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If this is your first visit to Spokane Radio News, please see our about page first. Link is above. Thank you. More New Stories soon: KPND, KBZD Two Stations Go Dark Due to financial difficulties Proactive's Live 104.5 (KQQB) and Z-107 (KAZZ) have been taken off the air Both stations are up for sale. There has been some interest in both, but no firm offers have been made yet. Stay tuned. - (06/10/08 - kjd) Stop The Clock The paper tells you every hour at the bottom of the hour. Well I do not know the details of the contract, but somebody needs to send a watch to the Spokesman and maybe to Radio Spokane/Mapleton. Last I checked the day had 24 hours. With the ridiculous schedule they are running on KJRB there is still more news weekdays on 920 KXLY. Nothing wrong with The Spokesman news reports, concise, to the point and informative, but to little , not often enough. When I talked to Mr. Nathenson I thought he was looking to make big and bold changes. Instead he's just moved one talk station, KGA, to another station. I don't know if you remember KGA when it was country?? That station had news every half-hour, 24/7. The way that should play in Nathenson's world the old country KGA should have been called "News and Country 1510 KGA.". Maybe I'm only talking to myself, but I'm tired of "Showbiz This Weekend" on my radio. Somebody needs to get a brain. Many people work the weekends, so why can't somebody at Mapleton do this?? Spokanites don't care about CNN Headline News, we care about what is happening here in the 'kane (sounds like can). In the mean time someone needs to purchase a watch. Oh and by the way a week has seven days. Just trying to be helpful. - (06/01/08 - kjd) KTSL & KEEH Friday May 23, this was the day the mantle was handed over, the switch was flipped and christian adult contemporary radio, Spirit 101.9 became Air 1, christian hit radio. The Spirit moniker had been around for a few years, first as a christian chr and finally as christian ac. The station was owned by Pamplin Broadcasting which owns KPAM 860 AM (newstalk) and Sunny 1550 KKAD (nostalgia) both in Portland. KTSL was the only FM station Pamplin had and was off by itself here in Spokane. KTSL started as part of The Word In Music, which grew from KSLT in Spearfish, South Dakota. The Word in Music grew and moved to Colorado Springs. Eventually The Word in Music was sold to religious broadcaster Salem Communications. KTSL was quickly sold by Salem to Pamplin, this occured in 1997. Pamplin flipped KTSL from a non-comm to a commercial station. Different formats and monikers ensued, including Power 101.9 (which still has an old painted billboard on Spargue) and then Spirit 101.9, and finally Spirit FM. The stations flips and flops, never were a commercial success. So finally this spring Pamplin decided to sell the station for 2.15 million dollars to Educational Media Foundation. Educational Media Foundation is the parent company of K-Love, a music network that broadcasts christian ac music to hundred of stations nationwide , and Air 1, a smaller nationwide network that airs christian contemporary hit radio music. Thanks to many, EMF decided to put Air 1 on KTSL. Core artists include Hawk Nelson, Switchfoot, Toby Mac, Sanctus Real, Skillet, Jars Of Clay, and many more. The station is hit radio oriented, but does lean rock, with some rap, pop, and r&b. Now KTSL is back to a non-commercial station, which in religious radio includes Positive Life Radio (PLR) and KMBI. What does this mean to PLR? It means they don't have to directly compete any longer with KTSL, but I call PLR to focus on a strong christian ac format, that is not dictated by the charts, but is inclusive of many ac songs and styles. PLR has a tendency to be too conservative, with no explanation to its listeners. PLR should have fun, and continue as the "local" network, where as Air 1 on KTSL is a nationwide network. PLR can score on being local, but only if they stay professional, open to change, and being more involved in the community. If not they will lose a connection and maybe a chance to grow in financial support. For those of you who like and asked for Air 1, you need to finacially support this station. For if we don't, Spokane could see another change for KTSL in the future, and it may be what we don't want. - (06/02/08 - kjd) And Now This From Radio Ink Beau Tyler (a.k.a. Duane Barnhart) Most recently: PD/afternoon driver, KTSL (101.9 Spirit FM)/Spokane beautyler@yahoo.com 509-413-8821 - (06/04/08 - kjd) Your Money at Work Spokane Public Radio while working towards its third service here in Spokane, is expanding in other areas. According to a published report, SPR GM, Dick Kunkel has confirmed that SPR is planning to scrap low power translators for full power stations in Colville, Brewster, Omak, Oroville, and Twisp, Washington and one in Kellog Idaho. These stations would simulcast KPBX, like KIBX in Bonners Ferry, Idaho already does. The station in Omak is at 88.5. In Omak Northwest Public Radio already operates a full power station at 90.1 FM, KQWS. Although some programming would be the same, KQWS is part of NWPR's news and information service. KQWS serves an area from Brewster, to Twisp and up into Canada , above Oroville. In Oroville SPR has applied for 90.9 FM, Brewster at 91.9 FM, 91.1 FM in Twisp, 90.5 FM in Colville, and in Kellog at 89.3 FM. Mr. Kunkel belives that the future of radio broadcasting does not exist with translators, which I agree with. SPR though has applied for three translators in Coeur d'Alene, where SPR already has a translator for KPX at 91.9 FM (The same frequency as KSFC in Spokane). That translator can be confusing because in Rathdrum you can receive both KSFC and the CDA translator. The translators applied for are at 94.9, 95.7, and 96.5 FM. I don't think all 3 will be approved and they have been Mx'ed by other broadcasters. One other application SPR has is for a simulcaster for KSFC at 88.3 FM in Post Falls, unfortunately the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe has also applied for 88.3 FM in Plummer. What will happen?? I think SPR will get all its stations, except Post Falls, which will go to the CDA Tribe, since they are local, an Idaho non-profit, and with no other broadcasting license. Don't forget SPR also has a CP for 90.3 FM here in Spokane. Remember though, all of these may be great plans for the future of SPR, only you the members can make all this happen financially. We will have to wait and see.. - (May 5, 2008 kjd) On The Air Now that KTSL is part of the Air 1 network, here's an hour of their music mix. It's different than Positive Life Radio. The Best Thing - Reliant K You - Brett Nicole I've Always Loved You - Third Day Take My Hand - Shawn McDonald All Around Me - Flyleaf Daylight - Remedy Drive Back To You - Fighting Instinct Youth of A Nation - POD To Bring You Back - Paul Alan Hotel Aquarium - Falling Up Me And Jesus - Stellar Kart Washed By The Water - NEEDTOBREATHE Oh! Gravity - Switchfoot Love Song for a Savior - Jars of Clay Source air1.com (05/31/08) |
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