Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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KVRQ July 1, 2016
As promised last week, this week we have a much higher quality aircheck of Seattle’s at the time new Rock 98.9. The station would eventually staff up and abruptly change imaging voices, but I don’t have any tape of that. Next week, I’ll be back the day after Christmas with the station a year or…
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KVRQ June 16, 2016
I’m not sure how I forgot that I had airchecks of this short-lived rock station, but here’s the first. It’s probably because neither of them came out how I intended. The quality of this one is less than ideal because it was recorded on an old cassette I had lying around, and they are both…
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KLCK January 14, 2014
Last week, we heard Click 98.9, still under its old KWJZ calls, shortly after launching the Click format. This week, we’re taking a listen to how the station has evolved since then. Throughout its 6+ year run, the format was tweaked multiple times, until it was eventually given up on. Next week, we’ll hear the…
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KWJZ January 7, 2011
The Smooth Jazz format had been declining for years by late December 2010. It was then that Seattle’s smooth jazz station, KWJZ, flipped to Modern AC Click 98.9 two days after Christmas without warning. I was told by a friend later that members of the station’s loyal listener club did receive an email on the…
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KKZX July 26, 2012
Sorry this is late. I got together with a friend on Friday and was tired by the time I got back here. Last week, we heard KKZX from July 25, 2012. The legal you hear in that aircheck was 4:00 P.M. Right away, I noticed that the legal had changed, and so had the clock.…
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KKZX July 25, 2012
Back in 2012, I was mainly focused on recording IDs for Tophour.com, which is why some of these early airchecks are so short. Even though KKZX, along with the rest of the Spokane market, had just been updated the previous November, the KKZX and KEZE recordings were extremely distorted, so my objective was to get…
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WDZH July 17, 2016
The CBS Amp Radio brand never did much for me, even though rhythmic-leaning CHR is typically what I gravitated towards. That being said, I had heard from a few sources that Amp Radio 98.7 in Detroit also used the Reel World 1 jingle package I liked. Despite lots of stations dropping it in more recent…
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First Listen, LaX96.1
Last week, I shared a final listen of KXXO under its former Mix 96.1 format. The below is a guest commentary from Serena Kyle, with whom I host the weekly radio show Clearing the Static. It’s been my personal experience that, with no offense intended to Spanish speaking radio listeners, most Hispanic radio, IMO, can…
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KUPL February 4, 2025
As I said last week, today’s clip comes from the same station we’ve been listening to, 98.7 KUPL, still known as The Bull. Although the lineup has changed since this was recorded, the imaging is still similar.
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Final Listen, KXXO Olympia, WA
KXXO was always the station that would be on in the car on family trips to the southwest part of Washington, which were fairly often as my mom grew up in that area. Even though the station had a huge signal that could have easily been a Seattle rimshot from day one, the focus was…