On the topic of Tulsa Radio, I remember KELI 1430, Rock of Tulsa, from the 1970s, and how they played this perfect mix of Rock, Pop and Disco: I mean, it was almost down to a science, it had something to offer everyone, it seemed. I remember their spaceship on Expo Square (they took that out before I even left Tulsa), and how me and a few friends, all of us inebriated, went up to look around. They didn't seem to mind our presence, though perhaps they were a little taken aback at first.
I remember how KTFX changed formats, how it played rock and disco, and on TV, they announced that they'd play the last record. I thought they were going out of business or something. After that date-I forget what it was-all they played was country.
KWEN, as I recall, was easy-listening and then switched to countrypolitan, and KBEZ just plain old bored me to tears. KBBJ 1300 played Big Band, and wasn't there a KWAB, which was R&B Cable radio?
I think KMOD is a pretty important part of current radio being as portions are nationally known. KMYZ is one of the top 10 in national rock stations currently and represents independent radio pretty well.
Anything clear channel is not really radio.
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
I think KMOD is a pretty important part of current radio being as portions are nationally known. KMYZ is one of the top 10 in national rock stations currently and represents independent radio pretty well.
Anything clear channel is not really radio.
I play KMOD on my computer, in fact.
KMOD has entertained Tulsa and the surrounding region for a long time.
KAKC was a very popular Top 40 AM station in Tulsa and the surrounding area. And like mr.jaynes I also remember KELI 1430.
Whenever 104.5 THE EDGE does their KMOD spoof and promises "not to play this KMOD song" I want them to finish the song and usually change the station.
Most new music sucks.
/I'm old
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
I think KMOD is a pretty important part of current radio being as portions are nationally known. KMYZ is one of the top 10 in national rock stations currently and represents independent radio pretty well.
Anything clear channel is not really radio.
KMOD is Clear Channel.
http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/StationSearch.aspx?RadioSearch=tulsa
There is nothing radio about Clear Channel. And there is nothing local about it. It is NOT programmed locally (although there are "yesmen" who work there who bear the title "program director"), and the money they earn from ad revenues are sent out of state.
KMOD - as well as the rest of the Cheap Channel chumps - is NOT a local radio station.
Yes, they have a few (emphasis on "few") people who record their vocal drops to masquerade as DJs, but they are not local. No more than carrying a few Tulsa souvenirs makes WalMart a local store.
KMOD is owned by them now, but anything of worth was around before clear channel bought them out. Clear Channel is famous for using 1 DJ for a dozen stations and dubbing in the occasional comment or weather report to pretend it's done locally.
I'm a bit old fashioned, I just like talk radio. I listen to 740 KRMG and 1170 am when I'm in Tulsa. I enjoy the Gwen Freeman radio show in the morns 6am till 9am. I'm a talk radio nut I guess. I also enjoy Rush L. and Sean Hannity, Mike Savage, and even Neil Bortz. Gwen Freeman is a local radio talk show and she rocks the Tulsa airwaves, her political views are right on.[:)]
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I'm a bit old fashioned, I just like talk radio. I listen to 740 KRMG and 1170 am when I'm in Tulsa. I enjoy the Gwen Freeman radio show in the morns 6am till 9am.
Gwen Freeman is a local radio talk show and she rocks the Tulsa airwaves, her political views are right on.[:)]
She has politcal views? I thought that whole show was about illegal immigration.
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Originally posted by swake
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Originally posted by sauerkraut
I'm a bit old fashioned, I just like talk radio. I listen to 740 KRMG and 1170 am when I'm in Tulsa. I enjoy the Gwen Freeman radio show in the morns 6am till 9am.
Gwen Freeman is a local radio talk show and she rocks the Tulsa airwaves, her political views are right on.[:)]
She has politcal views? I thought that whole show was about illegal immigration.
that channel always sounds like baying donkey along with Beavis and Butthead.
