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A Mightier Return For 1090 San Diego Confirmed

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 12:40 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/1...090-san-diego/



Our original Domain Insight report regarding the planned relaunch of The
Mighty 1090 XEPRS Rosarito/San Diego from April 9 (see below) has been
confirmed by planned operator Bill Hagen in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Hagen told the newspaper that he has signed a five year lease of the
station from owner Andreas Bichara. The station will be rebranded as The
Mightier 1090 featuring a mix of Sports and Lifestyle Talk.

The Union-Tribune also confirms that former XEPRS afternoon hosts Scott
Kaplan and Billy Ray Smiths Scott BR Show will return to their former 3pm
timeslot upon the relaunch of the station. Hagen gave the newspaper a vague
Summer, if not sooner timeframe for the relaunch stating, “We have to a ton
of work to do. We just wanted to announce that it is coming back.�

Original Report 4/9: One year ago tomorrow, Broadcast Company of the
Americas Sports Mighty 1090 XEPRS Rosarito/San Diego was evicted by the
stations license holder Andreas Bichara. While the programming would remain
for a few weeks longer as a webcaster, the plug was pulled on the entire
company at the end of April 2019.

An ad agency may be on its way to resurrecting the Sports format with a
Mightier brand name. Bill Hagens Out The Window Advertising, which focuses
on ad campaigns for car dealers in the southwest, is teasing the launch of
The Mightier 1090 following the recent domain registrations of
Mightier1090.com and TheMightier1090.com. A splash page on each features a
tweaked version of XEPRSs old logo above the San Diego skyline.

On his podcast yesterday former XEPRS host Scott Kaplan, who previously
attempted to resurrect the station himself, noted that Hagen has a signed
deal in place to relaunch the station and he is talking with him about ways
to get back on the air and build a new brand.

Kaplan stated, Im in daily conversations with a gentleman here in town who
has a deal now in place with the same people I was negotiating with last
year down in Mexico. The deal is signed, sealed and delivered. This guy is
ready to put 1090 back on the air in San Diego and Ive been working with
him to try and figure out if I want to commit this much time, energy,
effort, people, resources, etc. But as were talking more and getting down
to it we want to add radio to what we do. We dont want to stop doing what
were doing and just go back to radio, we want to add the radio airwaves.
Its a year later and were talking about this thing still. He later added,
Hes not trying to run this in a traditional way. He doesnt have millions of
dollars to go pay peoples salaries and put together health benefits. Hes
really thinking about can we get on the air as fast as possible and rebuild
not THE brand, but build a new brand just using the transmission that we
use with names that you might know.




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Westwood One To Debut Weekends With Roula

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 12:23 PM PDT
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Cumulus Media CHR 104.1 KRBE Houston morning co-host Roula Christie will
host a weekly syndicated show for Westwood One starting the weekend of May
2.

Weekends with Roula will be targeted towards CHR and Hot AC stations and
will launch on 50+ stations including KRBE and Q99.7 WWWQ Atlanta. It will
replace The Jayde Donovan Show hosted by the former WPOI Tampa and WPLJ New
York morning host.

Christie has co-hosted mornings at KRBE with Ryan Chase since 2006. She
began her career at the station in 1995. She co-hosted mornings at Q102
WIOQ Philadelphia from 2000-2003 and spent three years with Chase at Mix
96.5 KHMX Houston prior to joining KRBE.

CUMULUS MEDIA’s Westwood One announces the launch of Weekends with Roula, a
three-hour-long weekend syndicated radio show hosted by Roula Christie.
Weekends with Roula will launch on Saturday, May 2, 2020 on more than 50
radio stations, including two top 10 markets: KRBE-FM/Houston, and
WWWQ-FM/Atlanta.

Weekends with Roula, is designed for both Hot AC and CHR stations, and
targets Women 25 to 54. Her content is upbeat and motivational as she helps
listeners find fun in the madness of juggling work and family. Roula mixes
pop culture and entertainment news with hilarious conversations between her
kids and her mom.

Roula Christie will continue to anchor The Roula Ryan Show, one of the
most-listened-to morning shows in Texas, which airs mornings on 104.1
KRBE-FM/Houston.

