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WKOX goes Spanish again?

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It looks like WKOX has broken away from "Boston's Progressive Talk Radio Network" as of 3pm today. Right after Franken's show ended, the station resumed broadcasting what sounds like their previous brokered Spanish format. 1430 is continuing with the liberal talk format as of now. Maybe CC is trying to capitalize on the hole 890 left when it flipped to ESPN radio, since WRCA doesn't make it too far into Metrowest.

--Mike Thomas
 
> It looks like WKOX has broken away from "Boston's
> Progressive Talk Radio Network" as of 3pm today.

yes they were playing a song in Spanish, and then a DJ came on and I couldn't
really pick up what he was saying (no comprende, it's a riddle as Wall of
Voodoo once put it) but there were words like "informacion" (news?) and a commercial for a mortgage company (the English word "mortgage" popped in a few
times, from the name of the company)

Oddly enough of the two AAR stations (now just one?) it seemed like WKOX
did slightly higher in the ratings, unless that can be attributed to the
fact that they ID-ed with their frequencies, with 1200 first...

Is it possible this is brokered time and maybe they're just doing the Spanish
stuff once in awhile? I get the feeling it could be permanent, though, even
though no mention of an abandonment of 1200 on the AAR Boston site:

http://www.am1430wxks.com/main.html

Several posts on the discussion board wonder what's going on--why is it suddenly foreign language.

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> > It looks like WKOX has broken away from "Boston's
> > Progressive Talk Radio Network" as of 3pm today.
>
> yes they were playing a song in Spanish, and then a DJ came
> on and I couldn't
> really pick up what he was saying (no comprende, it's a
> riddle as Wall of
> Voodoo once put it) but there were words like "informacion"
> (news?) and a commercial for a mortgage company (the English
> word "mortgage" popped in a few
> times, from the name of the company)
>
> Oddly enough of the two AAR stations (now just one?) it
> seemed like WKOX
> did slightly higher in the ratings, unless that can be
> attributed to the
> fact that they ID-ed with their frequencies, with 1200
> first...
>
> Is it possible this is brokered time and maybe they're just
> doing the Spanish
> stuff once in awhile? I get the feeling it could be
> permanent, though, even
> though no mention of an abandonment of 1200 on the AAR
> Boston site:
>
> http://www.am1430wxks.com/main.html
>
> Several posts on the discussion board wonder what's going
> on--why is it suddenly foreign language.
>

I don't know spanish, but it kind of sounds like religious talk, with some music. Isn't this what they were previously. This certainly won't take the place of 890. They should've gone with a regular spanish music format.
 
Yeah I don't know much Spanish either but if you hear stuff like "palabra
de Dios" (word of God), etc., you know it's religious. And it is indeed
what WKOX had before the AAR flip in Oct of last year.

Lasted 10 months. If ratings for WXKS don't improve are Tony Bennett
and Doris Day in the wings?

> I don't know spanish, but it kind of sounds like religious
> talk, with some music. Isn't this what they were previously.
> This certainly won't take the place of 890. They should've
> gone with a regular spanish music format.
>
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Oh, never mind.....

It looks like it was a technical snafu. 1200 has returned to liberal talk...

> Yeah I don't know much Spanish either but if you hear stuff
> like "palabra
> de Dios" (word of God), etc., you know it's religious. And
> it is indeed
> what WKOX had before the AAR flip in Oct of last year.
>
> Lasted 10 months. If ratings for WXKS don't improve are Tony
> Bennett
> and Doris Day in the wings?
>
> > I don't know spanish, but it kind of sounds like religious
>
> > talk, with some music. Isn't this what they were
> previously.
> > This certainly won't take the place of 890. They should've
>
> > gone with a regular spanish music format.
> >
>
 
Re: Oh, never mind.....

Very strange. I wonder if the leased shows from the previous format were still in the computer, and somehow they started playing again?
 
Re: Oh, never mind.....

I believe WKOX-1200 and WSRO-650 share the same transmitter site in Framingham.

I also thought that WSRO broadcast a few hours of Spanish-language programming each weekday.

Maybe by accident, the WSRO programming went out over the WKOX transmitter.

Could Air America have briefly been broadcast by mistake over the WSRO transmitter??
 
Re: Oh, never mind.....

Maybe. Or maybe they were thinking of changing to Spanish and suddenly got a bunch of calls and emails wondering what was going on. There were some posts on the WKOX/WXKS bulletin board wondering what was going on.

The fact that it happened on a Fri at 3 pm--"hey, new format being unveiled"--
may have just been a co-incidence.
> Could Air America have briefly been broadcast by mistake
> over the WSRO transmitter??
>
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Re: Oh, never mind.....

> Very strange. I wonder if the leased shows from the previous
> format were still in the computer, and somehow they started
> playing again?
>
When I was working for WSRO when they 1st moved down to Framingham almost all the foreign language programming on WKOX was live during daylight hours. Don't know if that changed in the last few years.
 
Re: Oh, never mind.....

> > Very strange. I wonder if the leased shows from the
> previous
> > format were still in the computer, and somehow they
> started
> > playing again?
> >
> When I was working for WSRO when they 1st moved down to
> Framingham almost all the foreign language programming on
> WKOX was live during daylight hours. Don't know if that
> changed in the last few years.
>

BTW, it was Portuguese, not Spanish. We had a small technical snafu. No conspiracy at work here. It will not happen again, now that the wires are yanked.
 
Re: Oh, never mind.....

WSRO and WKOX share the same transmitter and because WKOX/WXKS run automated on a vault ( probably) then something is pre-arranged to kick in when the Sat. fails.
WXKS was broadcasting AA during this time period though.


Very strange. I wonder if the leased shows from the previous
> format were still in the computer, and somehow they started
> playing again?
> <P ID="signature">______________
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