tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199790262012-02-08T08:38:20.434-08:00Running two radio stations against the corporate broadcast world is scary...until you realize your backyard is you best friend.KZIQ Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03500697539600804621noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19979026.post-46825573624487079142008-11-10T17:41:00.001-08:002008-11-10T17:46:43.998-08:00

For those thy don't know we have a blog now on our website....KZIQ.com but it just doesn't have the feel of this one. So if this in fact is true (that I can literally post from my phone) perhaps I can get this bad boy up and running again. I have two other blogs here and would probably merge them all. We'll see.Sent from my iPhone with a really tiny keyboard.

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This from Wikipedia....The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required the holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced. The United States Supreme Court upheld the Commission's general right to enforce such a policy where channels

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There is a comedy writer I use for the show. I use him (his name is Tim Mizak) because he and I have a lot in common including our sense of humor. I didn’t realize how much we had in common until this little morsel…The dark print is the story….the indented part is the “humor”Being in your 40’s makes you miserable. Researchers conducted a study of over two-million people in 80 different countries

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We have talked about it on the air a little. Have you ever been through our intersection here? It is crazy. And to be totally honest, I have truly been shocked at how few accidents there have been here. Already there is a left turn lane from EB RC Blvd to Balsam and to China Lake, now they are going to add a left turn to Rite Aid. Then they are putting in a median to block WB RC Blvd access to B

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The reason why I say sort of is this survey was done in all of the high Desert and of course we only reach the IWV, with both of our stations. Amazingly with about 1700 calls made we came ion #1 with KZIQ and #2 with FoxTalk 1360. I am trying to get a breakout of the phone calls but with one of our competitors on the survey not even listenable in the IWV, it looks like we kicked some major butt

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Obviously, if you regularly check in to the web site you know we have had some problems. Turns out that our syndicated feed (the news headlines) provider went bye bye so the page basically refused to load. I have it working although I am not very happy with the speed. We're still working on it. For the AM fans out there, I should get that bad boy fixed tomorrow. Things have been great here albeit

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This secession thing has to go away. But let me embellish that. It is up to the council to get this done. We're not going to let it go silently in the night because we need to make sure it doesn't happen again. Ever. Nothing even remotely like this. We don't need half baked schemes coming from the Council. No ulterior motives. This is small town America and you get more done by BUILDING

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We are stoked. There has been a lot of talk since way back in '94 when the old KLOA crowd took off on a similar cruise. We played something country music and had a blast on the ship. We met new people, that whole dining thing was cool. Now the ships are cooler, with more toys, gizmos and gadgets. Let's go huh? I'd like to thank High Sierra Travel for teaming up with us to make this possible. Now

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It's always good news and bad news at the fairgrounds for the big 4th bash. We have great food, cold beer and live music from the IWV's best band, The Burners. But does it have to be so freakin' hot? It's 110 at 7:30. We have the music in place both here and on the radio. Your feedback, as always, is appreciated!

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So I am trying to post with my Crackberry. If it works, maybe I can post more. I have so many stories to tell. Our press club award, our American Idol trip and our take on secesiongate!So keep checking back, I promise it won't be three months!-Eric

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Good news and bad news today. We're installing our new studio furniture. That means some occasional on-air problems while we untangle the maze of wires. Madman is here and the crew from Horton Construction (they made the new modular cabinets). It's going to make this little space work a little better for us AND give us more counter top space. We will have everything done by this afternoon, but

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After too many bids for TOO much money....I decided to just re-do the web sites again...myself. I'm pretty proud of these too. I still await the ever important feedback from folks who use them everyday, but I accomplished my goals of:Loading faster.All of our programming represented.Access to all of our folks.Mp3 downloads and live streams.Now the AM stream situation is still tenuous at best.