“Roula is a star in Houston, and now it’s time to showcase her talent on a
national scale� said Suzanne Grimes, EVP Marketing, CUMULUS MEDIA and
President, Westwood One. “With her effervescent and accessible personality,
women across the country will find it easy to relate to Roula as they
balance family, work, and personal time together.�

“I am OVER THE MOON at the opportunity to be nationally syndicated with
Westwood One for Weekends with Roula! I hope to connect with the rest of
America the way I have been able to connect with my Greater Houston-area
audience,� said Roula. “I’m so grateful to my husband, Tasos, and children
for providing me with material! I’m so excited!�

About Roula Christie

Roula Christie is one fast-talking Greek girl, who’s all about family and
fantastic fun. A Houston native, Christie worked her way through school at
her familys Houston restaurant. While on a food delivery to a radio station
in 1995, Christie was invited into the studio to watch the DJ work. After
that night, she knew that radio was the career path for her. After five
years at KRBE in Houston, Christie spent three years at Q102 Radio in
Philadelphia on their morning show. In 2003, Christie returned to Houston
to host morning show Roula Ryan. Weekends with Roula is Christie’s first
nationally syndicated show.

About Weekends with Roula

Weekends with Roula is available via satellite receiver, web or FTP
automated download. For more information on Weekends with Roula, contact
Todd Alan at (212) 735-1107 or .


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In a Beloved CHR Year, What Songs Got Left Behind?

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 11:45 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/ross/186317...t-left-behind/


Looking at the top 100 songs of 1982 and determining which songs were most
lost to time — based on their strength at the time vs. their radio
availability now — turned out to be just the act of geekery that housebound
Ross on Radio readers needed. It was also a formula readers found
surprisingly reasonable. Do another year, they said. And it was easy to
decide what year should be next.


1982 was a rebound year for Top 40. The most forgotten songs were largely
from the first, more AC’ish half of the year, with even the relatively
rockin’ highlights (“The Other Woman,� “Make a Move on Me,� “Pac Man
Fever�) forgotten once “Don’t You Want Me,� “Tainted Love,� and
“Abracadabra� kicked in. Other truly lost 1982 songs are thought of more as
‘70s soft-rock holdovers “I’ve Never Been to Me� was literally a reissued
1977 obscurity.
But 1984 was a banner year for the CHR revival — remembered as the
strongest, most-balanced year in a golden era that lasted until roughly
late 1985. It was a year that launched multiple “hot-rockin’,
flamethrowin’� clones of WHTZ (Z100) New York. Playlists went from 30 to 40
records, because even the stiffs were thought to be pretty good. There were
plenty of major-artist smashes — “When Doves Cry,� “Dancing in the Dark,�
“Footloose,� “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)� — but Corey Hart or
Scandal could as easily have a real hit. So what would the “lost songs�
look like?
Its not surprising that the hits of 1984 were more durable overall. There
are 23 songs from 1982 that got fewer than 10 spins a week in the large-
and medium-market radio stations that are typically monitored by BDSRadio;
in 1984, there were only 12. In 1982, there were 43 songs that had a 1.0
“lost factor� or higher (meaning that its year-end points then were most
disproportionate to spins now), compared to only 27 songs from 1984.
Those differences both reflect the differing cachet of songs from the two
eras, as well as the effect of recency. How radio played those songs at the
time also made a difference. Libraries were tighter during the excitement
of 1983-84, meaning that a song such as “Make a Move on Me� disappeared
quickly. In the late ‘80s, with CHR diluted by rhythmic radio and
enthusiasm about available product waning, many of the biggest hits of 1984
stayed on the radio longer.
Here are the 15 “most lost� hits of 1984, based on points for their
standing for the year divided by the number of plays they receive now. In
parenthesis is the “lost factor,� followed by the number of spins the songs
received last week in the U.S. and Canada according to NielsenBDS.

Olivia Newton-John, “Twist of Fate� (lost factor: 59, spins last week: zero)
Irene Cara, “Breakdance� (32, 0)
Ray Parker, Jr., “I Still Can’t Get Over Loving You� (12, 2)
Christopher Cross, “Think of Laura� (9, 2)
Jacksons, “State of Shock� (8, 5)
Billy Joel, “An Innocent Man� (7, 4)
Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Adult Education� (5, 6)
Tracey Ullman, “They Don’t Know� (4, 7)
Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before� (4, 13)
Rick Springfield, “Love Somebody� (4, 10)
Culture Club, “Miss Me Blind� (3, 13)
Duran Duran, “Union of the Snake� (3, 20)
Kool & the Gang, “Tonight� (3, 4)
Ollie & Jerry, “Breakin’ (There’s No Stopping Us)� (3, 8)
Rod Stewart, “Infatuation� (3, 17)

