... listened this afternoon at 100pm just for giggles. Heard a legal ID. That's it...otherwise just modulating silence, baby.
I've caught that a couple of times... mainly overnights & this weekend. Passed it along to them this afternoon.
... listened this afternoon at 100pm just for giggles. Heard a legal ID. That's it...otherwise just modulating silence, baby.
And they can definitely prove with this forum KKOL returned to the air and was heard.
It still draws interest because it shows that instead of leaving the air permanently, like some AMs are apparently doing across the country, KOL might have a little life left in it.
KOL died in 1975. KKOL is the station now. Salem has this weird habit of rechristening historic local former Top 40 AM stations they acquire into things they never were (The original KOL NEVER ran far-right talk shows, blocks of religious programming. Or ceaseless business blabber.) Nor did the original WIND, WMCA, KCBQ, WAVA, WHK, etc., for that matter.
Until Burl Barer gives us a sermonette between the CCM hits on 1300 kHz, this is where I tune out....
Why not?
I think the reuse of classic calls is an interesting homage to the past, given that's about all it could be.
Most every station around here is running a format that drastically differs from the old 3-letter days. (K)KOL, (K)KXA, (K)KJR and (K)KMO bear no resemblance to their former selves. Now, the venerable KGY is just a slogan on a translator. KLSY, KNBQ, KAYO, KGHO, KUUU, KSND and KBRD still exist, but not where they started. KRSC is a Spanish station in Othello. Except for, maybe, KGY, you'd have to be near your '50s to remember what these stations were in their heyday.
As for bringing back the good old days on one of these stations... please recall "Oldies 570, KVI". That effort... not that long ago, lasted only a short time before less-sentimental folk wrested back programming authority.
BTW... none of the above examples are Salem stations.
Were I to get sentimental, I'd take Yakima's KUTI back to 980, where it started, and put country back on it. The community would be expected to turn out in vast droves whenever we were to show up at a local auto parts store in our gaudy-yellow Corvair remote van, merely to show off and sell windshield wipers... as we did in the early '70s. During the Yakima County Fair, our full-day remotes from the pig barn would be enthusiastically attended as well. KMWX would return... back on 1460, with their adult hits format. KQOT (quote radio) would resurface on 930, replete with its normal, awful, RF-infused, teen-ager-presented top-40 audio and barely-working Mackenzie repeaters. KAAR (Kay-All-American-Radio) would return as Yakima's first, struggling, country FM station. KIT, then Yakima's version of KOMO, would take home most of the advertising revenue.
Why not?
Why not? Because AM Radio is dead. It says so right here: https://radioink.com/2019/03/07/i-repeat-am-radio-is-dead/
Those are some interesting observations, though could you elaborate on where some of those calls were in the market? I'm only 25, and I remember the last few years of the AC format on KLSY, still miss it. KSWD kind of reminds me of it sometimes. I know KNBQ was a top 40 station in the '80s, then reappeared as a country station in 2005, not a bad station itself. Though I don't remember it, I know where your next set of calls come from, KAYO was the big country station on 1150 back in the day before eventually winding p on 99.3 in Aberdeen for a few years before moving to the Anchorage area. Fortunately that station is sill doing country. I am less certain about KGHO, but wasn't that a big station on the coast, which is now KBKW? The only stations I've known with the KBRD, KUUU, and KSND calls are the current stations, though KSND has changed format.
Why not? Because AM Radio is dead. It says so right here: https://radioink.com/2019/03/07/i-repeat-am-radio-is-dead/
Depending on how you look at it, there are arguments to support the positions that KGY or KJR were the state's first radio stations. KGY leads a bit if you add in its beginnings as a ham station on the campus of St. Martin's College.
...but wait, there's more! Didn't KJR and KOMO swap frequencies?
In 2002 when the sale of KJR and the other Ackerley TV, outdoor and radio properties was announced to Clear Channel, I asked the Ackerley's if they would mind if I donated all those photos, scrapbooks, and materials to MOHAI. The timing was good, because MOHAI was in the process of building a archive of Pacific NW broadcasting history. Of course they agreed, because Barry wanted very much to protect the Northwest broadcasting history.
Back to KKOL... I know where they are transmitting from temporarily . Pretty much in my back yard. They are operating on an STA and diplexing from KBRO's tower at Forest Ridge Park here in Bremerton, which is now causing some problems here at home. Most notably ever since they fired up the additional signal, my wireless thermometers haven't been functioning properly. No notice for public comment or anything around my neighborhood. I'd be interested in seeing if there's any other complaints...
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101799917&formid=911&fac_num=20355