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SDN Radio News Flashback:Here's a flashback in the SDN archives from years ago...In 1982...Cox Cable San Diego drops KHJ 9 (now KCAL) Los Angeles from its lineup because they can't find a spot to put in KUSI 51, which launched a week earlier, on their cable lineup. This action caused extensive complaints from readers in the Evening Tribune and the San Diego Union newspapers for weeks. People wanted to watch the prime-time movies, the Los Angeles Lakers, Elvira's Movie Macabre (disclosure: I met Cassandra Peterson last year at Comic Con and got an autograph), and reruns of Eight is Enough (disclosure: I run an eightisenough.com website). This also caused me to fire up a letter and it got printed in the first or second Monday of October. The dastardly action proved to get an amazing amount of flak from the readers for weeks to come. Years later, I still refuse to purchase any pay TV products and digital TV lineups from Cox Cable because of this insipid action on the cable company. Two months earlier, Cox dropped KABC 7 from its lineup and placed WTBS from Atlanta in its place. I like WTBS, but without KABC on the lineup, I had to erect an antenna so I could pick up some of the ABC shows that I wanted to watch that KGTV wouldn't carry. Cox Cable made some amazingly rancid decisions back then. The Los Angeles Lakers and Elvira were carried on KUSI in circa 1983 for a while. KGTV carried Eight is Enough daily beginning in 1983.
In 1987...On September 25, 1987, KS-103 got "waved" out!At noon on that day, KSDO-FM became KSWV "The Wave", playing new age instrumentals. It replaced the top 40 format it had for four years. Minutes later, The Rich Brothers of radio station B100 were advertising on KSWV, advising the former KS-103 listeners to listen to their station. New Age music as a format, or yuppie music as it was called by some, was launched on February 14, 1987 when KTWV Los Angeles replaced the Mighty Met KMET on 94.7. Months after KSWV was launched, there was a sort of a yuppie music war when then K-Lite 94.9 began airing a nightly new age show. Smooth Jazz 98.1 began playing some of the new age music in their playlist, most of it at night. In 1988, you could catch three radio stations playing yuppie music nightly. In 1989, it was apparrent that KIFM won the yuppie music war as it played more than just one genre or subgenre of music. New Age music fit into their smooth jazz format perfectly, giving their listeners a wider variety of music to listen to than KSWV did. K-Lite changed to Y94.9, KSWV ended its new age format and flipped to classic rock.
We Want Your Old San Diego Radio News ArticlesSDN is currently looking for old radio news articles covering the San Diego area.The archives of the old Dave's Radio Waves from 1998-2000 and Cal Radio News from 2001-2003 are finally online once again. SDN is accepting submissions of radio news articles and hopes to host some old news articles from the now-defunct Radio Guide San Diego and Radio Guide Los Angeles magazines. I went through my closet and found five old issues of San Diego Radio Guide and four of Radio Guide Los Angeles. I'm not sure when they first began publishing or quit, but I first heard about Los Angeles Radio Guide way back in 1989 on the old Wally George Great American Radio Show on KLAC 570. I guess Wally was talking to, I believe it was publisher Ben Jacoby, who let him give a plug about Radio Guide on his show. I sent out some money and got a 1989 Los Angeles Radio Guide with just the listings of all the radio shows and stations that were on back then. If anyone has some old San Diego radio news bits that I can publish, please let me know. I would like to personally encourage more 'late breaking stories' about radio mergers, sales, format changes, personnel changes, FCC news and other news about the industry. If you are a SDN reader and have not contributed recently, please feel strongly encouraged to do so now. Please take the time to start posting any information, even strong rumor (although you should label it AS rumor) and send to me. We want to see as much immediate information as possible Please Click Here to Submit Your Radio News Story
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