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Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
That'll Be The Day? Buddy Holly Replaced By Talk Radio In Lubbock
Posted 11-09-2015 at 06:45 PM by case44
Previously, I actually thought that this could go on for a little while. After all, people are still out there trying to keep radio local and trying to stay away from the bigwigs who want canned formats to fit their purse strings.
KDAV-AM (1590) had been about as local as you can get in Lubbock, Texas, what with a locally-produced, rock-and-roll format which covered the '50s all the way through the early '80s, complete with local radio jocks for some hours of the day. The programming format was never strictly formatted, and almost anything went. That is, until Renaissance Broadcasting sold the station earlier in the year to High Plains Radio Network, Inc, and the station ended its run as an oldies station. Hard to believe. But you can't erase the past, and that's the history of KDAV, known for years in Lubbock as the "Buddy Holly Station". Even the legend himself had a history on the original KDAV as it existed back in the 1950s.
Today, however, things are very different.
The station does not have a real website. And the new one doesn't, either. It is now a talk station, but I have no idea which shows air on it now. The Wikipedia page gives no clue to the exact programming they have now. The new KDAV as is?? Why don't they just promote the station to get the word out there? Lubbock has only just gained another talk station in what's now a sea of talk stations, the most of any city in West Texas. Their streamlining function no longer works.
Oh, well. This is the part where radio, as a business, starts to get weird. If I completely understood what goes on through the minds of radio execs, be that as it may, then I'd probably be a mind reader.
KDAV-AM (1590) had been about as local as you can get in Lubbock, Texas, what with a locally-produced, rock-and-roll format which covered the '50s all the way through the early '80s, complete with local radio jocks for some hours of the day. The programming format was never strictly formatted, and almost anything went. That is, until Renaissance Broadcasting sold the station earlier in the year to High Plains Radio Network, Inc, and the station ended its run as an oldies station. Hard to believe. But you can't erase the past, and that's the history of KDAV, known for years in Lubbock as the "Buddy Holly Station". Even the legend himself had a history on the original KDAV as it existed back in the 1950s.
Today, however, things are very different.
The station does not have a real website. And the new one doesn't, either.
It is now a talk station, but I have no idea which shows air on it now. The Wikipedia page gives no clue to the exact programming they have now. The new KDAV as is?? Why don't they just promote the station to get the word out there? Lubbock has only just gained another talk station in what's now a sea of talk stations, the most of any city in West Texas. Their streamlining function no longer works. Oh, well. This is the part where radio, as a business, starts to get weird. If I completely understood what goes on through the minds of radio execs, be that as it may, then I'd probably be a mind reader.
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Oh, oh, that'll be the day....
....when you said goodbye, yeah.....Posted 11-09-2015 at 06:48 PM by case44
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You're not kidding...790 (KFYO) is probably the most well-known, but then there (I think) two others, plus this. Then there are the two sports talk stations.
Wonder how much longer the radio industry (minus the original content part like talk, game, and event coverage) will last, because of iTunes and other technologies.Posted 11-10-2015 at 03:10 PM by shoe01
