http://www.click1015.com/? -- looks official to me
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WKSW move to Enon approved
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Lee Riley just posted on Facebook that he is now unemployed. Good luck Lee. As for the station...still country.
Maybe 5pm? Where is Lee's facebook page?
We used to work together so we're friends.
Try 1:00...Now.
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New message on the Kiss Country website toady:
http://www.kisscountry.com/
gr8oldies said:
New message on the Kiss Country website toady:
http://www.kisscountry.com/
LocalGuy6 said:
The alleged illegal stream is now streaming Click 101.5:
http://radiotime.com/station/s_30409/Kiss_Country_1017_1015.aspx
But now there is dead air as this is being typed.
But is this really a illegally stream?
Click DOES stream. KC is now in the proverbial "Radio Cemetary" along with Z-93 and The Rebel. Whomever caught this stream, legal or illegal, caught an early sneak peek at Click. Looks like SOMEONE knew what they were talking about and weren't "jerking" around anyone.LocalGuy6 said:
Help me understand something (I'm far from a streaming expert)...how can a stream by legal vs illegal?gabigley1 said:
BobOnTheJob said:
If I get this guy's post correctly, he was suggesting someone reporting on this board put up an audio stream on the internet to fake everyone out...that the stream being heard was unauthorized from Mainline.
Apparently, he doesn't realize that consultants will sometimes do a test run late in the midnight hours when (supposedly) few are listening. That is what happened. Since it's now all over with, and what I'm about to report is public on the internet, you might this interesting:
If you all check Twitter posts for a guy named "Scott Sands"...he was apparently behind the launch for consultant Vallie/Richards/Donovan and arrived in Dayton just hours before that "midnight test". They were tweeting away Thursday night and into Friday. One of our staffers found the tweets online Thursday night and began monitoring the stream, and e-mailed me at home early Friday to tell me he thought something was about to happen with the "now" 101.5.
Kiss Country went away to 101.5...where they apparently played some classic country mixed in with some other songs as well), played a little bit of their new imagining, too as I understand. Then, they went back to 101.7 and the normal format in time for no one affiliated with the old format to have heard anything and become suspicious. Most likely, they were setting the processing and doing some other audio related things during that time.
This sounds like EXACTLY what lovejamminoldies heard...He reported this around 12:45 AM early Fri. morning. Wow, thanks for the heads-up on the behind-the-scenes stuff Jason. Interesting that their consultant(s) were in town when that test went down. Wow, with all the twists and turns in this story you could fill a book with it.Jason Roberts said:
ALSO...one more catch I noticed about 15 minutes before the frequency swap...Andy Lawrence's show usually runs until 1 PM if I am correct...I noticed that they were running jockless in that last hour...I definitely knew then that the flip was coming.
Speaking of Lee Riley...his voice can still be heard on quite a few spots on Click.
Yes! I heard all this talk about someone hearing the stream and testing the new format. So, I got excited and tuned into 101.7, but all I heard was static. I then tuned into 101.5 and heard classic country and an ID saying WKSW! WOOHOO! -- I thought it was stunting until they threw Kiss Country back on 101.7... most likely, I and only a few other random listeners heard this. I knew it was flipping Friday then. I thought Click might have been a smokescreen though.
gabigley1 said:
This is the remote that Lee Riley announced last Thursday Afternoon, via the Kiss Country
website:
Kiss Country 101.7, Your Hometown Country Station
Join Lee Riley broadcasting from Liberty Tax Service in Fairborn at 1874 South Maple Avenue this Saturday from 11 to 1. We'll be raising money for the SICSA (Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals). See you there!
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That is why I didn't think WKSW would change this week because I thought WKSW would honor this remote. WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT DROVE ALL THE WAY TO THIS REMOTE?
Also, didn't believe they would abruptly pull the plug on Kiss Country 101.7.GA:
I'm sure the sponsor will be taken care of.
How many listeners showed up? Don't know. But with a 1 share radio station for all but one book in the past year...a few, maybe...but doubtful.
I'm sure the sponsor will be taken care of.
How many listeners showed up? Don't know. But with a 1 share radio station for all but one book in the past year...a few, maybe...but doubtful.
My current employer notwithstanding, some of you may remember that I used to work for the old WBZI-FM in Xenia back in the 1980's. That was around the time that the station that would become Kiss Country started making noise in the market. WKSW had a format or two prior to country, but once it changed, it did become a market force in Clark and Champaign counties.
As kind of an area radio historian here, you might be interested in hearing how Kiss Country was built into the powerhouse it was, especially in its earlier years. Russ Shafer (ex-WBZI all night jock) got it going...when he left, another person was promoted to the PD's job. That PD, knowing he had no money to do local research, stole...(by means of monitoring K-99.1 FM over the air) their playlist. He knew Cox researched everything and figured, "what do they know that I don't know"? Then, he was smart enough to know Kiss Country could not just be a carbon copy of K-99.1. So, he made the station hyper-local. Playing K's musical playlist...with an on-air presentation that highlighted the hell out of Springfield, Clark and Champaign counties.
