Editor: David Tanny
Home, Latest News, 2003 Archives, E-Mail
Los Angeles Radio Wires 2-22-03!"AJ's Kids" Radiothon 2-20 through 22-03!From Channel 933's AJ: It's that time again! Thursday Friday and Saturday of next week we'll be broadcasting live from Children's Hospital 12 hours a day help to raise money for one of San Diego's greatest resources, Children's hospital. The stories you'll hear will hopefully touch you and we hope that this year, along with our sister stations (Clear Channel), we'll be able to top last year's total.ONE YEAR AGO, on February 22, 2002,...In a case that drew just too attention and exploitation by San Diego radio and television, Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, a neighbor girl; Westerfield was later sentenced to death for Danielle's murder.
San Diego Radio Wires 2-22-03!John Maffei - North County Times TV/SportsExpect new sports station to join fray... But it seems certain that San Diego will have another all-sports radio station in the very near future. John Lynch, the man who successfully launched XTRA (690), is the man behind the move. People in the advertising business say Lynch has been busy behind the scenes lining up sponsors. Lending credence to the rumors is the fact that Bill Pugh, program director at XTRA, resigned earlier this week. He told staffers at Clear Channel's broadcast center that he was headed to 1090 ---- the destination on the dial for Lynch's new venture. The 1090 signal is a monster, covering San Diego, Orange and South Riverside counties. While three all-sports stations seems like a lot, Lynch knows the market is wide open. Could Bill Werndl, John Kentera, Chris Ello and the Vast Morning Wasteland ---- Billy Ray Smith and Scott Kaplan ---- return to the local airwaves? Even Ted Leitner could work there, but could he work more at KOGO instead? READ_MORE Also: The Lake Elsinore Storm, the Padres' Class A team in the California League, will have all its games on 94.5 FM, which carried the Padres last year. Sean McCall returns as play-by-play man. The Padres will most likely be carried on 103.3 FM in Southern Riverside County, a dead zone for Padres flagship KOGO (600).
L.A. Talk Radio San Diego Radio Wires 2-21-03!Jay Posner - TV/Radio Sports - The San Diego UnionGet ready to touch that all-sports dial... A new San Diego all-sports radio station is getting closer to reality. Bill Pugh, director of AM operations at Clear Channel since 1997 and program director at XTRA 690/1150, resigned this week, increasing speculation that he would be the man in charge at a new station run by John Lynch, who made XTRA an all-sports titan. Read more about it here.
North County Times - Randy Dotinga
National Radio Wires 2-21-03!rronlineAlan.com Fox Live With Alan Colmes To Debut Monday... The nationally syndicated, weeknight news show will air weeknights from 10pm-1am ET. The show, which will originate from the Fox News radio studio in New York, will initially be heard in 10 markets across the country, including New York, Dallas, Orlando, San Diego, Salt Lake City, West Palm Beach, Norfolk and Albuquerque. Colmes also co-hosts the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes on cable TV; his partner on the show, Sean Hannity, has a radio show syndicated by ABC Radio Networks. From Mediaweek: Fox News Preps Talk Radio With Alan Colmes Alan Colmes, the left-leaning co-host of Hannity and Colmes on the Fox News Channel, returns to radio next Monday as host of a new national Talk show syndicated by Fox News Channel. FOX Live with Alan Colmes has cleared 10 stations, eight of which are in the top 50 markets including New York, Dallas, Orlando, San Diego, Salt Lake City, West Palm Beach, Norfolk, Va., and Albuquerque. The show will air weekdays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., immediately following Colmes' FNC cable TV show. The show is the first syndicated radio show for FNC, which will handle both affiliations and national sales. Colmes' Fox News partner Sean Hannity and colleague Bill O'Reilly have national radio shows, but syndication is handled by ABC Radio Networks and Westwood One, respectively. Broadcast from the Fox News radio studio in New York, Colmes' news-driven show will take advantage of the news resources of FNC, featuring updates from Fox news reporters such as Catherine Herridge, Bret Baier, Steve Harrigan, Amy Kellogg and Carl Cameron. Colmes will also interview top newsmakers and take listener phone calls. Also visit his e-mail group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Alan_Colmes/
Los Angeles Radio Wires 2-21-03!Inside RadioYet another new Spanish format will debut next week in L.A. on 93.5.... What will emerge from Bill Tanner's laboratory at SBS? Spanish Broadcasting System takes over the 93.5 simulcast after Four Square Gospel signs off its religious format on February 28.
