Big A, slight correction, maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, but it's 6 hours in the middle of the day Saturday and 5 hours late morning Sundays. Regardless, you're rightin most dayparts. If KOMO were to go back to running talk 9A-3P, would they still be considered a news station? If so, how much talk programming do they need to have to not be considered such? Board Op as for WYAY, what do they do on the days when Braves are off or out of season?
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Could you really call KOMO all news anymore?
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Other examples would include the several decades when KNX in Los Angeles ran old-time radio drama on Sunday evenings or any news station that has carried play-by-play such as WCBS in NYC or WBBM in Chicago.
Once again, you seem to be looking for some legal definition, and there is none. Who would be doing the considering you're talking about? Nobody. Maybe you.
News/Talk is a specific format where hosts talk about the news. The two talk shows on KOMO are not news talk shows, but advice shows. They are, AFAIK, infomercials. Therefore, they're not news/talk shows. They'd simply a break in format. As others have pointed out, lots of news stations have broken format, and no one ever questioned whether or not they're news stations. When WCBS carried the Yankees, they weren't considered a news/sports station. There's no such thing. So in my opinion, you're focused too much on the label.
Advice is cheap. To make it a psuedo-talk show takes paid voice actors, a specific product the sponsor of this program can't get away with selling at retail outlets. Or some time sharing/real estate scam that always transitions to a web address, a toll free line and inevitably, the happy subject of your bank/credit card information.
They are, IN FACT, infomercials.
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In reality there's seven talk shows on the weekends. And the station still keeps the format to a certain extent (traffic on the 4s, news blocks at TOH/BOH, etc) and still runs its regular spots during those show's commercial breaks. But since the show creators still pay KOMO for the programming time, they're really pseudo-informercials.
I've heard most All News-branded stations across the country running all sorts of paid or religious programming mixed in with public affairs content on the weekends. WTOP, back when they were owned by Bonneville, used to run Mormon church content Sunday morning. It doesn't make them a religious station.
Except for sports game coverage, weekend ad rates for most stations are nil. KOMO and KVI running their paid-talk shows actually do a decent job at bolstering revenue from an otherwise dead time slot.
Except for sports game coverage, weekend ad rates for most stations are nil. KOMO and KVI running their paid-talk shows actually do a decent job at bolstering revenue from an otherwise dead time slot.
When the Braves are off this season, they have been airing Mark Levin. Last year they aired a hodgepodge of talk hosts doing shows for Atlanta (but many of them were out-of-town).
However, WYAY announced in May 2014 they were no longer strictly a news station, and added a mid-day talk show. Since then, they've added others, including the syndicated Mark Levin at nights. They currently do news only in morning and afternoon drive. The rest of the day, they are news/talk:
http://www.newsradio1067.com/
But once again, this is a very different situation from KOMO.
And even with the changes, their ratings haven't improved. But their finances have.
http://www.newsradio1067.com/
But once again, this is a very different situation from KOMO.
And even with the changes, their ratings haven't improved. But their finances have.
I knew they had added that talk show middays, but wasn't sure what they were doing the rest of the time. This has actually turned out to be a really interesting discussion. A couple points I wanted to make, I never really considered sports broadcasts as a different format since they have set schedules that aren't consistant. Yes baseball is on just about every night this time of year, but come October, it seems to be relegated to the sports stations unless the local team whose flagship isn't a sports station is in the playoffs. The old time radio thing that David brought up is quite interesting. Speaking of that, I've found that KYFQ runs Adventures in Odysey every night at 7 for those that still like to hear that stuff.
Also, why can't KOMO get better music beds? It sounds like they went on the first royalty free music website they found and clicked the first package.
If nothing else, the intro to "Tall Cool One" Robert Plant makes a great news opener
The kindler and gentler KOMO beds were by consultant orders.
Oh yes, I'm sure that would skyrocket the numbers.
No, but it might improve the overall presentation. KIRO does a really good job of this.
The weather bed reminds me too much of the Seinfeld theme (for whatever reason).
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