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Wild day today (Saturday). We had Al and Gary's show this morning with live reports from the Home and Leisure Show and the April Fool's Classic Car Show in Old Towne. Then after that Fritz went live from Old Towne on the FM and then over to the Home Show. We got dug in for all of that and the Madman showed up to put on Cerro Coso Basball right next to me on the AM board. We have been doing a live

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And one to go. We're real happy with the results so far on the KZIQ.COM web site. It has all kinds of new goodies and the only delay in loading it up would be the rss headline feeds from the DI and Fox News. There is more content on the Big Show page and the mp3 podcasting files are easier to find as is the live stream. We also have some FAQ's for the technical stuff. There are more goodies on

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While we spend a lot of the 168 hours of the week on talk radio, we're very proud of our sports lineup. We've added Cerro Coso Baseball this season (thanks Coach Adams!) and we may throw in a few BHS baseball games. Next season we'll have BHS basketball (boys and girls) and we are working on first ever broadcasts of Cerro Coso women's basketball. BHS football? Well that will be on 92-7 The Coyote

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I sit here two day, of course being Monday and all, with sauce from the new Buffalo chicken sandwich from Carl's Jr. on my San Diego Chargers shirt. Yup...Monday.But...I have made my own day by starting to wade through the 3,000 or so 4th of July music cuts I have collected over the last 6 years. I am stoked already and putting together the first batch of tunes. That's what I do. I make a

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But I am very proud of this one. It is the GPAC Committee who will be helping develop a new general plan for the future of Ridgecrest and the IWV. Thanks to Nellavan for asking me!We had the Kern COG blueprint meeting last night and I have to tell you, if you missed it, you missed out. This one was for anyone to attend. There will be others. This really is an opportunity to be in on the ground

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So now I have some time to blog. There is probably a similar post from this time last year...but I just wanted everyone to understand how many hours the cast and crew put in for this fund raising efforts. Each song that a person is in practices 10-15 hours between February and March. Most people are in at least two numbers and there are many with three. Now add in the 3 plus hours on the first

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It has been on my calendar. It has been on numerous to-do lists. So today I FINALLY am going to post something. It's been part because of being hectic and part laziness and part trying to figure out the direction I want to take this blog. I now see why so many blogs I visit have gaps in dates of entries. So here I am with plenty to talk about.The AM has some changes, including the addition of

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In don't know if you saw it or not, but we (KZIQ) were awarded a special award from the Kern Council Of Governments for journalism for our community broadcasting. It is truly an honor to win, and first I want to thank Chip for MAKING me enter and to Steven Morgan for his support too. For us its validation for a year's hard work, but ultimately we want to share this award with our listeners. I

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It's Christmas Eve Eve here at the radio ranch and Kim and I are here working like fiends so we can take Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day off. We have had such a hectic, yet wonderful stretch leading to Christmas. Great parties. Great Friends.You know actually, it is amazing all of the new friends we have made this year. We also rekindled some relationships. Doing radio the way we have been doing

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As you've heard on our news today, the community came through once again. This is such a special place to live. I'm sure there are a lot of compassionate small towns out there, but they would have to go away to catch up with town's unquestionable loyalty.There were a couple of posts here in the comments section about the family. I have closed the comments for now and here's why. We knew some of

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Let's see if it's true....that the IWV works best at the last minute....we are doing a drive out front of the building ALL DAY tomorrow for the Shields family, who lost EVERYTHING in a house fire this past weekend. We are zeroing in on the kids and the 18 year old who starts a job at Big 5 this week. The list is on our web site at kziq.comThey are also looking for household items like silverware,

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It was one year ago today we stepped into the spacious facilities that is now Sunset Media KZIQ/KWDJ. What a wild ride it's been! We have so much to be thankful for. All of the help from the community. All of the well wishers, the hard workers, the volunteers. We have a nice little family here now and I want to be a little self indulgent an thank some of them right now. I will probably re-visit