Los Angeles Radio: New Station Obliterates SD's KGB-FM 2-21-03!Uh-oh! It's time to pick on KGB-FM again!From http://radio-info.com/boards/la/index.cgi?read=1441: Posted by The Angry Ghost of Brian Wilson: Anyone hear it? Legally licensed and up and running for 3 days now. Any guesses? Hint #1: the tower is at 28 feet ASL. Posted by Engineer: Pepperdine's LPFM Posted by The Angry Ghost of Brian Wilson "We have a winner!" KWVS, Malibu. 101.5, right on top (actually, underneath most of the time) KGB San Diego. I listened last night.... Last night was a bad night for the salt water coax, no KGB on 101.5 in Santa Monica. But then, no SD FM at all in all the normal places. KWVS Malibu put a pretty good signal in to PCH N of McClure Tunnel ... lots of terrain problems at Topanga Cyn Blvd. No KGB bleed at all. But again, none of the big sticks in San Diego were coming into Malibu last night. KWVS covered KGB all the way to Point Dume. 101.5 was static past there. Today, however, KGB was coming in clearly at my house at Trancas, but wherever there was terrain to the San Diego direction KWVS came in on top of it. KGB/KWVS battled it out on PCH to Point Dume. KWVS pretty good from Dume to Pepperdine, but nonexistent east of Malibu pier. I kept checking 101.3 KATY/Hemet. Even while driving right past KWVS they were coming in as strong as ever. No splatter at all from KWVS. Needless to say KRTH and KSCA have nothing to worry about. I don't think KGB has anything to worry about either, but I will miss them. No I won't - I have XM in both my cars. This isn't the first time a legal low-powered radio station out of Los Angeles covered the 101.5 frequency. Here's a report from the old Dave's Radio Waves in March of 1999: Pirate Broadcaster Wipes Out KGB in Long Beach (March 1999)Uh, oh! Here we go again!I received a report from Neil Wagner from the Northern Orange County area, and he alerted me about a strong reception of a religious station on 101.5 for the past week or so. He wonders if classic rock KGB is still with us. I listened to it in San Diego for the past week and it's still rocking San Diego all-right, so someone up in Long Beach must have rigged yet another one of those pirate FM relays on an unauthorized frequency not allocated for broadcasting in that area. In this case, it must be KWVE 107.9's programming that's being piped into another frequency. Neil says he commutes from northwest Huntington Beach to the Long Beach airport every day and usually can get KGB pretty well. At home, he is getting a big bunch of static. I e-mailed Todd Little, then program director of KGB, and he swiftly responded that I was dead on and he petitioned the FCC to take legal action against this pirate. The FCC database doesn't show a legal allocation for a transmitter on 101.5 in that area. If someone put up a pirate station on the top of Signal Hill, and low powered FM tends to travel very far (100.1 Julian with 48 watts is an example), it would literally blanket the whole Los Angeles county basin south of the Hollywood hills, and even interfere with K-Earth 101.1 and KSCA 101.9. Mystery of the 101.5 L.A. Broadcaster FoundKGB-FM, 101.5 MHz, San Diego, has many fringe-area listeners in the Los Angeles and Orange Counties. It comes as no surprise when the station received many interference complaints as soon as a 101.5 MHz translator on Mt. Wilson (call letters K268AK) began broadcasting. According to John Barcroft of KGB, the translator operator voluntarily suspended transmissions when presented with the interference complaints.The translator in question is not a pirate operation but one that is authorized by the FCC for 2 watts ERP, circular polarization, non-directional. A 10-watt application was pending at the time. The station relayd KLRD. The owner who immediately suspended operations is Sam Wallington. San Diego Radio News 2-20-03!RogerHedgecock's FlashFAX (produced by producer Jimmy Valentine sez: **COUNTYWIDE FOOTBALL TAX VOTE? San Diego Business Journal notes this week that one measure being pondered to get Alex and Dean Spanos a new football stadium is a boost in the sales tax by a quarter cent. "Such a tax increase would require approval by a two-thirds majority of voters, and be a countywide ballot measure." Maybe it is just us but we kinda figure that we'd have to get thru half a case of Night Train before we'd be in a state of mind to vote to hike our sales tax for Al & Dean. Bring it on!!