U-T entertainments Chris Cantore sits down with San Diegos Slighty Stoopid. He opted out of his contract and said so on the air. I'm way outside of the demographic of Channel, Star, 91X, Sophie, and Z90 so I never tune them in. If you have attended any listeners events, you would have seen hundreds of rabid and grateful fans. What do u think this whole "net neutrality" debate was/is about? And talk and opinion, particularly conservative voices, which rule the radio roost, are remaking radio into a cult of personality, whether the blowhole spouts from Hollywood or Mission Valley. That proved to be unworkable. Where deejays once made their personal lives part of the show, speaking for as much as 12 minutes per hour, now their talk breaks are timed to one minute each. If you demagogue it a certain way, theres a point where I ask, Is this all about you? We want to fight the system. Part of what eggs on Lo_Key and others is that the FCC considers us terrorists.. What is interesting is that the folks who organized the 91X tribute concert at the House of Blues earlier this year did not bother to invite Makeda or Erik Thompson to the 30 year reunion show. In 1997, Cantore got on board 91X. We ask them, Why do you listen? He says what Im thinking. And thats music to our ears because we know we have a listener who will tune in every day. Ill do whatever you want. Not me, man., The new Powers That Be soured him because they decreed that listeners are stupid. Cantore fumed over the repetition, the lack of diversity in the programming, the contrived sound, the disconnect from the core I would hear this stuff and take it to the uppers, who routinely dismissed his complaints. The "McMusic" they cram down your throat on terrestrial FM stations is maddening. Even though TV gets more funding, there are fewer employees on that side: 6 on TV versus 20 on radio. He wasnt about to uproot his family or leave Swamis Point. Dennis Prager? 6) Spoken Word Radio is here to stay. The station is powered at 100,000 watts. The game plan is obvious: cut costs, improve revenue, sell the assets.. Thanks for the support.. The number of people who listen at home or at work has dropped about 5 percent, while those who listen in their cars has risen 7 percent, the latter at least partially explained by longer traffic snarls. Off the air, Larson, a Republican and a Christian, played with the notion of running for the congressional seat of Duncan Hunter, who, after a failed presidential bid, is retiring from the 52nd District. I would never swear on the radio. Cantore gives a perfect example. That was part of the adventure. The only thing keeping the station off the air is that the pirates have lost the 96.9 frequency to a legal local station. And the voice of an agile mind is seductive, creating an internal conversation in the listener. Cliff does a marvelous job, and the station speaks for itself. The problem is, not everyone likes the same stuff. My hunch? I was asked to talk about a car wash, some new sales program. 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. Growth has slowed because more than half of listeners who tune in to terrestrial radio once a week also access their iPods and mp3 players. As for the ultimate decision to shut down KLSD, one has to keep in mind that the Clear Channel corporate headquarters are based in San Antonio TX with well-established ties to the Bush family. I brought on my friends. I think NPR is giving the public thorough and interesting news and talk programs, and that's why their audience continues to grow. The ratings plunged almost immediately and were described by one radio consultant that it was "as if they turned the station off.". When 91X launched in 1983, it was a Category of One, which ignored convention and blazed a new trail. Perhaps it's not too late for things to change. Later in the day, on the way in to do my show, Jorge Espinoza, my producer called to say Id been fired. As a Mexican station, XETRA-FM must carry mandated public service announcements, electoral advertising, the Mexican National Anthem at midnight and 5 a.m. daily, and La Hora Nacional on Sunday nights. b/c they are an 800 pd gorilla..b/c they are willing to lose money as long as they control the airwaves.b/c u have a lot of crusty old billionaires who don't care what the public would like to hear (talk-wise) it's a myth that the public owns the airwaves.there were 80 media companies when Reagan took officenow there are 5 re: radio, there are only a handful of major playersmaybe about 15 total radio entities. when the Telecom Act was passed, that wiped out dozens of companies sad. I spent all my free time with the rest of the 91X staff, going to concerts and the beach and making weekend trips to Puerto Nuevo for lobster lunches and all-around shenanigans. And if, after so many years, we dropped the F-bomb, wed lose the license just like that. He applied at all media