Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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Questions I have surrounding the future of radio formats
We’re actually already getting down to the end of the posts I want to keep from the Radio Crytic. Part of the reason this post is late is because I didn’t really have a plan as to what I wanted to post today, so this evening I sat down to take a look at what…
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KLSY August 16, 1996
Throughout most of my early remembered life, I always thought KLSY was the better of the two Adult Contemporary stations in Seattle, though I wouldn’t learn that term until I started following the radio industry in 2008. By that time, 92.5 had been Rhythmic AC for over two years. Today, I can’t find a station…
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Seattle’s recent changes
Unlike my commentaries up until now, this one isn’t one that was planned in advance as a move from the Radio crytic, but a commentary on recent developments in the market I called home for 26 and a half years. Last week, Hubbard brought back country to their struggling AAA 98.9 KPNW, which had been…
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WWKA February 23, 2017
When I got a CC Witness+ for Christmas in 2016, I figured I’d be doing a lot more recording with it than I have so far. I had actually asked for it the year before, but it wasn’t available. This was its first real test, as I asked my parents to take it on their…
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Updated thoughts on iTunes Tagging
Unlike my posts here so far, this post will not be a direct copy of a Radio Crytic post with only a few minor edits, but rather an updated version of a page on that site. I can’t remember why I even went with a page for this content, but my guess is that because…
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WNOW April 29, 2014
In 2009, CBS Radio kicked off the second CHR boom with the flip of talk station KLSX to a new Amp Radio brand. Ironically, that station was also the last of the Amp stations to go away, and after a few months as 97.1 Now, the station flipped to a simulcast of all news KNX.…
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Looking at my favorite stations of 2017-18
The below post appeared on the Radio Crytic in early February 2019. This is also the review I referenced a couple weeks ago when talking about Y101 and its then recent flip to Classic Rock. Fortunately, WLOV is still around. I plan to do a couple of comparison listens of stations I’ve been listening to…
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KGON March 19, 2024
As I teased last week, we hear a normal aircheck of KGON this week, recorded just a few days ago. In fact, I just got done scoping it, as I really haven’t had time to until now. As we hear, their 50th anniversary celebration is a year-long event. This also begins a chapter in my…
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Completing my radio listening project
As with the posts from the last two weeks, this post originally appeared on The Radio Crytic on September 1, 2021. Next week will be the review of my favorite stations from 2018, then I’m not sure yet what I’ll do about the rest of the posts from that blog. As promised a couple weeks…
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KGON celebrates 50 years on the air
As I said last week, in addition to going for legal IDs to put up on Tophour, I had also been looking to record stations that had been around a long time. In mid-January, we got word that on February 1, KGON would celebrate its 50th anniversary on the air on February 1. So, here’s…