**WE'RE GETTING BEAT UP BIG TIME by the folks from http://www.recallgraydavis.com. Almost daily email taking us to task for not updating the numbers of folks who have signed up to help Recall The Duf and not mentioning this weekends Recall The Duf Rally in Sacramento. So here is the current info, lest we get beaten seriously about the head and shoulders. Jimmy, Now over 1,000,000 (yes, 1 million) have signed the recall petition about Gray Davis!!! You have not yet put the message about the upcoming rally on the Flash Fax. I've emailed it twice to you. The Flash Fax just keeps saying how we have 10,000. ADD A FEW ZERO'S and publish it. What do I have to do??? I am the one who has been forwarding this news to you. VERY FRUSTRATING. Elsa , Sacramento,CA YIKES!! The Dump Da Duf rally happens this Saturday in Sacramento from 10:30am until 12noon. Get full info on the rally, location, RSVP and like that on the official website of our get him outta here campaign. http://www.recallgraydavis.com/. FM 94.9 San Diego has returned Nina Blackwood to its programming lineup. This time, it's not the daily five-minute classic 80's spots during the stations' old B94.9 days, rather, its a whole three-hour program. "Nina Blackwood's New Wave Nation" airs Sunday mornings from 7am until 10am. The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Ramones, The Clash, Talking Heads - just a few of the many alternative bands from the late 70's to early 90's that you'll hear. 97.3 KSON - lets your Double Your Paycheck. You have to register first, then listen to the station and win. Visit their website for details. Star 100.7 - is giving locals an opportunity to be a local DJ (but you can't play anything edgy on the station, so bug 94.9 into doing the same thing). "Super Mouth" is your chance to win a 1 year, $50,000 contract to become an On-Air Pesonality for Star 100.7 FM. Basically, you have to read the rules on their website, fill out the application form and send the station a demo tape. Listen to Greg and Jen weekdays from 3pm to 7pm for Super Mouth updates. Also, check back again for times and dates of Super Mouth broadcasts. Magic 92.5 has been inviting college students majoring in radio to be an intern for the station. Magic is now interviewing for interns to be on "THE MAGIC STREET TEAM". If you can receieve college credit and can contribute a minimum of 15 hours a week. Visit the webstie and E-mail Christina. 103.7 The Planet is sponsoring a "Spring Training Survivor" contest. Listen to 103.7 for your cue to call 1-888-388-1037 for your chance to be the Spring Training Survivor. The station is taking a busload of listeners to see the Padres at spring training, randomly drawing names and dropping people off the bus all the way to Peoria, AZ. The one still on the bus at the end of the trip will win the grand prize - season tickets to the Padres and $103 cash! KOOL 95.7 Celebrates the Grammys! There's music you love on KOOL 95.7 this weekend with the Grammy Winners! The station has selected the best songs to win the golden statue and you'll hear them this weekend on KOOL 95.7. The 45th Annual Grammy Awards from Madison Square Garden in New York City is on Sunday, February 23rd. Clear Channel San Diego Radio is holding its Children's Hospital 2nd Annual Radiothon Thursday, February 20th - Sunday, February 23rd. Listen to MAGIC 92.5 and KOOL 95.7 (and a few other stations I suppose) to find out about the great work done by Children's Hospital and find out how you can be sure their work will continue. Clear Channel has partnered with Children's Hospital and Health Center for a four-day radiothon to raise funds for one of the nation's finest hospitals. One hundred percent of your tax-deductible donation benefits Children's Hospital and local San Diego children and families. Visit the website to get more information, to donate on-line or to email them your comments or stories about Children's Hospital. Last year over $407,000 was raised through listeners' donations which will helped these young patients. Money is used for equipment and other expenses to keep this hospital healing San Diego Children. Help the station beat that number this year! You can donate to the Children's Hospital Radiothon by calling 1-800-258-0007. 