Most Recent Wayback Machine Playlist (Jun 22, 2002)

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KFSD 92/1 6/22/02

CLASH - SPANISH BOMBS

LOVE AND ROCKETS - NO BIG DEAL

TRASH CAN SINATRAS - MAYBE I SHOULD DRIVE

BEATLES - WAIT

THE SPECIAL AKA - FREE NELSON MANDELA

SPLIT ENZ - WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU

JOE "KING" CARRASCO - MAN OVERBOARD

BILL NELSON - ACCELERATION

JANES ADDICTION - SUMMERTIME ROLLS

JANES ADDICTION - HAD A DAD

THE KLF (w/ TAMMY WYNETTE) - JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT

FRONT 242 - HEADHUNTER

CREATURES - FURY EYES

HOODOO GURUS - I WANT YOU BACK

ELECTRONIC - GETTING AWAY WITH IT

TIME ZONE - WORLD DESTRUCTION

EDWIN STARR - WAR

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - WAR

THE ALARM - HOWLING WIND

WATERBOYS - FISHERMAN'S BLUES

AZTEC CAMERA - ALL I NEED IS EVERYTHING

COCTEAU TWINS - ICEBLINK LUCK

IGGY POP - DOG FOOD

ELVIS COSTELLO - BEATEN TO THE PUNCH

COLOURFIELD - PUSHIN UP THE DAISIES

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - SEVEN SEAS

FRANK BLACK - HEADACHE

SQUEZZE - IS THAT LOVE

SQUEEZE - UP THE JUNCTION

BUZZCOCKS - ORGASM ADDICT

DEPECHE MODE - DANGEROUS

ALISON MOYET - LOVE RESSURECTION

JOE JACKSON - PRETTY BOYS

LONDON SUEDE - BEAUTIFUL ONE

IVY - BEAUTIFUL

TUBES - HALOES

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - CHAMPAGNE

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - C'MON EVERY BEATBOX

STAN GETZ (w/ ASTRID GILBERTO) - SUMMER SAMBA

XTC - SCARECROW PEOPLE

LENE LOVICH - NEW TOY

Radio Wires (June 21, 2002)

Radio Wires (June 20, 2002)

excerpt: DSC says they're #1 among the San Diego Outland listeners (do they mean city or county?) Star's Jeff and Jer is actually the most listened-to morning radio show.

more "Cheap" Channel news with Randy!

Radio Wires (June 20, 2002)

Screw insideradio.com! Here's what you should have read on that website for free!

"It's great flattery for them to take my million-dollar spot and air it on their station," says KSON (97.1) program director John Dimmick. He says competing "Hot Country" (XHCR 99.3) stole the words and music from KSON's long-running TV ad verbatim and aired it as a radio commercial on Hot Country.

"Our program director noticed they had reproduced the ad copy word for word, only replacing our call letters with theirs," said KSON general manager Darrel Goodin. He said the 30-second ad used the exact same song segments from the artists on the KSON TV ad including the Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, and Tim McGraw.

Concerned over copyright infringement and business interference, Goodin said KSON contacted the creator of the TV spots, Tony Quinn of IQ Productions in Atlanta. He said Quinn in turn contacted Clear Channel, which recently took over Hot Country and now controls 1212 stations nationwide.

"Tony called their senior vice president of programming, who said he had no idea this was being done," said Goodin. "They took care of it right away. They were very professional about it."

Goodin said the ad only ran on Hot Country for about 12 hours on June 5.

"They want to replicate us song for song." Goodin said the pre-Clear Channel Hot Country would play classic country artists, but the new Hot Country is a clone of KSON. "They dropped Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, and Waylon, and Willie. They went from 35 percent new music to 78 percent. By giving up on the classic artists, they forfeited the only distinction they had from KSON. By duplicating our music and our promos, they only confirm that they have nothing special to offer either their listeners or their advertisers."