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We are pretty much toe-ing the Merry Christmas line this year. It was nice to see some retail finally figuring out that Christmas is a holiday unto itself that brings joy to many people. The other holidays? Well those are okay too. Just don't lump us all together. Everyone deserves respect for theirs too.For country music AND talk radio? Oh yeah baby....it's Christmas time!A Community Spin

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As you may have heard, we have encountered several problems and we certainly appreciate your patience. We have John Gibson for an extra hour from 6p-7p, then Alan Colmes and then (hold your applause) Coast to Coast starts at its regular time, 10pm. There are still a few programming adjustments we would like to make in the meantime. One addition starts this Saturday with Bob Costas and his new

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Thanks to Trudy, we're back in full swing with our IWV Cares program. We're getting a lot of donations of cash and goodies to send to the troops. But we can always use more help. The cash is for postage and the goodies are for the troops. There are folks over there fighting and in harms way every day some of which don't have much family. They are so thrilled when they get something from the U.S.,

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And I need a nap! The week ahead will be fairly calm (as weeks around here go anyway). Gearing up for our next Road Show Stop on Saturday at Santa's Art Shop. We had a blast at Bud Eyre for the pancake breakfast. It's always great to be out and visiting with folks. People are asking about Ray. He is well, however, he has some stuff to tend to in Texas so Bud Klamt will be doing some fill in work

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We're taking the day off on Thanksgiving, but we're resting up for Friday. WHAT A DAY! We'll start off in the studio for an hour, then it's off to Bud Eyre for their first (we hope annual) "Back At You" Pancake breakfast. It's free and their chance to thank you for their success. They are doing a great job at taking care of the Valley with their great Toyota and GM cars, trucks and SUV's, but

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Even before that on Friday we have the Freedom Rally, to kickoff this year's Community Dinner. We're hoping a lunch crowd will turn out since it starts at Noon. We'll only keep you for about 50 minutes or so. You will hear from some great speakers including newly elected Sheriff Donny Youngblood. The Farris Family Singers will be singing some great patriotic tunes and the Habitat for Humanity

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We were so excited about the turnout yesterday. I don't think our eyes were deceiving us. At the Kerr McGee Center from 5 until closing hundreds of people were waiting (most patiently) for their turn to cast their ballot. I swear I will get pictures up. I need to go buy batteries for my camera!We set out to do a job in April. I talked to Chip and then we talked to Al Huey and put a plan in motion

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What a weekend! Thursday night, in front of a limted crowd, we still managed to have a great time. Friday was a better crowd, but threatening weather made for a little lighter crowd, Saturday afternoon we batlled the rain, but Saturday night we, well, battled the rain and the wind. Sunday was SO nice, we stayed longer. It was great. All in all, we have away a bunch of t-shirts, stickers and, a

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No, not really. Wre've just been so busy here. Okay, we did manage to take a three day weekend but it was to get ready for the next stretch of road show stops. We work every day until the 22nd. Yikes! But it's all good, because we get to be out and about with everyone. Keep listening because we are going to do something un-heard of during the Desert Empire Fair. More on that later. The other

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They had the fundraiser dinner last night at Charley's and it was a huge success. They were able to donate $800 and Chip gave another $150 to the families of the accident victims. It's another example of the great work this community does. Speaking of...We had a blast Friday night at the USO fundraiser. We raised almost $6000 form that including the wonderful $2600 that Peggy from the Swap Sheet

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We finish and unwind from the Road Rally weekend. Great job, Southern Sierra Boys and Girls Club. Also, great job from Habitat for Humanity! We were absolutely amazed they framed an entire house in a day and a half. It's on it's way to the devestated Gulf Coast. We watched the unveiling of the all new Superdome last night and on one hand it was amazing they got that done in a year and certainly

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So after talking to our financial guru, Andy Barkate, he suggested we were going about this high gas price thing all wrong. He suggested we through out an offer for a free advertising package for a place willing to lower the price a substantial amount per gallon. In this case it was ten cents a gallon and someone took us up on it. It was One Stop Market on China Lake Blvd. They dropped the price

