AM1090 has changed their call today to KFNQ, along with announcing FM KJAQ 96.5HD3 at the top of the hour. It's still progressive talk but for how much longer? KJAQ is still Jack Radio as well.
We called CBS Seattle straight away and the person answering wasn't aware, but said the same thing happened when 96.5 changed to KJAQ--they had no warning, it just happened. Will the KJAQ HD3 be the FM counterpart to the changes at 1090?
It makes us wonder since the cat is out of the bag and the folks in the industry are aware of something, that CBS Seattle will flip the old KPTK and now KFNQ into sports or something else before the 1st of the year. Stay tuned.
This just in from Talkers and seatacradio.com
" local blog SeaTacRadio.com reports 
that KLAY, 1180 Tacoma (Lakewood) is planning to add some of the progressive talk shows – reportedly WYD Media’s Stephanie Miller and the Ed Schultz
show – currently heard on KPTK to its program schedule. As numerous
CBS Radio and Cumulus stations prepare to flip to sports talk in
January, KPTK is just another victim of the companywide desire for
affiliate stations. While consumers and the consumer press bemoan the
proliferation of sports talk (“How many sports stations do we need in
this market?”), the answer is that CBS Radio and Cumulus need to have
affiliates in as many markets as possible to be able to sell a national
sports talk product to national clients."
There's always MSNBC, at least for now.
Posted by: Mike Barer | November 14, 2012 at 01:02 PM
KLAY is too far away from Seattle to pick up a signal, so I guess I will just have to stick with SiriusXM radio.
The question is, how long is KLAY going to be able to keep their new format? It isn't exactly a blow torch, just a narrow footprint.
Posted by: David Allyn | November 14, 2012 at 02:35 PM
I guess I’ll be using the tunein app for my radio habits.
Posted by: Finis Hominis | November 14, 2012 at 02:52 PM
KLAY's daytime signal is marginal and its nighttime signal is nonexistent..
Posted by: Ted Smith | November 14, 2012 at 08:24 PM
KLAY streams, folks. The audio is better that way. You can even pipe it into your car stereo. Time to enter the 21st century.
Posted by: Daniel | November 14, 2012 at 10:23 PM
I can't hear KLAY in North Bend, WA at all. But, KPTK (Now KFNQ) has a reasonable signal. Besides, I'm not really interested in listening to the other half of their programming. I'm not really into sports or far right-wing lies (I'm not sure if you can call their "Entertainment" News or Politics)
I guess it's going to be KUOW FM 94.9 in the car and streamed progressive radio from somewhere else at home. KPOJ (Portland) and Green 960 (San Francisco)'s formats have also been changed to this all sports nonsense.
I guess you have to be higher up on the food chain to understand why leaving a profitable niche market and jumping into the middle of sports and right wing politics is going to bring in more money.
Posted by: Konrad Roeder | November 15, 2012 at 08:17 AM
Still amazed how difficult it is to hear progressive voices here in Seattle. When I lived out in the red states, I could half way understand it. But out here? That was half of the dtaw to bring me out. Going where the political weather suited my intellectual clothes. Was there more diversity in this market before the '96, or has it always been this way? There was certianly more diversity when there were more live bodies in front of microphones in other formats.
Posted by: LucasFoxx | November 15, 2012 at 08:48 AM
"the '96 Tele-Com Act" (i was distracted..)
Posted by: LucasFoxx | November 15, 2012 at 08:49 AM
As I listened to Stephanie this morning on the way to work, I kept hearing spots aimed at potential advertisers and how loyal the clients say KPTK has been to them. This is an amazingly poor decision on a number of levels, because if anyone cared, and I know they don't, they would have seen what has happened to the ratings of other stations who have switched to sports talk. They won't be able to charge much for ads on a station that nobody listens to...especially if we notify those advertisers.
Regardless, I now have 4G capability for my iPad and I will continue to stream Stephanie, Ed and Thom from other locations. It's great that Lakewood will add them, but unless they are live, they lose their appeal.
Posted by: sparky | November 15, 2012 at 02:51 PM
Live stream of KPTK via TuneIn app on Android stopped with the 2pm newscast today.
Posted by: Steve | November 15, 2012 at 03:43 PM
It's back up via the seattle CBS local webpage, for now...
Posted by: Chris Chronic | November 15, 2012 at 04:47 PM
I can't "stream" since I have satellite (my only choice) so I am pissed that the only political talk is fiction-based with AM 770 HeadRush Limbaugh and JohnnyRotten Carlson! Where are all the good folks with $$$$ who can buy an FM station? Ron Reagan lives in the area--anyone know how to reach him?
Posted by: kathy | November 15, 2012 at 06:18 PM
CBS seattle has a newer online player that is not iheart related
The itunes link is now dead
Posted by: Coiler | November 15, 2012 at 09:15 PM
Okay. Tell me please what do I have to buy to get liberal talk back into my car? Special radio? I-pod which I don't want? What do I need that is affordable, that no one will steal and will let me stream radio! I can't stand the thought of losing it. It's the car stupid. I need it!
I'm ADD and if I don't have something intelligent to listen to, I cross the center lane because I get distracted.
Help!
Posted by: TS | November 15, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Smart phone as low as $80, $35/mo service. Free tunein.com amp. Go to local and find station. Mini FM transmitter $20 from Maxell, plug into phone jack and pick a freq to beam to your radio
Posted by: Bob Nelson | November 15, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Isn't K
Isn't KZOK part of CBS Radio? The funny think is that KIRO carries the CBS hourly news feeds but has no affiliation with them otherwise. Thing were much simpler in the old days.
Posted by: Mike Barer | November 19, 2012 at 02:06 PM
Sorry about the beginning. I was posting hastily.
Posted by: Mike Barer | November 19, 2012 at 02:09 PM