Hot Country's new program director Mike O'Brian did not respond to a request for comment. O'Brian's most recent programming job was running the Mix 95.7, which played Top 40 hits from the '80s and '90s. Clear Channel pulled the plug on the Mix 95.7 last November due to low ratings.

"We were hoping that Clear Channel getting into country would help grow the country format in San Diego with a better product and better marketing, but they just don't seem to be serious about this station. Clearly they view Hot Country as a spoiler. I guess you can afford to do that when you have 14 stations."

Clear Channel owns eight local stations and operates six others under lease arrangements.

-- Ken Leighton

Spring P2 Ratings Posted (June 19, 2002)

Guess what we see here?

KOGO is LOOSING steam!

Are people getting sick and tired of those talkers on that station? Are the Padres really getting that boring?

What are they turning to? DFSX Fun Radio on the Internet at http://www.davesfunstuff.com/dfsx, the best damn San Diego-based music station, period! So what if it's not rated by Arbitron; they're not the authroity when it comes to rating how good a radio station is.

Case in point: quality-programmed radio stations on Premium 92.1 and KPRI Authentic Rock (SM) 102.1. Though low-rated on the Arbitron chart, they rate high in quality levels on my own Evalutrons survey for May 2002, which gives you a better picture of what the more educated San Diego Outlanders think of radio; the more they like the station, the longer they listen.

The May 2002 Evalutron rankings:

#1 - DFSX Fun Radio
#2 - Premium Radio 92.1
#3 - KPRI Authentic Rock (SM) 102.1
#4 - Magic 92.5
#5 - XMOR 98.9
#6 - Star 100.7
#7 - KCBQ 1170
#8 - KSDS 88.3
#9 - KIOZ 105.3
#10- KPBS 89.5

5th lowest: KOCL 95.7 (voice-tracking doesn't work)
4th lowest: XHCR "Cold" Country 99.3
    (sucked in ratings even before CC took control!)
3rd lowest: Z90.3 (CC ruined the station!)
2nd lowest: XETRA 91.1
1st lowest: KGB 101.5

#1: Electronica/Dance
#2: Traditional Country/Folk
#3: Novelty/Comedy
#4: Traditional Jazz/Swing/Lounge
#5: Alternative Rock and Roll

3rd worst: oldies-only music formats
2nd worst: all soft-music/love songs
1st worst: hip hop/rap/rap rock

Back to Arbitron: The San Diego Outlanders for the most part are choosing what kinds of music is heard over the airwaves, simply because most of them cannot afford the luxury of listening to better music on Internet radio, which seems to be the medium for the upper class (ie: white collar, Masters Degree level, affluent gay male, etc) as they enjoy the variety not heard on the commercial radio stations where the majority of its listeners are among the less-educated that is only too happy to settle for bland music programming from hip-hop Z90, safe alternative 91X, which took a dump this past month, robotically-engineered Cool 95.7, worn-out 80's B94.9, which ought to change its format, worn-out classic rock KGB, which has its lowest rating in 14 months, even lower-rated Planet 103.7, which hasn't made any waves since what is now Infinity Broadcasting bought the station in 1995 to wipe out competetion to its KYXY format by switching it to classic rock first under "Rock Mix", then "Planet," and uneven Top 40 Channel 933, which doesn't seem to appeal to much anyone over age 25, except for "Digital Groove" possibly.

Censored 'Married ... with Children' to Air on FX (June 18, 2002)

The network's first real hit raised -- or lowered, depending on one's taste -- the bar for bawdy talk on network TV and was unique in its early years for portraying family members who couldn't stand each other. Outrage over the series' lack of family values only made more people interested.

The network did, however, get cold feet about one episode in the show's third season and never ran it. FOX's cable sibling, FX, will rectify that Tuesday (June 18) when it airs the "lost" episode, titled "I'll See You in Court," at 9:30 p.m. ET.

"This lost episode of 'Married ... with Children' is an incredible opportunity to premiere an episode of a classic comedy series that has never been seen before," says Chuck Saftler, senior vice president of programming for FX. "[The episode] is a perfect example of why the show received so much attention."