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We finally have some stuff on the Podcast page. There are links to podcasts and videocasts for Access Hollywood and The Final Lap (our new NASCAR feature!) plus you can download the last weeks worth of The Coyote Report (Ray's News), The Coyote Calendar and Joy Grdnic. Now the big challenge....can I keep them updated? LOL. We'll see. This weekend we'll be mobile during the Boys and Girls Club

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First, on the web site, click on that Sara Evans button! It's your chance to score a trip to L.A. to meet Sara Evans and catch Dancin' With The Stars. I heard she didn't do to well, but she could fall down several times and I would STILL think she looks good! :pHope to see you at the Women's Center Concert Friday night. It's for a great cause and we're going to have a lot of fun. I'm a little

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Well obviously. The gremlins got into absolutely EVERYTHING. So now September is here and we have lots to talk about. Today was our 9-11 tribute, in the morning. I didn't get to do eveyrthing I wanted to do, but we still had a nice program. I'm still trying to get ahold of Glenn Beck's last segment from today. It gave me goose bumps. He is an incredible radio talent and I am very proud to have

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Yeah, it was toasty...and considering all of mother nature's challenges, it was a great event. Of course I am talking about the Small Business Expo, put on by the Swap Sheet, the Ridgecrest Chamber and Hometown Radio 92-7 The Coyote! There were over 100 vendors sweating it out and I'm not sure of the total head count for attendance but we had a lot of folks brave the icky, steamy halls to check

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One of our goals, when we came over here, was to eventual make everyone say, "man you guys are everywhere!". Not sure if we are there yet, but we have something going on almost every single weekend from now through October here in the Valley, and our plan is to be there. To sweeten the pot a little is being an Old Towne Ridgecrest business. The difference between working for a regional station

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Well, not that we don't try to kick butt daily here, but you know you've been there too. A little complacency sets in. The whole fat and happy thing. You drop off your game a little. It's amazing, doing this "boutique" style (as they say in L.A.) the domino effect that happens when you kick it in gear. The Small Business Expo is a perfect example. We have come through many crossroads on our

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”On Tuesday we will celebrate our Nations Birthday. In July 1776 the Continental Congress courageously voted to declare independence from Great Britain. The "Declaration of Independence"

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I promise! Things here at the Coyote and Fox Talk have been going great. We are so pleased with the response we've had to Fox Talk. We are also happy that this month we could celebrate 6 months of service to this community! This week we started "The Big Show Part 2!" It airs afternoons from 3pm to 6pm. It's a continuation of our morning program and it's pretty cool! Tonight we have another

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It has been a long haul for the candidates AND for the radio station. We have tried to present all candidates. Some of them have declined to be on the air. I'm not sure what that's about, unless it is a carry over from an ongoing reputation that the media has in being somewhat of a sabateur. We certainly don't do that here, allowing an open forum for the candidates to get their message out. We'll

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A week ago we learned a fast and furious lesson in emergency preparedness when the entire city went 7 hours without power. It also put a halt to the grand weekend plans several of us had so we are hoping to resume those plans this weekend. Yay!! TGIF!!! All in all it was a pretty quiet week around here. Everyday we fine tune the AM logs a little more. It's the same process we went through

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So all this time, I have whined about not having routine. Well duh! It's exactly what I have been going through. It IS routine to have some technical problems. It IS routine for the show to feel a little different every day. It IS routine that the competition is going to do stuff to piss me off. It IS routine that the power goes off....oh wait, well that one maybe not so much. It's just me trying

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That's what Edison has told us. Everything has been repaired and anything new that happens would be a new incident. Huh? Well I suppose there is some comfort in that. I was outside a little bit ago and a raven landed close by. I looked at him and yelled "stay away from the @#$%^&*&@ power!". By the end, at around 7pm Friday when all of the power returned, we all knew that we weren't as prepared

