Another show is going to be Johnny Contardo, formerly
of Sha Na Na performing a FREE concert at the Holiday
Inn with a Meet and Greet to follow for $75.  He sang
all the ballads on the show and was in the movie
GREASE.
--- Mike Marino <dharmabumroadie@...> wrote:

> Nostalgia Productions is gearing up for the ultimate
> and one of the
> largest classic car shows in the county. It attracts
> 100,000 persons
> each year and is now linking it's site in a week or
> so to KDSK. If you
> want to visit the website go to:
>
> Nostalgia Productions
> http://www.nostalgia.prod.com
>
> They also have a weekend of rock n' roll bands and
> classic car parades
> across the Macinac Bridge. Special Guests too like
> last year some of
> the cast of American Grafitti were on hand rockin'
> and rollin'
>
> Lock n' Load For Rock N' Roll!
>
> Mike The Roadhead
>
>


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people who matter don't mind.



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--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marino" <dharmabumroadie@...>
wrote:now are
> there  any tie-dyed spare changers in here?

  Well this looks like as good a place as any to do an intro. Names
Spencer (unkamort screen name) and I have resided in the Peoples
Republic of the Haight Ashbury since sometime around '68. I was
refered here by another former resident. While I haven't had much of a
chance to look around here, anything to do with music will usually
hold my interest. I have a large record collection (2500? LP's) and
I'm currently trying to resurect a 4-chanel 7" reel to reel deck to
see if the tape I'v saved all these years is still listen-able.
  On a side note: Its been anounced that Village Music in Mill Valley
Ca is set to close in the comeing September. Meca to the locals, the
oldest independently owned record store (posiably on the planet) will
be sorely missed. I made a small haul outa'there last week, and plan
on going back soon!
  I'll look forward to snooping around here, and will contribute when I
can thanks for havein'me!

--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "unkamort" <spencer1938@...> wrote:
>
> --- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marino" <dharmabumroadie@>
> wrote:now are
> > there  any tie-dyed spare changers in here?
>
>  Well this looks like as good a place as any to do an intro. Names
> Spencer (unkamort screen name) and I have resided in the Peoples
> Republic of the Haight Ashbury since sometime around '68. I was
> refered here by another former resident. While I haven't had much
of a
> chance to look around here, anything to do with music will usually
> hold my interest. I have a large record collection (2500? LP's) and
> I'm currently trying to resurect a 4-chanel 7" reel to reel deck to
> see if the tape I'v saved all these years is still listen-able.
>  On a side note: Its been anounced that Village Music in Mill
Valley
> Ca is set to close in the comeing September. Meca to the locals,
the
> oldest independently owned record store (posiably on the planet)
will
> be sorely missed. I made a small haul outa'there last week, and
plan
> on going back soon!
>  I'll look forward to snooping around here, and will contribute
when I
> can thanks for havein'me!

Spencer, good to see a fine representative from the Peoples Republic
of Hashbury...I know the record store you're talking about and
having not been in the bay or bar area for years was wondering if
you knew anything about Downhome Music in El Cerrito? I used to work
in radio in the area and got a lot of stuff for a specialty show at
that store. Fogerty used to pop in on occasion, in the old days of
course and Doug Sahm at times too. I was fortunate to work at a
radio station there whose GM was one of those legendary KSAN jocks
of yore, Stefan Ponik. Did live in the Haight me'sef from '66 to '68
above the Juke Box bar down the road from the donut shop and made
forays into Bezerkley to the bar called Mandrakes to see the Flamin'
Groovies play...I guess one of the Groovies, Cyril is still in the
bay area with a new group called The Magic Christian named after the
film of the same name with Ringo and the madcap Peter Sellers...
eventually I made my way back to Detroit after California and made
the transition from Country Joe to the MC5, which is probably
similar to the difference between the SDS and the Weathermen!

Lock n' Load for Rock n' Roll!

