Saul has changed formats on 1260 and his HD subchannels quite often. I hope he sticks with KSURF. Nobody is playing 50s and 60s anymore and I'm sure there a lot of former KRTH listeners that are embracing the new format. Nice to have oldies on HD2 and standards on HD3..now that's putting the subchannels to good use!
There are at least two online streams for 50's and 60's music (both popular and Country):
http://www.1037wplb.com/
http://www.1120wkce.com/
These two have very similar playlists and almost identical formats.
Local Oldies Talent openings, very refreshing!Per today's Hear Ache on laradio.com, the oldies format is now full-time on 1260 AM. DJ's coming soon.
I was in France in 2011. Their Oldies station ("Nostalgie") played the Beach Boys constantly...I guess surf music was popular in France. And they played very few French language Oldies - maybe one in every 6 or 7 songs.
Per today's Hear Ache on laradio.com, the oldies format is now full-time on 1260 AM. DJ's coming soon.
Maybe they can hire the talent let go from that other station of late. Shotgun Tom, Jim Carson and others would fit in perfectly here.
There's even a French (Malagasy, actually) band called "Les Surfs" that was popular in France...I heard a couple of their songs on the radio while in France in 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Surfs
I was in France in 2011. Their Oldies station ("Nostalgie") played the Beach Boys constantly...I guess surf music was popular in France. And they played very few French language Oldies - maybe one in every 6 or 7 songs.
That would be great if they could afford them. This is a small AM station. Their FM country station has been letting air talent go for years. This station will be making less money than that one.
I don't see how the can afford to put big name talent on there unless they pay a small stipend for weekly voice tracking.
That's great news for us who have HD Radio in the car and now my home. I listen to 88.1 KKJZ HD1 for jazz and Long Beach State Student station 88.1 HD3 for new Alt-Rock (like KCRW HD2), and I was hoping K-Beach 88.1 HD3 would move to HD2 - but, it looks like that's not happening. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out on my Sangean HDR-18 HD Table Radio!!! Joehttp://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...ies-k-surf-to-debut-on-105-1-hd-2-los-angeles
This '50s/'60s oldies format launched yesterday (March 11) on KKGO-FM HD2. For those of us who don't have HD Radios (myself included), this is simulcast on KBOQ-AM 1260 on weekends (from 5:00 PM Friday to 9:00 AM Monday). It's also streamed online 24/7 at http://www.laoldies.com/. I'm streaming it on my iPhone as I'm posting this message.
As most Angelenos on here may remember, this isn't the first time that music from the '50s and '60s has been heard on the 1260 AM frequency in L.A. Some here may recall that as KGIL, using the "Retro 1260" moniker, the station played a mix of standards and oldies; and for a time under that moniker they had oldies weekends. And from August 2004 to June 2005, they were all oldies every day, with the call letters KSUR. At that time, they simulcasted on Tijuana-licensed XESURF-AM 540, by which time they were "Oldies 540 and 1260," later listing the higher frequency before the lower frequency in their moniker. The Tijuana station still has the XESURF call sign as a Spanish-language Christian station.
I invite those of you who enjoy this kind of music, regardless of your age, to check it out any way you can.
You'd think they would find a translator for 1260 or is the FM dial too crowded in LA?