WKRK Cleveland Becomes “Radio 92.3″

CBS Radio has flipped “92.3 K-Rock” WKRK Cleveland from Active leaning Alternative to Gold leaning Alternative as “Radio 92.3“. All jocks are out including the syndicated Opie & Anthony show. More at Ohio Media Watch.

“Live 105.3″ KLLI Dallas Becomes “105.3 The Fan”

Update 4:00pm: As predicted earlier today, KLLI has become All-Sports “105.3 The Fan” following a few hours of stunting with college fight songs. KLLI Morning Host Jagger will continue in mornings, while middayers Ben & Skin move to Afternoon Drive replacing Russ Martin.

Original Post 12/8/08 2:15am: Over the weekend CBS has registered 1053thefan.com. The site is already active on their servers pointing to the normal “website coming soon” note that their provider uses before activating a site.

In recent months CBS has flipped FM Talkers in Detroit and Baltimore to Sports with both flips occurring on Mondays. We’ll see how this plays out in a market with two existing Sports stations.

WLVE Miami To Change Formats

Update 12/25: At 10:00am Christmas morning, “Love 94″ did indeed drop its former Smooth Jazz imaging for Rhythmic AC as “93.9 MIA”. The station’s first hour included:

Will Smith – Miami
K.C. & The Sunshine Band – Get Down Tonight
Madonna – Holiday
Ricky Martin – Livin’ La Vida Loca
McFadden & Whitehead – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
Rihanna – Disturbia
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch (w/ Loleatta Holloway) – Good Vibrations
Earth, Wind & Fire – Let’s Groove
Expose’ – Come Go With Me
Justin Timberlake – SexyBack
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Prince & The Revolution – When Doves Cry
Marc Anthony – I Need To Know/Dimelo
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
George Michael – Faith
Beyonce – Crazy In Love

WLVE is promoting on its website the fact that the Smooth Jazz format will return after the New Year on an HD2 slot.

Original Entry 12/23/08: Yet another Smooth Jazz station will bite the dust this week as 93.9 WLVE Miami Beach, FL will change formats to Rhythmic AC as “93.9 MIA”. 939MIA.com was registered anonymously back on November 24 and transferred to the Clear Channel servers yesterday. The new station’s website can be seen at this moment at http://939mia.com/main.html. Core artists featured on the website include Jennifer Lopez, Prince, and Madonna.

WLVE is currently in all-Christmas music mode so we expect a flip will take place on December 26 or right after New Years.