Mike

The Juke box!? wow... that's been a while! (I managed the Lucky Club for a
short stint).  Down Home Music is alive and well, and are doin' a lot to
promote the Ca Bluegrass scean.  They have a website if I'm not mistaken.
Rino Records is also doing very well and have a big web presents. Sadly
Mandrakes has been gone lo these many years.  The Freight & Salvage is still
open over there, though in a different location.
Stefan Ponik moved over to easy listening after the fall,  (sorry, can't
remember te call sign right now), but unfortunately suffered a coupla' heart
attacks and passed.  Bonnie Simmons dose a 2 hour show Thursday nights on
KPFA (recommended). Norman Davis had the plug pulled after about 6 months at
an underground revival station a few years back, but can still be herd as
the voice over for See's Candy. Scoop Nisker pops up from meditation from
time to time.  Travis T Hip still works (via phone) outa' KPIG down Santa
Cruise way.  Raechel Donahue is associated with the R&R museum in Cleveland
(RIP Tom). Dave McQueen went to the dark side and is now evening anchor at
KCBS.  Ben Fong-Torres is alive and well, writing a column for the paper and
doin' a Sunday nite show on 107.7 'The Bone'.  Richard Gossett was head brew
master at Anchor Steam, but retired.  Tony Kilbert fell into an independent
TV gig for a while, last known to be in Hawaii.  Thom O'Hair died in 2001.
Tony Pigg has been the announcer on Regis And Kathy Lee for dogs years.

Well... now that I bored all disinterested parties into a dull thud I'll
sign off, or as has been said before... Thats' all the news that fits.

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Spencer, that was a flashback and a half...knew most of those people
and still have mucho fond memories, especially of Downhome Music. I
did a classic country morning show on Saturdays called "The
Roadhouse" on KNBA out of Vallejo, or as they call it, Valley Joe
and John at Downhome advertised on the program, actually a trade for
music so had quite a stockpile of Ernest Tubb and Patsy Montana on
hand at all times...after KNBA I went to the eastbay to the station
where Dr. Don Rose had his digs for many moons, he had a heart
attack on the air but did the show as long as he could.

We did a lot of interviews on the station with folks like Leonard
Cohen and Hugh Romney mixed in with Canned Heat tunes and the like.
I hope you enjoy listening to KDSK as there not or at least only a
very, very few "real" radio stations around anymore and as I like to
say, KDSK likes to lock n' load for rock and roll!

Now if you tell me the Digger Free Store and 1090 Page are gone too,
then I will have to drown my sorrows...I know the free store is no
more but where else could you get free cigarettes, books and clothes
not to mention food in the Panhandle in the afternoons...

Mike

hummm, something very weird about how the original of the email I am
replying to got to me. Is the body showing in this response?

Anyhow I joined the list because it looked kinda lonely in there. I only
saw two guys, but what a great topic. It looks like cars get some
coverage, as well.
I don't think Derek is in the group, but his LP collection may beat
yours. What years do you cover in vinyl? And what stations are you
listening to these days? What we got here in downtown Grants, NM, is
your basic independently owned and operated local radio station--webcast
around the world.

magee

--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marino" <dharmabumroadie@...>
wrote:
>
> Boomers and other juvenile delinquents. ..are
> there  any tie-dyed spare changers in here?

Tie dyed? Yeah, a while in wisconsin, in the 60's. Spare changer?
Yeah, Philly in the 60's and Berkeley in the 1970 just after the riots.

> I lived in the Haight
> district in 1966 until 1968, before and after the Summer of Love was
> fashionable so if anyone else was there then lemme know..maybe we
> shared milk and cookies or patchoulie incense or something.

I didn't make it till the mid 7o's, but I think Unkmort was there thru
it all>

I lived on
> Haight street and on Page for awhile

I was at the corner of Page and Lyon, then off Waller across from
Kezar Stadium, when it was still there, then off to sutter street near
Masonic.

>then moved to California street so
> maybe that will help the GPS memory joggers...before that I lived in
> Hawaii on the beach so if your a former beach bum lemme know that
> too..groovy!

Naw, never made it to Hawaii.

How does this list work? I got a post in my email from Unkamort, but
it was almost incomprehensible for all the yahoo links.

magee
>
> Mikey The Roadhead
>
> The Roadhead Chronicles Book
> http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/sfroad/page1008.html
>

Good lord almighty, the Haight Ashbury is alive and well on a message
board in Grants, New Mexico!

