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TRY THIS INSTEAD
New call-in number begins May 6th as KCAA gears up to go 24
hours
May 05, 2006
"It rolls off the tounge so nicely," laments Vince Daniels of
the phone number that his announcer, Jay Boatman gives out in
the opening billboard of The Many Moods of Vince Daniels,
now heard on K.C.A.A. in San Bernardino every Saturday morning
at 10:00am. "Triple eight 5, triple two has become perhaps as
familiar sounding as my theme song."
Unfortunately, along with that familiarity comes a phone line
filled with intermittent static that has plagued not only
Daniels show, but other K.C.A.A. locally produced programs
over the past few weeks. According to the stations Program
Director, Ray Peyton, "our engineers have tested and re-tested
the line. All of us are convinced that it's a phone company
problem that they refuse to acknowledge or deal with. Until
they do, and until they fix the static on line 1, we need to
offer our listeners another alternative."
That alternative, says Peyton, is to give out the number for
line 2. K.C.A.A. has several incoming lines to handle its
large volume of callers. Beginning May 6th and continuing
until further notice, the new number to call to be heard on
the air will be (909) 888-5224. That number will
roll-over to the other phone lines The number that we're all
familiar with (some hosts emphasize the 5222 as "KCAA") will
return as soon as the station goes 24 hours.
Daren Lane, General Manager of this daytime only station, said
today that possibly in two weeks, perhaps even a month from
now, K.C.A.A. will either go 24-hours a day, 7 days a week or
possibly to start out, will broadcast until 12:00am. "We just
aren't sure yet, but we do know it's coming in the next 2 to 4
weeks." Currently K.C.A.A. at 1050 on the AM dial transmits at
approximately 1400 watts, spanning over a 70-80 mile radius,
reaching into portions of Orange and Los Angeles Counties.
There has been talk of the station increasing its power to
upwards of 5,000 watts sometime within weeks or months after
they go 24/7. Sources close to the station say that due to an
unusually heavy rainy season, it has been difficult to run
soil tests at the transmitter site. "It's hard to say. The
increase in power may not even happen in the near term, but
who knows. We'll have to wait and see. Right now we simply
want to get our station staffed and programmed so that we can
fill up our 24 hour schedule," according to Lane.
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