board.

Are there any stations that used to exist in San Diego that you think deserve another chance
to be on the air (even if they're resurrected as an HD radio subchannel.)

My picks:

Q106 - for bringing back a Q format for another generation of top 40 music fans
from 1987-1998 with lively deejays and music to match.

KKOS (early to mid 90s era) - a mixture of grown up rock, blues, and more.

Rock 102.1 (the era when it was new in the early 90s) - I remember the Z-Rock 50 countdown
that used to exist and Rock carried it Sunday afternoons to evenings.

KGB-FM as a progressive adult rocker - with so many Internet radio stations playing new rock
music, and 91X is spiking into the top 10, it's about time KGB dumped the Led-centered generation
and moved into the present.
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For as long as KKOS Carlsbad was on, it was my favorite tune for anything outside of morning drive. Not even sure what it's classification was (Alternative Classic Alternative for Alternative Contemporary Adults?). 95.9, then pushed to 95.7 where its signal was smothered by KLOS at 95.5 along much of the coast. Whoever was PD was genius at figuring out what I wanted to listen to.
 
Definately turn 1360 into Boss radio 136KGB

Q-106 bring it back, but leave KOGO alone this time let it fly with no AM

B-100 would make an awesome classic hits oldies station, and use the original B-100 sounder!! After all Dave Rickards is already calling it KFM-BFM now if he would just add "San Diego's FM" Were back in business!!

1360 KPOP we need a standards station.

Do not try to bring back liberal talk on 1360! The signal is not strong enough, and CC doesnt know how to program or promote it. KCBQ would be a good one for that!

Turn KCBQ into a 50's and 60's top forty station their ultra-conservative Christian talk is doing nothing.

Bring back the Beach so that we can have a decent 70's station!

Note for David Eduardo: these are our choices for fantasy stations we would like to see return, and we all know that the multi-billion dollar conglomerate owners will never do it! It is just for fun so please dont try to add your ultra-corporate slant on this, this is our fun!
 
Note for David Eduardo: these are our choices for fantasy stations we would like to see return, and we all know that the multi-billion dollar conglomerate owners will never do it! It is just for fun so please dont try to add your ultra-corporate slant on this, this is our fun!
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I'm amused: you tell me not to bother replying, yet you hurl a brickbat in my direction. That's the equivelant of the "kick me" sign we'd stick on some other kid's butt in grade school, except that you stuck this particular sign on yourself.

There is nothing that has anything to do with "multi-billion dollar" corporate owners here. A single station owner or a smallish group would not consider any of those formats, as delightful as they may sound to you, because they are pretty much proven money losers.

Examples:

Standards is now a 65+ format, and predominantly 70+. In a market where profitability requires under-55 targeted agency buys and where there are few local direct accounts that either want geezers or can afford mass media, there's no revenue.

Classic Hits: there is one on FM, so why would anyone go to an AM that has a lot less coverage and far inferior sound quality? Who would advertise there?

And you mention that "their ... Christian talk is doing nothing" in reference to KCBQ. If "making money" is equal to "nothing" then they need a new approach. Otherwise, they are just fine as they are.-

As someone who built a whole country's first FM from scratch and for myself, I find your insistence that I am "corporate" to be pretty silly. Being pragmatic has nothing to do with being innovative.
 
600kogo said:
Oh wow unless your name is Edwin Howard Armstrong anyone can put an FM on the air! I have built transmitter sites too, and built studios pretty easy for FM!
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The difference is that I put on the first FM in a Grandcolombian nation, the first one for about 1000 miles in any direction. The government did not even have a procedure for licensing an FM, no technical regulations and no channel assignments. FM transmitters were not on the list of permitted imports, so we built our own transmitter, our own board, even our own antenna (out of plumbing supplies). When it went on the air, there was nothing else on the dial. In fact, there was no TV on the air, either. About a year later, we became South America's first FM stereo station, and soon after moved to a site at nearly 13,000 feet AMSL which caused us to have to redesign transmitters to stand the altitude heat dissipation issues.

And we are talking about what we would like to see not what would make money or what would do what you think it should be!
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But the moment you put your dreams on stations you think "are doing nothing" when in fact they are succeeding, you are out of the dream world and into changing existing facilities.

I might daydream about winning the lottery, because it could happen. But I don't daydream about being King of the United States because, except for the world of Pixar, that ain't gonna' happen.

The weird thing is that you seem to think that you need to take a dump on all of our romantic ideas of radio, we dont post here for you! We do it to share our thoughts and talk to like minded people.
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But, and this is a large caveat, not everyone here is of a like mind; there is no restriction on responding to any post with a contrary view.

You have been mired in corporations for too long instead of joining in with our (as I stated before) fantasy stations you take a dump on them.
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You seem to have a need to pepper your posts with excretory references. Why is that?

In any case, I don't defecate on the ideas, I just comment on the practicality. There certainly is a group that would like, for example, a standards station. But since the reality of the situation is that such a format has no advertiser base, I don't fry neurons dreaming about it.

I've spent nearly 50 years of my career with self-owned properties, family owned ones and highly entrepreneurial ones (Mooney Broadcasting in the 70's, UnoRadio in the 80's and part of the 90's, Liberman in the mid 90's, and Cecil Heftel in from 1995 on... and if there ever was a "practical dreamer" in radio, it was Cecil Heftel. That's anything but corporate. You just don't know who or what you are talking about, and that's why I respond to your less-than-factual posts.

If you dont like what were saying then just dont respond. You give your opinion on just about everypart of this message board on almost every city's page stick to the others and leave us alone!
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I don't recall seeing the notice that you had been named Vicar for this congregation.

Now, back to scanning Gates Radio's Catalog #96.
 
How about...Blazin 98.9 and 91.7 EXA-FM

It would be nice to get Blazin back not sure why Clear Channel did'nt launched a Rythnmic station. I know people gotta be tired of Z90.3 and Channel 93.3 I havent heard much talk about Q96 is it still on the air? Is it rythnmic leaning chr or waterdown chr?
 
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