Mike, did you know Bob McClay from KSAN? Something is niggling in the
back of my mind--who was in the Flamin' Groovies? I keep thinking Mike
Wilhelm, but that doesn't sound right. No, Mike was in the Charlatans.

Was that Donut shop near FogHorn Fish and chips? If so, I think it was
closed by the time I came around. The new donut shop, last I checked
is where that coffeehouse/art gallery was, kitty corner from the the
Lucky Club.

> Spencer, good to see a fine representative from the Peoples Republic
> of Hashbury

... I was fortunate to work at a
> radio station there whose GM was one of those legendary KSAN jocks
> of yore, Stefan Ponik.
> the transition from Country Joe to the MC5, which is probably
> similar to the difference between the SDS and the Weathermen!

Wow! That is a flash from the Past. Had the SDS haning out in my
living room till a few of them went Weathermen and got too hot to handle.

> Lock n' Load for Rock n' Roll!
>
> Mike
>

--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marino" <dharmabumroadie@...>
wrote:

Speaking of things before my time on the west coast, do either of
ya'll remember a band called Melvin T. Watchpocket? Hung with the
Great Society crowd, if I am not mistaken.

1090 Page is probably a condo, everything else on that side of the
Panhandle seems to be now.

magee

> Spencer, that was a flashback and a half...knew most of those people
> and still have mucho fond memories...and as I like to
> say, KDSK likes to lock n' load for rock and roll!
>
> Now if you tell me the Digger Free Store and 1090 Page are gone too,
> then I will have to drown my sorrows...I know the free store is no
> more but where else could you get free cigarettes, books and clothes
> not to mention food in the Panhandle in the afternoons...
>
> Mike
>

The Charlatans are coming! The Charlatans are coming! The 1090 page
thing is probably right, or write on...when I first got to the
neighborhood I slept a couple of nights in the park down by park
station, cop shop and eventually worked my way up to the stairway in
1090 Page before getting my own joint, no pun intended...I rememer
the Charlatans along with other groups that didn't quite have the
impact of the better known groups of the area, and doing some
research found that there are two groups known as "Charlatans", one
being a brit band and touring with the Stones this summer...the
other, the original I might add is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charlatans (I hope that works, if
not Wik It!

As for the groovies, Roy Loney was the lead singer and eventually
left to do gospel or some such but there was a reunion of sorts but
again, wik it or visit Cyril Jordan, one of flaming founding
flamin's ... www.cyriljordan.com

My son has a dvd on the history of the Ramones and I was mentioning
the Groovies and others and now owns their music thanks to one scene
in the flick..a brit concert with the concert bill showing the
Ramones, the Flamin' Groovies and the New York Dolls with David
Johanson on lead vocals, aka Buster Poindexter...

..Casey Jones...

No Watchpocket of recall but do remember Ashley Brilliant who would do
parodies in the park and still have a copy of a newsprint "Ashley
Brilliant Song Book", but then again I still have a copy each of the
Berkeley Barb, the San Fran Oracle and one copy of the Digger Papers.
All ratty to be sure...another local denizen was well known, Stanley
Owsley and of course, Motorcycle Ritchie and Papa Doc and Ginger, two
Hells Angels and one Angelette who used to hang out at the pizza joint
down the street by the park, not the panhandle...walking down the
streets in those days would bump into others too like Richard
Brautigan the writer dressed in elfen hat and all...

..Sandoz Huxley...

I'v herd this tale form many corners.... After the exlosion in '67 prometers
and record company reps were up here by the plane load from SoCal literaly
grabing people off the street because they 'looked' like rock stars. A band
called "Cosmic Popcorn" comes to mind as one formed by (then) Lt Govener
Mike _____  who would later manage 'Up with People' and in partnership with
no less than Dick Clark produce one of the worst movies of all time centered
in the Haight, and around the Straight Theater. ( there were some
interesting camera shots on the roof of the Straight) The plot has a
diSTINKly Art Linkletter slant to it.  If I could remember the name I
wouldnt repeat it for fear of someone makeing another dime in roality money
on that bomb. But I think its more than safe to say that during the inlflux
of people that were around during that time more than a few bands were
formed, most of which never got off the ground.
For instance 'The Down Home Nastys' , of which a few members are still
around.  In fact I play poker once a mounth with one of the guitar players.
As a side note to HGD.. our friend the Hobbit held forth at 1100 Page for
many moons before moving to Fell St with the Nastys.

