Independent podcasters and netcasters can find music the suits never dreamed of putting on the airwaves. 91 X use to be cool. People forget, he says, that the reason the FCC grants you a license to broadcast is to serve your community. Michaels notes that with its local focus, FM 94.9 has grown steadily, despite limiting commercial time to ten minutes per hour. Albert was on San Diego radio, first with KFMB in the 1980s, during the halcyon days of Hudson and Bauer, and later and until recently, with KOGO. 2023 LOCAL MEDIA SAN DIEGO. In response to the shows termination, Aguirre, a frequent guest on Full Focus, initiated an investigation into why the show was canned: he charged that KPBS abrogated its duty to maintain objectivity and balance in its local public-affairs television programming. He requested the station hand over paperwork about the shows demise. ), YEW! Its the thrill of anonymity, Lo_Key says. "Big Music" needs to step aside. He later worked for KBZT before returning to 91X. The program, at $1 million annually, had good content, Myrland told the Union-Tribune, but few people watched.. He was never one of their stronger writers. 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It's not that the masses have "bad taste," but they'll do these surveys (in the 70s they were done by bringing a bunch of guys in a room with free pizza and Coke), and playing songs, asking which they loved, hated, etc. And Hilary, who was at FM 94.1, now has a show on FM 94.9. The interesting question raised by this article is that programming for a nationwide audience can make money and survive, and media that is targeted/molded to individual taste can make money and survive, but local community programming cannot. Eric was a fellow classmate at KSM at Palomar College. Finest City Broadcasting, a new company under the direction of former Clear Channel San Diego VP/Market Manager Mike Glickenhaus, took over operations of three of the four Mexican stations; Clear Channel temporarily retained the fourth, XHOCL-FM, before selling it to MVS Radio. With all of our lofty analysis, the bottom line is the bottom line. Letting both sides of the issue be heard is good for democracy. 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Im so grateful that 91X has been such a big part of mine. Program director Garett Michaels tells me that hes been keeping it local since the rock music station set sail in late 2002. But not its pay. There are many rightie talkers who are very entertaining, whether I agree with them or not (and no, I don't agree with all the lefties all the time either). [13] On January 7, 2010, Local Media of America LLC, backed by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, emerged as the buyer in the foreclosure sale. Hey, a 35 year old can rebound, but what about someone who has done radio since they were 14 and are now 60.? Up until January 2012, 91X carried the syndicated Loveline, heard on weeknights. They didnt share an audience, Albert says. February 24, 2022 91X, XTRA. Ditto for the 25-54 numbers of Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller-- very solid, ratings book after ratings book. 41. In his San Diego State office, Decker tells me that hed prefer steering clear of controversy, but it has, with regard to city attorney (now ex) Mike Aguirre, found him, his general manager Doug Myrland, and his station nonetheless. See, the moniker is less important than the content. We have to look at the ownership caps that were de-regulated by the Telecom Act of 1996. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Our music critic casts his ballot and asks readers: Who would you vote for? To think that women and minorities did not have equal voting rights in our last century is amazing. It appears that the tipping point prompting that decision were the midterm elections of Nov 2006, when House and Senate majorities went back to the Democrats. All rights reserved. 1,650 talking about this. Im getting involved. , Cantore heard from his listeners, too. On my way out, I had to stop at HR and pick up my ratings bonus check. Most terminations were not prompted by falling ratings but by executive-led decisions to cut costs. The station is powered at 100,000 watts. The big problem is that for an unlicensed broadcast station to work, someone has to place an antenna on his or her property, thus risking an FCC fine of $10,000. Theres so much history and magic in it. Media, a San Diego-based digital media start-up company, in the next month. At first, the station broadcast with 3,000 watts from the AM transmitter site in Playas de Rosarito. Initially, programming was recorded at the downtown San Diego studios in the Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Building and driven across the border to the transmitter site several times a day. On this point, he dresses down Limbaugh, who during the presidential election never found a candidate to his liking. Radio was never meant to be packaged in a corporate environment. Later in the day, on the way in to do my show, Jorge Espinoza, my producer called to say Id been fired. Cantore got his start in San Diego. He expanded his inquiry to include Editors Roundtable, a one-hour Friday-morning radio talk show featuring three local newspaper editors, Tim McClain, editor of San Diego Metropolitan Magazine; John Warren, editor and publisher of San Diego