But, I'd be willing to bet I never heard more than 20 minutes of any one show, so you're right. As of 2007, 92 percent of those 12 and over listen to radio at least once a week for an hour. RTC threatened to sanction XETRA-FM for airing Stern's program, which on several occasions in late 1996 included what the Mexican government believed were anti-Mexican remarks that violated the Federal Radio and Television Law.[22]. I was writing for the Escondido Times-Advocate at the time. We kept hearing in San Diego that the decision to shut down KLSD was due to "revenue, not ratings." Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. And you'll get your listeners. San Diego Screaming And if, after so many years, we dropped the F-bomb, wed lose the license just like that. Some stations are locally owned and operated, such as Broadcasting Companies of America. She lives in Pacific Beach. Now that I think about it, I heard Randi Rhodes for an hour, and she wasn't half bad. I ask Decker if he has any mad money with which to experiment. He knew 91X was onto something. Everything you hear through mainstream radio someone is paying for it to be heard. But he never should have been doing it, no offence to Al, whom I happen to know (although we are not best pals). My kids who are not old enough to drive yet build lowrider bicycles and cant wait until they have a car to work on. But in November 2007, KLSD went off the air. Although the show features too many moronic comedic bits, the stupidity of the program is just what I need to get me out of my cranky mood in the AM hours. Nor lets not forget the bigger-than-life Find the X contest.Or Sunday night original music godheads Lou Niles and Marco CollinsOr the Sheep People station promos or any of the other great station promos created by Kevin Stapleford. The Music Industry is crumblingand if you can't expect support in your own city, where else can you look???? Please click "I agree" to ensure that you'll have the best experience of using our website. Its possible his San Diego music pals may join him, The lineup for the Jackson tribute includes such jazz luminaries as Marshall Hawkins, Mike Wofford, Charles Owens and Joshua White, Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceSign Up For Our NewslettersSite Map, Copyright 2023, The San Diego Union-Tribune |. It's mostly local topics, or national topics with a local angle. It was the absolute antithesis of that. The phone rang once or twice. [18] Local Media San Diego eventually acquired KFMB and KFMB-FM outright from Tegna, Inc. on March 17, 2020, with KFMB (AM) being concurrently divested to Clear Channel's successor, iHeartMedia;[19] Tegna had purchased Midwest Television's stations in 2018.[20]. On a similar note, Ramsey says the notion that radio is being hurt by the trend toward corporatizing and syndication is another misnomer. 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. For more information, please see our A few stations, their transmission towers located in Mexico, broadcast entirely canned content. Song History - 91X to quote the official ratings numbers beyond the 12+. Cliff does a marvelous job, and the station speaks for itself. The fact was, AM1360 was the only station in town offering a format that would appeal to over 500K Democrats and a good deal of 350K independents. With that spirit in mind, we are re-launching 91X in a new presentation that has no current industry definition, so we are calling the format what we are: 91X. It was all about options: you can surf the channels and hear the same songs over and over again. For all us guys that used to "play" radio station by playing our Beatles records over and over again on our record players and announcing commercials by reading ads in the yellow pages, thanks for the memories Ken L. and Eric, Great blurb.