I liked the Marc Sherman show on KRMG, it was on weekday mornings (following John Ehrling) in the early 1990s. Later I think he moved to evenings before the show ended. He was intelligent and his show covered a broad spectrum of subjects. Some listeners thought he was a little too liberal, but a variety of opinions is a good thing. Nowadays talk radio is all conservative, all the time.
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
KMOD is owned by them now, but anything of worth was around before clear channel bought them out. Clear Channel is famous for using 1 DJ for a dozen stations and dubbing in the occasional comment or weather report to pretend it's done locally.
How exactly do they do that?
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
KMOD is owned by them now, but anything of worth was around before clear channel bought them out. Clear Channel is famous for using 1 DJ for a dozen stations and dubbing in the occasional comment or weather report to pretend it's done locally.
How exactly do they do that?
It is a process called "voice-tracking."
All the music is, of course, saved in computer files. Announcers (who can be anywhere in the world) are emailed the playlist, along with scripts containing promotional announcements, limited PSAs, and even contests. The announcers simply record the music outro's and everything else he/she would say during a live show. When the computer plays back everything, you hear the song, the announcer and everything sounds as if it were live and local, even though it was recorded as much as a week earlier from God knows where.
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Originally posted by marc
I liked the Marc Sherman show on KRMG, it was on weekday mornings (following John Ehrling) in the early 1990s. Later I think he moved to evenings before the show ended. He was intelligent and his show covered a broad spectrum of subjects. Some listeners thought he was a little too liberal, but a variety of opinions is a good thing. Nowadays talk radio is all conservative, all the time.
Marc was a good host and conversationalist. I miss him and Ann Williams.
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Originally posted by billintulsa
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
KMOD is owned by them now, but anything of worth was around before clear channel bought them out. Clear Channel is famous for using 1 DJ for a dozen stations and dubbing in the occasional comment or weather report to pretend it's done locally.
How exactly do they do that?
It is a process called "voice-tracking."
All the music is, of course, saved in computer files. Announcers (who can be anywhere in the world) are emailed the playlist, along with scripts containing promotional announcements, limited PSAs, and even contests. The announcers simply record the music outro's and everything else he/she would say during a live show. When the computer plays back everything, you hear the song, the announcer and everything sounds as if it were live and local, even though it was recorded as much as a week earlier from God knows where.
So, in effect, radio is pretty much automated rather than live?
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So, in effect, radio is pretty much automated rather than live?
I don't know that
all stations in Tulsa do this, but probably the two biggest users of voice tracking along with mostly automated programming would be Clear Channel and Cox. Even though this is just two companies, they collectively represent 12 pf Tulsa's radio stations (give or take a station or two).
More than likely, almost all of Tulsa's stations use automation to some extent (e.g. weekend programming to eliminate staffed positions).
The two independents I know of are 94.1 and 104.5. 94.1 does some prerecording, 104.5 is managed live, but they will queue up a few songs then run to the bathroom or something.
94.1 has become my favorite station. Lots of music and no mindless chatter. 103.3 is my next favorite.
What other formats has 94.1 been?
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
Most new music sucks.
I think the last year that I heard actually good music on a consistent basis was back in the 1980s: specifically 1980-1985 and 1987-1989. Talent and style and image, you didn't have one without the other two. Nowadays, there really isn't much that I can say that I like, not too many people with genuine innate talent and not much beyond the gangsta image that so many are trying to convey.
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
Most new music sucks.
I think the last year that I heard actually good music on a consistent basis was back in the 1980s: specifically 1980-1985 and 1987-1989. Talent and style and image, you didn't have one without the other two. Nowadays, there really isn't much that I can say that I like, not too many people with genuine innate talent and not much beyond the gangsta image that so many are trying to convey.
I'd tend to say those years where generally a black hole. MTV era killed all the good groups from the 70's like Heart, Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead and replace them with Flock of Seagulls.
Yeah, MTV changed things, mostly for the bad. I remember Christopher Cross, a fairly talented singer-songwriter who had hits with "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme". Later I read that MTV pretty much killed his career because he was a big guy and didn't have the cool rock star look.
KCMA is the answer to me question, and later The Hawk.
