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KPLS Flips to Spanish 12-27-03KPLS 830, a radio station that can't be heard clearly in San Diego, has flipped to Spanish talk according to a poster in the radio-info boards.As of midnight Dec 26, 2003 KPLS went off the air. George Putnam's Talkback has found a new home on KRLA 870 AM/590 AM according to the website kpls.com KDL Flips to Alternative 12-26-03KDLD Santa Monica and KDLE Newport Beach, both on 103.1, has flipped to alternative rock as "Indie 103.1" going jockless and commercial-free for now.How it will snag a substantial amount of listeners away from popular alternative KROQ 106.7 remains a mystery. The only way would be to put on what KROQ is not airing. I can't get either station down clearly in San Diego so I can't report on how the playlists differ from one another. Dance music fans are likely snapping up subscriptions of Sirius and XM Radio rather than to put up with predictably urban-leaning Top 40 radio up in Los Angeles. It's a shame that urban and Top 40 radio is no longer embracing a genre such as dance that can get a substantial amount of older listeners, who are now defecting to satellite radio and downloads on CDs. Top 40 has regressed into an unlistenable mish mash of predictable ballads and hip hop boredom, except for that interesting "Hey Ya" song by Outkast, which is the only song being played that I like nowadays (first heard on the defunct Premium 92.1 in September). Where are the goofy novelty songs? Where are the dance hits? Where are the adult rock and rollers? Where are the serious synth alternative rockers? Where are the male-leaning fun country tunes? What about having mature R&B singers (no teen pop acts), blues guitarists, occasional rock instrumentals, rock-jazz, and aging classic rockers I grew up with that are still putting out CDs for us to buy? Not on teen-leaning CHR radio. CHR radio such as KIIS are losing listeners not because of a dance station, but because the music fans are not hearing the kind of music that is out there on these kind of stations, instead, they're hearing them on satellite radio. With dance gone in Los Angeles, the powers that be would have you believe that the former KDL listeners will go back to listening to KIIS? Unfortunately for them, once the dance music fans have heard how well a radio station can be programmed without all that urban rap and soft ballad crap in it, they're not going to go to KIIS. They're going to subscribe to Sirius Radio for six dance channels and XM Radio for four including an old school disco channel. This is the kind of listeners that KIIS is not serving, the kind that does not like rap and are too embarrassed to listen to teen pop. Rap music doesn't appeal to a modern dance music fan. Teen pop does not appeal to a mature music fan. Programming five FM stations that basically sound alike by one company, none of them modern dance, will not get listeners who have fallen between the cracks and are now enjoying the music on satellite radio. Flipping KDL from dance to alternative will only hasten the listeners from FM radio as the mass exodus to satellite radio will result in KIIS (which is no longer on XM Radio) having a miniscle gain of former KDL listeners who can't afford satellite radio subscriptions, while Clear Channel can say goodbye to the former KDL listeners who prefer to pay for radio that plays all dance than to put up with a radio station that continues to play ghetto type music and pop alternative that does not appeal to these kind of listeners. If Clear Channel wants the former KDL listeners to go to one of their stations, they should flip the useless Hot 92.3 into Dance 92.3, and tell those listeners to move over to KIIS and KBIG for today's R&B and old school disco songs respectively. Then CC will have the former listners of KDL on the more powerful 92.3 instead of losing them to satellite radio. 24 Hours of Metallica 12-25-03!Rock 105.3 is airing 24 hours of Metallica songs with chances to win prizes all day Christmas.San Diego Radio Wires 12-25-03!Randy DotingaGetting what they deserve... Santa Claus is feeling a bit under the weather (the South Beach Diet can do that to a guy), so I'm going to take over some of his duties and hand out holiday presents to a few deserving radio folks. See his website to find out what they are. Quickies: Looking for broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera? If you can catch its Mexico-based signal, tune in to classical music station XLNC1/90.7 FM at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. Meanwhile, "At the Opera With Ian Campbell" (he's the director of the San Diego Opera) has returned to KPBS-FM at 7 p.m. Sundays. You can find the playlists for each show at kpbs.org.
