Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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Fresh Listen, KZFN/Moscow, ID
Last week, I wrote a rather pointed commentary about Inland Northwest Broadcasting’s KZFN, Z-Fun 106 Moscow, ID. This week, let’s take a fresh listen to the station. I first heard KZFN on an orchestra trip to the University of Idaho in 2009. At the time, I thought the CHR format had to be big and…
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How Not to Stream Your Station
As I write this, I’m listening to an aircheck of Inland Northwest Broadcasting’s KZFN, Z-Fun 106, from Moscow, ID. This aircheck exists because one of the people I serve on Washington Council of the Blind’s communications committee lives on the Washington side of that small market in Clarkston, some 30 miles away from the station,…
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KJR August 14, 2014
I actually did record the format change of 95.7 from KJR with the end of the Bob Rivers show and launch of the Jet, but a longer version of that is available, so I will not be posting that here. Instead, you’ll get an aircheck from a few days later, after I had returned from…
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KJR July 23, 2003
For the last two weeks, we’ve been listening to KJR-FM as heard in October 2002. That was supposed to be one aircheck, but when I received it, I found that it was actually two airchecks that had been combined into one file. So, I asked for this one in a subsequent trade in hopes of…
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KJR October 31, 2002
As promised last week, here’s the KJR as heard the next day from what was posted last week. I wasn’t even planning on receiving this, but when I got the aircheck that I posted last week, what was listed as a 79 minute aircheck of the station from October 30, 2002 was actually a 42…
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KJR October 30, 2002
This is the aircheck I’ve been promising for the last couple of weeks. First off, a bit of history on this frequency. When New Century Media acquired the 95.7 frequency in 1994, they flipped the station to all 70s, later evolving into a standard Classic Hits, as 95.7 KJR-FM. In 2000, that format was dropped…
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The last normal WPLJ aircheck to exist
No, there’s no updated WKQI aircheck this week, as I was kind of busy and forgot to record it, and the KJR aircheck I teased last week is actually coming next week because I forgot I had to post this one. It’s so late because I forgot to scope it ahead of time. This aircheck…
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WKQI July 14, 2016
I can’t remember why I recorded this clip of Detroit’s Channel 95.5 WKQI, but I punched up the Detroit receiver on Global Tuners and decided to record it one Thursday afternoon. At the time, I was trying to get as many airchecks of heritage stations as possible. WKQI adopted its current brand in 1997, but…
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KBFF June 4, 2024
I generally don’t record for longer than about 90 minutes, but I’m trying to equal lengths of airchecks Mark has sent me in various trades. That’s why this aircheck and two others run 160 minutes unscoped. This is the first of those, recorded on June 4, 2024. This is the same shift heard last week,…
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The station that got industry attention for using AI
Yes, that’s the station we’ve been listening to for the last several weeks, KBFF. This is the station that gained significant attention in June 2023 when it became the first station to use an AI DJ. Unfortunately, I didn’t get an aircheck of those initial days, but I did get one in February 2024, which…