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Radio’s Best & Worst: January 25, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random)
listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending January 25, 2012.
Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other)
capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)KSBL (K-Lite) Santa Barbara, Calif.
-- They're not owned by a major group.
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Making Moves: Thursday, December 8, 2011
After five years, Traverse City, Michigan's Northern Broadcast's Program Operations Manager Dennis Winslow is leaving to focus on his consultancy, Winslow Programming Strategies. Rich Nadeau will take over WFCX-FM (94.3) & WSRT-FM (106.7) ...
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First Listen: Up 99.3 Edmonton's Christmas Format
At various times during the mid-'00s, a handful of stations attempted to find a different way to do the all-holiday format. Stations ranging from Rhythmic AC WQSX (Star 93.7) Boston to Oldies/Greatest Hits WCBS-FM New York floated variants on the Christmas format that were different in era and tempo from the version that was quickly taking hold at …
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Christmas Flips – Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Just two days after the surprise flip of Smooth Jazz KTWV “The Wave” Los Angeles to all holiday music, the market’s heritage AC KOST (103.5) has now flipped as well. Clear Channel’s KOST has been the unofficial holiday station in Los Angeles for the past 10 years, having traditionally made the flip before other stations.
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First Listen: Christmas On KTWV (The Wave) Los Angeles
In a week full of holiday format flips, it was still front-page news when Smooth Jazz KTWV Los Angeles became “L.A.’s new Christmas station.” In doing so, The Wave got in ahead of the market’s traditional holiday station, AC KOST. (At this writing, on Monday morning, KOST is still in regular format.) Whenever one of the extant Smooth Jazz s…
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L.A.'s "Wave" goes all-Christmas, in a Sunday afternoon surprise
Jhani Kaye once programmed the market's heritage all-Christmas station for Clear Channel: AC KOST (103.5). In last year's Holiday Book from Arbitron, it rolled up a crushing 9.3 share with age 6+ AQH listeners.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: Sept. 1, 2011
Highlights from the author’s last two weeks of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending September 1, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.* This week, we've covered the Hurricane Irene-related radio we heard separately in Ross On Radio.
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Most Intriguing Stations Of 2010, Part I
All year long, this column tries to spotlight interesting radio—sometimes recently launched, sometimes rediscovered. Some of it is just fun to hear at the time.
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Making Moves: Friday, August 27, 2010
Radio-Info hears from Rick Roddam as he was cleaning out his desk. Roddam has been cut loose as PD of Lotus Communications-owned KKBZ-FM (105.1) & KHIT-FM (107.1) in Fresno, California after two years on the job.
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Making Moves: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Radio-Info confirms that Phil Manning is out as PD of KPKX-FM (98.7) “The Peak” in Phoenix, after two years.
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GSM Change at CBS Radio's "Wave" in Los Angeles
Smooth jazz KTWV (94.7) hired Bob Scott last Fall as its new General Sales Manager, but now (per LARadio.com) he says it was “not a good fit. I am an AM guy.” Scott previously spent 13 years with the Clear Channel station group in SoCal. Read More
Making Moves: Monday, May 18, 2010
LA Radio.com says the second coming of Don Burns in PM drive on KTWV-FM (94.7) “The Wave” will come to an end on May 28, as his voicetracked show will be replaced by a live & local host … Radio-Info confirms that Ric Mitchell is no longer one-half of the Ric & Laura morning show on Albany, New York’s “B95” WYJB-FM (95.5). Laura will fly solo for no… Read More
Kim Amidon officially gets mornings on L.A.'s "The Wave"
As rumored last month, Kim Amidon will take over the morning co-host duties on L.A.’s smooth jazz “The Wave” KTWV (94.7), starting May 17. She joins Pat Prescott, who currently hosts the show with singer/songwriter Brian McKnight. Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
At Smooth Jazz KTWV “the Wave” Los Angeles, on air personalities Barbara Blake & Lawrence Tanter have both “quietly exited,” according to LARadio.com. Discuss it … Country “Thunder 96.3” WRHT Moorehead City, NC drops “Mad Dawg” in mornings, and picks up the syndicated “Big D and Bubba Show.” The rest of the day looks like this: Katie Green … Read More
Making Moves: Friday, April 2, 2010
Radio-Info hears from a source in Las Vegas that KXNT-AM “NewsRadio” (840) PD Jack Landreth has been let go. Cat Thomas will help run the station for CBS Radio market manager Dave McDonald for the time being … In a surprise move, Sacramento, California talker KERN-AM (1180) mid-morning talk host Inga Barks has resigned to spend more time with her f… Read More
First Listen: Jhani Kaye's KTWV (The Wave) Los Angeles
We wrote last Thursday that we were looking forward to hearing what KRTH (K-Earth 101) Los Angeles programmer Jhani Kaye did with his additional responsibilities at Smooth Jazz sister and format pioneer, KTWV (the Wave). It didn’t take long. Within days, listeners on the Radio-Info.com discussion boards were chronicling the changes: the term “smoot…
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Making Moves: Friday Afternoon
New York City’s WHTZ-FM (100.3) night host Joe Rosati is moving to Detroit, joining Clear Channel sister-station “Amp 106.7” WDTW for on-air duties, and WKQI-FM (95.5) for imaging … Following 13 years with Clear Channel, Bob Scott moves to CBS-owned KTWV-FM (94.7) “The Wave” as GSM, says LARadio.com … On the East Coast, Greater Media in Philadelphi… Read More
K-Frog Gets The HD-3 Treatment In Los Angeles
CBS Radio’s smooth jazz KTWV Los Angeles will soon begin airing country sister station KFRG (K-Frog) Riverside, Calif., on its HD-3 channel, according to the Orange County Register. That will give Saul Levine’s KKGO (Go Country) a bit more competition in Southern California. Read More
Making Moves: Friday Morning
Sun Radio Network names Steve Gallagher its new VP of Programming. He’ll be based in Florida and will scout new talent for Sun to syndicate, in addition to its “Xtreme Radio”, featuring actor Stephen Baldwin and Kevin McCullough … John Rook’s Hit Parade Radio adds another legendary name to its roster: Chuck Brinkman, former programmer in Dallas.… Read More
ABC Radio Networks launches the evening "Brian McKnight Show"
It’s targeted to Urban and Urban AC stations, and hosted by McKnight, a Grammy award winning singer and songwriter who also has some experience in radio. He’s been co-hosting mornings with Pat Prescott on CBS Radio’s smooth Jazz KTWV “94.7 the Wave” Los Angeles. Read More
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