PUGETSOUNDRADIO offers you the June PPMs this week: Initial numbers show that HANK FM (KPLZ 101.5) has moved ahead of KPNW/The Bull, but both trail far behind THE WOLF KKWF. HANK FM could lean into the classic country a bit farther. An occasional Johnny Cash tune is fine, but let’s get deeper cuts, dust off the Moe Bandy, Mickey Gilley, Waylon, Willie, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Barbra Mandrell. I can make them a huge list. I’m sure Lotus can afford the investment in a larger playlist.
KUOW 94.9 beats 97.3 KIRO FM, that’s gotta bite! 88.5 KNKX, the other public radio station, isn’t even close to beating KIRO FM, but scooted ahead of KNWN NewsRadio 97.7/1000.
Talkies 770 KTTH & 570 KVI linger near the basement but at least they are not in the lava lake of Satan’s Hell — that is the segment with the HD channels at the bottom of the list. (Why do we care anymore? PPMs for June)
Hey you pokes, here’s good internet radio that plays genuine classic country and western and cowboy and honky tonk cow pie-kickin’ music! Dagnabbit it, hombres, here ya go!! Watch out though, get caught listening to this and you’ll end up accused of liking country music.
KWPX Cowpoke Radio, Banta CA
HPR1, Branson MO
WBCQ, Houlton ME
KBEC, Waxahachie TX
Thanks for the list. KWPX are pretty good call letters for KoWPoXe.
Have to agree with Travis. The Seattle based stations all have that obnoxious reverberating sound that’s so loud with the audio you can hear it at the gas station where they have the radio on. I listened to 96.1 the other day and it had clean and clear sounding audio without it. I was by the narrows bridge in Tacoma. kAYO doesn’t have it either. I absolutely hate that sound. Someone told me it’s the ratings “watermark” or some garbage they inject in with the signal. Sounds like total crap! You’re not supposed to hear it, but it’s so blatantly there everyone I know says they hate it. What happened to quality of product?
Excellent point. Travis is correct also. The better country station is KYYO *KAYO* Olympia. I think that audio effect you are talking about causes road rage.
The better country station is the one that’s not even listed and that would be 96.9 KAYO. Better music selection and local focused. Just doesn’t target all of the area. Also, for classic country, 1520/101.1 is a good choice too. I don’t mind Hank but think the return to the Bull was dumb. They loaded up on research saying the AAA format was a good fit for the area and then didn’t do much promotion etc to make it rate higher. Then returned to something that didn’t seem to work for 5 years, so why now? With even more competition in the format? What they should’ve done is LMA the frequency to Bonneville and put the sports format on it. Or sell it to them outright. But apparently 710 AM is working well enough. 93.3 Sports is in the lower end of ratings. So a move to FM isn’t an instant success. That 950 signal sucks in a lot of places though.
As your other post implies, radio in Seattle is bleak. Boring.