There are a few repeat names from the 1982 list here — Olivia Newton-John,
just about to be replaced as pop’s reigning siren by Madonna; Ray Parker,
Jr., whose much bigger 1984 hit, “Ghostbusters,� holds up surprisingly well
in radio-station research, but is saved for annual Halloween play
nonetheless. There are other early ‘80s AC holdovers — Christopher Cross,
Willie & Julio.
The top 15 contains one well-loved nugget in Tracey Ullman’s “They Don’t
Know,� the sort of song that always finds its audience in specialty show
countdowns. Its a perennial on The Lost 45s with Barry Scott and the No. 15
song on this years That Thing With Rich Appel WOW! 100. There are also
songs from the hitmaking streaks of Daryl Hall & John Oates, Duran Duran,
Rick Springfield, Kool & the Gang, Rod Stewart, Culture Club, and Michael
Jackson that are fun enough to hear, but aren’t the songs that represent
those acts at Classic Hits now.
The softer titles of 1984 are often those that have become center-lane
songs for the major-market Soft ACs that have proliferated in recent years.
If this story had been written a few years ago, I would’ve expected to find
“If Ever You’re in My Arms Again� by Peabo Bryson, “I Just Called to Say I
Love You� by Stevie Wonder, or “Hello� by Lionel Richie among the lost, but
they’re easier to find on the radio this year. Even up-tempo R&B songs such
as “The Glamorous Life� and “Let the Music Play� have less than a 1.0 score.
Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man� and “The Longest Time� both pushed the
boundaries of the CHR format in 1984, propelled by the momentum of two
up-tempo smashes. “An Innocent Man� is one of the year’s most lost songs.
“The Longest Time,� slightly bouncier, has become one of Soft AC’s
signature songs, far outperforming its airplay at the time.
Meanwhile, here are the top five songs that are punching above their weight
proportionate to their year-end ranking at the time.

Cars, “Magic� (0.011, 346 spins)
Billy Joel, “The Longest Time� (0.012, 935 spins)
Ratt, “Round and Round� (0.017, 797 spins)
Peter Schilling, “Major Tom (Coming Home)� (0.017, 282 spins)
John Cafferty & Beaver Brown Band, “On the Dark Side� (0.025, 341 spins)

The 1982 ranking contained a few songs that had just scraped power rotation
at the time, but had emerged as some of the biggest, most enduring songs of
the era: “Don’t Stop Believin’,� “Edge of Seventeen,� “Every Little Thing
She Does Is Magic.� With the exception of Joel, the top 5 songs here are
the mid-pack but up-tempo pop/rock nuggets that Adult Hits program
directors like to play, somewhere between trifle and truffle. A top 10
would have included “Sunglasses at Night� and “Cum On Feel the Noize.�
We looked at 1982 the week after Kenny Rogers’ death, which had propelled a
few of his previously lost titles (“Through the Years,� “Love Will Turn You
Around�) to stronger airplay ratios. For 1984, the surprisingly strong
title was “Nobody Told Me� by John Lennon, which had only a few chart
points as the year’s No. 81 song, but was getting about 50 spins from
stations who likely found that the song’s chorus was resonating in these
“strange days indeed.�


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KGNC-FM Adds Big D & Bubba For Mornings

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 09:22 AM PDT
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Alpha Media Country 97.9 KGNC-FM Amarillo TX has announced the addition of
Silverfish Media and Compass Media Networks Big D Bubba for mornings.

Amarillo was the first market the show was heard on when it began being
syndicated beyond then-flagship WYNK Baton Rouge in 1999 when it was picked
up by what was then 96.9 KMML. Big D Bubba fill the slot created by the
exit of Nancy Mack during Alphas cuts earlier this month.

Alpha Medias KGNC-FM 97.9 in Amarillo TX selects Big D Bubba for mornings
starting Monday, April 27.

It is such an honor to be given the reigns of such a legendary station! We
appreciate Alpha and their leadership giving us this opportunity said Big
D Bubba.

The Big D Bubba Show is distributed nationally to over 80 affiliate
stations via a partnership between Silverfish Media and Compass Media
Networks.

For more information visit www.compassmedianetworks.com. Call Doug to
affiliate (310) 242-8746 or email .



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Morning Host Acquires WAMW AM/FM

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 08:41 AM PDT
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Dave Crooks DLC Media has announced it will sell Classic Hits Memories
107.9 WAMW-FM Washington IN and Country The General 1580 WAMW/95.9 W240CE
Washington and 101.3 W267CP W267CP Montgomery IN to Shake Broadcasting.

