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Indie radio in L.A.
I lifted this from another forum. File sharing!
Los Angeles' 103.1, America's coolest commercial station At a time when corporate-owned radio stations play the same proven hits in the same niche formats over and over, a new Los Angeles station, Indie 103.1, is finding success the opposite way: by spinning an unpredictable mix of new groups and old favorites in the spirit of free-form FM stations of the Seventies. "It's a little band of renegades terrorizing the dial," says Michael Steele, 103.1's program director. On one recent afternoon, listeners heard the Chemical Brothers, the Descendents and underground goth-metallers H.I.M., as well as Jet, Bright Eyes and Johnny Cash. And while its listenership is small so far, Indie is on the cutting edge of a larger trend at alternative-rock radio to replace hard-rock staples such as Korn and Limp Bizkit with younger bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdinand. Indie is owned by Entravision Communications, a Santa Monica, California, media company with fifty-eight stations nationwide, most of them broadcasting in Spanish. It was a dance station until Christmas 2003, when executives decided to plunge into rock. The format is dominated in L.A. by Infinity Broadcasting's KROQ 106.7 and Clear Channel Communications' KIIS 102.7. Indie 103's signal can't match the giants' range, but Entravision says that Indie is profitable. "The demographics were perfect for a modern rock station that concentrated on things that KROQ isn't playing," says Jeffrey Liberman, president of Entravision. "Giving our programmer more freedom to play what isn't on the other stations is good for business. It fills a need in the community." Clear Channel, the nation's biggest radio-station owner, actually buys Indie's advertising inventory space and resells it -- a business relationship that's not uncommon but has sometimes created confusion about who owns the station. In fact, Steele is a former Clear Channel employee (he once worked as a music director for KIIS). But the station operates far outside the realm of corporate radio. At the moment, Indie 103 has only four employees -- including music director Mark Sovel, who cut his teeth volunteering at a local pirate radio station, KBLT. "Clear Channel is off in their other building selling the commercials," Sovel says. "Nobody is really telling us what to do, programmingwise." A sampling of 103.1's playlist: 1. "Maps," Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2. "Ball and Biscuit," the White Stripes 3. "They," Jem 4. "Inertiatic ESP," the Mars Volta 5. "Turncoat," Anti-Flag 6. "Chain," the Fire Theft 7. "Big Brat," Phantom Planet 8. "Ride," the Vines 9. "1974," Ryan Adams 10. "Dynomite," Ima Robot --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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I was just listening to this station recently and it really is a breath of
fresh air in commercial radio here in LA. Before, the only places you could get indy radio were at KXLU out of Loyola Marymount Univ. and KCRW- both of which are public radio stations. I certainly hope they survive. --Ben -- Benjamin Maas Fifth Circle Audio Los Angeles, CA http://www.fifthcircle.com Please remove "Nospam" from address for replies "EggHd" wrote in message news... I lifted this from another forum. File sharing! Los Angeles' 103.1, America's coolest commercial station At a time when corporate-owned radio stations play the same proven hits in the same niche formats over and over, a new Los Angeles station, Indie 103.1, is finding success the opposite way: by spinning an unpredictable mix of new groups and old favorites in the spirit of free-form FM stations of the Seventies. "It's a little band of renegades terrorizing the dial," says Michael Steele, 103.1's program director. On one recent afternoon, listeners heard the Chemical Brothers, the Descendents and underground goth-metallers H.I.M., as well as Jet, Bright Eyes and Johnny Cash. And while its listenership is small so far, Indie is on the cutting edge of a larger trend at alternative-rock radio to replace hard-rock staples such as Korn and Limp Bizkit with younger bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdinand. Indie is owned by Entravision Communications, a Santa Monica, California, media company with fifty-eight stations nationwide, most of them broadcasting in Spanish. It was a dance station until Christmas 2003, when executives decided to plunge into rock. The format is dominated in L.A. by Infinity Broadcasting's KROQ 106.7 and Clear Channel Communications' KIIS 102.7. Indie 103's signal can't match the giants' range, but Entravision says that Indie is profitable. "The demographics were perfect for a modern rock station that concentrated on things that KROQ isn't playing," says Jeffrey Liberman, president of Entravision. "Giving our programmer more freedom to play what isn't on the other stations is good for business. It fills a need in the community." Clear Channel, the nation's biggest radio-station owner, actually buys Indie's advertising inventory space and resells it -- a business relationship that's not uncommon but has sometimes created confusion about who owns the station. In fact, Steele is a former Clear Channel employee (he once worked as a music director for KIIS). But the station operates far outside the realm of corporate radio. At the moment, Indie 103 has only four employees -- including music director Mark Sovel, who cut his teeth volunteering at a local pirate radio station, KBLT. "Clear Channel is off in their other building selling the commercials," Sovel says. "Nobody is really telling us what to do, programmingwise." A sampling of 103.1's playlist: 1. "Maps," Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2. "Ball and Biscuit," the White Stripes 3. "They," Jem 4. "Inertiatic ESP," the Mars Volta 5. "Turncoat," Anti-Flag 6. "Chain," the Fire Theft 7. "Big Brat," Phantom Planet 8. "Ride," the Vines 9. "1974," Ryan Adams 10. "Dynomite," Ima Robot --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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Too bad they aren't 'net broadcasting, but I guess that's still too