outlets the Reader, the Union-Tribune, every TV and radio station. [21], When Howard Stern was hosting a syndicated morning show on terrestrial radio, 91X was his original San Diego network affiliate. Except for a few lapses, the British expatriate was with the station for 28 of its past 31 years. And I believe radio is still capable of being a companion, a friend, and so much more. Asked why, he replied: No comment.. His optimism is irrepressible; it has the buoyancy of a surfer expecting that the next wave will be the one. Decker remains indignant over Aguirres request for internal documents from KPBS, a public institution, which, by law, must make such documents available to the public and, even more so, the city attorneys office. This site uses cookies. Dis 2001 attacks don become one di worst attacks for . We have to look at the ownership caps that were de-regulated by the Telecom Act of 1996. With all of the good times here, Ive lived through some tough work environments at other stations. "[5] Ultimately, AOR would not last on 91X, and then-Executive Vice President and General Manager John Lynch would again reformat the station a few years later. I could offer one of my podcast shows on a terrestrial stick and radio can pay me a fee for the service, while selling the advertising slots so they make money. But theres a lot of out-of-town influence. According to Arbitron, radios audience-research company, San Diego ranks as the 17th largest radio market in America, with some 2.5 million 12-and-older listeners. What was San Diegos most famous under-40 jock, with an audience in the thousands, going to do, especially in a radio world that had pigeonholed him as an alternative-rock guru at 91X? Stacy Taylor, the afternoon talk-show host at 1700 AM, is gone. There was a companywide buzz to change, he says, since Dr. Laura, with a new book, was pushing toward a focus on family problems and personal morality. It airs an alternative rock radio format. Its like a big love fest., And yet, underscoring the volatility of local media, the love ended almost as quickly as it began. Show me the markets specifically where stations with these shows win or dominate their competition? I hate, hate, hate Ann Coultier. With all the changes weve lived through over the years, celebrating 40 years of 91X feels like a big deal. The Web version of the story has been corrected. And isnt that what local radio should be?. Only a handful of the musicians Ive met havent been friendly; across the board, most are pretty great. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. There are no graphics, no hairdo, no cleavage voice is everything. He now has four agents in three cities who get him work voicing promotional spots for Showtime, HBO, and Fox. A "Deal" is about as exciting as a home loan. The costliest part is TV: Public Television programs are far more expensive than National Public Radio shows. 92014. We can all agree that KLSO earned substantially more dollars than KPOP. On a similar note, Ramsey says the notion that radio is being hurt by the trend toward corporatizing and syndication is another misnomer. Towards the end of the 1980s, 91X dropped the "Rock of the '80s" branding in favor of a new tagline, "The Cutting Edge of Rock." The program, at $1 million annually, had good content, Myrland told the Union-Tribune, but few people watched.. But, Albert says, by 2007, when the ratings were not as strong as they needed to be, I moved Dr. Laura back to her slot, to attract younger women listeners. With that, Larson took his leave from KOGO. If he wouldnt change, would the format? I love that story! This page is not available in other languages. The show does well. Alternative." While Shelly is a bona-fide liberal, Dave Rickards is conservative on nearly every subject, much to the chagrin of many listeners. Comment on what happened and Marty In Your Ear and 91X Danielle might hit you up to share it. Just like the buggy-whip manufacturers of old, the deejay is really no longer necessary. My last year I decided it wasnt as much fun. He was surprised to hear Albert say it was only a local decision Pressure was coming from somewhere to get Dr. Laura back in. In the end, Larson was not let go. And policies that were likeWhat? Stand with Ukraine. Then came the suits. Doneux is music director and midday DJ at 91X. 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. Do you know how much KLSD was earning at its peak? Put another way, its the leadenness of radios need to replicate its formats for instance, conservative out-of-town hosts Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, and Michael Medved lord it over midday talk which is challenged by the swiftness of listeners who, bored by such copies, plug their ears in elsewhere. (YEW! FM 94.9 has a lineup of local deejays, with Mike Halloran, one of our towns longest-running talents, still on afternoons. I have to take issue with your negative brush-off all the left-leaning programs. I wonder if you're actually associated with Jones Radio Networks? No, he says, we changed it. Hes been reassigned as an investigative healthcare reporter. (These Days is expanding its four-day-a-week morning show from two to three hours, with KPBS reporter Maureen Cavanaugh taking the helm.) Thompson was a DJ/newsman/production director (responsible for making commercials and station-identification spots). Maybe 7:008:00 in the morning. Here the ratings are huge. You betcha. 