Inland Empire's Kcal-fm Cuts Entire On-air Staff In Move To All-music Programming

Over nan weekend, nan Inland Empire power station, KCAL-FM 96.7, started playing euphony without immoderate on-air staff.

The Redlands-based power position laid disconnected each of its power personalities past week and transitioned into an “All Music, All nan Time” classical stone format.

“96.7 KCAL Rocks is turning nan page today. Thank you to each listener who made nan past section what it was,” nan station’s unit wrote successful a societal media post. “Classic rock. Nothing but music. All time crossed nan Inland Empire.”

The station’s seasoned power hosts, part-time and play fill-ins, were each trim from nan stone station, including Daryl Norsell, who worked astatine nan position for 42 years; Patrick Tish, who said he worked astatine nan position for 15 years and Nikki Preston. John DeSantis, nan evening big and programme head for nan past six years, confirmed nan layoffs successful a societal media post.

“They will beryllium moving to an automated, human-less format. To opportunity this is shocking is an understatement. I person a batch to process, and will beryllium saying much shortly,” DeSantis wrote. “But for correct now, I conscionable want to convey each of you for letting maine beryllium portion of nan KCAL family. It has been a power dream travel true. You will ever rock.”

The power position has served nan Inland Empire ever since first hitting nan airwaves successful 1965. KCAL is owned by Anaheim Broadcasting Corporation, which besides operates nan area’s classical hits power station, KOLA 99.9FM. Together, nan 2 stations scope complete 800,000 play listeners successful nan Riverside-San Bernardino market, according to Anaheim Broadcasting. The institution could not beryllium reached straight for a remark connected nan layoffs.

“We rebuilt KCAL astir nan euphony our listeners grew up on, nan songs and nan artists that made classical rock,” Kelly Sanders, nan main operating serviceman of Anaheim Broadcasting Corporation, said successful a news merchandise to nan Southern California News Group “KCAL will present a focused, accordant listening acquisition pinch broader entreaty for some our assemblage and advertizing partners.”

The merchandise besides noted that nan alteration “expands nan station’s philharmonic attraction and will person less interruptions and much euphony passim nan day” and did not reside nan layoffs, according to a study from nan OC Register.

This is nan 2nd awesome rustle to nan Inland Empire’s broadcast organization this summer. In June, the past section on-air hosts astatine Riverside-based KGGI-FM were laid off, successful iHeartMedia’s latest information of nationalist occupation cuts. In an soul memo, nan media elephantine said nan cuts were meant to restructure its power programming to amended “leverage” nan company’s technology.

Steve “Razz” Brazill started moving astatine KCAL FM successful 1987, arsenic nan station’s resident performance photographer and power personality. In a societal media post, he called KCAL his “home” and reminisced astir hosting unrecorded events astatine nan now-closed Whiskey Creek edifice successful Redlands.

“KCAL has been a portion of my identity. And I’m truthful happy to opportunity I ne'er really had coworkers, I had friends and family, and memories I’ll cherish forever,” wrote Brazill. “Being a portion of KCAL ended for each of america today, but those relationships won’t. I’ll miss seeing you each astatine nan studio, but I look guardant to seeing you successful existent life.”