91X is presenting the second annual Coachella Music Festival in the Palm Springs zone the weekend of April 26 (my birthday) and April 27 (the fourth monthly "Weird Al" Day"). See The Complete Lineup. Some artists playing on April 26: Beastie Boys / Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals / Queens of the Stone Age / Groove Armada / more... Some artists playing on April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers / The White Stripes / Underworld / Jack Johnson / Primal Scream / Blue Man Group / Sonic Youth / more... Also see http://www.coachella.com. KCBQ 1170 has two new shows to their lineup. The Wedding Show from 11am-noon and The Debt Wipe-Out Hour from 2-3pm (I might try the latter show to help me out with my debts. You can also donate money to David Tanny, PO Box 19569, San Diego, CA 92159-0569.) The San Diego Padres have opened their 2003 Spring Training camp at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, AZ. Padres pitchers and catchers reported to Peoria on February 14, while position players report on February 19 before beginning the 32-game Cactus League slate, which includes 15 Peoria Stadium home games. Listen to weekday spring training games on AM 1130 KSDO. Weekend spring training games will be on Newsradio 600 KOGO with Jerry Coleman and Ted Leitner. Click HERE to see the Spring Training Schedule. FuelTracker (bookmark that website) is helping some commuters save as much as five dollars per tankful, but bear in mind that it's best to visit the gas stations along your commuting path in order to help maximize savings. Depending on your MPG, considering a gallon of gas costs $2, you can go about 30 miles a gallon in a econobox (what me, the cheapskate, drives), down to 12 miles a gallon if you're driving a bigger vehicle, so don't go too far out of the way to save gas or you'll be wasting money in order to save money. KIFM 98.1 features a Sunday midday program "Champagne Jazz Sunday Brunch" Join Melissa Sharpe or Mark Zegan for the Champagne Jazz Sunday Brunch from 10am to 2pm. Each Sunday, the station is live at an exclusive location for great food and live Smooth Jazz! Our brunch locations include Singing Hills Resort at Sycuan, the St. Regis in Dana Point, and Hornblower Cruises. Visit the website for locations. Also at the website: information about the arrival of their newest CD Sampler 2003. The Smooth Jazz 98.1 CD Sampler 2003 benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is on sale now at Borders Books & Music and online at their website. KFSD 92.1's website is still under construction. KLOS 95.5's Jim Ladd features a live in studio guest: Styx! Don't miss the station's album listening party with Styx live from Jim Ladd's Living Room Thursday, Feb. 20th at 10pm!
The San Diego Reader Blurt
North County Times - Randy Dotinga
Riverside Radio News 2-19-03!rronlineEntravision Goes Tropical In Southern California... But it's not the salsa and merengue that Tropical stations on the East Coast and Puerto Rico air. It's cumbia - the folkloric music of Northwest Colombia that in the mid-1960s became the dance music of choice for Latin America - and it can now be found on KLYY/Riverside-Los Angeles, which ends its simulcast of Spanish Contemporary KSSE (Super Estrella) to become "Oye 97.5 - La Cumbia Caliente" (in English, "Listen! 97.5 - Hot Cumbia"). Entravision Radio VP/Programming Haz Montana is overseeing KLYY's launch. While cumbia music is wildly popular throughout Central America, it's also become popular throughout Mexico. In fact, all-cumbia stations in Monterrey regularly place near the top of the ratings, and Mexico City's top-rated FM features cumbia music. The station will compete against Liberman's KWIZ (Sonido 96.7)/Anaheim-L.A., which features a similar format to KLYY.
Riverside/San Bernadino Radio News 2-17-03!From http://radio-info.com/boards/ctc/index.cgi?read=20867Subject: KLYY 97.5 Riverside, CA fliped today Posted by David Eduardo; Date: 2/17/03 5:29 p.m. Now called "Oye 97.5" (Listen! 97.5) and the positioner is "La Cumbia Caliente" Kicked off at 10 AM with some put-downs of ballad and regional stations. They are playing Mexican and Colombian cumbia exclusively... cumbia being a Colombian rhythm that became very international in the 60's. Format similar, but better done than, KWIZ-FM. No Caribbean tropical at all... so appeal will be Central American and Central-Eastern Mexican mostly.
Los Angeles Radio News 2-16-03!Gary Lycan - Orange County RegisterWarren Duffy kicks off his farewell tour. Mark Denis Interchange. Radio Ratings. Also: KDL "Dance 103.1 FM" is interviewing potential on-air personalities. Owner Entravision's KLYY/97.5 FM is airing the "Viva 107" format in Riverside.
Don Barrett - Los Angeles Radio People
Paul Harvey on Larry King. Michael Savage joins MSNBC.
