This morning, 03/14, sometime during the 9am hour the WHK AM1420 broadcast air board shut down. Instead of Bob Frantz's show, they simulcast WHKW AM1220 until the problem was solved. WHK came back on before 10 a.m. Bob FRantz did not go into detail, but did share that their air board shut down. He, then, thanked the staffers who helped getting the board back up-and-running.
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WHK air board dump
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Does he do his show remotely or from the studios in indpendence?
I understood he also does 3 to 7 for WSPD in Toledo and I assumed that was from his own studio, unless he actually drives up there every day.
I also assume the WHK show is brokered as that would fit Salem's sucessful brokered religious station operations.
Their music stations seem to be more conventional.
I understood he also does 3 to 7 for WSPD in Toledo and I assumed that was from his own studio, unless he actually drives up there every day.
I also assume the WHK show is brokered as that would fit Salem's sucessful brokered religious station operations.
Their music stations seem to be more conventional.
Frantz isn't on WSPD - hasn't been for nearly 20 years.
He did mornings over there until 2006, when he came to WTAM to stop the bleeding after the failed Jerry Springer experiment in the 9-noon slot.
These days, Frantz does his WHK show, and is also Salem's top guy out of the bullpen to fill in for their national hosts when they're on vacation.
He did do an afternoon sports show in Toledo when he first started on WHK in 2015 on the then WLQR ESPN 106.5 (now known as WTOD-FM with a Christian format) but gave that up as he got more work as Salem's national fill-in guy.
I do believe he has a home studio, which allowed him to both his WHK Cleveland and WLQR Toledo shows for a spell, and I'm sure it came in handy during the Covid lockdown period.
Frantz's show is not brokered, as he is a paid employee of WHK (and Salem overall - as like I said he does a lot of national fill in work for them on top of his regular Cleveland show)
BTW, you know another Cleveland radio voice who has gone on to do a local talk show on a Salem "Answer" station - Bruce Hooley.
Hooley - a former OSU beat writer for the PD and Columbus Dispatch and later went on to do radio in Columbus (ticking off top men on Buckeye flagship WBNS with his criticism of former coach Jim Tressel) and here in Cleveland on WKNR 850 - does a daily 11a-1p show on WTOH 98.9 in C-Bus, which carries the same "Answer" conservatalk format as WHK.
The Salem Christian Talk and Teaching stations, such as WHKW, operate on a brokered programming framework. The preachers, national and local, buy their time and use their shows to seek donations to their ministries.
But the Conservative Talk stations, such as WHK, are only occasionally brokered. In the large markets, such as Cleveland, Salem employs the morning show host. (In smaller markets, there's no morning show, just syndicated programs.)
Obviously, the nationally syndicated talk shows, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Charlie Kirk, Sebastian Gorka and Brendan Tatum, are all paid employees. One show, that runs on both the talk stations and religion stations, the one-hour Jay Sekulow program, is paid. He spends a good deal of time seeking contributions to his legal foundation.
The Salem Christian Contemporary stations, including 95.5 WFHM, known as "The Fish," sell commercials as a secular station would. Nearly all large and medium markets have a Salem Religion and Salem Talk station, as well as some smaller markets. But I think there are only about ten FM music stations.
But the Conservative Talk stations, such as WHK, are only occasionally brokered. In the large markets, such as Cleveland, Salem employs the morning show host. (In smaller markets, there's no morning show, just syndicated programs.)
Obviously, the nationally syndicated talk shows, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Charlie Kirk, Sebastian Gorka and Brendan Tatum, are all paid employees. One show, that runs on both the talk stations and religion stations, the one-hour Jay Sekulow program, is paid. He spends a good deal of time seeking contributions to his legal foundation.
The Salem Christian Contemporary stations, including 95.5 WFHM, known as "The Fish," sell commercials as a secular station would. Nearly all large and medium markets have a Salem Religion and Salem Talk station, as well as some smaller markets. But I think there are only about ten FM music stations.
Did they also have had, or still have, in some southern markets, a Southern Gospel format? At least I heard about that years ago, although I have never actually heard a station with it.
On another note, I think that Jay Sekulow's one hour program only runs for a half hour, live at noon on WHKW, but runs for a full hour at 6 p.m. on WHK.
On another note, I think that Jay Sekulow's one hour program only runs for a half hour, live at noon on WHKW, but runs for a full hour at 6 p.m. on WHK.
My favorite Bob Franz memory remains from the big northeast blackout (that started in Twinsburg) when the only stations I heard left on the air were WTAM, WJR and CKLW. WTAM had some young sports guy on, whose name I can't remember, painfully struggling to deal with the story, who kept going back to "How about those Indians?"
Franz was called in along with newsman Cliff Baechle and saved the day. The coverage was simulcast on the CC FMs that were also on emergency power, I remember WMMS in particular.
I wonder if WTAM would be ready to handle a similar catastrophe today?
Franz was called in along with newsman Cliff Baechle and saved the day. The coverage was simulcast on the CC FMs that were also on emergency power, I remember WMMS in particular.
I wonder if WTAM would be ready to handle a similar catastrophe today?
Since WTAM is an LP-1 for EAS, they have redundant power systems at the transmitter and studio.
But, unless it is 6 AM to 7 PM Monday to Friday, there would be nobody there at most times. However, they are there for an activation of the EAS which only depends on the station being on the air and nothing else.
I typically listen to a local show on WTAM that runs up until midnight, when there's no sports-ball. It's mostly sports topics but also becomes a bit of a mixed bag.
I would assume Brinda/Manoloff/Rozycki are back at the downtown studio when doing their local shows?
Yes, they used to own "Solid Gospel" which is now known as "Singing News Radio" Salem however sold "Singing News Radio" to Sea Walker Media Corporation a few years ago. Salem never had any "owned" Singing News stations in Ohio I believe but the format is heard I know in Dayton Ohio on long time affiliate WGNZ AM 1110/104.3.
During the early days of Solid Gospel, it had a flagship FM in Nashville, TN but Salem ended up selling off those stations before they sold off the format.
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