Re: [IRCA] KLOV FM network

[Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

I wish you could mass email that second paragraph to every radio station in
this country that plays music.  Playlists are becoming so restrictive that
you can predict exactly what time you will hear a song.  You hear a song on
the radio, you like it, then you hear it SO OFTEN that you change the
station as soon as you hear that song starting again.  And they wonder why
people are turning off the radio...

I'll not make any comments about K-Love, as I tend to infuriate some people
on this subject.

Mike Hawkins


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The same way that non-comm public radio stations do, Bill -- pledge
> drives.  In
> K-Love's case, it's 3 a year --- one in the spring (10 days), one in the
> fall
> (10 days), and one usually on New Year's Eve Day.  And in recent
> years, it's
> been like clockwork -- about a week after the end of each pledge drive
> (which
> almost always falls far short of goal, under 40% or so), K-Love's president
> will
> emerge from his burrow with an announcement that they've had to make what
> they
> refer to as "drastic decisions" regarding their budget.
>
>
> Content has something to do with it.  IMHO, if I'm going to listen to
> Christian
> radio, I'd much rather listen to something local that actually has variety
> to
> its playlist (i.e., one that will, from time to time, dig out the obscure,
> the
> long-forgotten, and play those, like a good station of any format would)
> instead
> of something syndicated that rarely plays anything more than 5 years old
> and
> sounds too much like a bad Top 40 station.
>
>
> 73,
> Rick Dau
> South Omaha, Nebraska
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: bill kral <jwkral@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Fri, June 24, 2011 11:00:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] KLOV FM network
>
> Thanks for the update. That's quite a netwoek of stations. I wonder how
> they
> operate if they are non - commercial and don't do any advertising. I
> haven't
> heard any ads. It's just a continuous string of songs. Bill in BC
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