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--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "mortermer spencer" <spencer1938@...>
wrote:

Ok, WHICH Nasty played the guitar? I knew hobbs habitated on Page, but
didn't know it was that close to 1090.

> In fact I play poker once a mounth with one of the guitar players.
> As a side note to HGD.. our friend the Hobbit held forth at 1100
Page for
> many moons before moving to Fell St with the Nastys.
>

--- In KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marino" <dharmabumroadie@...>
wrote:

Sandoz,

Do you happen to have a copy of the San Francisco Good Times? Did you
know our own Diane Fowler, of Cibola Beacon fame, used to write for
them, in the hey day of the Black Panthers?

And how the heck did you get HERE, working for the formerly competing
newspaper?

Unkamort, which underground paper did the Hobbit write for? I think
the office was near the Blue Unicorn on Grove Street.

magee

> "Ashley
> Brilliant Song Book", but then again I still have a copy each of the
> Berkeley Barb, the San Fran Oracle and one copy of the Digger Papers.
> All ratty to be sure...

> ..Sandoz Huxley...
>

In the interest of not being a name droper... sent ya a PM

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Just got in from a little Ozark dayhike with my friends the Braunstein
Brothers. Hadn't heard of Diane Fowler, but did Helen Davis and of
course, Lia the new editor. Can't say as I read the paper much, or any
paper to be honest. But "The Good Times" paper is vaguely familiar but
totally. It wasn't a Black Panther organ though was it? They were
originally from Oakland and "Good Times" doesn't sound to Pantherish
but hen again could be wrong.
  The ones I do know from the past and the area is a gentleman I'm
doing some articles for now who has his own company for publications
and supplying them content and that is Ben Fong Torres of some note
(yeah, him I heard of!) and working on a project in San Francisco to
establish the artists and activist program that will also have it's
own publication, online website and eventually bricks and mortar
gallery and headquarters.

As for the Barb and Oracle I sold those on the streets to make some
change until I went into, uh, well, my own business to foot the bills.
Not as exciting as living on the beach in the land of palm trees for
close to two years but you didn't need much cash over there in those
days and I was only 15 at the time so immortal as hell...still
immortal, but feeling mortal every day...as for the paper I work at, I
forgot about that, I make money primarily from my book sales and
columns I do freelance (5 publications a month from pop culture to
green issues) and never had a j-degree so wanted to get some good old
fashioned Hunter T. journalism under my belt to round out my internal
gratification resume...freelance writing and booksales however do more
than the salary as far as income and freelancing allows me to do other
things that I normally wouldn't be able to do, travel, experiment and
go where and as I please, only this time, I'm not 15, but feel it at
times...so hope that answers the questions. Now, what are you doing in
Grants?

Also speaking of on the road will be off line until July 20th to get a
little more of that luxury freetime in but will check in after
that..until then...don't bogart that thing!

Sandoz Huxley Cerveza

Hadn't heard of Diane Fowler, but did Helen Davis and of
> course, Lia the new editor.

Diane has been around for about three years. She has been covering the
arts, "Who We Are," education and the county gov't. Not sure what she
is covering for that rag now.

  Can't say as I read the paper much, or any
> paper to be honest.

Me neither. I have no idea what is going on.

But "The Good Times" paper is vaguely familiar but
> totally. It wasn't a Black Panther organ though was it?

No. The usual White liberal/radical thing, I think. They did cover the
SF chapter of the Panthers (in the Western Addition, I think) and
tried to keep the police in check by being present as reporters when
ever they could.

>They were
> originally from Oakland and "Good Times" doesn't sound to Pantherish
> but hen again could be wrong.

When I lived in Berkeley, we lived sorta kitty corner from the
national Panther headquarters, sandbagged window and all. Some of
those guys are still around in Oakland, doing neighborhood work.

>  The ones I do know from the past and the area is a gentleman I'm
> doing some articles for now who has his own company for publications
> and supplying them content and that is Ben Fong Torres

I thought is was in New York or with the Voice or something. Good fro
him hanging in there. Ask him about the Good Times, I think Diane said
he was with them at one time, but I could be mistaken.

