What has happened to Kool 106? They're playing freaking Christmas music and their website shows ABSOLUTELEY NO SIGN of the "Kool 106" that was there yesterday. Where's Kevan Seal? This is not good. Is my station gone?
I'm really upset. Kool 106 is (was?) the best station in town. ONLY place where you could hear 80s top 40 and MTV-era non-mainstream 80s music. Their website is now "Christmas 106" and there is no sign of Kevan Seal or Classic top-40 or anything. This is jacked up. It was just a few months ago that I "discovered" Kool 106 when turning the dial on my radio at work and I suddenly heard Echo and the Bunnymen. I could barely contain myself!
This was a station that had community involvement, one-on-one interaction with its listeners and played what those listeners wanted and asked to hear. If it's gone - if Kevan Seal is gone - as it appears to be, I'm gonna make sure they hear about it from me.
They've done this for years. I used to listen to 106 when they played 50s & 60s with a touch of 70s. Around Christmas time they would do Christmas songs until about New Year's Day. Then they went back to normal. The end of October does seem a bit early.
I haven't listened to 106.1 since they changed from oldies (real oldies) to crappy top-40-quasi-old-stuff. So they since changed to (shudder) top-40 80's music?
Quote from: AngieBrumley on October 31, 2009, 10:08:43 AM
This was a station that had community involvement, one-on-one interaction with its listeners and played what those listeners wanted and asked to hear.
Now it's just a robotic station behind the Clear Channel Iron Curtain where someone in Austin or New York decides what's fit for Okies to listen to.
Quote from: buckeye on October 31, 2009, 10:35:42 AM
I haven't listened to 106.1 since they changed from oldies (real oldies) to crappy top-40-quasi-old-stuff. So they since changed to (shudder) top-40 80's music?
I really liked it the old way...now when I need an oldies fix I turn into 93.5 Chrome.
It was weird the other day to hear Jane's Addiction on 106.1!
WOW!! www.kbez.com
Looks like a new station is coming and Kevan Seal is out. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/66226/seal-exits-as-kqll-goes-christmas-kbez-also
I started a Facebook page to boycott the station - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=191383943618&v=wall&ref=mf
I know it won't bring the format back, but it makes me feel better. :)
Can't please everybody.....
Love Christmas music.....
I would just as soon they switched in July til New Year's Day....
Quote from: Kashmir on October 31, 2009, 02:32:02 PM
I really liked it the old way...now when I need an oldies fix I turn into 93.5 Chrome.
It was weird the other day to hear Jane's Addiction on 106.1!
Thanks, I was a 106.1 listener, I thought I was just SOL until I saw this. I think we also need an all 80's station by the way.
I liked the "classic top-40" format...
I was still planning on emailing to complain about the Christmas Music..
This news sucks.
I hope Kevin Seal finds a new gig in Tulsa.
Here at work we switched between 106.1 and 94.1 because the formats were similar.
I agree that it is a mistake to do the format change with no notice whatsoever, but upper execs have to answer to no one.
I have always thought that a all 80s station would work.
Bring back 1980 through 1989 video channel also. Both could be called M-80s(Get it ?)
So for now its 94.1 F.M.
radio in this city is especially terrible.
I think some other station in the 93s or 94s is on 100% xmas music now, my GF had it programmed in her radio and its all xmas music.
Do we really need two stations playing xmas music 24/7 for the next month and a half.
You know things are bad when you find yourself listening to the smooth jazz station.
KWGS is really the only thing worth listening to.
Quote from: DolfanBob on November 03, 2009, 09:52:26 AM
I have always thought that a all 80s station would work.
Bring back 1980 through 1989 video channel also. Both could be called M-80s(Get it ?)
So for now its 94.1 F.M.
I did my time at middle school and high school through the 80's.
I've got some 80's stations on satellite radio.
I'm not sure you guys miss 80's music as much as you think you do.
I praise grunge for putting an end to the horribleness that was 80's radio music.
Tulsa is a terrible radio town and has been for long time. Probably explains why it was such a successful MTV launch city. I now have SIRIUS and no longer have to suffer with local radio. That said, Christmas tunes starting on Oct. 31 is just wrong.
I didn't realize that people even listened to radio anymore for music, considering the vast amount of higher-quality and more personalized options that are available, such as personal music devices (iPod/Zune/etc.), CDs, satellite services (Sirius XM), and flash storage.
I suppose I could see listening to the radio for news/talk radio or sports broadcasting.
Quote from: TURobY on November 03, 2009, 01:24:02 PM
I didn't realize that people even listened to radio anymore for music, considering the vast amount of higher-quality and more personalized options that are available, such as personal music devices (iPod/Zune/etc.), CDs, satellite services (Sirius XM), and flash storage.
I suppose I could see listening to the radio for news/talk radio or sports broadcasting.