National Radio Commentary 2-18-03!From http://radio-info.com/boards/ctc/Subject: Traditional Country Movement At Radio From Cybele'sOwn: From the country news page of country 104.1 "K-X-Double D" KXDD Yakima, Wash.: Traditional Country Movement At Radio -- Your radio just may start sounding a little more country. In the last four months, a half-dozen stations have changed their formats to classic country, Sean Ross, executive editor of Billboard's Airplay Monitor, tells the New York Times. Among the latest to take the traditional route; KVLO-FM (102.9) in Little Rock, Ark., Houston's KTHT-FM (97.1) and KAYD-FM (101.7) in Beaumont, Texas. "My audience doesn't get Shania," said Kevin Christopher, the program director of KVLO in Little Rock. "It's like classic rock. You love the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but you don't get 'N Sync." The format features artists like Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Charley Pride, Dolly Parton and the late Tammy Wynette. http://www.1041kxdd.com/articles/Music%20news.shtml
San Diego Radio News 2-16-03!ESPN Radio 800 - new website launched sometime ago. It's at espnradio800.com, but it redirects you to http://216.9.32.21/espn/asp/index.asp (not on the ESPN website).KPRI 102.1's New Music Mondays: Monday... Great day to start the week... Great day to check out the new music. If you love music but don't want to have a steady diet of the "same old thing," listen for New Music Monday. Consider us your executive secretary for the new stuff. And remember, if you ever hear a song that you can't recognize, click our link for recently played songs. We try to tell you the name of every song we play but if we goof up, you're likely to find the title and artist there. We're all about New Music here at KPRI. And remember if you want to hear a full hour of new music, make sure that you listen in on Monday Night for New Noise at Nine with Jodina. From nine 'til ten you'll hear nothing but the new stuff. You'll also hear an occasional live concert or new album. Don't miss it. 91X, in response to Halloran's "Dog Dare to Play It" feature on 94/9, started its own deep cuts of alternative rock feature with "Detour" weeknights at 6pm. Hillary is asked by the listeners to dig out the CDs and play the deep cuts of some of the favorite artists. 94.9 FM wants your local music CDs. Al Guerra hosts "The Local 94/9" Sundays at 8pm. If you're in a local San Diego area band, FM94/9 wants to hear your music! Send the station your CDs (no MP3s, please) and your band information to:
The LOCAL 94/9, KSON 97.3 - Listen and WIN!: This week (2/17-21) Listen to Tony & Kris In The Mornimg and win a DVD-A-Day, all week long..like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Thelma And Louise" the Special Edition starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and the hunky Brad Pitt!
Go Loco Returns to KFSD 92.1 Sunday 2-16-03!News from Tazy, the new host of "Go Loco", who says that the new program director of KFSD 92.1 has asked Tazy to return to the station to do his version of the GO LOCO show on 92/1. The show returns this Sunday the 16th (now from 4-10pm) on 92.1. Tazy's show as "SP Radio One" was previously heard on 92.1 Wednesdays from 10pm-MID during mid 2001.GO LOCO returns to KFSD "Premium 92/1" this Sunday! -------------------------------------------- GO LOCO: LOCAL & INDEPENDENT MUSIC Hey folks in San Diego, South Orange County, and parts of the Inland Empire... GO LOCO returned to the airwaves of Premium 92.1fm on Sunday 2/15/03 (now from 4-10pm Pacific) with your host (radio veteran & SoCal scenester) - TAZY PHYLLIPZ Tazy's version of GO LOCO will include local music from Southern California and feature the best of independent releases. Additionally, the forthcoming weeks will also include: **interviews with local bands; **ticket and cd giveaways; **and exclusive live in-studio sessions from Tazy's long-standing radio & webcast program called SP RADIO ONE (found online at http://www.skaparade.com). So...tell your friends to hear GO LOCO every Sunday night (now from 4-10pm Pacific) on KFSD Premium 92.1fm ! REQUEST LINE: 1-760-745-9292 Musically yours - Tazy SP RADIO ONE and KFSD's "GO LOCO" on "Premium 92.1fm" About SP Radio 1Website: http://www.skaparade.comSP RADIO ONE (formerly Ska Parade) is a weekly new music program that features exclusive LIVE IN-STUDIO artists in 24+ genres. You can hear SP RADIO ONE webcasts all week long (via mp3)! **NEW** SP Radio One episodes will be posted every week! Also, the home of Ska Parade news, merch, photos, & much more! SP RADIO ONE: LIVE MUSIC * NEW BANDS * 24+ GENRES!!!Hello SP Radio One fans,If you would like to hear an online webcast version of SP RADIO ONE, please go to: http://www.skaparade.com/play.pls (PC users please use winamp; MAC users please use SoundJam) New Episodes Up Weekly! For more information on SP RADIO ONE , please contact Tazy at SPradio1@aol.com |