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E-Mail (Apr 8, 2009)From Jeffrey: You still have a few days to listen to Movin 93.9 online if you want to try it out - movin939.com. I've been listening most of last week - it has decided to die as an 80s/70s Pop station, with dance hits, some rock, and new wave duking it out. Just like Top 40 radio circa 1986. It's too bad - it sounds great. Next week another espanol FM to take its place and it goes to the unique failed format hole in the sky along with Pirate Radio, KEZY, Modern Oldies KCBQ and possibly soon Miss Sophie will join them. I like them except that there have been a lot of midline hits repetiion (like Funkytown from Pseudo Echo and Don Quichotte from Magazine 60) and they seem to hang on to a Culture Club or Madonna song once every 90 minutes or so, even the lesser known hits. But it reminds me of the old CHR stations of the 80s, complete with Rick Dees. It might as well be KIIS 25 years ago. Check it out if you will and let me know your thoughts.Also the Boston NBC affil that is in hot water over Leno is WHDH, not WNAC. It's confusing because WNAC were the old calls until 1982 and WNAC-TV is now Fox Providence. Keep up the great work....big fan....
Commentary: The Failure of Movin' in Los Angeles (Apr 7, 2009)I never heard Movin' 93.9 from where I live in San Diego because the local station on 94.1 is broadcasting in HD; its adjacent channel interference completely blocks reception of 93.9 in San Diego.That's not the point. The point is that Emmis could have programmed 93.9 Movin' with a mix that was reminiscent of the old Power 106 in the late 80s: a churban format, which was urban and CHR and full of edited 3 1/2 minute house mixes of popular songs of the day. Now that would have been a great complement to Power 106, a hip hop powerhouse in the Los Angeles area. Two young skewing formats for two different kinds of audiences. Instead, we get a mix that didn't work with L.A. too well. Perhaps it sounded too much like a lot of the stations already in the market? I don't know for sure. What did you think of Movin' in the past two and a half years? E-mail me your thoughts.
Radio Station Offers to Carry an NBC Show (Apr 7, 2009)A radio station in Jay Leno’s hometown tells NBC, "We’ll carry his new show, even if Boston’s Channel 7 won’t."WCAP AM 980 in Lowell says that it's contacting the NBC network about auring the audio portion of the fall weeknight at 10pm show tentatively titled "The Jay Leno Show" even if the local NBC affilliate passes it on in favor of airing another hour of local news. WHDH-TV 7, the local affilliate, is worried that Jay's new 10pm weeknight show would lower the ratings for its 11pm local news. NBC states that it can find a replacement TV station to carry the show. NBC owns and operates a low-power Telemundo network station in the area, and could pull the NBC affilliation from WNAC and reformat its Telemundo station into an NBC one. (Update: WHDH may have backtracked from its initial stance; the announcement of its 10 p.m. program no longer appears on WHDH.com).
The Wires (Apr 7, 2009)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Gary Lycan: KMVN, known as “Movin 93.9” FM, is moving on out April 14, and so is Rick Dees. The Emmis Communications-owned station is switching to a Spanish format on April 15. KC Star: KKFI doesn’t play Dire Straits, it just lives in them. The locally owned and operated community radio station, at 90.1 FM, which never has enjoyed financial security in its 21 years of broadcasting, may be facing its most pressing cash crunch ever. All Access: Study: 17% listen online. The latest Infinite Dial study by Arbitron and Edison Research finds 17% of survey respondents (12+) listened to online radio in the past week. That translates to about 42 million Americans All Access: Rick Dees' new focus is online. With his L.A. morning show set to end next week, Dees will put his attention on a new 24-hour online top 40 radio station. AllNumber1Hits.com will eventually be offered to broadcast FMs. Dees also continues to host the syndicated "Weekly Top 40" show for Citadel Media. |