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A few programming issues, a couple of technical bugs, and our former boss reared his head. I guess it galls him that we're even still in business. I'm certain that this feeling is closely tied to the fact that he would always talk to me like I didn't know what I was doing. Sour grapes from me? Yeah, but the blog is also here for some occasional venting. After hearing their AM station I am pretty

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So we're now beginning week two removed from the madness of the Fair, the NAB and the big car sale. My mind is full of thousands of little things to do to get both stations totally up to snuff. I guess the biggest thing si to whip both web sites into shape. Yup, there is an AM web site at http://www.foxtalk1360.com . Right now it's just our weekday lineup. I'm still a firm believer that if you

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We finally did it! It's on the air. There were a few programming issues, what with Mr. Snow taking the White House gig, but it's going very well. So well, in fact, that when the Angels pre-empted Rush yesterday, we received a lot of phone calls. That's a good news, bad news deal. I don't like anyone to be unhappy, but it was nice to know we had that many listeners. This has not been easy. Here's

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I've said this before but it happens a lot around here. "What a Week!" We started off the week nice and calm and ended in a pattern of immeasurable, but controlled, chaos. You put 4 people into a studio and the energy is out of control! It was so much fun! I got a lot of positive feedback from our listeners about the four of us in the studio Thursday and Friday. We have worked really hard to

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...was, I need DOUGHNUTS! Remember, I'm leaving the hot country in a couple of hours for the cool IWV and need all the fuel I can get!Ray

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Is, we need your donuts please. Am I right? You should plan to stop by and say hello to Ray either here or at the remotes, which by the way will be at the Fair Grounds on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11-2. -Eric

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Our Radio LifeAfter a few months of broadcasting the news daily, I finally get to visit the station for the first time! Looking forward to being on the air with Eric on Thursday and Friday of this week (April 20 and 21).Ray

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This is my 14th year in the IWV and we have gone through several programming changes over there and of course changing from Adult Contemporary to Country here. We put an ad in the paper this week for the AM (the transmitter is here!). It was just a general "heads up" for the talk fans out there. This is the first time I have EVER gotten a complaint call BEFORE we've gone on the air.Today-two

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Day to day business clouds the mind somewhat and keeps me from keeping my eye on the big picture, but the last couple of days with all of the phone calls during the Big Show and watching the daily web hits grow, and an increase in e-mails, it has reminded me to remind you that if you live in the Indian Wells Valley, this is YOUR radio station. We take several calls a day from people with ideas

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So this morning we're trying to take listener calls. Our question of the day? What is your favorite Crime Forensics show? We're slowly but surely getting calls. This has been my goal the whole time and we most certainly will be taking on more heady issues, but today, we'll just get the bugs out. Fritz is the call taker and he is editing the calls down for airplay. But our bottom line and what has

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Well, the trials and tribulations continute, but we are getting so close to getting this done. Also, there have been some changes to the lineup. I will keep it a secret for now, but most of the names remain intact (inclusing Rush-you ditto heads) but we have a pretty dynamic guy opening for him in the mornings. It's all coming down just like I thought. All at the last minute. We are expecting our

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Ziq, pronounced Zeke! Brian M. came up with this name first so he dinner for two at the IWV Lodge! If you'll notice Ziq is the last three letters of our call sign. Plus you can't get anymore country than Ziq! Congratulations Brian, and thanks to all the entries we received. There were so many great ones submitted! We plan to announce some of the entries we got over the next week so you can

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If you've noticed a lack of updates here and on the website it's a sign of just how busy we have been. We are hard at work on the AM station and every day get just a little farther with it. I am really excited by the programming we have scheduled. Just hang in there a bit longer and I promise we will blow you away.How do you like the morning show? I am so excited that it's been extended an

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Mixed emotions this week. It's the final week of preparations for the Ridgecrest Chamber's Star Follies. 65 of us, usually have a blast on show night. I'm not sure if eveyrone realizes it, but we spend many hours over about a month and a half, preparing our "numbers". No matter how much we doubt ourselves, the show always comes together on show night and we have a blast. The concept of the show

