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40 years of 91X

powers said:
Audacy recently shut off a bunch of HD extra channels. In San Diego they had Flashback Alt on KyXy and Bob Radio (reggae) on 94.9. They still have KROQ "Roq of the 80s" on HD in LA, one of the few things they left alone. KPBS HD3 has Groove Salad from Soma FM, which is very boring to listen to. I wish they would put a AAA there. KCRW has a repeater in Lemon Grove, but it's just the main station, none of the HD extras. Plus it can only be heard in East County. I worked at 102.1 when it was Sets, and really liked the format. I was also at Z90 in 1989 when it had a similar AAA format. Although there is some music duplication, the songs on Sunny and Jack FM or K-Earth in LA were primarily hits in the 80s and 90s. A lot of 91X classics go beyond the hits. I would also love if 100.7 Big FM lived up to their "We Play Anything" and played some music newer than 2010. They could play some current AAA music and by default serve as both the AAA and Variety station for our market.
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I certainly remember SETS 102.1. I remember listening to it during Memorial Day weekend 1998 during a visit before moving to SD. It was back to back 3 song sets of a featured artist. I suppose a new artist with only one album didn't get airplay. Was that during ownership by Robert's Compass Media?

That KCRW repeater at 89.9 is gone now, thanks to the idiots at KNSJ. One of their unbuilt CP's was to be a move to 89.9. When that CP expires, maybe they can possibly bring it.back. I believe it was 10 watts from the top of Mt. San Miguel. However, KCRW has an amazing signal. I can easily listen to it with good reception in my home.
 
KilowattKat said:
I certainly remember SETS 102.1. I remember listening to it during Memorial Day weekend 1998 during a visit before moving to SD. It was back to back 3 song sets of a featured artist. I suppose a new artist with only one album didn't get airplay. Was that during ownership by Robert's Compass Media?

That KCRW repeater at 89.9 is gone now, thanks to the idiots at KNSJ. One of their unbuilt CP's was to be a move to 89.9. When that CP expires, maybe they can possibly bring it.back. I believe it was 10 watts from the top of Mt. San Miguel. However, KCRW has an amazing signal. I can easily listen to it with good reception in my home.
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Yes, Compass put that station on the air (ex-KCBQ at 105.3, and then it moved to 102.1) and owned it all the way through the end of KPRI, when Bob Hughes (Robert) sold it to EMF for a rumored $12 Mil and retired from broadcasting.

KCRW's repeater is still there. I was driving around Spring Valley last week and the signal is very strong there, and even in El Cajon. There's no way that it would be the main KCRW - they are still listed in radio-locator as K210CL in Lemon Grove. Oddly, that station rebroadcasts KCRI in Indio. I would think that San Diego is not considered in the contour for Indio, but its other repeaters are in Borrego Springs (that makes sense), Beaumont (also makes sense) and Gorman (that seems kind of far, at the top of the Grapevine)
 
Also just listened to the new Temples album, and man... it just reminds me how perfect songs like Exotico, Liquid Air and Cicada could be for 91X.
or fall out boy with "Heartbreak Never Feels so Good"
or the hold steady's "Sideways Skull"
or Paramore's "Running Out of Time"
or Everything But the Girl's "Nothing Left to Lose" and "No One Knows We're Dancing"
or Arlo Parks' "Weightless" or Blades"
and so on... we don't need a classic alt station. We need a new music station with the classics intact. 94.9 shoves half of their currents to late night, 91X doesn't but barely plays new music every day. San Diego needs one or the other to do something for the many who crave new music.
 
Sorry I don't mean to share the negative thoughts I have for a station I still love and respect and have passion for and stuff I like, but there's a station they recommend to me and many fans on Twitter, called The Current in Minneapolis, it's a public radio station, the upper echelon of radio, but what's insane, is looking at just ONE day playlist, and I counted about 97 songs both old and new (World Party, Jellyfish, New Pornographers, Feist, Spoon, Florence and the Machine, Cuco, Gaslight Anthem, The Flaming Lips, etc) are all stuff that got played at one point that are forgotten or were new music on Planet Nu Nu.

IMAGINE if 91x was like this with the classics and New music daily WITH the current playlist they have. They'd be the perfect station.

I hope it happens. I believe it could work. They have so much brilliance they could easily get attention for this. I like Billy Idol and grunge bands, but it isn't fun when the same 5 songs by them are played MORE than currents are.

Look at the top hits for 91X pre-XYZ and right now. I don't have a 2022 link but here's one from 2017, 35 Currents as top hits, 8 recurrents, and 1 gold (young blood)

91X Top Hits

The latest Playlists for 91X
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Right now... with classic alternative, the top hits are... 37 gold songs and 6 currents. And the gold songs are all stuff the station played nonstop in my life. Do you know how boring that is for most listeners who love 91X for both the classics but NEW music? Or variety? This isn't bringing in young people and it's why the ratings haven't gone up. I love this station and happily tune in every day still because I know the times there is some unique songs returning and the new music is good, but man, it's such wasted potential.

91X Top Hits

The latest Playlists for 91X
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Anyone caught block party? That was fun... a lot of classic focus but also some deeper cuts I caught, plus Foster the People, Phoenix, Cage the Elephant, Florence and the Machine and not one, but TWO Twenty One Pilots blocks!!! (3 people and I requested it), it was truly a listen to behold.

Also, I never knew they had MGMT's Your Life is a Lie in the library. That was great.

I'm gonna frame this on a wall.
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