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Wild 107.7 / 99.1 Simulcast (KYLD/KYLZ)

stewie said:
I found this old "Turn off the lights" air check from the days of Wild 107.7 / 99.1 back in the day. :) - It includes a legal ID.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pvm9wfy1gv3xyc3/uTNXUAqUcs

More to come.
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How many years did that simulcast last for?
Was that until they purchased/swapped for KSAN on 94.9?

Any history is appreciated.

The only thing I remember is the amount of interference on 99.1 from adjacent channel 98.9.
 
stewie said:
stewie said:
I found this old "Turn off the lights" air check from the days of Wild 107.7 / 99.1 back in the day. :) - It includes a legal ID.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pvm9wfy1gv3xyc3/uTNXUAqUcs

More to come.
Click to expand...

How many years did that simulcast last for?
Was that until they purchased/swapped for KSAN on 94.9?

Any history is appreciated.

The only thing I remember is the amount of interference on 99.1 from adjacent channel 98.9.
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I recall that 107.7 KSOL (Wild 107), was owned by some other company - don't recall the name - but in the early days of radio consolidation, that company bought the 98.9/99.1 simulcast, which had previously been branded as "Double 99," then "Star-
FM." They moved the KSOL call letters to 98.9 for a Classic Soul format, changed the 107.7 call letters to KYLD, and simulcast 99.1 with 107.7, presumably to make up for 107.7's signal deficits in the South Bay, kind of like KFOG does today with KFFG 97.7.

Later, when Clear Channel bought KYLD and did the swap with 94.9, 99.1 was moved back to simulcast 98.9 KSOL. That lasted just a couple of months until both frequencies were sold to Univision for the Spanish language format that exists to this day.
 
The name of the company that owned 107.7, 99.1 and 98.9 back in those days was Crescent Communications. They started out buying 107.7 in 1993, and added 98.9 and 99.1 in 1995. As I recall, since I set it up myself, we started the simulcast in '95. The company was successful but sold out in the consolidation period in 1996. 107.7 went to Evergreen Media, and the 99.1/98.9 pair went to Tichenor Media, which was the successor to Heftel, and the predecessor of Univision. Clearly the simulcast ended no later than when Tichenor got the 98.9/99.1 pair.
 
Doug Irwin said:
The name of the company that owned 107.7, 99.1 and 98.9 back in those days was Crescent Communications. They started out buying 107.7 in 1993, and added 98.9 and 99.1 in 1995. As I recall, since I set it up myself, we started the simulcast in '95. The company was successful but sold out in the consolidation period in 1996. 107.7 went to Evergreen Media, and the 99.1/98.9 pair went to Tichenor Media, which was the successor to Heftel, and the predecessor of Univision. Clearly the simulcast ended no later than when Tichenor got the 98.9/99.1 pair.
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Doug - I vaguely remember different commercial inventory playing on KYLD vs. KYLZ. How were you accomplishing this back in the day if you don't mind me asking?
 
We were using AudioVault in those days, and we added another server to play a commercial log for 99.1; so during stopsets, the program feeds were split. It's pretty much the same thing stations do for splitting off their feed for internet streams nowadays. It was also kind of crude in that the 99.1 feed just dropped back to the same feed as 107.7 when its spots were done, so it sounded a little rough some times. As time went on the production department got good at making sure all the spots were multiples of 30 seconds, so the 're-joins' sounded better towards the end. Right when we got it all smoothed out, Crescent sold the stations (at a healthy profit, I might add).
 
Doug Irwin said:
We were using AudioVault in those days, and we added another server to play a commercial log for 99.1; so during stopsets, the program feeds were split. It's pretty much the same thing stations do for splitting off their feed for internet streams nowadays. It was also kind of crude in that the 99.1 feed just dropped back to the same feed as 107.7 when its spots were done, so it sounded a little rough some times. As time went on the production department got good at making sure all the spots were multiples of 30 seconds, so the 're-joins' sounded better towards the end. Right when we got it all smoothed out, Crescent sold the stations (at a healthy profit, I might add).
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I remember the rejoin being a little rough at times, funny.

I guess Audio-Vault automation was around in those days. So you had two separate STL feeds?

At the time did you have complaints of adjacent channel interference (from 98.9) in San Jose?

Thanks for all the information.
 
Yes--having two STLs was necessary in order to do that.

I don't remember any real issues with interference between 99.1 and 98.9. Remember that the 98.9 signal isn't hugely strong down in the south bay, and in Santa Cruz it wasn't an issue at all. Loma Prieta is a great transmitter site and 99.1 gets out well. 99.1 did have a slightly pulled-in pattern right in the direction of Sutro, so you didn't need to go that far north on the Peninsula before 98.9 was stronger than 99.1, so there wasn't as much of an interference issue there either.
 
I remember when 1-7/7 was changing call signs from KSOL to KYLD. The played Wild Thing by Tone Loc. then they would play different songs that alwayws ended with the doom doom doom of WIld Thing. Evn slow jam songs would somehow morph into Wild Thing. I thought it was funny and clever
 
rricci said:
I remember when 1-7/7 was changing call signs from KSOL to KYLD. The played Wild Thing by Tone Loc. then they would play different songs that alwayws ended with the doom doom doom of WIld Thing. Evn slow jam songs would somehow morph into Wild Thing. I thought it was funny and clever
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Funny you say that, I remember that too. :)
 
stewie said:
rricci said:
I remember when 1-7/7 was changing call signs from KSOL to KYLD. The played Wild Thing by Tone Loc. then they would play different songs that alwayws ended with the doom doom doom of WIld Thing. Evn slow jam songs would somehow morph into Wild Thing. I thought it was funny and clever
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Funny you say that, I remember that too. :)
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Does anyone have some audio of this? I sure would love to hear it again!

P.S. Sorry for my earlier typos. I meant 107.7. *turning red with embarassment*
 
any chance at a reup of this audio. Missed it the first time!
 
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