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Rain finally has made it's way into our valley. Thank goodness because I don't know about you but this dry winter is killing me! Sitting here at my desk I can hear the cars drive through the puddles and out of the corner of my eye I can see the headlights of cars. A much different scene than where we previously worked. It's a warm rain too. It's not the cold rain that leaves you shivering all

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Had a somewhat successful day at the transmitter site yesterday. I will say the AM is progressing and now we look set for a mid-March startup. Sorry for the delay, but we will NOT cut any corners with this project. I plan to get some info on the AM website soon. There's just a splash page there now at http://www.foxtalk1360.com . On the FM side, we picked up s station vehicle yesterday. It's

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I have to say I am surprised at the number of people who are reading this. I only know this because of all of the comments about a previous post, and the fact that I haven't posted much lately. As we get further into the day to day here of running a radio station some of the luster has worn off. Or at least that "new radio smell". Regardless, this has still been a daily joy and I hope it shows in

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Hi everyone,It's Fritz here. I just wanted to stop in and throw in my two cents worth on being a part of KZIQ. First off, it's been very cool for me to be working with Eric again! When Pony and I left Ridgecrest to do Radio in other towns my biggest regret was not only leaving a town I really love but not working with Eric anymore. To not only be working with Eric again but helping to build a

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I am a morning person. I'm up on the weekends by 6 or 7am and during the week I'm up at 5am. Late nights kill me. Last night the station was invited to the VIP night at the new nightclub in town, "Club U" or "Club Unicorn". The festivities began at 8pm and we got home just after midnight. What made it so exhausting is that we decided to spend the day in Lancaster/Palmdale first. My husband,

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We just got home from Follies rehearsal. We'll talk plenty about that coming up. A couple of things though. First, I am posting with my PSP. This little device allows me to go online, check my e-mail, play Madden Football, and listen to tunes. Cool huh? Next, I just want to thank the HUNDREDS of people who write e-mails, call in, or stop by. This has been the single most rewarding job I have ever

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It is unfortunate that there are people in this world so jealous of someone's entrepreneurial spirit that they must do what they can to quash that. Eric, continue to expect this to happen. Sad little people will try what they can to not allow your success. Just be happy that these people are in a very very small minority. The majority of the Indian Wells Valley supports your station!Ray

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If you are a regular visitor to the blog, you know a couple of things already. First of all, after a pretty emotional ending where we used to work, and getting everything together here, it's been very nice to just worry about OUR business and not so much what's going on down the street. Until now. This blog was for listeners and family who wanted a little insight as to what was up around here.

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Ok, so Kim and I are leaving town today. Part business, part pleasure. We're leaving our baby in the hands of the very capable Sara. This is a huge step because if something happens I won't be within blocks to fix it. Not that I can fix everything.We now have a very viable (and affordable) plan to get the AM up before baseball season. There's your heads up Ditto Heads.Fritz has been by this week.

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One month ago if someone had asked me if I would know our traffic and billing software as well as I do now, I would have laughed for a good five minutes. I've got it down. We have been using it faithfully for the past week and even sent out bills from it. Our weekend shows ran pretty smooth and everyday we find something that may need to be edited a little differently. It's all part of the

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The streaming server was updated this past monday, it was operating at 40kbps, the upgrade brought the stream up to 56kbps which allows users on dial-up to still recieve the stream with little or no buffering, plans for a possible broadband server is in the works. Which will operate at 192kbps giving listeners CD quality audio. Details will be posted when the service becomes availiable.For now

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So much to do this week. As a matter of fact, it is becoming mind boggling. I have Microsoft Outlook and other tools to keep myself organized, but there are so many BIG projects to do, I feel like I'm chasing my tail every day. We have an engineer coming by this week to get a snapshot of the various projects he needs to oversee and I think Kim and I are going to try to head out of town for a day