"I'll See You in Court" revolves around Peggy Bundy's (Katey Sagal) usually futile attempts to revive her husband Al's (Ed O'Neill) libido. After getting a tip from neighbor Marcy (Amanda Bearse), they head to a motel, where a tape the management leaves for them depicts Marcy and her husband, Steve (David Garrison), in the throes of passion. The Bundys later find out they were taped as well and decide to sue the motel.

The episode doesn't seem too far out of the series' ordinary realm, but FOX chose not to air it. The show was facing a boycott campaign at the time, which may have led to the episode being pulled.

Radio Thoughts (June 18, 2002)

And DANCE should be one of them....

Obviously, the lack of focus on teens today will destroy this medium tomorrow, Why oh Why does other entertainment streams (film,tv) focus their creative marketing efforts at teens and radio does not.. This is a major flaw in radio's ability to sustain it's future.. "Irrelevant" is the word here. I have said many times here that each day that goes by where teens are left to get hooked on the new entertainment devices that come on to the market everyday, those devices have NO DIRECT CONNECTION OR CORRELATION TO RADIO.

While cell phones have technology to hook you up to the net, or now will offer film and tv content (on that small screen) WHAT THE HELL IS RADIO AS AN INDUSTRY DOING?? Consolidating!

What new delivery streams or upgrades in technology has the NAB come up with? None, it seems.

As I have said, the real threat of a wave of collapse in listeners in the future will be that of minorities I believe.. Once technology gets more affordable and more mainstream and access is far cheaper, watch out! These groups (like teens) will abandon radio in big numbers and these so-called broadcaster monopolies will be left with nothing more than the debts they have accumulated from all their acquisitions. These groups are not loyal to radio, it is still a choice because of it's access and nothing more - it's free and easy and available.

And mind you, if these broadcasters stock values suddenly fall so will their ability to remain solvent. Just look at AOL and Time Warner, two giants that wrote down the biggest losses it seems in world history ($50+ billion dollars). Even Clear Channel is vunerable. All it takes is another Sept. 11th and a fall in ad revenue and these big guys could get crushed. In other words, radio is too obsessed on sales (Mel K.) and cares very little bout it's future as a viable, relevant medium. What have these big groups done lately that benefits it's listeners? What? Nothing that is what. How does the film business do it? by offering GOOD ENTERTAINING FILMS THAT ARE RELEVANT AND HIP! Television does it the same way.

Radio programming is way too niched and boring. Competition is too focused on the "let's do what our competitors are doing" mentality, instead of having a "let's do something totally fresh and different to attract an audience" strategy.

Hey Radio people--- CONSUMERS WANT CHOICE, They LIKE NEW THINGS! THEY LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT! THEY LIKE ACCESS TO THINGS THEY LIKE! Every other entertainment medium has grown to understand this -- Choice is what consumers want... Radio is way too predictable, non-trend setting, boring, and most importantly SEVERELY OUT OF "STEP" with the advancement of CHOICE in MEDIA TODAY...

In film, there are more movies, more new technologies, more new theatres, more new concepts, DVD for god sake is exploding, more of everything is what moviemakers strive for.

The Internet - delivers UNLIMITED CHOICE. Movies, Music, radio, it is all there...

In Television, I have 200-300 channels at my house on my TV's, and it offers 50 music channels as well.

Does anyone in their right mind think that all this NEW "CHOICE" will not affect another medium (like RADIO) that OFFERS CONSUMERS NO NEW "CHOICES" AT ALL ? That is why Dance or any other musical style should have a format in every market, strictly based on the ability to deliver choice.

Radio needs to quickly get out of the "Narrowness" of their vision and get into the "LET'S PROVIDE MORE CHOICE to consumers" ideals before it is too late. This is a tall order in a business controlled by people who are way too old and out of touch with the street and the REALITY of the market to realize that their dominance in choice is OVER!