104.9 FM rebrands again?

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104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby kal » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:22 am

Hard to keep track of 104.9 but it seems to have rebranded again, this morning to the KISS branding. A promo on News 1130 this morning welcomed the new station name.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby jon » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:37 am

Posted about an hour ago on Facebook by the station:
Here's the deal - SONiC has a new name – KiSS RADiO !
The name changes but the same amazing music remains plus we still have Commercial Free Mondays and all the people who were on SONiC, including of course "The Kid Carson Show” weekday mornings from 6 - 10 a.m.

Change your bookmarks – the new KiSS RADiO website is http://www.kissradio.ca. follow KiSS on Twitter @kissradio
KiSS RADiO on Facebook - Facebook.com/kissradiohits.

Phone number is still the same - 1-877-936-HITS!
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby kal » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:09 am

I notice that the post timestamps here are out by an hour or so.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby radiofan » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:23 am

kal wrote:I notice that the post timestamps here are out by an hour or so.


kal .. Check your timezone settings, maybe you're still set to DST? The twice yearly switches to and from Daylight time have to be done manually in your profile.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby kal » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:12 am

Where do you mean? I've never made any profile changes on this board. My device times are all OK.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby radiofan » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:14 am

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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby radiofan » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:16 am

kal wrote:Where do you mean? I've never made any profile changes on this board. My device times are all OK.


kal - Here's Jon's explanation from the last time change. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19217

Your last post shows a posting time of 10:12AM on my computer.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby kal » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:27 am

10:12 is correct but it's not showing that way for me. So I wandered into the control panel (never been there before) and observed that although the time zone is set correctly the radio button for DST in effect was set to on. I've turned that off but of course we will going to DST in a couple of weeks.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby Tom Jeffries » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:08 pm

:sign5:

How original.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby Russ_Byth » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:49 pm

Good grief. :violent1:
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby Tom Jeffries » Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:03 pm

Man, those Consultants are brilliant.

How much is this going to cost?

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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby jon » Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:57 pm

At first glance, it appears to be 30 years ago this year that KISS branding first came to Vancouver, to CKWX's FM station, as CKKS-FM.

When I was there for a 6-8 week contract at CP Air at the beginning of 1987, they appeared to be the AC station of choice, giving CFUN and Fred Latrimouille a run for their money.

Of course, Branding is one thing, and Music Format quite another. Speaking of CFUN, it is easy to forget that the call letters came before the Top 40 format, i.e. - a good example of Branding and Format diverging.
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby crs » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:07 am

This station has had more format changes than the Canucks have changed netminders :sign5: ! Signed on as STAR-FM in 1986 under the ownership of Fraser Valley Broadcasters. Since "Robbers" bought out FVB in '99 there have been 7 rebrandings. XFM signed on Millenium Eve and lasted less than 4 yrs. Along came Christmas FM for a month before the flip to CLEAR-FM which had a 5 yr shelf life; FM 104.9 "The Greatest Hits of All Time" which lasted 14 months; FUN-FM promised greater things in Nov '09 and ran out of gas less than 2 years later; Sonic FM hit the airwaves in Aug 2011. Which brings us to KISS-FM. :yahoo: :occasion7: And you thought the return of Virgin-FM was a hoot! :rockon:
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Re: 104.9 FM rebrands again?

Postby cart_machine » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:15 pm

Russ_Byth wrote:Good grief. :violent1:


Russ, could Standard Broadcast News be next to return?
You want to get ahold of Bob Neufeld?

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