> As for the Barb and Oracle I sold those on the streets to make some
> change until I went into, uh, well, my own business to foot the bills.

*ahem*, yes. I beleive the barb is still around in a fringy sort of way.

..still
> immortal, but feeling mortal every day

Funny how that happens

>...as for the paper I work at, I
> forgot about that, I make money primarily from my book sales and
> columns I do freelance (5 publications a month from pop culture to
> green issues) and never had a j-degree so wanted to get some good old
> fashioned Hunter T. journalism under

So point me in the right direction, Mike. I gotta make some money
somehow. I am trying to forget about the paper I worked for here ;-)

Some of the best writers I know don't have ANY degree and one of the
worst I know has a bleedin' Masters in Journalism and no persepctive
on anything.

  Now, what are you doing in
> Grants?

That is a whole different post!

  Big Bad Mama Cat

Now, what are you doing in
> Grants?
>
It was a hell-ride from South Carolina to San Francisco with my
daughter that did it, in the beginning. People were dying and taking
to the lightning decline of crack cocaine in Philly where I was
driving a horse and carriage after leaving grad school
(Temple--Radio-Television-Film.) A few months in the Deep South with
an alcoholic Baptist/Episcopalian mother drove us back West when a
room and a carriage driving job in SF opened at the same time.

Classic hellride: impenetrable fog in West Memphsis, torrential rain
in Oklahoma, dry  and open and empty in Amarillo and then the
magnificance of New Mexico. We spent the night in Gallup, waking to
crisp air, clear skies and scattered patches of snow here and there.
Top of the world. As we pulled out of the diner/motel parking lot, I
told my daughter, then 11 years old, "If I ever disappear, look for me
in Gallup, New Mexico."

Fast forward through Portland, OR; SF; Oakland and a number of years.
It looked the dying was gonna start again or some killing or just some
craziness I am too old for, so I deemed it time to disappear.

Looking around the Internet, I found Gallup waaay too expensive and
Grants about the cheapest place in the county, so here I am. Stuck in
the Land of Entrapment--this was supposed to be tempory.

Any Questions?

the rover

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Subject: LARP - Michael Sheehy: Radio Veteran Adapting to Changes
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:12:29 -0700

 

Michael Sheehy: Radio Veteran Adapting to Changes

Producer Goes Online For His Latest Endeavor 

By Mark Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Journal Staff

Michael Sheehy has spent a nearly 40-year career in radio yet does not listen to radio himself.

The 57-year-old has no interest in talk radio and the scope of his musical tastes cannot be met by what comes out of a car radio.

“They can’t keep up with me,” Sheehy said. “I don’t blame them. You can’t be everything to everyone.”

Now a freelance producer, Sheehy worked at KNX-FM as an on-air personality, music director and program director and spent 12 years at KTWV The Wave as an on-air personality and creative/production director.

He still counts 15 radio stations across the country as clients for his voiceover work, and can be heard on local stations in commercials for Sport Chalet.

In April, Sheehy and a group of talented friends debuted Planet Pootwaddle, an online radio station with a playlist all over the musical map.

Broadcasting from a converted stable in the backyard of Sheehy’s Burbank home, Planet Pootwaddle plays everything from Frank Sinatra to Stevie Ray Vaughn to the comedy bits from Monty Python and The Firesign Theatre. The creative team includes radio and TV veteran Gary Owens, voice actors Wally Wingert and Mona Marshall, and Dave Hall, of “CSI.”

Sheehy borrowed the term “pootwaddle” from the Spike Jones radio show of the late 1940s. In polite terms, it means to pass gas.

“There is a certain zaniness and craziness that goes along with Spike Jones,” Sheehy said. “It’s the essence of that energy we try to put into what we are doing.”

Q: What’s been your background in the radio business?

A: When I started in radio it was in 1968. Free-form radio was the thing; there was no format. If there is anything on the programming side of radio I’ve done it. Maybe not well, like being a newscaster I’m awful at it. I’ve been a program director, I’ve been a disc jockey, and I’ve been a transmitter babysitter. A lot of the people in broadcasting today don’t have the benefit of that experience because that experience doesn’t exist today.

Q: Why do you think that is?