Shake Broadcasting, led by WAMW-FM morning host and salesperson DeWayne
Shake, will pay $1.35 million. In an on-air announcement of the sale, Shake
mentioned that the deal is contingent on being approved for an SBA loan to
finance the sale.

DLC Media will retain its seven stations in the Terre Haute and Vincennes
IN areas.








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Ted Cruz Proposes Bill To Force FCC To Investigate Language Changes Of
Border Stations Focusing On XEWW

Posted: 26 Apr 2020 03:21 PM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/1...using-on-xeww/



Texas Senator Ted Cruz has announced his intent to introduce legislation
intended to block entities associated with the Chinese government from
using broadcast licenses to air their propaganda on stations licensed to
Canada and Mexico.

Targeted at H&H USAs URadio 690 XEWW Tijuana, which is airing Mandarin
programming focused at Southern California and the Los Angeles market in
particular, the bill would revise Section 325(c) and (d) of the 1934
Communications Act by prohibiting the FCC from issuing licenses to
broadcast applicants who intend to change the language of the station they
are purchasing, unless the FCC can certify that the programming of the
station will never be influenced by a foreign government or governing
party. H&H USA is reportedly connected to Phoenix Satellite Television, an
arm of the Chinese Communist Party. A subsidiary of Phoenix Satellite
Television previously attempted to purchase KDAY Redondo Beach/Los Angeles
and KDEY Ontario/Riverside in 2013.

Section 325(c) and (d) currently state:

No person shall be permitted to locate, use, or maintain a radio broadcast
studio or other place or apparatus from which or whereby sound waves are
converted into electrical energy, or mechanical or physical reproduction of
sound waves produced, and caused to be transmitted or delivered to a radio
station in a foreign country for the purpose of being broadcast from any
radio station there having a power output of sufficient intensity and/or
being so located geographically that its emissions may be received
consistently in the United States, without first obtaining a permit from
the Commission upon proper application therefor.

325(d) states,Such application shall contain such information as the
Commission may by regulation prescribe, and the granting or refusal thereof
shall be subject to the requirements of section 309 of this title with
respect to applications for station licenses or renewal or modification
thereof, and the license or permission so granted shall be revocable for
false statements in the application so required or when the Commission,
after hearings, shall find its continuation no longer in the public
interest.

Cruzs revision would append the following at the end 325(d), The Commission
may not grant such an application for the transfer of a permit described in
subsection (c) that proposes a change in the primary language in which
programming by a radio station described in that subsection will be
broadcast, unless the Commission separately certifies to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives that, in the judgment
of the Commission, and in addition to the requirements and prohibitions
under section 310, the programming of the radio station is not, and will
not become, subject to undue influence by a foreign government or a
political party in power in a foreign country.

The revisions would force the FCC to get into to business of overseeing
programming on stations, albeit just those that are licensed to other
countries whose programming is heard in the United States. XEWW has
currently been operating via STA from the FCC while awaiting a final
decision.
INSTANT INSIGHT:Â* While Cruz is worried about foreign propaganda on XEWW,
this bill would do nothing to stop G&E Studios network of stations
programming Chinese state owned China Radio International or the similar
Russian government Radio Sputnik programming aired on Way Broadcastings
1390 WZHF Capitol Heights MD/Washington DC and Alpine Broadcasting
Corporations 1140 KCXL Liberty/Kansas City MO as those stations are all
licensed by the FCC directly or utilizing time brokerage.

Jaime Bonilla Valdez, the governor of Baja California, is the licensee of
multiple stations in Tijuana, including two that were previously brokered
to Broadcast Company of the Americas to serve English audiences in San
Diego. Would he be considered a foreign government agent preventing his
stations from being leased to American audiences?

Cruzs argument is based around trying to stop foreign propaganda from being
aired. The FCC itself states, The Commission often receives complaints
concerning broadcast journalism, such as allegations that stations have
aired inaccurate or one-sided news reports or comments, covered stories
inadequately, or overly dramatized the events that they cover. For the
reasons noted previously, the Commission generally will not intervene in
these cases because it would be inconsistent with the First Amendment to
replace the journalistic judgment of licensees with our own. This is why
Cruz is not going after stations licensed within the country, but using the
loophole of targeting just stations licensed elsewhere to prevent XEWW from
continuing to operate. The bill serves such a narrow focus on stopping one
station because thats all Cruz can act on.


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