When Emmis Broadcasting pulled the plug on country KZLA-FM (93.9) back in August, the company hung out a consolation prize: The station's country music format would continue to be streamed on KZLA.com.
Fast-forward four months. That didn't last long. KZLA.com has dumped the country music streaming, and is more or less dead. Emmis left this message on the site:
Thank you for visiting KZLA.com. We appreciate your passion for country music, which is why we offered the streaming of KZLA Country Music through the KZLA.com website while our station transitioned to the all-new Movin939.com.
We have now made a strategic decision to focus our energy on our new Movin 93.9 format. There are no plans to re-establish the KZLA stream or keep the KZLA.com website up and running. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Meanwhile, in other local radio news, KKBT-FM (100.3) has dumped morning man Tom Joyner, whose syndicated morning show was a bust here. Also, the station -- which dropped hip-hop for R&B earlier this year -- appears to be shedding is longtime "The Beat" moniker (which has been with the station since at least 1989). Instead, spots over the air have been touting 100.3 as "Magic" (or as the station spells it, "Majic").
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