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Post by erik on Oct 16, 2017 9:02:02 GMT -5
Los Angeles is about to lose another classic rock station. By the end of this month, KSWD 100.3 FM, "The Sound", will be no more; it'll be replaced by "K-LOVE", and the format goes to All-Christian: laist.com/2017/09/28/1003_the_sound.phpAs a footnote, even when they were a classic rock station, there were only a handful of instances when they played anything from Linda's discography. Now even that's all gone. |
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 24, 2017 3:35:23 GMT -5
Goodbye
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Post by Tony on Oct 25, 2017 0:46:08 GMT -5
They can still play some of Linda's more spiritual numbers, altho I doubt they fit the pop format of most Xian music stations.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 25, 2017 5:06:55 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 25, 2017 6:34:29 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 25, 2017 9:08:20 GMT -5
I kind of doubt that this new "Christian" radio station will play anything of Linda's. But again, even as it has been for the last eight years, The Sound really hardly ever played anything of Linda's, though they had plenty of time for U2, Springsteen, Skynyrd, and Aerosmith. And I had e-mailed them over the years asking them to play more of Linda's stuff on a more regular basis, which I am now sure didn't make a whole hell of a lot of an impact.
For all that, however, I still don't like the idea of this radio market losing one more classic rock station, leaving us with almost nothing else but boy bands, T-Swift, rap, and bro-country.
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Post by Tony on Oct 25, 2017 10:37:18 GMT -5
Erik,
Perhaps if stations would hear their listeners, they would be more successful and not have to change formats. Most classic rock stations may as well be a moderately well-stocked ipod set on random. I remember complaining one day that the local station only Zeppelin, Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac. As we went to our lunch, they played exactly those three artists. The only time I have heard Linda on the local classic rock station was when they played the hard-rocking Heart of Gold by Neil Young and oddly enough Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon.
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Post by Tony on Oct 25, 2017 10:38:17 GMT -5
I should proofread. I left out the word played.
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Post by erik on Oct 25, 2017 12:22:08 GMT -5
Like so much else, even radio is corporate; and that's true even in so politically liberal a market as L.A.'s.
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Post by erik on Nov 16, 2017 18:53:22 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 17, 2017 13:46:21 GMT -5
Like so much else, even radio is corporate; and that's true even in so politically liberal a market as L.A.'s.
I am not so sure. Our ONLY Liberal talk radio station was sold to yet another Christian company for 100K. Our dial is mostly sports, Spanish, Christian, conservative talk. Pathetic. But you may be right. I think there is an agenda going on to stop Liberal speech and even its music artists. May these corporations die a thousand deaths and the internet stay neutral and free but as long as there are RepubliCons net neutrality will always be in jeopardy.
And get ready, Trump and company are allowing ONE corporation to own tv, radio and newspapers in one market area. Rupert Murdoch is eyeing the LA Times. |
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Post by erik on Nov 17, 2017 19:20:19 GMT -5
The folks I really feel sorry for are the on-air personalities, some of whom had been involved in the L.A. radio scene as far back as the late 1960s, at such stations as KLOS and KMET (before "The Mighty Met" went all smooth jazz and became KTWV "The Wave" in February 1987).
For those who want to know, "The Sound" was not a failing radio station that somehow "needed" a format change; it was one of the top-rated radio stations in this entire market. The fact that it's gone now is made worse, in my opinion, with what they replaced it with, and how it was done.
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