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Xtra Sports 1360 to launch Nov. 1

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Chris Ello, Hacksaw, and the strong possibility of Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth.

Since August 2007, the station has been rumored to change, and more confirmation came yesterday with Ello's signing with Clear Channel.

Station insiders at CCU-SD confirm that there is going to be a regime change on 1360.

Meanwhile ... Air America and the folks are expected to be dumped and squashed on HDRadio. Good luck with that.
 
Yesterday (Friday) there was supposed to have been yet another rally to "Save KLSD." What was the turnout like? Does anyone know?
 
I guess they are talking about moving the progressive talk to HD. My question is, if they do that, will there be enough people with HD radios that will be able to hear them?
 
Garrett said:
RBA said:
More good news for XM and Sirius.
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Huh?
How does it help XM and Sirius?
Does Air America run on either of those?

Please explain the connection.
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Air America runs on XM Channel 167. Also Ed Schultz is carried on that channel. I think they have Alan Colmes on the Fox Talk Channel too.
Siruis has progressive talkers such as Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller, also Mike Malloy. Plus a few others on "liberal" station. XM has an excellent ground repeater that penetrates into my work place building on NAS North Island.

So the connection is KLSD listeners can and will flee to Satellite Radio. Not all, but quite a few.
 
Garrett said:
Huh?
How does it help XM and Sirius?
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Need your hearing checked G-Dawg? Posters are typing as loud as they can!

RBA said:
So the connection is KLSD listeners can and will flee to Satellite Radio. Not all, but quite a few.
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I agree. Why buy a $200 HDRadio to hear Air America and the like. Then there is the reception on the FM multicast station. Iffy at best outside of the city grade signal. While the engineering is all perfect, the hilly terrain of San Diego county limits reception.

Take the same money and get a satellite radio. You'll get more programming, better signal, along with Air America, Alan Colmes, and Big Ed Schultz. All live too.

Your results will vary out of the area, and posting is as loud as it can be.
 
Maybe XM should buy some ad time on KLSD before the switch? Would CC San Diego let them? Magic Eight Ball says, Definitely Not.
 
I have heard ads for XM on KLSD. Clear Channel is a partial owner of XM and programs Talk 165, 152, WLW, WSIX KISS, and a few other stations ....
 
<Sigh> Clear channel sold off what remaining shares of XM it had years ago. Yes, I know, XM still mentions the connection on its web site.

Not sure how KLSD going away is going to be such a big thing for satellite radio. If the station had a lot of listeners, they wouldn't be changing format, right?
 
they (CCU) still have options for XM. It's buried in the XM SEC and CCU SEC crap.
 
Faraway said:
<Sigh> Clear channel sold off what remaining shares of XM it had years ago. Yes, I know, XM still mentions the connection on its web site.

Not sure how KLSD going away is going to be such a big thing for satellite radio. If the station had a lot of listeners, they wouldn't be changing format, right?
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I don't put much faith in radio ratings. However, KLSD management's main reason for switching formats is that they say they weren't generatoring enough revenue or ad dollars.
 
Faraway said:
Not sure how KLSD going away is going to be such a big thing for satellite radio. If the station had a lot of listeners, they wouldn't be changing format, right?
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Right: and even Howard Stern could only get, what was it, 10 percent of his listeners to follow him to satellite? And HD is slowly on its way to becoming the quadraphonics of radio (or did AM stereo already do that?) so moving KLSD's syndicated shows to an HD signal (you know they won't pay Taylor to stay around) is not at all a substitute for KLSD, but it does let CC San Diego some BS spin-doctoring, "Hey we're not getting rid of the stations, we're just moving it to a medium no one can receive."
 
I find it a bit bizarre that they are almost advertising with giddy glee about the impending format change on the KLSD website.
 
Let's get back to reality. 1360-AM is a weak signal,even with the proposed power increase (could be several years) it will not improve dramatically. XPRS has a major North-South signal which covers
the coast up to Santa Barbara. while the FM is a major metro stick.

Rome is likely in a multi-year deal with Double XX. Sure anything is possible, but XPRS should have negoiated their deal with that thought in mind, given Clear Channel's penchant for stealing Premiere
product.

Dan Patrick isn't going anywhere. New deal, just signed. Few stations are running the show live besides KLAC.

Chris Ello is a classic 2nd or 3rd tier sports talk talent, okay bench warmer may fit. He is adequate for smaller sports such as Soccer or Hockey PBP, he is not a bigtime talent. His analysis is fairly good, but he tends to be a talk-host who meanders and sounds bored halfway through his show. not a major
pickup, he's been around the market for years and never really found a prime shift.

Hacksaw: Could be a good alternative to the seasonal Padre love fest or the lackluster Werndl
& his co-host. We'll see what happens.
 
90-day outs on Premiere products. :eek:
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
90-day outs on Premiere products. :eek:
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I understand that Chris. But Premiere has been a little more careful of late in burning bridges with heritage stations only to be burned by CC's many Sports & Talk failures. Especially low powered flanker stations. Second: The Content Factory syndicates Dan Patrick, Premiere is doing a lot of the back end stuff.
 
Thanks, this must be the new, gentler Premiere. Remember when KFMB had Art Bell and Dr. Laura pulled?
 
Hey they could pull Rome, but I would say shame on you to Lynch. You always
protect yourself in these situations, there are ways to do so, its all about leverage.
 
So KLSD will be gone. How sad. Instead of being presented with the issue of whether or not the US should attack Iran and how to deal with the fallout (figurative, literal) of such an attack, the public will be considering who should start for the Chargers in Sunday's Big Game! A total replay of the classic Dakota train disaster in which the local Clear Channel station that could have been alerting the public about toxic clouds continued streaming oh whatever from San Antone. This is just on a much much much bigger scale. In the choice between the two philosophies, one--Knowledge Is Power, and the other, Ignorance Is Strength, Ignorance Is Strength wins again.

I had a conversation with a medical researcher who said labs are on the verge of being able to clone livers, pancreases, eye lenses, but unfortunately from stem cells and that technology is unfortunately politically impossible here, so it will be accomplished somewhere where the Knowledge Is Power philosophy has been embraced. If you are lucky maybe you can travel wherever that might be if, God forbid, you ever need a cloned organ.

But then maybe who will start in Sunday's Big Game is more important to you than that.
 
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