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On The Air – FM Music tops PPM rankings
2010/07/24 – 1:01 pm
The most recent People Meter ratings show Star 101.5 KPLZ back in the #1 spot, for the first time since 1989! Music stations KJR FM/Oldies, KRWM FM/Adult Contemporary, KZOK FM/Classic Rock, KBKS FM/Pop-Hip Hop, KMPS FM/Country, KJAQ FM/Top 40-Classic Rock, KKWF FM/Country & KCMS FM/Chrisitian [all music stations] took the top positions for listener ownership overall.
Stewart Ballinger, avid golfer and former owner/partner in KIXI Mercer Island & KFKF Bellevue, died this week. Ballinger changed the KFKF format from beautiful music to rock and roll. KFKF, as the new KZAM, was the first Seattle station to hire female deejays. Ballinger was 95.
Dr Demento takes his radio show exclusively to the Internet this fall. Demento will move his syndicated series from terrestrial channels to an Internet stream which will allow him flexibilty to play tunes that would otherwise be censored by radio stations now carrying the program.
KGY FM/Olympia, has yet to fully develop their website. The station plays a mix of Oldies & current Top 40 tunes with local deejays slaving over hot CD players and music servers. [It would have been much easier just to say "hot turntables", but those days are long gone]. “The Sound” carries hourly news reports from CBS along with local news.
NPR sees it’s future online
2010/07/10 – 1:19 pm
As reported online at Yahoo News:
National Public Radio believes it’s moved beyond just radio.
So the nonprofit network’s dropping the “radio” designation in its company name—so 20th century, right? It’s now rechristened itself to fit the aspirations of a 21st century, multi-platform media company. In other words, no “radio,” please–we’re only “NPR.
“NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller told the Washington Post that “NPR is more modern, streamlined.”
Comment: Audio broadcasts whether through the traditional “radio” or online, are still radio. You might call the online broadcasting “streaming” but it is still the same radio product, either music, news, sports or talk shows. Since most people will be listening with devices such as cell phones, iPods, iPads, etc. it remains “radio”. Radio is simply adding a new platform. That is my opinion.
Video online is NOT radio. Radio stations with webcams, remain radio – with a webcam. It is not, all of a sudden TV just because they added a webcam.
NPR has always considered itself “too hip for the room”. Not worth my dime or my time. Besides, their politically bent to the left and I don’t go that way.
Museum of Radio & Electricity
2010/05/08 – 11:04 am
There is a place in Bellingham that houses a big piece of our history, The American Museum of Radio & Electricity. It was founded by radio collectors Jonathan Winter and John Jenkins. As described on the website of amre.us “The Museum is dedicated to the interpretation of the relationship between the scientific exploration of electricity and the development of broadcast radio into its Golden Age—a story with immense cultural, historic, aesthetic, and scientific significance. Among the Museum’s current holdings are unique examples of early scientific instruments and 19th century electromagnetic apparatus, an outstanding collection of more than 10,000 vacuum tubes, and an authentic reproduction of the radio room on the Titanic displaying an original Marconi wireless set.”
You can listen to some of the audio collection on the low-power FM Bellingham Independent KMRE, streaming on the web at amre.us
Forecast: RAIN on Hit Parade Radio
2010/03/13 – 1:52 pm
[pictured: Larry Lujack] We are almost 30 days into the “soft” launch of Hit Parade Radio and the project seems to be on-hold. There is a stream of pop tunes from the 60s/70s, minus Larry Lujack and the other celeb DJs earlier promised. Voice-tracking won’t cut it. If they want a product that will attract a huge national following, they have to produce the air talent and a presentation that doesn’t sound canned.
I am torn between Hit Parade Radio, in its current state, or my Ipod.
Anniversaries & Rebirths
2010/03/02 – 5:28 pm
A couple of TV stations celebrate anniversaries this week; Channel 11 Tacoma/Seattle KTNT [now KSTW] signed on March 1, 1953. Channel 3 Phoenix KTVK signed on March 1, 1955. KSTW, as KTNT, had local kids shows, Northwest roller derby and wrestling sports, country music shows [one featuring Buck Owens], and an in-house news team. Now, as a CW affiliate, all programming comes out of KSFO studios in San Francisco. There is no local programming, there are no newscasts.
KTVK has great local programming and their morning news program, Good Morning Arizona beats Good Morning America in the ratings everytime. KTVK is one of the top choices for local news in Phoenix.
Tacoma has a “new” local radio station! Browns Point Radio has been renamed Tacoma.FM and features an eclectic mix of classic rock, folk and what have you — with ‘live’ DJs. That is unique, in these days when radio stations across the country are cutting budget by dumping air talent. But, Tacoma.FM is not owned by Clear Channel, CBS or Entercom. The local station is staffed by volunteers. The station also promotes local musical talent, with ‘live’ performance in the studio. Tacoma.FM is on the web, oddly enough at Tacoma.FM