A: The technology and everything else has changed. In the old days you used to have a first class FCC license. It was a totally different deal. I’ve been in the Wild West of radio and for the people out there now it is a totally different feel.

Q: Is that because of the corporations?

A: Somebody who has been there a long time and have had a successful following but are making too much money – whoop! A bean counter doesn’t give credit for the people who have been listening to you for 30 years. All they are looking at is the bottom line. The bean counter mentality has altered the way things go about.

Q: Do you think it takes away from the creativity of the on-air personalities?

A: Absolutely. It sucked the soul right out. One old radio adage is ‘Never ask permission; ask forgiveness.’ When you’re a morning guy you never want to ask, ‘Would it be okay if I did…’ because you know the answer is going to be no. So you do it. (Fired morning radio talk show host) Don Imus – he was hired to do what he does. He’s got millions of listeners. But when he does what he does he gets in trouble and the company jumps on him. That doesn’t make any sense. They were paying him to do what he does.

Q: Is Internet radio how radio was when you first started?

A: No because a lot of the Internet people are normal civilian people who don’t have a radio background. They probably have a lot of talent, they don’t have the radio mindset which could be a good thing or a bad thing. We basically have a troupe of people who like to come together and have fun. Normally they are doing serious stuff. It’s a place for our people to kick their shoes off and have fun. You can’t get this thing on terrestrial radio.

Q: Give your take on the royalty rate issue for Internet radio stations.

A: It’s a tussle between the have and have nots; corporate entities versus the little guy. I think the guys trying to charge these royalties are going to go after the big guys too and I think the big guys realize that. I am just waiting out the storm. The funny thing is there are ways to get around the royalty issue. People can start broadcasting right out of Sweden, which a lot of them are going to do. I have no problem with everyone getting their fair share. It’s their work; of course they should get a taste. I have no problem paying it. What’s going is more political than anything else. It’s a matter of control.

 

Valley Home to Hot Radio Companies

 

The Sound of a Billion Dollars

 By Mark Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Journal Staff

The Piolon por la Manana radio show has been over for two hours and host Eddie Sotelo and crew remain working in the KSCA studio.

Sotelo still shows a lot of energy even after hosting a 7-hour show syndicated to more than 30 markets, never standing still before a microphone on which he places a small toy bobblehead dog.

“This is for Friday,” Sotelo calls out as he prepares to record a television promo for an upcoming show. “Quatro, tres, dos, uno…”

Sotelo – nicknamed Piolin which translates into “Tweety Bird” in Spanish – and the morning show crew broadcast from a new studio on the top floor of a 25-story building in Glendale, an appropriate place considering they have the top rated show on the top rated station in all of Los Angeles.

For the local market Glendale and Burbank are the center of the radio universe, hosting multiple stations owned by the largest media companies with a variety of formats.

The most recent Arbitron ratings data released in July show that 7 of the top 10 stations in the Los Angeles/Orange County market are based in those two cities.

As for advertising revenue, the Los Angeles market is the radio industry’s billion dollar baby – the only one in the country pulling in that amount. Lengthy commute times are cited by industry experts as the reason why advertisers are attracted to radio.

The market is described as competitive and fragmented; a heavy lure for top on-air talent and executives; one in which one station promotes the traditional concert ticket giveaway and another promotes how to gain U.S. citizenship.

“A lot of new things come out of here and what is done is generally done very well,” said Mary Beth Garber, president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association.

The power still residing in radio comes back to Sotelo whose profile was raised certainly in the English-speaking media after his call for immigration reform led to a march by a half million Angelenos in May 2006.

A jokester in the studio, Sotelo turns serious afterward to explain his appeal to the audience is they can identify with what goes on in his life.

“People feel I am one of their family members,” Sotelo said.

The top companies

Four of the top rated stations are owned by Clear Channel – pop station KIIS-FM and news talk giant KFI-AM – and Univision – KSCA and KLVE-FM. The Walt Disney Co., Emmis Communications, Liberman Communications and Camarillo-based Salem Communications round out the large media corporations with stations operating out of Burbank or Glendale. (Attempts to reach a representative of Clear Channel and Liberman for this story were unsuccessful.)

That wasn’t always the case.