Given that every option you gave costs money, and radio is free, yes.
I mainly listen in my car and when I do I listen to my mp3's, podcasts, audiobooks and to internet radio (like satellite radio, but without the monthly fee) as well as KRMG in the morning and sometimes KMYZ on the way home.
So even I, in the 99.9th Geek percentile, listen to local radio to some degree.
Quote from: DTowner on November 03, 2009, 11:54:36 AM
Tulsa is a terrible radio town and has been for long time. Probably explains why it was such a successful MTV launch city. I now have SIRIUS and no longer have to suffer with local radio. That said, Christmas tunes starting on Oct. 31 is just wrong.
Love it....you are cutting edge personalizing your choices with the deep and various choices on SIRIUS!
Ch. 65 and you might hear FOTD's theme song. And there's Howard Stern, sports, real news, and just everything ever great in music. What a mass of choices! Local radio will be obsolete once SIRIUS figures a way to localfi a station. The churches and other fear peddlers will buy up those available open FM and AM channels. Watch.
Sad thing is that .mp3, HD radio, Siruis/XM and most internet radio are not nearly the fidelity of good FM. Listen to 88.7 on an HD radio side-by-side with a decent FM tuner. No comparison, the HD is full of really gnarly artifacts.
I wonder what is the issue with HD not actually being superior to FM. I wonder if a full on Digital signal in HD would be better. Or is it an issue with using hybrid broadcasters..
Quote from: stageidea on November 04, 2009, 11:55:33 AM
I wonder what is the issue with HD not actually being superior to FM.
Over-compression.
If it's artifacts, then it could just as easy be poor signal strength.
Quote from: FOTD on November 03, 2009, 03:40:00 PM
Love it....you are cutting edge personalizing your choices with the deep and various choices on SIRIUS!
Ch. 65 and you might hear FOTD's theme song. And there's Howard Stern, sports, real news, and just everything ever great in music. What a mass of choices! Local radio will be obsolete once SIRIUS figures a way to localfi a station. The churches and other fear peddlers will buy up those available open FM and AM channels. Watch.
They aren't out of the woods just yet. Obviously, subscription TV (cable/sat) has worked out well, subscription radio, even with all it's advantages has done nothing but struggle. Let's see what Liberty Media does with it, have they started packaging it with their television services?
HD radio suffers from a startlingly low bitrate that's further castrated by additional streams (KWTU has 3). Ibuiqity says their algorithm compensates for said bitrate, but I've searched the pudding to no avail.
Quote from: DTowner on November 03, 2009, 11:54:36 AM
Tulsa is a terrible radio town and has been for long time. Probably explains why it was such a successful MTV launch city. I now have SIRIUS and no longer have to suffer with local radio. That said, Christmas tunes starting on Oct. 31 is just wrong.
I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.
Quote from: sauerkraut on November 06, 2009, 01:21:54 PM
I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.
If they have Laura Ingraham on it, I consider it bad.
:o
Quote from: sauerkraut on November 06, 2009, 01:21:54 PM
I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.
That's pretty much what we just lost with KQLL/(no longer) KOOL 106.
My prediction is January 1 we will be hearing Rush Limbaugh on KQLL. The company that syndicates Rush is a subsidiary of Clear Channel. I say they will pull Rush from KRMG and start a new conservative talk station. As if we need another.
Quote from: AngieBrumley on November 06, 2009, 04:50:43 PM
That's pretty much what we just lost with KQLL/(no longer) KOOL 106.
My prediction is January 1 we will be hearing Rush Limbaugh on KQLL. The company that syndicates Rush is a subsidiary of Clear Channel. I say they will pull Rush from KRMG and start a new conservative talk station. As if we need another.
Can't imagine why they would, they've already got him on the FM dial at 102.3 for the KRMG simulcast.
Quote from: Conan71 on November 06, 2009, 05:17:14 PM
Can't imagine why they would, they've already got him on the FM dial at 102.3 for the KRMG simulcast.
KRMG is Cox. KQLL is Clear Channel. Clear Channel owns Rush. Do the math.
Quote from: sauerkraut on November 06, 2009, 01:21:54 PM
IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.
I stopped listening to current music with DISCO. Give me moldy oldies (50s thru
early 70s) or Classical.
I hate the format change as well. My wife and I loved listening to the AT 40's on the weekends. Took us both back to our youth. I listened to Kevan Seal every morning and Kool 106.1 all day at my desk at work.
I sent an email a several days ago to the new program director Don Christi, per the website. I know he read the email because I got the read receipt back, but there was no response.
Shows how much they care about the listeners.
I found an email address for Kevan. I sent one to him too. I hope he reads it. He is missed!!!
Yes, we still listen to radio. Not everyone is owns mp3, etc. LONG LIVE RADIO!!!