Voice and Viewpoint; and Robert Kittle, editorial page editor of the Union-Tribune. Cliff sounds like his mind was already made up about KLSD, and now he needs to justify what was absolutely the wrong decision. We were encouraged to do some of the softer stuff, less of the politics. Last January, local KLSD guru Stacy Taylor, whose sardonic wit branded him an intelligent and caustic liberal, landed in the coveted drive-time hole from 3:006:00 p.m. on 1700 AM, a new talk station. But since the turn of the millineum the playlist is short and predictable as you know you will hear Nirvana and Sublime as well as many others will be played on a continuous basis. If you put local before good, youre making a big mistake. Driven by an exploding new wave and punk culture, 91X was one of the first commercial alternative-rock stations to serve a major U.S. city. 21 minutes ago. Not that Man Cow, Jeff & Jerr, Chainsaw, Goat Boy, or Greaseman were any better! The second time was during my exit interview. With all of the good times here, Ive lived through some tough work environments at other stations. His format was based on a highly rated concept he developed as Programming Director at KBPI. Still plays the same of fabulous music.. great station Aug. 27, 2016, 2:40 p.m. GMT One has to conclude that most mainstream media has been used as a weapon of mass "distraction", and in some cases, mass deception. While Shelly is a bona-fide liberal, Dave Rickards is conservative on nearly every subject, much to the chagrin of many listeners. Opinion: La Jolla cityhood backers cant expect to just cut and run. With a license, we have to watch what we say. Radiological. Funny music artists are producing parodies of today's crap so that their "covers" would sound half as crappy as the original, but it's their fault that they're listening to uninspiring contemporary hit radio for parody ideas that don't appeal to most people in my age demographic. Suddenly there were too many cooks in the kitchen. He says that We including his good friend Hilary Chambers, another local veteran, canned this June from another Clear Channel holding just got lost in a sea of white walls and cubicles. KPBS' John Decker writes to say that he is the executive producer of Editors' Roundtable and that Michael Marcotte was not fired as news director but retired in November 2007. For some reason, a person like Dennis Miller, I agree with absolutely none of his opinions. The reason Al Franken left radio to run for the senate, is he was an abject failure in talk radio. All Ages. When I finally got around to hearing Savages showsometimes I agreed with him. These kinds of emails make my day: I disagree with almost everything you say, but you make me think. Larsons ideal is to disagree with listeners in ways that keep them tuned in. up the ratings or revenue though. In December 2009, Finest City, faced with considerable debt and foreclosure, was forced to put the entire cluster up for sale after defaulting on a loan. Online Radio Box uses cookies in order to provide the best service for our users. Radio is redefining itself, from terrestrial or ground-based transmission to the new satellite and online platforms. Research has demonstrated that theres only one hour a day when theres a demand for news. And there is nothing inherently interesting about being inherently local. By the time I got to my last contract last year, it looked like the Magna Carta, there were so many signatures by out-of-town managers. This amounts to 2025 hours a week of local shows. You heard 91X coming out of vans, cars windows, at the beachit was everywhere. 91X beat longtime rock powerhouse KGB in its first Arbitron quarterly rating in the Spring of 83. Jacor Communications was the first media conglomerate to own a pocketful of radio stations, purchasing 9 of them in the 1990s, including 91X. Scan this QR code to download the app now. starting MONDAY (4/24), we're sending you to @thecure http://www.larsonblog.com/. Did you get enlightened about an issue? First, I must remind you that unless you are in the industry, you only see the published numbers, which are the 12+ ratings. They have tired of hate speech and shouting down opposing points of view. I never put myself above the listeners. It was also his ability for self-parody, a contemporary version of which, in a 5:57 video, is available on YouTube: Whatever Happened to Chris Cantore? In it he asks everyday folks (those coming in and out of a 7-Eleven) how their world has changed since Cantore in the Morning is no longer on the air. Yet it was kind of fun at the same time.. I'm way outside of the demographic of Channel, Star, 91X, Sophie, and Z90 so I never tune them in. I thought Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz were both great and had unique styles. A new entrance was built at the back of the building to access the studios for the divested stations.[11]. He knew 91X was onto something. His website says that he produces and distributes online content for your business, event, brand, and nonprofit. Already, hes doing blogs, podcasts, video campaigns for the Surfrider Foundation and the Del Mar Racetrack. I still believe in this community and in new media.. That's my hope for the new year. OK, Mike Malloy brought a sardonic edge that was probably an acquired tasteprobably as close to a "Michael Savage on the left" as there was.