Cross was EZ listening chick muzak in a hairmetal market is what killed him. And I would rather hear the guitar solo from 'I Ran' on an endless loop while being gnawed on by wombats than hear Zep's Black Dog on KMOD ever ever again.
Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, and yes, even Culture Club-the music of the 1980s and yes, even 1970s music, it's all good.
I thought the "grunge" era produced some decent rock music for three or four years, starting in 1991. Nirvana's Nevermind and its followup In Utero were pretty creative. The era also saw the popular rise of Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, as well as a number of bands with lead singers trying to sound like the lead singer of Pearl Jam.
The grunge era stuff is obviously not as great as The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc, but it sure seems better than the stuff that is around today.
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
Most new music sucks.
I think the last year that I heard actually good music on a consistent basis was back in the 1980s: specifically 1980-1985 and 1987-1989. Talent and style and image, you didn't have one without the other two. Nowadays, there really isn't much that I can say that I like, not too many people with genuine innate talent and not much beyond the gangsta image that so many are trying to convey.
Hogwash. There is fantastic music produced each and every year. Problem is...you won't hear it on the radio and certainly not on Tulsa radio.
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Originally posted by charky
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
Most new music sucks.
I think the last year that I heard actually good music on a consistent basis was back in the 1980s: specifically 1980-1985 and 1987-1989. Talent and style and image, you didn't have one without the other two. Nowadays, there really isn't much that I can say that I like, not too many people with genuine innate talent and not much beyond the gangsta image that so many are trying to convey.
Hogwash. There is fantastic music produced each and every year. Problem is...you won't hear it on the radio and certainly not on Tulsa radio.
I must stand by my statement-but with a few exceptions. I do find some relatively recent acts as good at what they do. I must say I think that Justin Timberlake is posessed of 100% innate talent: he writes and co-produces his own stuff, he can sing, can play instruments, and his dance moves are all his (did anybody catch him on SNL?). Christina Aguilera: good voice, a set of pipes that can take any song and make it that much better. I also like Macy Gray, Beyonce and Outkast.
To explain my position, so much of the music found today has a very stale, corporate feel to it, as if it was manufactured and packaged rather than naturally developed. So when I find an act with innate talent and style and substance to it-the real deal-I'm all over it.
And no, I could never stand Madonna.
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
I must stand by my statement-but with a few exceptions. I do find some relatively recent acts as good at what they do. I must say I think that Justin Timberlake is posessed of 100% innate talent: he writes and co-produces his own stuff, he can sing, can play instruments, and his dance moves are all his (did anybody catch him on SNL?). Christina Aguilera: good voice, a set of pipes that can take any song and make it that much better. I also like Macy Gray, Beyonce and Outkast.
To explain my position, so much of the music found today has a very stale, corporate feel to it, as if it was manufactured and packaged rather than naturally developed. So when I find an act with innate talent and style and substance to it-the real deal-I'm all over it.
And no, I could never stand Madonna.
If you stick to what is force fed to you by MTV...VH1 or typical FM radio fare...then sure I follow you.
As has always been the case...the "good" stuff ain't gonna get airplay.
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Originally posted by charky
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Originally posted by mr.jaynes
I must stand by my statement-but with a few exceptions. I do find some relatively recent acts as good at what they do. I must say I think that Justin Timberlake is posessed of 100% innate talent: he writes and co-produces his own stuff, he can sing, can play instruments, and his dance moves are all his (did anybody catch him on SNL?). Christina Aguilera: good voice, a set of pipes that can take any song and make it that much better. I also like Macy Gray, Beyonce and Outkast.
To explain my position, so much of the music found today has a very stale, corporate feel to it, as if it was manufactured and packaged rather than naturally developed. So when I find an act with innate talent and style and substance to it-the real deal-I'm all over it.
And no, I could never stand Madonna.
If you stick to what is force fed to you by MTV...VH1 or typical FM radio fare...then sure I follow you.
As has always been the case...the "good" stuff ain't gonna get airplay.
The corporate stuff will fade away; those with talent will be around for a while. I set my playlist, not MTV or corporate radio.