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I have noticed that they do not have sports every hour Have a lot of traffic updates every 10 minutes which is good when driving
I believe the other Entercom All-News stations use sounders to begin the traffic. WCBS just had an entire set of jingles and signature music commissioned from scratch. I think it sounds good. It also changed the sports times since it is using the same sports update people as co-owned Sports station WFAN, so it is now doing sports at :12 and :42. Co-owned WINS still does it at :15 and :45.
KYW Philadelphia still uses its jingles (and teletype machine SFX, as does WINS). WCBS & WINS do business at around :25 and :55. WCBS does "traffic and weather together" on the 8's. WINS does traffic on the 1's. KYW does it on the 2's.
So far, all the original CBS-owned all-news stations (WCBS, KNX, KCBS, WBBM, KRLD and WWJ) run CBS News on the hour, as does WTOP (owned by Hubbard). The original Westinghouse all-news stations don't run CBS hourly news (WINS, KYW, WBZ, although WBZ runs it overnight during talk shows).
KYW Philadelphia still uses its jingles (and teletype machine SFX, as does WINS). WCBS & WINS do business at around :25 and :55. WCBS does "traffic and weather together" on the 8's. WINS does traffic on the 1's. KYW does it on the 2's.
So far, all the original CBS-owned all-news stations (WCBS, KNX, KCBS, WBBM, KRLD and WWJ) run CBS News on the hour, as does WTOP (owned by Hubbard). The original Westinghouse all-news stations don't run CBS hourly news (WINS, KYW, WBZ, although WBZ runs it overnight during talk shows).
Are you sure about WTOP? I thought they switched to ABC News in January 2018.
My understanding is Entercom agreed to continue CBS TOH news for a few years after the sale.
Whenever my dad had KNX 1070 or KFI 640 on back in the 2000's and it was let's say 3:00pm, the DJ would say his name and I would usually hear a short boom followed by a sound effect introducing the top of the hour of that guy's show. Has Entercom removed that feature, or is it still there?
What I just described might have been that traffic horn. I first remember hearing it around 1998/1999 listening in my dad's car. Most of my time was with FM, with a little bit of AM thrown in.
What I just described might have been that traffic horn. I first remember hearing it around 1998/1999 listening in my dad's car. Most of my time was with FM, with a little bit of AM thrown in.
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KNX and KFI did not have DJs in the early 2000's.
KNX has been all news since 1968 and KFI has been all talk since 1988.
>>>Are you sure about WTOP? I thought they switched to ABC News in January 2018.<<<
Yes, I see WTOP-FM now uses ABC News on the hour, as does the Sinclair-owned All-News station, KOMO-AM-FM Seattle. All other All-News stations carry CBS News on the hour, except the former Westinghouse stations, WINS, KYW and WBZ (except overnight).
Yes, I see WTOP-FM now uses ABC News on the hour, as does the Sinclair-owned All-News station, KOMO-AM-FM Seattle. All other All-News stations carry CBS News on the hour, except the former Westinghouse stations, WINS, KYW and WBZ (except overnight).
Those traffic horn sounds before every traffic report was KNX 1070. Most people identified that station for it's traffic segments. Why they got rid of them is a good question. And please, the excuse of adjusting with the times is lame. Just like KRTH getting rid of the Firecracker 300 years ago. Iconic shows, jingles, sound bits..etc... just leave them. You'll disappoint more than you'll ever regain.
The Range Game on the Price is Right still has the same sound effects since 1973..........If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Well, lessee here...for most of the last ten years they used the traffic sounder, KNX was limping along about 20th place with a 2.5, rain or shine. The January '19 numbers show them in 7th place with a 3.7.
I don't think they disappointed more than they regained.
KCBS San Francisco used a traffic sounder for years that was based on the tune of a slogan ("News and More on 74") that they had abandoned years before. But it was catchy, everybody knew it, so why change it? They finally did, but probably at least a dozen years after dumping the slogan.
KCBS also had an unrelated sounder that preceded the weather (that followed the traffic report). If I recall correctly, it was the only CBS O&O news station to play a weather sounder.
Some stations are slow to change. Often it's not so much "everybody knows it" as much as they haven't revised their music package---or the new one doesn't have a sounder they like as much. KCBS held onto "What's happening and why" for ten years. It took the death of the voice guy (Nick Michaels) for them to change it. They could have had the new talent say the line, but they chose to change it.
A whole thread about KNX changes, all related to imaging, all which occurred a few years ago...
And zero comments on PM Drive anchor Diane Thompson's retirement two weeks ago.
https://knx1070.radio.com/blogs/knx-says-bittersweet-goodbye-retiring-radio-vet-diane-thompson
She was very, very good - an improvement over Vicki Moore, her predecessor in the PM Drive. I do feel that her chemistry with Mike Simpson wasn't as good as when she worked previously with Jim Thornton. Mike Simpson does mesh well when he fills in for Dick Helton in AM Drive.
We shall see who they replace Diane with... she slid down to evening for about a year two years ago and Chris Sedens worked with Mike Simpson - a throwback to two male co-anchors. If they're looking internally at other, female voices - Heather Jordan who did weekend mornings for about a year and now seems to be working in some kind of editor/producer role - hear her doing live studio reports sometimes during middays or Jan Stevens, who works weekend evenings, both are tremendous news voices.
Of course, there are plenty of voices in market that are on the beach that might also be good fits.
And zero comments on PM Drive anchor Diane Thompson's retirement two weeks ago.
https://knx1070.radio.com/blogs/knx-says-bittersweet-goodbye-retiring-radio-vet-diane-thompson
She was very, very good - an improvement over Vicki Moore, her predecessor in the PM Drive. I do feel that her chemistry with Mike Simpson wasn't as good as when she worked previously with Jim Thornton. Mike Simpson does mesh well when he fills in for Dick Helton in AM Drive.
We shall see who they replace Diane with... she slid down to evening for about a year two years ago and Chris Sedens worked with Mike Simpson - a throwback to two male co-anchors. If they're looking internally at other, female voices - Heather Jordan who did weekend mornings for about a year and now seems to be working in some kind of editor/producer role - hear her doing live studio reports sometimes during middays or Jan Stevens, who works weekend evenings, both are tremendous news voices.
Of course, there are plenty of voices in market that are on the beach that might also be good fits.
She's okay. Her voice has a nice tone, but its a little bit soft, I think, for a drive time anchor on an all news station.
That "News and More on 74" slogan was from a period in the 80's when KCBS decided to go head-to-head with KGO, so they took out long blocks of news and replaced them with call-in talk shows. Needless to say, KGO was the 800 lb. gorilla, and kicked their butts, so the mixed format died after about 2 years, and KCBS went back to all news. All the signature jingles were dumped, except for that traffic sounder lasted at least another decade, IIRC.
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