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Post by jasonharper2004 on Feb 10, 2005 15:50:45 GMT -5
Starting February 21st 2005 Sean Hollywood Hamiton will the New Morning man on K-Earth
PSA The big Rumor is K-earth going to Flipped to Top 40 Sometime This Year To go After KIIS,KBIG FM and KYSR FM
K-Earth will be an CHR/Pop But playing All The Hits of 80's,90's and all of Today Hits
Plus Now will Add Hollywood Hamiton Weekend Top 30 Pop Version
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EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Feb 10, 2005 21:31:04 GMT -5
Infinity is going to leave Los Angeles without an Oldies station? And considering Infinity CHR-Pop stations in Dallas-Fort Worth and Pittsburgh changed formats last year it would surprise me if that station changed to CHR-Pop.
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Post by Marv on Feb 11, 2005 0:38:03 GMT -5
Infinity is NOT going to blow off the VERY deep-pocketed listeners of what is arguably America's most prestigious oldies station, and HH will NEVER work as a morning man at an adult-oriented station.
KRTH is an absolute cash cow for Inifinity; no company can blow off a station which makes well over $300,000,000 in revenue a year.
Granted, there are other and better oldies stations in Southern California, but KRTH makes WAAAAAY too much money for Inifinity to flip.
Furthermore, the adults in this city have plenty of listening choices in LA; between KRTH, smooth-jazz trailblaxer KTWV, AC powerhouse KOST, Hot AC/Pop KBIG, and several other stations.
They're also not going to toss former WPLJ PD and current moning star Gary Bryan overboard either; the station exploded from 18th to SIXTH in morning drive three months after he arrived, and has been doing solidly ever since.
Going after KIIS-FM is out of the question; CHR/Pop stations target 12-24 listeners, so KIIS-FM doesn't compete with KRTH for listeners under any circumstances.
Ryan Seacrest hasn't done anything to boost KIIS-FM's morning drive ratings either, and that is the MOST important daypart for EVERY radio station out there.
KPWR has been a MAJOR reason for KIIS-FM's decline in terms of both ratings and national prestige, and they've yet to fix that; KPWR has now been #1 in LA for TEN straight books--the longest streak of that nature since KOST spent THREE years @ #12 in 1992, with a stuninning EIGHT share to boot!!!!
KIIS-FM isn't nearly the station it was 15 or 20 years ago, and has lost TONS of adult listeners since then, as have the vast majority of CHR/Pop outlets out there.
Your post sounds like the 'new' KRTH will be a copy of KBIG 104, which also makes ZERO sense.
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