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LA Radio Waves
by LA Radio Studio
Radio news, programming notes, history and technology are all featured in this weekly podcast hosted by LA radio veteran Mike Stark and LA radio columnist Richard Wagoner.
Episodes
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Radio Waves Podcast #382
Radio: September 8, 2023 Trends are funny. Funny in an interesting way, and often caused by forces not necessarily obvious. Such an example is top-40 radio, represented locally by KIIS (102.7 FM). The station that almost single-handedly brought the format back from its death in the early 1980s...
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Radio Waves Podcast #381
Radio Waves: September 1, 2023 Antenna Mania I recently had a chance to try out a really cool looking — at least in the opinion of some — antenna for my truck. The brand itself doesn’t matter much as these are all similar in design: flexible rubber with some sort of spiral wire inside to, as the...
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Radio Waves Podcast #380
Radio: August 11 Hearing Taylor Swift 24/7 wasn’t enough for you? You needed more? On the heals of Taylor 105.1 HD3, in which one of the HD radio streams tied to Go Country 105 plays nothing but Taylor Swift (you need a special HD radio to hear it; new cars often have them) came word that KIIS-FM...
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Radio Waves Podcast #379
Radio July 21, 2023 Billboard Magazine announced last week that — with her song “Karma” making it to #1 on the Pop Airplay chart — Taylor Swift has tied the record for the most number one songs by an artist in the history of the chart. “Karma” is her 11th #1 hit, and that record puts her in good...
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Radio Waves Podcast #378
Radio Waves: June 30, 2023 Remembering John Felz John Felz began his radio career in 1971, working in the mail room of KMPC (now KSPN, 710 AM). In the small-world department, one of his colleagues in the mail room was future KMET (now KTWV, 94.7 FM) newscaster and personality Pat “Paraquat”…
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Radio Waves Podcast #377
Radio: June 2, 2023 Whether it was the threat of legislative action that would require it, or just a reaction to simple lobbying by government officials, listeners and buyers alike, Ford announced that it has reversed its decision to remove AM radio capabilities from some gas-powered vehicles in...
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Radio Waves Podcast #376
Guest: Dave Beasing Radio Waves: May 12, 2023 Who do you love? Last week I spoke of an article from Inside Music Media’s Jerry Del Colliano in which he made a list of easily-fixed programming elements that turn listeners off. In case you missed it and want to take part, I am asking for your...
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Radio Waves Podcast #375
All Day, Every Day: American Top 40 I’ve never been a fan of the iHeart Radio app you can download to your smartphone. I always thought it too cumbersome to use compared to alternatives, and I don’t like the way iHeart restricts its own stations to its own app rather than allowing them to be...
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Radio Waves Podcast #374
Radio: April 21, 2023 InsideMusicMedia.Com’s Jerry Del Colliano posted a column on March 31 that — like many of his columns — could have been written by me. Great minds think alike, you know. Entitled The AM Station That Defies Failure, it tells the story of WABC/New York and the success it has…
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Radio Waves Podcast - Special Edition - Ken Levine
SPECIAL Podcast: We are re-publishing our career spanning interview with the multi-talented Ken Levine - who is featured in Richard's column this week. The Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters/Hollywood Media Professionals played host to a special “Coffee With …” interview as Master of Ceremonies and...
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Radio Waves Podcast #373
Radio: March 24, 2023 It is time to admit: executives of the major radio corporations - Audacy, iHeart, and Cumulus, primarily - have no faith in the future of the industry they control. There is no fighting from them against automakers who are removing AM from the dashboard of new cars, and the...
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Radio Waves Podcast #372
A VERY SPECIAL "Radio Waves": Join Richard and Mike for an interview with two of Emmis Communications' top execs - CEO and founder Jeff Smulyan and President of Programming Rick Cummings. In the full podcast, we discuss a variety of "radio" topics, Jeff's new book titled "Never Ride A Roller...