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Top D.T. TV Shows of 2003 12-26-03!Some people have been e-mailing me questions about what my favorite TV shows were in the past year since I quit doing my weekly ratings reports I used to do until last year. There are so few prime time TV shows for me to watch, and how poorly I thought of many of them in the 2001-02 season, that I decided to just quit watching the junk shows and pick up other things to watch or do.Late night talk/variety shows, Saturday Night Live, whatever is on Comedy Central, reruns of favorite shows, and sports and news are all I watch nowadays. I usually watch the opening monologues as Jay, Dave, Conan, and others make fun of the top news stories of the day. Comedy Central usually has something for us guys to watch. Cartoon Network has the weird and wacky Adult Swim weeknights such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which is like TV from Mars or somewhere. Spike TV had the overlooked "Striperella" starring Pamela Anderson as the lead character, which despite bad critical reviews, I actually thought it was pretty good. TV Land and Nick at Nite always have a classic rerun on. Prime Time TV. Who needs it? What's with all these cookie-cutter concepts? Crime dramas? Courtrooms? Singles datecoms? Dumb family sitcoms? Reality shows? The networks are out of ideas! All I watch nowadays are The Simpsons and King of the Hill on Fox. Nothing else interests me anymore. The Simple Life is too simpleton for me. Joe Millionaire/Bacherlor[ette] shows are long and overdrawn out. The WB is loosing viewers, about 20 percent I think, since last season especially from the older viewers. UPN is still nowhere. PAX should be bought and taken into an Asian language format. ABC can't do anything right anymore since Disney bought it in 1995. Fox needs to do sports seven days a week. CBS and NBC do well except that they're basically formulac and boring. A few surprises: Melissa Joan Hart may be gone from Friday nights, but we have a new attraction for lonely male prison inmates inside high security cells in San Quentin: Amber Tamblyn, star of "Touched By God" or whatever it's called on CBS..."Joan Van Arcadia?" Close enough. Reminds me of the Vestibules sketch "Kevin and God" I heard on Dr. Demento several times. Doesn't she look like a young Valerie Bertinelli? Alicia Silverstone's show isn't doing good, though she looks good, but she got a Golden Globe award for "Miss Match." I like to see her just try to match me up. A rerun of Married With Children featuring the late Sam Kinison last week just shows how bad the writing of today's TV sitcoms have gotten. Network TV also hasn't got a clue how to deal with veterans that we older viewers enjoyed. ABC's treatment of the passing of John Ritter. The rise and fall of "8 Simple Rules". It rose and fell flat thanks to Disney's greedy treatment of the late star John Ritter, shamelessly milking his untimely death for their own gain with hype and exploitation, while more fed-up viewers left prime-time TV for satellite and cable TV. I haven't seen anyting this rancid a treatment on a celebrity in history. If I was Ritter, I'd sue the heck out of Disney. The WB's treatment of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" last season is reason enough for me to stop watching the network (I quit watching Charmed and Reba along). To kill off an expensive series, the network moved it to Thursdays opposite the popular "Friends" which I was also watching thanks to two VCRs. Nice job WB for losing this viewer. No wonder it's nothing more than a netlet. ABC's treatment of the "Drew Carey Show", taking it off and on and off and on and moving it all over the schedule and running it sparcely through late August 2003 in first runs. Sure, it got low ratings, but it was a better show than any of your stupid lousy reality shows and inspid family sitcoms with kids saying stuff to their parents that would get their mouths washed out with detergent. ABC is not the network it was 25 years ago. All they have now is aging soaps fewer people are watching, reality shows that are past their prime, formulac dramas nobody is hyping, family sitcoms dumber than "My Mother The Car" ever was, newsmagazines few care to watch except when a celebrity is featured, and an overpriced NBA and NHL package that's generating no blip on the excitement screen. KGTV 10, an ABC affilliate, would be better off dumping the network affilliation and go independent programming local programming concepts seen on San Diego's cable 4 on Cox and stuff seen on the Weird Al "UHF" DVD. Let Disney try to shop ABC to a low power station. Goodbye broadcast TV wasteland, except for occasional football and Spanish-language variety shows. Top 10 Dance Hits of 2003 According To Tuned In Radio 12-24-03!Tuned In Radio, The New Rhythm Of The Nation68 Walmer Rd. Richmond Hill, Ontario L4C 3X1 Canada Phone 1-905-883-5773 Fax 1-905-883-4337 Email tunedin@tunedinradio.com Top 10 of 2003