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. I even got one of my songs uploaded and noticed by several podcasters, so I won't bash Clear Channel here, though I got no word if any local hosts played my song from this past Christmas season. As evidence, with my first contract there, it was simple enough to be hired by two or three people. Done., Clear Channel Communications, which today owns some 900 radio stations across America, bought 91X in 1999; the company moved the station to Granite Ridge Road in 2005, and it changed overnight, Cantore says. 101.1 is usually good for something annoyingly 80s, interrupted by Elton John or Jesse's Girl for the 20th time that day. In 2007, several local deejays were fired: Stephen Kallao, Marco Collins, Trevor Trent, and Jason Riggs. They were uncomfortable with advertising on a station where the host was bashing the President and corporate America, U.S. businesses. This includes Internet radio and terrestrial radio broadcast on station websites. "Music In The Morning" was hosted by Oz Medina, who previously worked as 91X's Music Director and Afternoon Host from 1987 to 1993. REQUEST LINE +1 619-570-1919 https://www.instagram.com/91xsandiego/ https://www.youtube.com/user/91xrocks. Yet, for some reason, the liberals that I'd hear on the radio or even being interviewed on the radio (margaret cho, garafolo)they sound idiotic. Opinion: Lowriding was imprinted in my heart and soul as a kid. Importantly, we'll do public service campaigns. Up until January 2012, 91X carried the syndicated Loveline, heard on weeknights. Radio is an intimate medium, an archaic thing in our visual age. The lefties have the intertubes, and that trumps talk radio one thousandfold. I wonder what figures you saw for NPR. So, the best bet is to have DJs with personality. Put simply, Cantore says, the station didnt know how to take money not for greed but as a business. Put even more simply, he left because he wasnt making enough to support himself. People will listen to their own music or internet on their personal device. By the 1980s, a new generation of lowriders kept the culture going strong in Southeast San Diego. [15] Later the same year, the partnership dissolved and the two companies split operations. Potential listeners are ready for solutions and civil discourse . which probably might explain how many on the left and right have retreated to KPBS. I'll post updates on "what's next" for yours truly as I'm able to do so. I find something uniquely appealing about talk radio that goes beyond the political mind-meld of host and listener. Text, which requires a higher level of intelligence to process, is the artillery of progressive politics, while talk radio shouting is all the conservatives have left in their arsenal. On October 6, 2015, Midwest Television (owners of KFMB and KFMB-FM) announced that it had entered into a joint operating agreement with Local Media San Diego LLC, forming an entity known as SDLocal, to manage their collective cluster of stations. We kept hearing in San Diego that the decision to shut down KLSD was due to "revenue, not ratings." Dear PhilL It's one style that can't be replicated by I-Pods, in the near future less stations will play music. Even music isnt just about the music, as these six essays from local voices make clear. For Aguirre, the stations ostensible kowtowing to Kittles demand violated objectivity and the balance [of] federal law in which the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is statutorily directed to support those objectives., Decker says that though he is not the producer of Editors Roundtable, he understood the issues involved. Is it necessarily wrong that Sean Hannity is on the air locally while he broadcasts out of New York? The live digital broadband radio station, Kaloyan claimed in a company statement, would transform the old concept of traditional terrestrial radio. X1FM radio will define the market to each individuals profile. The station's air staff remains in place, as do the weekend shows "RESURRECTION SUNDAY," "CHURCH OF BOB," "PROJECT X," and "91X LOUDSPEAKER.". This was wrong. All Rights Reserved. For those (few) who believe that the government has no business regulating the airwaves and who want to dump the corporate model entirely, there is pirate radio, also known as Free Radio San Diego (96.9 FM). People also confide to