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Radio Waves Podcast #371
Radio: February 17, 2023 Last October, Adult Album rocker 88-5 … aka The SoCal Sound (KCSN/KSBR, 88.5 FM) … ruffled a few feathers by moving specialty programming out of “prime” hours, described as Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 7p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. General Manager...
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Radio Waves Podcast #370
Radio: February 10, 2023 The holiday ratings period - representing roughly the last four weeks of the year - were kind once again to KOST (103.5 FM), which dominated the local ratings by playing holiday music. Earning a 13.1 share of the audience , KOST earned almost three times the rating (2.79...
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Radio Waves Podcast #369
Radio: February 3 I got into a minor disagreement with my podcast partner and friend Michael Stark over a recent column in which I was trying to clarify something and perhaps ended up making things murkier. It all had to do with the the word “stale” and radio station KABC (790 AM). Going back a...
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Radio Waves Podcast #368
Radio: January 27, 2023 I have always had a pipe dream of buying a radio station or two … primarily AM — because I want to prove you can get listeners when you program and promote a station correctly — or maybe an AM-FM combo in a major market. I’d probably run top-40 or progressive rock on the…
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Radio Waves Podcast #367
Radio: January 13, 2023 To borrow a slogan from ABC-television in the 1970s - unfortunately when they cancelled my favorite game show, Split Second - It’s a brand new day on KFI (640 AM), and it all started January 3rd. Tim Conway made the announcement of the change on the last day of his told…
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Radio Waves Podcast #366
Special Guest: KFI's Mo Kelly who discusses his new weekday show. Radio: January 6, 2022 Wasn’t that you who told me you always wanted to own your own radio-related internet domain, so that you could direct your friends and family to your chain of online radio stations that you program out of…
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Radio Waves Podcast #365
Radio Waves: December 23, 2022 Holiday Treats More Christmas/holiday programming is on tap for you, if you’re willing to listen via apps or online … one of which has not been heard locally in years, if ever. In the early 1980s, Drake-Chenault produced a show called Christmas At Our House. It was...
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Radio Waves Podcast #364
Radio Waves: December 9, 2022 Country Christmas In keeping with my desire to discuss holiday music in every column every week of the year I bring you more holiday music news: as expected, Go Country 105 has temporarily become Your Christmas Destination once more. A rundown of the music played…
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Radio Waves Podcast #363
Radio: December 2, 2022 Leo Laporte — The Tech Guy — heard locally on KFI (640 AM) Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., announced his retirement from radio effective in December. His last live show will air December 18th. Technically it wasn’t Laporte who announced the retirement …...
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Radio Waves Podcast #362
Radio: November 25, 2022 One of thew absolute greats of radio — Wally Clark — passed away November 14th at the age of 84. Clark is one of the crew that brought KIIS-FM (102.7 FM) to prominence starting in 1982 when he was named General Manager of the station, then-owned by Gannett. Teamed up with...
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Radio Waves Podcast #361
Radio: November 18, 2022 KOSTing into the holidays I was just thinking that it is about time for KOST (103.5 FM) to start playing holiday music when I noticed: they are already playing holiday music. It began this year last Friday, November 11th at 8 a.m. Being that it is not even Thanksgiving…
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Radio Waves Podcast #360
Radio Waves: November 4, 2022 SoCal Sound Changes Apparently SoCal Sound (88.5 FM) General Manager Patrick Osburn has received an email or two … or 100, maybe 1000 … due to the decision to drop many of the station’s weekend programs, move others to new time slots, and expand the regular format to...
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Radio Waves Podcast #359
Radio October 28, 2022 Longtime KNX (1070 AM, 97.1 FM) anchor Dick Helton recently left the station to start his official retirement after 24 years at the all-news station. His last broadcast was October 14th, wrapping up a career that spanned over a half century — 53 years, to be exact —…
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Radio news, programming notes, history and technology are all featured in this weekly podcast hosted by LA radio veteran Mike Stark and LA radio columnist Richard Wagoner.
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