media bytes, tuesday june 12, 2007

Monday, June 11, 2007 by SDRadio.

Welcome to SDRadio for Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Radio notes:

KCBQ-AM long and storied history with San Diego is beyond legendary, it’s one of the cornerstones of Top 40 personality radio. The call letters live on, thanks to Salem Broadcasting, and the line-up are hits from the conservative side of the house.

As the 50,000 watt towers fell from the Santee broadcast location, like a good broadcast neighbor, Clear Channel was there. The original broadcast location was on leased ground. (A momento to the Santee towers are placed in the parking lot of the big-box store.) Clear Channel San Diego let the one-time rival use the 1360 broadcast antenna farm to keep the 1170 signal on the air. At one time, KGB-AM and KCBQ were neck-in-neck in music radio. 1170 KCBQ is currently broadcasting at reduced power from a temporary longwire antenna on a tower shared by KGB-FM and KLSD.

The longwire broadcast, not really ideal, will change soon. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve the final move to 50,000 watts daytime power. Recently, KCBQ has been testing the higher-power signal at the transmitter location shared with 910 KECR-AM in Lakeside. The towers are to the east of highway 67, near San Vincente dam.

Family Stations Inc, the owner of KECR, is a non-commercial traditional religious broadcasting network.

Radio notes …. Congratulations to KOGO weekend host Art Bell. of Coast to Coast AM. Airyn, his wife, and Art are the proud parents of Asia. She was born on May 30……Kristina Lyons writes from US 95.7: “Sunday, all San Diego Country music fans welcomed Keith Urban to the San Diego Sports Arena and needless to say it was an AMAZING show! The set list, the lighting and of course Keith’s performance was impeccable! Everyone at The Tony and Kris Morning Show and US 95.7 would like to thank Capitol Records and everyone in Nashville for such a great tour!” Pictures later in the broadcast week…. Sean Hannity, heard on 760 KFMB, enters new territory today. Most of ABC radio stations have new owners today. Citadel takes over, however the talk show host has an escape clause in case of a sell or merger. Tom Taylor reports that Premiere Radio stands ready to grab the mid-day host if necessary…. Radio icon and man of many voices, Phil Hendrie will return to the airwaves. The Phil Hendrie Show will be on TRN-FM weekdays 10 pm to 1 am starting June 25. No local San Diego stations have been identified.

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