A new chapter in the Day of the Life of a Lamptimer occurred yesterday when the former Lamptimer station, 1440 KAZG-AM, diverted from the regularly scheduled oldies programming being aired on 92.7 K224CJ FM and 93.3 KDKB-HD2 to air the NAU Lumberjacks Men’s Basketball game. This was the first time I noticed 1440 KAZG airing something different from Oldies 92.7. Makes sense, though, as 92.7 FM technically is a translator of 93.3 KDKB HD-2. Wonder if Mother Hubbard will decide to spin-off KAZG and return it to it’s former daytimer only glory?
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A day in the life of a lamptimer
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Gumpdusky (Hey, that's the first time in a long time I've been able to use that word.
) sometimes used 1440 as a sports parking lot, especially when KDUS had the Coyotes and ASU women's hoops or baseball at the same time (Sunset sign-off? We don't need no steenkeeng sign-off!). I believe Mother Hubbard has done so on occasion as well.
It’s one of my favorite weekends on the Lumberyard as it’s a “Super 60’s weekend!” All 60’s music all weekend long on Oldies 92.7. Glad to see at least one local radio station still playing 60’s music, which in my opinion is the greatest decade of music and I’m 33 years old! All the other stations in town have forgotten about the 60’s, even KOOL. Now if only Oldies 92.7 could play some Edd Kookie Byrnes, I’d be in heaven!
There must be smog in your noggin, ASU Jorge. That comb-based song charted in 1959, so unfortunately it won't be played during the Super 60s weekend on Lumberyard 14~Forty, Oldies 92~Seven and KDKB HD~Too. So I guess we'll just have to rely upon Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs for lame lip synching entertainment that's just the ginchiest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H72jkmil1CQ
Calling all ghouls and goblins! Oldies 92.7 is running a promo on their station for a spooky Halloween on the former Lamptimer with scary Halloween hits for 24 hours from midnight to midnight on Halloween with 2 Halloween songs per hour. That must mean there will be a lot of the “Monster Mash” and “Season of the Witch” that is going to be played! Don’t be surprised if you go Trick or Treating at the Buckeye Media Hut and hear Steve Goddard spinning some ghoulish delights all night long for trick-or-treaters!
That is hard to believe. I can’t believe I was the third person to post in this legendary thread after you Doc and OldiesFan. I remember where I was when I was responding to this thread 11 years ago. Still in school and staying up late studying!
Mother Hubbard sure fooled us! Arizona Gold feeds not only Lumberyard 14~Forty, but KDKB HD~Too and translator 92~Seven. While Edd Byrnes and the Lamptimer may be long gone, the canal side Goldminers keep haulin' in the hits!
Hopefully not until 92.7 has better coverage.
The funny thing about that is just about all of KAZG’s measured audience is listening to 92.7, NOT 1440. Why not do some experimentation at the ol’ lumberyard?
If you mean change programming on 1440, they can't. The translator must simulcast the AM 100% when the AM is on the air.
For the moment, it appears the translator is tied to the AM.
However, if the HD on KDKB is kept, they really could deploy 1440 for something else. But I suspect that out towards the Media Hut and onward towards the glow-in-the-dark Palo Verde area, that AM signal is not too good.
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I believe that 92.7 is died to 93.3-HD2, and 1440 is technically a standalone station that simulcasts 93.3-HD2 99% of the time. Mother Hubbard has used 1440 for sports overflow on several occasions, while keeping oldies on the other two.
Just the opposite in the east valley. 1440 comes in just fine, even at night, while 92.7 is pretty much nonexistent east of the 101.
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We need to be realistic here, how many actual people are listening to "Oldies 92.7" on 1440 AM? This could give Hubbard the opportunity to experiment on how well all-digital AM does on a higher-band AM station running only 5,000 watts during the day.
And yes, the only thing holding Hubbard back from doing this is the ASU women's basketball/mens baseball overflow. NAU's football season is just about done.
Yes, and as one of the original posters in this thread, I can’t help but reminisce about when all we had was KAZG on 1440 AM as a daytime ONLY station. There was no HD subchannel, no Oldies 92.7, none of that. Just a little old daytime station run by a lamp-timer on the side of an SRP canal in Scottsdale where a drive-in used to be with music fed to the transmitter on an ancient DOS computer. Back then, there was “Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb” along with “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Croft, three Frank Sinatra songs for some random reason and “The Weight“ by The Band all on power rotation. Things were simpler then, but now the Lumberyard is all grown up, is broadcast 24/7 thanks to a new Nautel transmitter (thanks Catfish with a “C” and Kool Listener Lauren!), has an FM translator and is heard on 93.3 HD-2 along with an old KOOL DJ, Steve Goddard, doing weekday afternoons. Here’s to 11 more years of this thread being kept alive and even more years of KAZG being an oldies station!
I am holding out for the return of Person to Person, with Matt Gerson.
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