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To receive a copy of our Top 10 Dance Chart email: tunedin@tunedinradio.com *If you know of any stations that would be interested in airing Tuned In Radio, The New Rhythm Of The Nation or any recording artists that want to be intervewed on the show, contact me by phone, fax or email. Check out our website at: http://www.tunedinradio.com. Christmas Radio Programming 12-24-03!Magic 92.5 is running some Christmas songs and other R&B stuff beginning 6pm and going through the next day, commercial-free.Today's Best Country, KSON-FM 97.3 and now 92.1 in North County presents a 24-hour Christmas special - A KSON Country Christmas! Our holiday celebration begins at 12 Noon on Christmas Eve with Bob Kingsley's special, "Christmas In America." Then, beginning at 6:00pm Christmas Eve, enjoy all your favorite holiday music by your favorite stars, completely commercial-free, until 12 Noon on Christmas Day! Have a happy holiday with Today's Best Country, KSON-FM 97.3 and 92.1 North County! KYXY 96.5 and KIFM 98.1 surely will play all Christmas mixes according to their A/C and smooth jazz formats beginning sometime Wednesday and going on through Christmas Day. KYXY starts at 2pm and will go on until Midnight Dec 26 for 34 hours. KOGO has the Bethlehem report on Christmas Eve around sunset. KFMB-AM used to have it before that. Star 100.7 will also go all Christmas for some 24 hours. Other radio stations such as 91X, 94/9, Channel 933, The Planet 103.7, and KPRI will feature Christmas music according to their formats if not all-Christmas. And it's clearly obvious what KECR 910, KLOVE 100.1, and other Christian-based religious stations will be doing, right? And as for My 94.1...their All Christmas marathon which started over four weeks ago will finally and mercifully come to an end. And if you're still in the mood for Christmas comedy, listen to DFSX Comedy Radio at http://www.dfsxradio.com playing Christmas music until December 27th! Scan around live365.com's website for more Internet-based radio stations featuring Christmas and other Holiday music. Is there an all-Kwanzaa channel somewhere? Bob & Tom crack the Pittsburgh market. 12-23-03!From insideradio.com: WFBQ, Indianapolis-based Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold clear on more than 125 stations, but they haven't had a Pittsburgh affiliate. That changes January 5 (says the Post-Gazette) when they pop up on classic rock WRRK.KDL Switched To New Format 12-22-03!from the la radio info boardAs of 12AM this morning, KDL switched to Christmas alternative. Before the switch, the station played "James Brown is Dead" First song: "A Punk Rock Christmas" Unconfirmed Rumor: KDL To Go Alternative Dec 21, 2003!Radio Info-LA boardSubject: Breaking News...Clear Channel's New 103.1 Will Go AGAINST KROQ! Posted by: gijoela Clear Channel will change the programming on 103.1 and the format will be alternative and compete with 106.7 KROQ. I am not sure about the exact debut date but Clear Channel will cut the KDL programming on the 21st and possibly begin to air the new format then.
Emily Proctor on Rock 105.3 Sunday 12-21-03!Actress Emily Procter (CSI: Miami, The West Wing) will be live in-studio to guest host Guerilla Radio on ROCK 105.3 this Sunday, December 21 from 6:00PM - 8:00PM. As guest host, Emily will take over the airwaves of ROCK 105.3 and play whatever music she wants for 2 full hours. While playing her music throughout the show, I'll delve into her psyche with questions that will reveal both her personal and professional life. It's a fascinating journey into the hearts and musical minds of celebrities that's guaranteed to be a good time. Don't miss the radio anarchy that will surely ensue this Sunday night on ROCK 105.3.If you want more information on Guerilla Radio or The Inside Track, go here: http://www.rock1053.com/scottriggs.html. The Inside Track Sunday 12-21-03!Scott Riggs hosts "The Inside Track" Sundays 8-10pm on 105.3 KIOZ. This Sunday, the first hour will be new music, and in the second hour, he plans to play new holiday music. |