Clear Channel has registered genxtulsa.com. Apparently a clone of the gen-x station in Louisville - genxlouisville.com. No local presence, pre-programmed garbage. No surprise. KQLL still sucks.
Quote from: AngieBrumley on December 13, 2009, 06:04:51 PM
Clear Channel has registered genxtulsa.com. Apparently a clone of the gen-x station in Louisville - genxlouisville.com. No local presence, pre-programmed garbage. No surprise. KQLL still sucks.
That was to usher in their new 90's format.
They kicked it off with a song by Kurt Cobain, the artist who blew his brains out.
Im sure there's nothing prophetically ironic there...
How can "alternative" music be alternative if it's become so mainstream with multiple stations in each market?
Quote from: Conan71 on December 29, 2009, 02:33:33 PM
How can "alternative" music be alternative if it's become so mainstream with multiple stations in each market?
Just a label that stuck. There are a lot of other words that have meanings totally different than when I last bought a dictionary.
Well Im done then.
Possibly the worst decade of music ever. I know that Im sounding like my Father, but the 80s at least had bands with talent.
Music I could listen to without having to turn down the sound.
Screaming to two chords and unable to understand the lyrics is not talent to me. Not even drunk or high.
Quote from: AngieBrumley on December 13, 2009, 06:04:51 PM
KQLL still sucks.
KQLL doesn't exist anymore, it's now KTGX
Quote from: sgrizzle on December 30, 2009, 10:43:27 AM
KQLL doesn't exist anymore, it's now KTGX
OK, KTGX sucks.
Quote from: DolfanBob on December 30, 2009, 10:36:44 AM
Well Im done then.
Possibly the worst decade of music ever. I know that Im sounding like my Father, but the 80s at least had bands with talent.
Music I could listen to without having to turn down the sound.
Screaming to two chords and unable to understand the lyrics is not talent to me. Not even drunk or high.
I listened this morning and what I heard was this:
Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina
Some generic female ballad whose name I forgot
Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
Alanis Morrisette - You gotta know
Ads were mainly national canned stuff but they did have local ads from River Spirit Casino and Mark Miller Pontiac?/GMC and no DJ but a canned traffic report that was done locally.
I'm glad to be able to hear '90s music again. I missed the fun and silliness of power-pop and Euro-dance, and I gladly welcome it back. Some of the other '90s music (Backstreet Boys, Aerosmith, and so on...) I could do without.
Quote from: TURobY on December 30, 2009, 10:48:43 AM
I'm glad to be able to hear '90s music again. I missed the fun and silliness of power-pop and Euro-dance, and I gladly welcome it back. Some of the other '90s music (Backstreet Boys, Aerosmith, and so on...) I could do without.
You just put Backstreet Boys and Aerosmith in the same bucket.
That kind of statement generally not good for your own wellbeing..
Quote from: DolfanBob on December 30, 2009, 10:36:44 AM
Possibly the worst decade of music ever. I know that Im sounding like my Father, but the 80s at least had bands with talent.
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Quote from: sgrizzle on December 30, 2009, 10:48:05 AM
I listened this morning and what I heard was this:
Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina
Some generic female ballad whose name I forgot
Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
Alanis Morrisette - You gotta know
I've heard of Bon Jovi. That is all.
Pat. Ya got me. Thats some funny pics.
Oh...What was that hit song by Trump ?
Quote from: DolfanBob on December 30, 2009, 02:28:42 PM
Pat. Ya got me. Thats some funny pics.
Oh...What was that hit song by Trump ?
You didn't know he was the original keyboardist for Flock of Seagulls?
He was, but then he ran. He ran so far away.
From morningmouth:
Billy Madison Returns To Tulsa: Former KTBT (The Beat) Tulsa morning host Billy Madison returns to his former competitor KHTT (106.9 K-Hits). He'll be joined by Derek, Chubs and Nard. Madison most recently handled mornings at KDGE (102.1 The Edge) Dallas. With his return, Scotty Wylde and Lindsey Bauer exit.
(as in laid off).
It really is not that bad. When they first started up I tried listening to it and did not like it. The past two weeks, me and my co worker have been listening to it. And we both agree, They play a large variety of music from pop to rock to rap and back.
Very few ads and no annoying fake laughs at bad jokes or chit chat about nothing.
Closest to XM or Sirius radio for free as you an get. Try it before they ruin it by bringing back the blah, blah, blah.
I'll stick with the Big Mad Morning Show (92.1)
Billy is a fake. His "gay" bits are old and played out. I do look forward to on air drama that will unfold over the next few weeks.
Quote from: sgrizzle on December 30, 2009, 10:52:29 AM
You just put Backstreet Boys and Aerosmith in the same bucket.
That kind of statement generally not good for your own wellbeing..
Backstreet Boys, Aerosmith, Ace of Base, Right Said Fred, They Might Be Giants, Phish....... okay, my sense of well being just took a hit....