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Several things to cover this morning...First, I left a couple of thank yous out and they were pretty big. Thanks to Sam and Trudy. They were such a big help in the first scary days. Sam was funny asking the girls to step aside, while he single handedly painted the front office. We have some furniture too. Trudy is and has always been a huge supporter with her kickass talks and of course all of

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Wow! What a great week. Eric had several guests this week in regards to the Larkspur Apartment Complex, Mr. IWV, Operation High Desert Cares and more! Senator Ray Ashburn stopped by yesterday morning and we broke into our regular program to bring our listeners answers about BRAC. We really are bringing back local radio to Ridgecrest.On Tuesday we hosted our Ribbon Cutting for the Chamber of

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Watching the Golden Globes last night, it reminded me that I need to do some thank you's, and I will do these on the air too.To Sara and Kim for all of their work making this place look liveable and a special one to Kim for putting up with me saying, "I'll be right home". Plus there'll be more thank you's to them because they have a LOT of cool things planned!Glenn....there really isn't a grunt

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The big day is here, in just about 10 hours the ribbon cutting in front of the station is about to happen and i'm excited.Steve and I have been busy from 10am to 7 pm re-arranging the studio, wires and all.We've had lots of visiters coming in giving their appreciation in Eric's endeavor in bringing the IWV a local station, Let me say thank you to everyone listening, and visiting the website.We're

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OK, Eric...Keith...I'm thinking you guys have been working too hard lately. You're beginning to hallucinate. Wires dancing across the desk...honestly! You should see the wires in the Texas Newsroom. They don't dance around. They can't. There's too many of them. It's crowded. Although, when I'm listening to the station over the net, I swear my modem and router lights are keeping beat to

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Eric has been trying to rid the automation system of a nagging unknown glitch, so far it has happened everyday at the same time, but the system logs don't show what is causing the problem. I'm guessing that there is a corrupted file that may be the root of the problem, coming up with a solution is going to be interesting because we don't want to take the system down and re-enter everything by

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A lot of exciting stuff is happening as we get closer to the weekend, we have a live remote coming up this Saturday, which will be my first.Eric will be adding Podcast to the website soon which will be neat to go with everything that is there.I also got a peek at the window/bumper stickers, they look awesome!**NOTICE**There will be a major upgrade to the Shoutcast server soon, right now it has

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As we start a new week I think it's time to reflect on the past week and what a great one it's been! Only 4 days and we have been busy! We started the week off with our sign and banner being mounted on the building. Thank you to all of you who honked! We heard you! Be on the lookout for the new Coyote Decals coming to a vehicle near you! There will be more information coming on how to get your

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Where do I start with this? Okay, there is a new apartmenet complex possibly coming to town. The folks who live near this proposed property are pretty upset because it is going to change the whole dynamic of their mostly quiet neighborhood. Well, lets face it. Most neighborhoods in the Valley are quiet. Adding hundreds of residents in a couple of large lots is a pretty drastic change. There are

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For the past week and a half we have had a banner hanging on our building to let everyone know where we are. We have been waiting for this day from day one. Our sign is here!! Yay!!! It is awesome! Ralph did a superb job and I just can't say enough about it! It should be up tomorrow sometime. Look for it and when you drive by and see it give us a honk to let us know! We sure would appreciate it!!