A change in the business licensing process in the city of Los Angeles led to broadcasters skipping the border into what was considered a more business-friendly locale. This happened at a time of consolidation in the industry leading to modernizing of facilities and putting multiple stations under one roof, said George Nadel Rivin, an accountant with Miller Kaplan & Arase in North Hollywood who works with the broadcast industry.

Clear Channel, for example, took stations in four different areas and put them in the Pinnacle building in Burbank’s Media District in a deal worth $45 million.

Concept of clustering

Clustering commonly owned stations has been positive for the market in that it puts everything at hand for the executives in charge.

“All the stations can be equally looked at,” Rivin said. “From the shared personnel and shared production facilities there are some economies of scale.”

Listeners in the Los Angeles market can find whatever radio format they want in dozens of different languages – all music, all talk, news, and sports. Lotus Communications operates an Iranian station out of the Valley.

“They looked where the signal was and it blanketed where the Persian community lived,” Garber said.

Clear Channel has a lock on music and talk in both AM and FM, while Univision and Liberman operate Spanish language stations. Salem’s local affiliates including music station KFSH and talk station KRLA reflect the company’s Christian and conservative views. Disney, of course, has Radio Disney on the AM dial targeted at pre-teens and young teens and their parents who chauffeur them.

With so much at stake in terms of ad dollars – every tenth of a point in ratings is the equal to $1.25 million per year in revenue, according to Garber – L.A. radio stations do what they must to draw in listeners – copy from competitors, hire big name talent, switch formats.

“We take every tenth of a point very seriously,” said Jimmy Steal, vice president of programming for Emmis, owner of KMVN (Movin’ 93) and KPWR (Power 106).

Newspaper readership and television viewing may have dropped in recent years but radio is the one medium that holds steady with listener numbers.

What industry watchers find in the LA/OC market is that long commute times create a captive audience for advertisers. The average person in the market spends 1 hour and 40 minutes listening to radio in their car.

‘IPod fatigue’

What is called “iPod fatigue” drives listeners to switching on the car radio again after they tire of the hundreds or thousands of songs downloaded into the ubiquitous portable music device.

“They look for fresh material and information and come back to radio,” said Dave Newmark, head of Bid4Spots, an Encino-based online auction site for unused radio ad time.

Starting next year, Arbitron unveils the personal people meter, an electronic method of gathering listening patterns to determine ratings. The PPM is a beeper-sized device that picks up an encoded signal to tell what stations a person wearing it is listening to.

The meter will “revolutionize” the industry, Steal said, because it eliminates the seven-day diary tracking listening habits and won’t be dependent on listener recall.

The device may even go so far as to reduce or do away with the liners and promos that repeat a stations call letters because an Arbitron listener won’t have to remember them to write in the diary, Garber said.

“It won’t change what the medium does or what makes it unique but it will change the listening experience, which makes it more fun,” Garber said.

 

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Ames/Hayes/Spector. A KFWB commentary written and voiced by Christopher Ames that dealt with Phil Spector was published here last week. Johnny Hayes responded. Chris responded to Hayes’ response and now Johnny responds to Chris’ response:

“I was delightfully surprised Thursday when a considerable number of emails arrived here concerning my response to Mr. Christopher Ames LARP posting concerning Phil [Phillip] Spector. Friends and former co-workers alike wrote – some I had not been in contact with in fifteen to twenty rears.  I would like to share my email back to one of them . . .

Doug [Douglas Brown], how wonderful hearing from you! 

I find it very interesting that you have pulled out your Spector collection and are finding gems you had perhaps misplaced in your mind. People would be amazed at how many wonderful records they really love and are awed by, were Spector productions – and it is not commonly known he was linked to. Among my favorites are: Some Of Your Lovin’/Johnny Nash, Young Boy Blues/Ben E King & Black Pearl/Sonny Charles & the Checkmates Ltd. There are of course many, many more. A great visionary Phillip certainly was.  

I’m sure you noticed I intentionally stayed away from attaching blame in the shooting of that poor girl up at the Castle. I simply felt compelled to respond to KFWB’s Christopher Ames’ comments because I have had it with people who have never even known Phillip, kick him around like an ole tin can. Then, to go further and slam his songs and records; to lump Phillip’s life and accomplishments all together and then “burn him at the stake” – well that was more than I could take.  

