When Peak Broadcasting purchased the Boise Clear Channel group last year - one of their first moves was to flip KTMY/My Country 104.3 to KAWO/Wow Country 104.3
The My Country incarnation of the station was helmed by former CC OM Jeff Cochran - who now has the same title with Clear Channel in Salt Lake.
Cochran launched My Country 105.7 on the former KXRV — and even grabbed the “KTMY” call letters that Peak shed in 2007.
The tagline and logo are also similar (KTMY’s Boise version used Idaho’s Best Country)
(Thanks, Ben for the lead!)
on Jan 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
So funny…the PD of that station in Salt Lake is o-u-t after like 2 weeks. Wonder if Jeff’s “wonderful personality” got to Jim the former PD.
One of the industry rags says that the job is pd and producer…no jocks. oh boy…how exciting is that. Hope that the sales staff does not sell a remote!! ha ha ha
on Jan 25th, 2008 at 9:24 am
It’s crazy. KJMY has remotes (”My 99-5″) - I think it is garbage personally. I don’t understand the ‘here, let’s throw some random people out on location that no one knows and then talk them up on air with liners and/or live break ins.’ Bleh.
on Jan 26th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
No jocks? Well…. if you can’t manage people. Computers are wonderful things. Point, click and you’re done provided nothing goes ….wrong….wrong…..wrong.
I remember a Twilight Zone episode where a manager replaces all his employees with computers because they don’t sleep, don’t make demands and work 24 hours a day. The payoff at the end of the episode is the manager himself is replaced by a computer.
Anyone out there working on a computer to replace OM’s?
on Jan 26th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Just what Salt Lake was starved for…..ANOTHER COUNTRY STATION!! That makes at least 4 FM’s plus a couple AM country stations that don’t show up in the Arbitrons like KSOP-AM and KTMI.
Country doesn’t strike me as being the hot format it was during the hay day (get it…..HAY day) of Garth Brooks and Achy Breaky Heart, but gee……
Jockless overnights in markets like Boise is one theing, but having jockless stations in major markets is more proof that radio is going down the crapper.
on Jan 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am
WOW. Just…WOW.
on Jan 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
How about a completely automated station. No jocks. No sales people. No admin. Just a lone engineer (probably on contract) and the OM. Everything automated. Perfect!
on Jan 28th, 2008 at 10:46 am
I never saw an industry such as radio work so hard to become so irrelevant to most of us..