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What is the reasoning behind that?

 

103.7 has a stronger signal for San Diego county.

 

KSON has been on 97.3 since the 70’s and for those living in the North County, signal wasn’t as strong.

 

KSON makes money and ratings and they were able to fork over 92.1 to simulcast Country on 92.1 in the North County and 97.3 for San Diego Metro Area.

 

With the merger, KSOQ (92.1) is now Christian Contemporary dropping the KSON simulcast.

 

KEGY struggles since KHTS, XHTZ are both Top 40 CHR’s (gives a reason why Entercom wanted to flip frequencies and makes sense.)

 

As of San Francisco, nothing really

 

KOIT flipped to its normal Christmas Music format as of Noon.

 

KBLX keeps promoting and pushing harder in promos how they are the legendary R&B station and serving the community.

 

The clock ticks up here.

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This article from InsideRadio explains about Entercom's use of the CBS branding on its radio properties.

 

The callsigns that were formerly shared with CBS's TV counterpart (WCBS, KCBS, WBBM, etc.), will be kept on the radio outlets for 20 years post-merger. So WCBS 880, WBBM 780, etc, they can keep their brandings as is.

 

But it has to remove all references to "CBS" in their brandings within one year after the merger. That includes removing the CBS Eyemark (including WCBS).

 

Now stations that are branded "CBS Sports Radio", those can be kept until the end of 2020.

 

Also Entercom has "tweaked" with its logo upon closing the CBS deal.

 

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Entercom starts taking over CBS Radio today.

 

RIP CBS Radio. 1927-2017

 

It lived a happy and healthy 90 years.

 

And a quote from Scott Fybush:

 

"A friendly reminder as we enter the Entercom era:

 

The longest legacy that was ended at midnight was not that of “CBS,” which had been under several owners in its 90 years as a radio brand (and which lives on in the form of the radio news network, which is still the gold standard.)

 

The longest legacy that ended at midnight was that of Westinghouse. KDKA, WBZ and KYW never changed owners from their very first days in 1920-1921 until just now. Because while it’s often forgotten, it was Westinghouse that bought CBS in 1996, and while Westinghouse changed its corporate name to “CBS,” when you scrape off the paint there was still a big red “Group W” under the Eye."

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Regardless of the cuts, KCBS is still #2 in the market behind KQED (yes, the Bay Area is full of NPR-listening treehugging liberals and has the numbers to prove it :p)

 

Nonsense. KQED is still the choice of the centrist masses for those still chained to their late capitalism commuter jobs. The true Bay Area treehugging progressives listen to KPFA and have the bumper sticker to prove it (if they own cars).

 

But in all seriousness, I hope KCBS doesn't change. It's a good format, even if a little repetitive. I wonder what will become of that awesome traffic bump music that even KPIX uses. Should be interesting to see how they divorce KCBS from KPIX as they are fairly closely operated and branded.

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KMPS is now airing Christmas music:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121123/kmps-seattle-goes-christmas/

 

And stations placed for divestiture trust had started roll out new website from new owner:

https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/

http://997now.com/

Please don’t tell me that KMPS is getting unplugged after the holidays, KMPS has been a country station since 1975 on 1300 and on 94.1 FM since 1978. 40+ years.

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The KYWs should be an even more interesting split as they are housed in the same building and practically share a newsroom.

 

As I understand, KYW 1060 is staying put for now, but will be moving to another building in short order. (Maybe where WIP is housed?)

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As I understand, KYW 1060 is staying put for now, but will be moving to another building in short order. (Maybe where WIP is housed?)

 

Part of the reason KYW moved to Spring Garden was to accommodate the additions of WXTU and WTDY (WRDW at the time) from Beasley. The ex-Beasley stations moved across Bala Cynwyd to CBS' space at 2 Bala Plaza and WPHT and WOGL moved to Old City. Needless to say, they'd have to build new studio space (and a newsroom) at either location.

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Part of the reason KYW moved to Spring Garden was to accommodate the additions of WXTU and WTDY (WRDW at the time) from Beasley. The ex-Beasley stations moved across Bala Cynwyd to CBS' space at 2 Bala Plaza and WPHT and WOGL moved to Old City. Needless to say, they'd have to build new studio space (and a newsroom) at either location.

You sure they moved? The address on the WXTU website is still for 555 City Ave., their Beasley address...

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But in all seriousness, I hope KCBS doesn't change. It's a good format, even if a little repetitive. I wonder what will become of that awesome traffic bump music that even KPIX uses. Should be interesting to see how they divorce KCBS from KPIX as they are fairly closely operated and branded.

 

That traffic bed they use is no longer on KPIX. They use a techno version of the Enforcer now which sounds horrible.

 

I still prefer the traffic bed what CBS 2 in LA uses which is Series 5

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That traffic bed they use is no longer on KPIX. They use a techno version of the Enforcer now which sounds horrible.

 

I still prefer the traffic bed what CBS 2 in LA uses which is Series 5

 

Aw, too bad! That was such a cool piece of music.

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Aw, too bad! That was such a cool piece of music.

The whole KCBS package is awesome, though I liked their older top of the hour sequence more than the current one. It would make for an EXCELLENT TV news package. I wonder who did it.

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Please don’t tell me that KMPS is getting unplugged after the holidays, KMPS has been a country station since 1975 on 1300 and on 94.1 FM since 1978. 40+ years.

Well I was right, KMPS-FM is now Soft AC 94.1 the Sound with the KSWD calls, and a hour and a half later, Hubbard’s KVRQ flipped from rock to country.

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121486/entercom-flips-kmps-seattle-soft-ac/

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121492/hubbard-launches-country-98-9-seattle/

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Well I was right, KMPS-FM is now Soft AC 94.1 the Sound with the KSWD calls, and a hour and a half later, Hubbard’s KVRQ flipped from rock to country.

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121486/entercom-flips-kmps-seattle-soft-ac/

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121492/hubbard-launches-country-98-9-seattle/

 

Seems like Entercom wanted to clear the way for The Wolf as the primary Country brand in the city- but it was an invitation for Hubbard to jump in. I doubt that Entercom didn't expect competition to immediately materialize, but keeping the brand they'd developed themselves over the heritage KMPS - seems strange with KMPS strongly ahead of KKWF in the 6+ beauty contest, and I know KMPS was ahead of KKWF in younger demos (but neither one was top 5 in the demos, anyway). KVRQ had been growing, but there's probably more money in being number two in Country than being fourth or fifth in Rock/Alt/Adult Hits...

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Also back on November 29, another CHR station flipped to Alternative, this time in ORLANDO.

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121325/101-9-amp-radio-orlando-joins-alternative-movement/

 

And then on December 4, 2017, 101.9 rebranded as FM 101.9 due to iHeart owning the Alt brand on 101.1 WJRR HD-3.

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121476/alt-101-9-orlando-quickly-rebrands-fm-101-9/

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Back on Friday (August 3rd) Bonneville turned their LMA of the former CBS Radio Station and some Entercom Stations in San Francisco and the former CBS Radio Stations in Sacramento into a purchase.

 

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/169812/bonneville-turns-san-francisco-and-sacramento-lmas-into-purchase/

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