Regrettably, in my haste, the draft I sent to Don Barrett had some key points omitted and there was a sentence in which a transitional word was left out. My omission questioned Mr. Ames objectivity in the whole matter. I’m not a good proof reader of my writings; I was writing on pure emotion. Yes I was angrier and frustrated at Mr. Ames, but I tried in earnest to keep my emotions in check. I must say I was impressed by Mr. Ames restraint in not attacking me for simply coming to Phillip’s aid at a time when he (Phil) could sure use a friend. Above all, I can still separate the man from his genius. Who doesn’t have flaws – myself included. 

I got a very touching email from John Newton [aka Johnny St. Thomas] on the subject, and I had not heard from him in 20 years. Many others wrote, Shaune Steele among them. Mike Daniels too was so supportive. Not one email made reference to Phillips guilt or innocence, because that’s not what the point of my posting was all about. All were however taken by the fact that I would stand up for a friend, come hell or high water. 

Spector’s music will outlive us all. BACK TO MONO, indeed! 

Again Doug, I think you are swell for writing . . . 

P. S.  Still not taking sides in the case, I’ll go out on a limb – I have a hunch the jurors will not come to an agreement, and it will end in a MISTRIAL,” ventured Johnny Hayes

I am glad to hear Jonny is still around.
Like so many of you, I enjoyed listening to Johnny Hayes for many
wonderful years on KRLA and in later years on KRTH.
There was a lot of great air talent on L.A. radio in the 60's and 70's.
I always thought Johnny was one of the most personable jocks on the
air. I may have even taken some of his style as my own.
I hope some day I may have the opperunity to hire Johnny on one of our
stations.

Derek Underhill
President,
KD Radio, Inc

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To: KD_Radio@yahoogroups.com
From: srradiopilot@...
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:13:05 +0000
Subject: [KD_Radio] Johnny Hayes

I am glad to hear Jonny is still around.
Like so many of you, I enjoyed listening to Johnny Hayes for many
wonderful years on KRLA and in later years on KRTH.
There was a lot of great air talent on L.A. radio in the 60's and 70's.
I always thought Johnny was one of the most personable jocks on the
air. I may have even taken some of his style as my own.
I hope some day I may have the opperunity to hire Johnny on one of our
stations.

Derek Underhill
President,
KD Radio, Inc

Hi Folks,
    The KD Radio California Internet webcast has been Off for a couple hours. 
The IT guys are
trying to figure out the problem.   Hopefully back on within a couple hours.
Don

---- Don McDonald <donmcdonald_kd2@...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>    The KD Radio California Internet webcast has been Off for a couple hours. 
The IT guys are
> trying to figure out the problem.   Hopefully back on within a couple hours.
> Don
>
Glad it's back on Don!   I die without  KD!   smiles...........

KDSK (Grants, New Mexico) photos can be seen by clicking "Photos" at
http://www.kdsk.com/

KMIN (Grants, New Mexico) photos can be seen by clicking "Photos" at
http://www.kmin980.com/

I posted a photo of the new KDSK
van in the Photos section.
   The KDSK staff can be seen driving
around the station's town, Grants,
New Mexico, in it.  There's a rumor
that the van is often seen
at nearby casinos.

Hello KD Radio Listeners and Friends,
    Before 2008 is over, let me commemorate the
50th Anniversary of KDNF, the predecessor
of the KD Radio group of stations.
    From http://www.oldiesmusicradio.com/history.htm we have this:

"In 1958, KDNF AM 840 was constructed by a
12 year old boy living in North Hollywood.
That boy, Steve Ricketts, had a love for electronics,
mechanics and "broadcast radio." Steve had dreams
of someday owning and operating his own
commercial radio station. At the age of 12,
the options available to him were very limited.
The only licensed options available to him
were "ham" or "CB" radio. Although these were
interesting hobbies, they were never intended
as a means of presenting commercial radio
programming to the general public. Thus,
the "pirate" 5 Watt AM home-built station would be his outlet."

Hello and Seasons Greetings!
    KD Radio CA (Internet) will play non-stop
Christmas music from Christmas Eve (Dec 24th)
well into Christmas Day (Dec 25th).
    Best wishes to you all, and Happy New Year, too.
Don