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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 27, 2014 23:12:53 GMT -6
From what I understand it's very unlikely that all the RD stations will be sold as one group. Several may go to the same owner but not all of them. There's also a question of what to do in the meantime.
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Post by kenglish on Sept 9, 2014 6:08:32 GMT -6
What TV show is that theme music from, that sounds like a theremin (sort of like a tone generator), that goes "Ta-weee, da ta-weeeee, da ta-weeeeeeee, ta weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"? I though "Banacek" or "McCloud", or some other 60's/70's cop/detective show, but it's not those two.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 9, 2014 8:12:45 GMT -6
You're actually pretty close if you're talking about what I think you are. (Text is pretty lousy for relaying melodies <g>.) I think you're describing the NBC Mystery Movie theme. Check and see if this is it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VI9mUyG_f0
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Post by kenglish on Sept 10, 2014 5:21:15 GMT -6
THAT WAS IT!!!! I had checked themes for the individual shows, and they were different. So, it was the "umbrella" of themes over all of them. Man, that was a long time ago!
Thanks!
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 11, 2014 8:45:17 GMT -6
No problem. That's what I'm here for. Janitor, mind reader, all that sort of stuff.
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Post by friendlee on Sept 30, 2014 7:54:05 GMT -6
Actually, I kind of liked listening to KWDZ last Sunday....instrumentals, show tunes, a little crackle of lightning in the background....
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 30, 2014 10:37:11 GMT -6
Actually, I kind of liked listening to KWDZ last Sunday....instrumentals, show tunes, a little crackle of lightning in the background.... I kind of like it too. It is a true "playing what we like" format -- because the management doesn't care at all whether anyone listens or not. I just wonder how they are calculating BMI royalty payments. Are they still a commercial station, even without any commercials? And since a lot of their music, especially the aerobics beat track instrumentals, never get any airplay elsewhere (and never did get any airplay) how would you determine what was owed?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Oct 1, 2014 3:23:43 GMT -6
As I understand it, stations that play any significant amount of music at all just pay a flat fee to the royalty companies for all of it. It doesn't matter if they're commercial or not. Even public places like stores have to pay royalties.
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Post by kenglish on Oct 8, 2014 6:43:24 GMT -6
I noticed yesterday (Tuesday, 10-07-14) that KWDZ is again running Radio Disney audio. I wonder if this is the case at all the Disney stations?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Oct 9, 2014 5:41:16 GMT -6
What I'm hearing from other regional boards is that the stations that were scheduled to go off the air Sept 26 didn't because there was a concern in the legal department at Disney about applying to go silent. Those stations are now running the national Radio Disney feed as a placeholder until they're sold. Since they were concerned about the big stations going silent, it makes sense they'd be concerned about the smaller ones that were silent for almost a year already. All the equipment was probably still installed, so why not? Something like 20% of the audience is still using the OTA stations to get RD, so unless there's a real reason to toss them to the curb just leave the signals available. The power bill for KDWZ isn't even going to be a blip on Disney corporate's ledger. I actually wonder why they didn't do this in the first place. Maybe they just figured the station would sell quickly.
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Post by kenglish on Oct 11, 2014 9:44:53 GMT -6
One issue was that KWDZ was renting studio space (minimal, as it was) from Clear Channel. I wonder if they are just taking down the sat feed at the transmitter now?
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Post by David on Oct 11, 2014 11:09:23 GMT -6
Goodbye, Show Tunes & Standards format on KWDZ--hello Radio Disney! We'll miss our radio friend, especially with NO COMMERCIALS to interrupt the music flow. (Death knell sounding.) Now that the banal bubblegum pop of Radio Disney has replaced an AM music format actually worth listening to, the next logical step would be for Disney to start an ad campaign on UTA buses--something like "Hey Salt Lake, Radio Disney is back on 910 AM!" to make families aware of the resurrection. Of course, by the time they get around to starting the ad campaign, the station will probably be sold to a new owner that will dump Radio Disney for a sports or Spanish language format (as if we don't already have enough of those stations on the AM band in SLC). Moreover, I believe I've found the perfect radio for listening to Radio Disney: www.ebay.com/itm/General-Electric-Youth-Electronics-Mickey-Mouse-Clock-Radio-Early-70s-Vintage-/231286062311?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35d9b93ce7#ht_209wt_1125Sorry, CA, but I couldn't resist the obvious Disney connection.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Oct 11, 2014 17:35:06 GMT -6
They'd need to have at least a nominal main studio that's staffed unless they got a waiver. Getting a waiver seems unlikely for a commercial station, but the Funny Cookie Company is unpredictable. The signal is just there to make sure the license is alive. I doubt anyone really cares that much if anyone is listening. If they get a few listeners that's good but not what they care about. If they cared they wouldn't be trying to sell the station. And of course we know we're talking about a Mickey Mouse operation. *badump bump* What I really miss is when RD was really a children's station rather than a dumbed down CHR. Remember when you would hear Disney soundtracks and Weird Al on the station? That went away probably 15 years ago.
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Post by David on Oct 12, 2014 7:43:52 GMT -6
"What I really miss is when RD was really a children's station rather than a dumbed down CHR. Remember when you would hear Disney soundtracks and Weird Al on the station? That went away probably 15 years ago." That's probably because the current generation of RD listeners are more interested in selecting the latest edition of Justin Bieber to have his (or her) 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight than listening to music that's a part of their parent's era. Oh well, it's their loss. In fact, since only about 20% of Radio Disney listeners listen via terrestrial radio now, maybe Disney ought to consider a new name for their music format. "Digital Disney" has kind of a nice ring to it.
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Post by amanuensis on Oct 13, 2014 11:43:37 GMT -6
When 910 was playing its show tunes format, the music sounded crisp. Now, Radio Disney is sounding very mushy, exactly the way it sounded back when it was on 910 before. If all of the Radio Disney stations sound this way, it is no wonder that most listening is done digitally. Is the mushy sound a result of feeding a stereo feed into a monaural transmitter? I'm assuming that whatever the cause, it is something that could be easily fixed if anyone really cared.
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