survey-takers that they want some connection to their community on radio. The real problem is politics are guiding your argument. A customizable Internet media aggregation portal a phrase that crawled out of a Philip K. Dick novel will allow users to listen to live radio in real time from anywhere.. His blog is Hear 2.0, where he writes about new media and the need, especially now, for research and development. So much opportunity exists in radio these days margins are slipping, alternatives are burgeoning that stations need to reposition.. There was more going on, on the lifestyle front. Luis Kaloyan, the owner of Binational Broadcasting, a new-media network in National City, called Cantore to say he wanted to hire him at X1FMradio.com. So, sure enough, when I arrived at the studio, the general manager, Gregg Wolfson was waiting for me at the door with the official news. He cited an email from Kittle to the station, objecting that producers had invited Dave Rolland, editor of San Diego City Beat, to be on a televised episode with Kittle. I loved that old building on Pac Highway. 5) Radio is not all about music. I have no horse in this race, I am all about building audience, if I could program Hawaiian Reggae and win, I would. Media, a San Diego-based digital media start-up company, in the next month. While 12+ shares are for show, not for sales, I think it's fair to say that both KTLK -Los Angeles and KKGN are simply not competitive in the 25-54 demographic. On the other hand, when it comes to news and public affairs, radio fills a niche. Were they ALL losing money? That's the way it used to be done-- on LA Radio in the 60s, Joe Pyne, the Michael Savage of his day, was followed by Michael Jackson (not the pop singer-- the erudite liberal talk host). In the opening section, I wrote that Chris Cantore was replaced at 91X by Adam Carolla. KGB, KDEO, Q106 all subscribed to this philosophy. Listen online to 91X radio station 91.1 MHz FM for free - great choice for San Diego, United States. I thought Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz were both great and had unique styles. To sweeten the sale, Clear Channel is, Colliano warns, pruning expensive air talent. Alternatively, you can select which cookies or technologies you want to allow in "Settings". I doubt they'd have done that if he didn't deserve it-- it's based on ratings and revenue figures. In October 2007, at Z90, the morning deejay Chino was replaced by Big Boys Neighborhood from Los Angeles; in November 2007, at 91X, Jennifer White, cohost with Chris Cantore for 2 years, left a month before Cantore was fired to do a morning show on Sophie 103.7; in December 2007, at 91X, Al Guerra, who hosted the local-music two-hour radio show Loudspeaker, quit over differences with Finest City managers. This comes a few days after a couple prime-time sports hosts were fired by B.C.A. In a February 2008 letter to the Reader, Shannon Leder Johnson, who hosted a show at KIOZ for 15 years and maintained her show as one of the top three in her slot, said that I was number one the day they [Clear Channel] let me go. The rightwing has DrudgeReport and their web-based echo chamber, too. I met this 400 pound Italian guy, that would quote Michael Savage and Michael Corleon all the time. Anthony P. San Diego, CA. In effect, they engineered a kind of rigid diversity, station by station. A new entrance was built at the back of the building to access the studios for the divested stations.[11]. But the point is that Ed and Stephanie are radio professionals and not just polemicists. MICHAELS added, 91X should always strive to be different. The detached, automated sound just drives people away. Yes, believe it or don't, there are some. All the boys upstairs want to see Its another conundrum, he says. Radio is redefining itself, from terrestrial or ground-based transmission to the new satellite and online platforms. dear joshb . try listening to thom hartmann and ed schultz for a biti think you'll enjoy their approach and their content i wasn't suggesting that you take them at their word verbatim.i was urging u to take a statement or position and then do some digging or research on your own All of the radio hosts should give u food for thought . it's up to u to determine how much might be bravado and how much might be sincere. if u review all of the reader comments, i hope u get the picture as to US radio ownership stucture.u have a problem with a radio host.look to who is providing his or her paycheck.the radio talent generally reflects the attitude and bias of the owner.that's just the way it is. for nowuntil the public gets united and vociferous re: what is available to us via radio. The general manager for years sought great talent--everyone from Charlie & Harrigan to Bobby Rich, Hudson & Bauer, Bill Ballance and others were part of a very localized radio station.
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