In those days, the station actually pulled high 2's and even the occasional 3 share 12 plus in the Dayton ratings. They were Springfield's hometown version of K-99.1. And it worked.
Who was the PD then? His name is: Nick Roberts. Current OM of Cox Radio Dayton and Louisville. He was hired at K-99.1 as APD apparently because the big honchos at Cox saw what he was doing in Springfield and figured they'd rather have him on their side than to have to compete against him. Nick later became PD at K-99.1, then Operations Manager at Cox Radio/Dayton.
Kiss Country hung in there for a while after Nick left under the owners and managers of the time, but once Radio One bought the station, it was obvious that they were the red-headed stepchild of Radio One's Dayton group. And when Mainline took over and more cuts were made, the station took a nosedive, ratings wise. Yes, they would occasionally kick up to a 2 share...but those books became the exception, rather than the norm.
Why? The station's real emphasis under Radio One and Mainline seemed to become Dayton without actually saying it, while they continued to profess on the air they were the "hometown" radio station. It was funny to hear traffic reports on the station sometimes for Centerville and Bellbrook where they could barely be heard on a table radio, if at all.
Kiss Country did hang on to a good part of their Clark County audience until about the last year or so. Then, K-99.1 began to tie, and in more than just a stray book, beat them in Clark County.
Now, I'm not saying they didn't have their fans...I know they did. They were competitive for a long time. But, in the last year or so, the bloom was clearly off the rose up there.
But, it wasn't just signal and lack of promotional money...remember they had been big enough that the big guns in Dayton were taking notice of them at one time. It was also programming direction and lack thereof. I do not and will not point this at any single individual or individuals. There were clearly more than one or two individuals in the mix there.
Now, just for giggles: conjure what might have happened if the station kept copying K-99.1 musically, and continued to hyperserve Clark and Champaign counties...that 3 share might never have gone away.
Nick will probably read this and give me heck for saying it on Monday (and I'm not saying it to be ingratiating). But, he was the guy who made Kiss Country a powerhouse up there. And most anyone credible who worked there then knows it, and would back this up.
I just wanted to say it before some people might try to revise history. Nick deserves his due for his success with that station.
As kind of an area radio historian here, you might be interested in hearing how Kiss Country was built into the powerhouse it was, especially in its earlier years. Russ Shafer (ex-WBZI all night jock) got it going...when he left, another person was promoted to the PD's job. That PD, knowing he had no money to do local research, stole...(by means of monitoring K-99.1 FM over the air) their playlist. He knew Cox researched everything and figured, "what do they know that I don't know"? Then, he was smart enough to know Kiss Country could not just be a carbon copy of K-99.1. So, he made the station hyper-local. Playing K's musical playlist...with an on-air presentation that highlighted the hell out of Springfield, Clark and Champaign counties.
In those days, the station actually pulled high 2's and even the occasional 3 share 12 plus in the Dayton ratings. They were Springfield's hometown version of K-99.1. And it worked.
Who was the PD then? His name is: Nick Roberts. Current OM of Cox Radio Dayton and Louisville. He was hired at K-99.1 as APD apparently because the big honchos at Cox saw what he was doing in Springfield and figured they'd rather have him on their side than to have to compete against him. Nick later became PD at K-99.1, then Operations Manager at Cox Radio/Dayton.
Kiss Country hung in there for a while after Nick left under the owners and managers of the time, but once Radio One bought the station, it was obvious that they were the red-headed stepchild of Radio One's Dayton group. And when Mainline took over and more cuts were made, the station took a nosedive, ratings wise. Yes, they would occasionally kick up to a 2 share...but those books became the exception, rather than the norm.
Why? The station's real emphasis under Radio One and Mainline seemed to become Dayton without actually saying it, while they continued to profess on the air they were the "hometown" radio station. It was funny to hear traffic reports on the station sometimes for Centerville and Bellbrook where they could barely be heard on a table radio, if at all.
Kiss Country did hang on to a good part of their Clark County audience until about the last year or so. Then, K-99.1 began to tie, and in more than just a stray book, beat them in Clark County.
Now, I'm not saying they didn't have their fans...I know they did. They were competitive for a long time. But, in the last year or so, the bloom was clearly off the rose up there.
But, it wasn't just signal and lack of promotional money...remember they had been big enough that the big guns in Dayton were taking notice of them at one time. It was also programming direction and lack thereof. I do not and will not point this at any single individual or individuals. There were clearly more than one or two individuals in the mix there.
Now, just for giggles: conjure what might have happened if the station kept copying K-99.1 musically, and continued to hyperserve Clark and Champaign counties...that 3 share might never have gone away.
Nick will probably read this and give me heck for saying it on Monday (and I'm not saying it to be ingratiating). But, he was the guy who made Kiss Country a powerhouse up there. And most anyone credible who worked there then knows it, and would back this up.
I just wanted to say it before some people might try to revise history. Nick deserves his due for his success with that station.
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