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Topic: KZLA Format Change |
Dave White
From:
Fullerton, California USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 8:47 am |
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At 6 PM Pacific Daylight Time last night, KZLA, the only "country" music station in the Los Angeles area, switched formats to a "world beat"-R&B--hip-hop--pop format. Legendary DJ Rick Dees has returned to LA radio to be the station's "star" DJ. I was talking to a couple of friends about this last night, and their reaction was, "So what? That crap they were playing wasn't real country anyway--just music by musicians who couldn't make it in rock so they went over to what they call country."
Thank God for XM Radio. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 9:03 am
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I concur wholeheartedly. KZLA has been, at best, a joke in L.A. for years. They have done nothing to promote, in any way, the SoCal country scene, only themselves. The chickens have come home to roost with KZLA's trading of one set of boneheads for another, IMHO ...
Bon Voyage and good riddance. |
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 3:06 pm
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| KZLA was parasitically shameless enough to attach themselves to one or t'other of the "Down From the Mountain" concerts in LA. Good riddance to KZLA. Country Music in Southern California is no worse off for their disappearance. (Two words: X. M.) |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 6:26 pm
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Remember 93KHJ? They had a theme song, but I can only remember the first two lines....
"In the days of our youth we played cowboy.
On a broomed handled horse we would ride."
Anyone remember the rest? |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 6:49 pm
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| KCSN 88.5, TWANG, with cowboy Nick, Saturday 10-2. And there's a lot of other great programs, arts and roots. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 7:48 pm
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So Cal hasn't had a real country station since KLAC AM in the '70's. They were the real deal, playing all good stuff.
I even remember hearing Tony Booth records...
There was one DJ...can't remember his name...but starting at about 1:30 or 2am he would start saying hi to all the pickers he knew would be driving home from gigs, calling us all by name over the air.
Where in the world does that happen anymore??
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 18 Aug 2006 7:50 pm
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| Watch XM Satellite Radio grow. Many here in western N.Y. are picking it up specificly for country music. Commercial country's days are numbered. Hello Dale Watson. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 19 Aug 2006 9:34 am
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If you are driving to Vegas KFRG in San Bernardino can be received nearly to Barstow. And, they play some of the good oldies.
Toooo much poor taste in LA for music and just about everything else. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 19 Aug 2006 10:24 am
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| Ditto, Rick! |
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Aug 2006 5:26 am
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I Liked The KFOX Station Back In 1965. SONNY.
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Dave White
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Fullerton, California USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2006 9:39 am
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Rick--we can get KFROG real well here in Fullerton, and in most of north Orange County. They are marginally better than most, and they do play a few oldies, especially on Saturday nights.
Sonny--I remember KFOX too--they had a great country line-up. One of their DJs, Ted Quillan, lived right down the street from me. Remember KGBS 1020 AM? They had a good country format in the mid to late sixties as well.[This message was edited by Dave White on 21 August 2006 at 10:42 AM.] |
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Joe Casey
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Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 21 Aug 2006 11:54 am
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KFOX with ,Biff Collie, Lee Ross,The Squeekin Deacon back in the 61-62 days. Live Sunday Broadcast with the Deacon then it was down to Georges Round-up in Long Beach or the Hitching Post in Gardena. Thems was the days all right. 
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Florida:Where its not against the Law to get caught Steelin.
[This message was edited by Joe Casey on 22 August 2006 at 05:34 AM.] |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 21 Aug 2006 12:58 pm
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If you're old enough, you can remember when good country music radio was free. 
The good ol' days are really gone. |
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Danny Williams
From:
Oregon, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2006 2:22 pm
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What a loss to america it is to America thatwe can no longer hear KFOX. What was that jock's name who used to write songs with Bobby Bear? I remember him saying at noon every day, "My mama says I gotta' come in now. But I'll be back at 9 tomorrow and we can play again."
KZLA and the others like them are no loss. I stopped listining a those stations a long time ago.
I wish someone in the broadcasting business would discover us. We spend money on the sponcsoes merchandise too.
Radio should be free. Thank God for XM but I miss the "Rhythum Ranch" heard on KUBA 1600 on your dile, 6 days a week in Yuba City, Ca. between 4 and 6 PM back when Hank, Lefty, Webb and Tommy Collins were the thrill.
Danny Williams |
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