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Which Defunct San Diego Station Brands Deserve Another Chance

Lopaka said:
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.
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jprg said:
KLSD for sure and Stacy Taylor & Co.
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I agree with both of you. KLSD was doing OK. Better than most progressive talk stations and certainly better than anything Clear Channel has tried on the station since. The flip was not justified and apparently reflects the prejudice against progressive talk among conservative talkers who rise to programming positions at Clear Channel. San Diego showed support for progressive talk, including a solid local show. The brand and especially the format deserve another chance.
 
I agree with Garrett about B-100. That station was fun to listen to, especially in the pre-Disco days.

-- Doc
 
Matt the problem for KLSD was ratings were in the wrong demo, just like with KPOP. It did well 12+, but not really great 25-54. Also it was too tough of a sell to advertisers in conservative San Diego. If it had sales CC would have kept it whether the cowboys in San Antonio liked it or not
 
600kogo said:
Matt the problem for KLSD was ratings were in the wrong demo, just like with KPOP. It did well 12+, but not really great 25-54. Also it was too tough of a sell to advertisers in conservative San Diego. If it had sales CC would have kept it whether the cowboys in San Antonio liked it or not
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KLSD had a couple of respectable books from Fall of '05 to Spring of '06, but by the beginning of '07 was down below a 1 share in 12+, so there was no incentive to continue the format. Clear tried liberal talk on a number of good to great facilities like 1150 in LA and 940 in Miami, and found that there was, similarly, an initial "pop" and then the ratings decayed.

Very few AM talk stations do exceedingly well in 25-54, but make up for that in sales by having higher spot loads even if at lower prices.
 
I would love to hear the B-100 Moniker again. If they Rickards needs the top of the hour sounder from B-100 I have it on cd :)

Love your show Dave
 
KFMB-FM, Music For a Woman Only....

Family Radio, 93.3, KECR....

98.1, KDIG, K-Diego....

90FM & 100FM, His & Hers, What is it?....

76 KFMB, The Spirit of The New San Diego....

XEMO, 860 on your dial, The Great Christian Beacon of the West....

Beautiful Music for all of San Diego, 1130, KSDO....

(singing) The mighty 6-90, in San Diego, X-E-A-K!....

Soul-Delic 95, XEGM....

This is the BBC of the West, XEBBC....


Rico Gregg, Coronado HS, 1968, San Diego City College, 1972, A few colleges I didn't finish (oh, well)....
 
XHIS was hysterical, the adventures of the OB Ranger!!


Was San Diego considered a hot market? Sort of an experimental area where formats could be tried out and perfected before being moved into bigger markets? Or was it always its own market? At the risk of stating the very, very obvious: KCBQ in the Happy Hare/Don Howard/Ralph James/Jerry Walker/Shadoe Jackson era.

Radio KDEO. Question. It went on the air as KBAB, I think the ownership was Babcock, and it had for a while a DJ named Sam Babcock. As kids we always just took it for granted that he owned the station, or at least his family did. Any info on that?

I would love to hear Wolfman on XERB again, or that melifluous voice of Len East, from out of the west, on Mighty 690. The inimitable Ernie Meyers on KOGO, Art Way on KPOP and 690. It is a very long list, this town was lucky to have had such an active, interesting, and most of all talented radio scene.
 
KUPR 95.7 with Mike Halloran running the show back in the mid 90s. I dug that progressive/alternative rock vibe they played back in the day. Too bad that station didn't long as I recall.

The Flash 92.5 another vote for this station. It was simply good.

JogeeDaKlown
 
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