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- Subject: WKY 930 OKC flips from Indomable to ESPND
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 15:35:24 +0000 (UTC)
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** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Saturday April 1 at 0453 UT, Spanish here is still WKY, but it`s sports talk, not music! Long string of promos, jingles from ESPN Deportes, national feed giving times in Pacific and Eastern, and who cares about the Great Center of America, let alone the Mountains?? During otherwise Spanish, the letters ESPN are always pronounced in English to avoid invoking images of penises, altho such a macho connexion would seem to be apt. How much coverage of women`s sports is there, anyway?
0457 UT local ads including a Dodge dealer in Midwest City, Goodwill Industries (in Spanish they should say benevolencia or buena voluntad); PSAs for how to impress girls, drunk driving. I keep listening for the ToH ID at 0500 UT, which says ``WKY, Oklahoma City, 930AM, WKY``. The call letters are pronounced in English, altho they don`t have to be (but doble-ve ka i griega is a bit more cumbersome, less so doble-u ka ye).
No mention of ``La Indomable`` which has been its brand for eight+ years alrleady, and back to ESPND. Recheck at 1435 UT, still Spanish sports talk, no music!
Radio-locator.com still has its format as ``Regional Mexican``, i.e. frenetic oom-pah-pah music, a staple on our dials for years. The website still exists under the old name
http://www.laindomable.com/
but all the Noticias on the homepage are about sports, notably including European soccer games. How much of an audience in OK is there for that, in Spanish to boot?? But it still plugs at least one DJ program, outdated? `El Show de Mandril`, L-V 7-12 am (meaning before noon?). Will have to wait until April 3 morning to confirm whether that still exist. I suspect not, as radio stations have this all-or-nothing mentality about formatting. Or is this a bad joke for April 1?
Newspaper ad from November, 2014, DJs presumably jobless now:
http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg
If you search on ESPN Deportes you get stuff about the cable TV channel, finally leading to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio
which shows affiliates in only 18 states, of course not including Oclajoma. It links to website
http://espndeportes.espn.com/radio/index
which turns out to be a File Not Found. Grrr.
Also nothing recent in radioinsight or radiodiscussions concerning WKY
DXLD archives: see
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9004.txt
at the beginning of 2009y for reports on when La Indomable started, after some shorter-lived format attempts on 930. Refers to ESPND being on KINB 105.3, apparently a related station, so what`s on 105.3 now? Sports talk in English, at 1518 UT April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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