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I actually took a day off yesterday (New Year's Day). Unbelievable. Of course I felt guilty. For a minute. I think the true testimony to the teamwork around here, is that after a week this baby will run on cruise control. I updated the weater twice on Saturday and we're on top of it today. It's raining like a big dog! Ridgecrest Blvd. has about a foot of water running in the gutters. Wow. In case

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Glad to hear good things about Verizon! My nephew, Brad, works for them somewhere in the Inland Empire and makes "house calls". I guess I should ask him if he's ever worked with crazy radio people, huh?-Ray

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Discount Verizon as my source of stress earlier. Great job Kim. He was here a little after 8 and managed to make sense out of our phone system. I feel obliged to say this because 1) I made a disparaging remark earlier and 2) the quality of work and customer service was noteworthy. He went the extra mile. Thanks to Kim and Justin at Verizon in Ridgecrest!-Eric

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Yesterday, we hear tell that some earlier postings on this blog may have upset some folks, where we used to work. My apologies for that. Kind of. While we continue to thrive in our new environment and control our destiny a little more, I can't help but harken back to days of yore. We can create names for the other "characters" all we want, but there are also two things at work here. One, our

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It is now well past my bedtime. In the past, Eric would not phone me beyond 8PM unless there was some kind of breaking news (and it needed to be REAL news!). Now, the trio are probably still at the radio station after 8PM and I am still awake at 10PM.It really isn't much of a challenge doing the news 1500 miles away...I'm working no different than before. I still use the phone and the computer.

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Could it be another dead furry friend? There is some kind of smell coming from the back room now. We think that it may be a dead mouse or worse, a rat. Our building sits next to an abandoned building and open desert. We knew that we had mice but since our last one had expired we haven't seen any "presents." There also haven't been any more relatives in our 3 traps. We also knew that rats were

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Day number two of the Big Show and I have to tell you I am so pumped! Thanks to all of the callers and well wishers...it's making me think we have a chance. Had our first contest this morning and I had a bunch of contestants. Hans won a CD! I am going to try to come up with some sort of regular tricky contest.One problem is driving me crazy though. I spent three hours yesterday loading music. I

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Yesterday morning (12/26/05) the Big Show launched with Eric at the helm. We had switched our format at 11pm Christmas night from Christmas Music over to True Country 92.7 "The Coyote." Congratulations Ridgecrest, you have your station back!I listened from about 7am until The Big Show's 9am end. Eric tested the call in system with Ray Watters, our news man in Killeen TX. Why is our news man in

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The new 92-7 FM The Coyote will hit the air on Monday (well technically Sunday night). I know we'll have some bugs, but hopefully they'll be few. The one thing that has struck me during all of this has been the wonderful reception we have gotten from everyone. The help we have received here in our building and the outpouring from even people passing on the street. We have a tremendous location

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Eric got the automation up and running!! It wasn't easy by any means and it did require a phone call to tech support but now things seem to be working great! However Murphy's Law did give us a bump in the road. The board for the production started giving us some static. Once we switched the board out static was gone. Is there a goblin in our studio?Kim and I hashed out accounts today and came up

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The latest report on Mickey....He is dead. If he has relatives it is not yet known. I found his limp lifeless body in the space next to my desk first thing this morning. Glenn came and cleaned him up and then he worked in the back most of the day putting tape and mud over the drywall in the back. It looks so much better than it did and the temperature difference is amazing!We took a sneak peak at

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Yup, third straight night being here after 8pm. It's okay though. I told someone the other night, that working for someone else for 12-15 hours in one day is awful. Doing it for yourself is wonderful. I got everything squared away with the web site today. It's up-sort of- at http://www.kziq.com. The whole wiz bang site will be up Sunday night. We got some newpaper ads together to run through the

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Talk about disorganized! I came from my neat little desk with my neat little files organized alphabetically. A closet with some (not many) office supplies and a normal layer of dust and clutter in the office. This place looks like it has not been a working office for 10 years!! Where are the contracts, the copy? We have filing cabinets but no filing system! As we uncover more and more treasures

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As you might have seen in the local papers, we have gone out on our own. Slowly but surely WE were becoming the corporate radio pinheads. Our wonderful Valley is where it's at and we aim to prove that the IWV CAN support its own radio stations.We have KZIQ-FM (92.7) and KWDJ-AM (1360). The AM will be NewsTalk with some Fox hosts coming up plus more. Hopefully that will be up by January sometime.

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