expensive. -- Roger W. Norman SirMusic Studio "EggHd" wrote in message ... I lifted this from another forum. File sharing! Los Angeles' 103.1, America's coolest commercial station At a time when corporate-owned radio stations play the same proven hits in the same niche formats over and over, a new Los Angeles station, Indie 103.1, is finding success the opposite way: by spinning an unpredictable mix of new groups and old favorites in the spirit of free-form FM stations of the Seventies. "It's a little band of renegades terrorizing the dial," says Michael Steele, 103.1's program director. On one recent afternoon, listeners heard the Chemical Brothers, the Descendents and underground goth-metallers H.I.M., as well as Jet, Bright Eyes and Johnny Cash. And while its listenership is small so far, Indie is on the cutting edge of a larger trend at alternative-rock radio to replace hard-rock staples such as Korn and Limp Bizkit with younger bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdinand. Indie is owned by Entravision Communications, a Santa Monica, California, media company with fifty-eight stations nationwide, most of them broadcasting in Spanish. It was a dance station until Christmas 2003, when executives decided to plunge into rock. The format is dominated in L.A. by Infinity Broadcasting's KROQ 106.7 and Clear Channel Communications' KIIS 102.7. Indie 103's signal can't match the giants' range, but Entravision says that Indie is profitable. "The demographics were perfect for a modern rock station that concentrated on things that KROQ isn't playing," says Jeffrey Liberman, president of Entravision. "Giving our programmer more freedom to play what isn't on the other stations is good for business. It fills a need in the community." Clear Channel, the nation's biggest radio-station owner, actually buys Indie's advertising inventory space and resells it -- a business relationship that's not uncommon but has sometimes created confusion about who owns the station. In fact, Steele is a former Clear Channel employee (he once worked as a music director for KIIS). But the station operates far outside the realm of corporate radio. At the moment, Indie 103 has only four employees -- including music director Mark Sovel, who cut his teeth volunteering at a local pirate radio station, KBLT. "Clear Channel is off in their other building selling the commercials," Sovel says. "Nobody is really telling us what to do, programmingwise." A sampling of 103.1's playlist: 1. "Maps," Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2. "Ball and Biscuit," the White Stripes 3. "They," Jem 4. "Inertiatic ESP," the Mars Volta 5. "Turncoat," Anti-Flag 6. "Chain," the Fire Theft 7. "Big Brat," Phantom Planet 8. "Ride," the Vines 9. "1974," Ryan Adams 10. "Dynomite," Ima Robot --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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"Benjamin Maas" wrote in message news:YQ7yc.14218$0y.4693@attbi_s03...
I was just listening to this station recently and it really is a breath of fresh air in commercial radio here in LA. Before, the only places you could get indy radio were at KXLU out of Loyola Marymount Univ. and KCRW- both of which are public radio stations. I certainly hope they survive. --Ben I wonder how long this will last. It looks like Clear Channel are using this station as a tool to peel listeners away from KROQ. http://articles.findarticles.com/p/a...6/ai_112360635 |
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My wife LOVES this station. I have trouble getting it in my Jeep. Bummer.
Yeah their signal stinks in my neck of the woods. --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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I lifted this from another forum. File sharing! Los Angeles' 103.1, America's coolest commercial station Does anyone know if 103.1 WRNR is still broadcasting in the Annapolis/Baltimore region? Now *that* is an awesome indie station. |
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Too bad they aren't 'net broadcasting, but I guess that's still too expensive. http://indie1031.fm/listenlive.html |
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"slidge" wrote in message s.com... Does anyone know if 103.1 WRNR is still broadcasting in the Annapolis/Baltimore region? Now *that* is an awesome indie station. They're still around. I haven't heard them in a long time, as there broadcast pattern is strange and hard to pick up in many areas. Hal Laurent Baltimore |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1087005747k@trad... In article m lid writes: Does anyone know if 103.1 WRNR is still broadcasting in the Annapolis/Baltimore region? Now *that* is an awesome indie station. Is that the one that's what's left of the old WHFS crew? I could never pick it up in Falls Gulch. Damian Einstein made it to WRNR. Don't know if any of the others did. |
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"Indie" 103 is of course not even remotely indie - it is indeed a
Clearchannel station. And yes the station possibly did come about partly to rub KROQ's nose in some dung (the 103.1 freq here in LA has seen many formats over the years but very little success!) Seems it was lying dormant & someone fancied ****ing with KROQ - intially they just played music (the so called "modern rock") with no dj's or anything. But, I have to admit they have a wonderfully unpretentious anarchaic balance of great music, off the wall presenters (Sex Pistols Steve Jones, Henry Rollins, a great Saturday morning no bull**** import show) that it just beats the pants off of ANY station here in LA! Corporate owned or not, I would rather listen to Indie 103 than those brown-ricer phonies at "eclectic" NPR's KCRW anyday. I don't know about you, but it drives me mental at pledge drive time when they plead for my hard earned dollars while they drive around the Westside in their Mercedes SUV's using the $$ I pledged to re-locate another guy from the other side of the country who basically plays records like the guy from LA did perfectly well previously!!! Or something like that! http://www.fondamusic.com/rollercoaster/ |
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"Jay-AtlDigi" wrote in message ...
