The talk on the always-informative DCRTV.com is that WJFK-FM may go
sports talk soon, with certain facets of the current format remaining.
JD
On Feb 20, 12:09 pm, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, WJFK in DC was part of the Free FM movement, and will stay in its talk
> format at least one day longer than KLSX. Should it get blown up, I doubt
> it'll get the same last day treatment.
>
> David
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mark J. <[email protected]>
>
> KLSX, the CBS-owned FM talk station in LA that has been struggling
> ever since Howard Stern left for Sirius, is dropping the talk format
> as of 5 p.m. PT today to move AMP FM, a teen-targeted CHR format with
> a huge online component, from the HD2 frequency of CBS' "Jack FM" KCBS-
> FM onto KLSX's signal--Adam Carolla and Tom Leykis are out the door
> and are also ending their syndication runs, along with middayers
> Frosty, Heidi and Frank and Danny Bonaduce (Bonaduce doing his show by
> ISDN from Philadelphia, where he's morning man at CBS' "classic
> alternative" WYSP).
>
> The fun thing is that everyone's being allowed to do a last show
> today, something that doesn't happen too often in today's radio
> climate. Already yesterday Carolla was complaining that the only
> thing left on radio is "ranchera music and Top 40" (although he also
> kissed CBS' ass by saying that he was not criticizing them, just the
> climate provided by the allegedly-personality-radio-hostile "personal
> people meters" now used by Arbitron in the major markets). It will be
> interesting to see how much CBS-basing is going to be done before 5
> p.m. PT this afternoon--and it's easy to find out, since AOL and now
> Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast players (powered by CBS) make KLSX easy to pick up
> without having to go to the station's web site. (The players are at
> every other CBS radio web site, as well.)
>
> Meanwhile, those who care about that sort of thing will note that
> Clear Channel's Top 40 monster KIIS ("Kiss FM"), radio home of
> Seacrest, has its first major competition in LA in years and years
> (although some would consider urban station Power 106 a competitor),
> so a jimdandy of a Top 40 radio war could be setting up. Meanwhile,
> the last remnant of CBS' attempt to ride out Stern's departure with
> the "Free FM" brand of talk radio is gone.
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