In article , (David Newton) wrote: "Indie" 103 is of course not even remotely indie - it is indeed a Clearchannel station. My understanding was that it was not owned by Clearchannel, but that Clearchannel sold their advertising. Basically, Clearchannel buys the whole block of ad time at a low rate and resells it at a higher rate, but the station ownership is not Clearchannel and thus can determine their own playlist and run it how they please. Entravision I think is the company that owns the station. They have a handful of mainly Spanish language station I believe. -- Jay Frigoletto Mastersuite Los Angeles promastering.com The interesting thing about Clearchannel in that respect (or scary depending on how you look at it) is that they have been doing that with a lot of different stations lately. There was a big controversy a number of months back here when it was announced that Clearchannel was going to be handling a certain amount of KUSC's (the public classical station) corporate fundraising. In return for the supposedly higher amount of money they could raise, they would pocket a share of it. Needless to say, the classical establishment wasn't too happy about hopping in bed with Clearchannel. I don't know if it actually went through or not, though... --Ben -- Benjamin Maas Fifth Circle Audio Los Angeles, CA http://www.fifthcircle.com Please remove "Nospam" from address for replies |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1087156988k@trad... In article Hz0zc.33650$0y.28035@attbi_s03 writes: There was a big controversy a number of months back here when it was announced that Clearchannel was going to be handling a certain amount of KUSC's (the public classical station) corporate fundraising. In return for the supposedly higher amount of money they could raise, they would pocket a share of it. Needless to say, the classical establishment wasn't too happy about hopping in bed with Clearchannel. The corporate world has been raiding the arts world for years. Most of our traditional folk music festivals have banners over the stages with the name of a sponsor. It's the other way arond... the non-profits are constantly asking the corporate world for donations. I would bet (and win) that the sponsorhsip you mentioned was not an idea floated by someone at a for-profit corporation, but rather it was concocted as a way to give the donating entity some value for their dollar besides that of a tax writeoff. -- Neil Henderson Progressive Rock http://www.saqqararecords.com The Washington Folk Festival, which was always a joint venture with the National Park Service that owned and operated Glen Echo Park, the festival venue. A local commercial group raised a lot more money a few years ago, more money than the park had ever seen in their NPS budget, for renovating the facilities. Part of the deal was that they would provide financial management of the part, with the NPS people working as service providers. The Folklore Society of Greater Washington was somewhat hesitant to get in bed with such a commercial venture, particularly since it involved paying the organization for the use of the park and providing our own insurance, but the organization promised (and apparently came through with) to find sufficient sponsorship to pay all the costs and make some money for both organizations. If it works, fine. -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1087300684k@trad... If I gave money to all the organizations that call me or knock on my door, and gave old clothes and furniture to all the "goodwill-like" organizations, I'd not only be broke, I'd be homeless. I just tell all callers that my charity contributions are already planned out and they aren't on the list. And, it's true, so I don't feel bad about it. They may be going "Sure, yeah right" at the end of the conversation, but I know that I've got yearly contributions to the Police Benevolent Societ and the Sheriff's Association, AMVets and a couple where I simply stuff envelopes and supply stamps. After that, charity starts with my children's and grandchildren's start in life when I can. That's about the best I can do. -- Roger W. Norman SirMusic Studio |
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Now that's a scam. I did it for the Lighthouse for the Blind, but once you
get an initial order, they constantly called back, and their 8,000 hour lights lasted maybe a week, so it wasn't worth the effort to send them back just to get more bad lightbulbs. So they are off my list. But hey, I even went to my local firestation and cooked for the guys a couple of times. Became problematic doing so because the cops started dropping by on my scheduled nights and I never knew how much to buy. Plus, it just plain got expensive feeding 15+ people. -- Roger W. Norman SirMusic Studio "Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1087396072k@trad... In article writes: I just tell all callers that my charity contributions are already planned out and they aren't on the list. And, it's true, so I don't feel bad about it. That's about what I say too, but when the local police and volunteer fire department call asking me to buy light bulbs, it's a little harder to say "no" (but I do anyway). -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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