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Chad Benson Show on KRLD

You may be right but many times I had to just set aside my personal opinions to do my job at a few radio jobs. The guy quit because of a programming decision that is not part of his job description. That's pretty childish in my book.
 
bturner1 said:
You may be right but many times I had to just set aside my personal opinions to do my job at a few radio jobs.
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Sure. Ya gotta eat, and ignoring the bad is sometimes necessary in the workplace.

But the job market is presently the most favorable to rank-and-file employees as it has been since the end of the most recent military draft. There is presently little reason for employees to put up with anything from management, because there is always another decent job around the corner.
 
bturner1 said:
The guy quit because of a programming decision that is not part of his job description. That's pretty childish in my book.
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On the contrary, my hypothesis is that he didn't want to be associated with a performative bigot. As a social media manager, which is what Rivita was, he may well would have been in the position of having to provide support services to someone who has expressed values inimical to his own, and was highly likely to continue doing expressing those values. In this case, it went beyond a simple difference of opinion. Once again, values matter. I think Rivita has shown an admirable amount of integrity and was willing to pay the price by quitting without having something else lined up. On X, Kyle Clark of Denver's KUSA wrote, "it's people like Rex that help me keep my faith in what journalism can and should be." You may pooh-pooh such a statement, but I see Clark's work almost every night and he's the real deal. Values matter and ethics matter.

No doubt, Rivita has options, particularly if he's willing to move. He doesn't seem to be someone whose skills are out of date. What's out of date here is KRLD's approach to programming, running headlong into the demographic dead-end of angry old white men who are upset that the world has changed around them. We've already had a brief discussion in another thread that this type of programming turns off younger listeners - really, probably anyone under the age of 45 - and, if it moves to FM radio, it's going to render FM as unappealing to them as AM is today. That should serve as a warning.
 
bturner1 said:
You may be right but many times I had to just set aside my personal opinions to do my job at a few radio jobs. The guy quit because of a programming decision that is not part of his job description. That's pretty childish in my book.
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I think he's doing the right thing. I suppose Rex Ravita doesn't have a mortgage and family to support, so he can resign on principle. Good for him!

I just don't understand why a News Radio station, even if it wants to cut costs, would put a pro-Trump, conservative talk show host on in middays. It could have easily moved Dave Ramsey into Noon to 3pm. That's when the show is done live anyway. Ramsey is one of the most popular syndicated talk shows and it's not political. KRLD already runs Ramsey at night. It could simply take him live, then run CBS Eye on The World in late nights, which is also not a right-wing show. And since KRLD is a CBS Radio affiliate, it would take little effort to add Eye on The World to its schedule.

As I said before, an All-News station shouldn't run a polarizing show, either on the right or left.
 
Gregg. said:
an All-News station shouldn't run a polarizing show, either on the right or left.
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How long as this line unfortunately been blurred by radio companies? All-news stations have to be one of the smallest format pools that exist, and most markets only have "News/Talk" stations that have a fraction of any hour devoted to "news, weather and traffic" while the rest of the hour is Conservative Talk (which, if there was any integrity in the c-suite, is how the station should report itself). Perhaps Audacy thinks they can pull this off in a conservative-leaning market, but the juxtaposition becomes very apparent to listeners who are expecting news but now getting opinion.

The only integrity that really means anything is the integrity of the bottom line; if the online blowback dies down and there's no palpable dip in ratings/revenue, what's the imperative for KRLD to bring the news block back? We'll have to wait until the next few books to see how that shakes out, and I imagine management will enjoy the cost savings in the meantime.
 
I personally would never opt for a talk show of any flavor during the day on an all news station...after 7pm or later would be a different story but going for a politically-charged talk show would not be my target. I'm thinking the Dave Ramsey, now gone Clark Howard and that guy from Denver doing the consumer advocate show (his name escapes me). Local or Texas-centric shows would take priority.
 
John Bachelor (Eye on the World) is very much in the right wing camp, just more erudite than the likes of Benson.

Nice to see a mention of Kyle Clark on this thread. He's a star, very talented, great sense of humor and sharp at what he does. Makes TV news much more interesting than most.
 
Andy Travis said:
Nice to see a mention of Kyle Clark on this thread. He's a star, very talented, great sense of humor and sharp at what he does. Makes TV news much more interesting than most.
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Some of his snark takes a little getting used to, but Clark is one of the strongest interviewers I've seen in a long time, very quick to catch politicians (in particular) in their contradictions and inconsistencies. KUSA generally has surprisingly aggressive coverage compared to most TV stations.
 
Mark Roberts said:
On the contrary, my hypothesis is that he didn't want to be associated with a performative bigot. As a social media manager, which is what Rivita was, he may well would have been in the position of having to provide support services to someone who has expressed values inimical to his own, and was highly likely to continue doing expressing those values. In this case, it went beyond a simple difference of opinion. Once again, values matter. I think Rivita has shown an admirable amount of integrity and was willing to pay the price by quitting without having something else lined up. On X, Kyle Clark of Denver's KUSA wrote, "it's people like Rex that help me keep my faith in what journalism can and should be." You may pooh-pooh such a statement, but I see Clark's work almost every night and he's the real deal. Values matter and ethics matter.

No doubt, Rivita has options, particularly if he's willing to move. He doesn't seem to be someone whose skills are out of date. What's out of date here is KRLD's approach to programming, running headlong into the demographic dead-end of angry old white men who are upset that the world has changed around them. We've already had a brief discussion in another thread that this type of programming turns off younger listeners - really, probably anyone under the age of 45 - and, if it moves to FM radio, it's going to render FM as unappealing to them as AM is today. That should serve as a warning.
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I'm an old white man over 65 and this kind of programming turns me off. Back in the 80s I listened to talk radio all the time. Left wing, moderate and even Art Bell late at night. Now I go out of my way to avoid AM radio except when I need local traffic and weather on my drive to work. KRLD is my go to station for the drive to and from work and I like hearing the CBS Evening News on the way home, but I will switch to Sirius or Spotify if anybody like Benson comes on.
 
Old Grey Coyote said:
I'm an old white man over 65 and this kind of programming turns me off. Back in the 80s I listened to talk radio all the time. Left wing, moderate and even Art Bell late at night. Now I go out of my way to avoid AM radio except when I need local traffic and weather on my drive to work. KRLD is my go to station for the drive to and from work and I like hearing the CBS Evening News on the way home, but I will switch to Sirius or Spotify if anybody like Benson comes on.
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Let’s put it this way: I’m on Medicare and I used to work in all-news radio. I didn’t care much for talk radio even back then, especially the kind of talk radio whether any idiot would call in and just bloviate ignorantly. That’s most of what it is now, unfortunately.
 
Pretty shocking how many people on a radio forum are shocked that a conservative radio station put on a conservative talk show host.

I'll say this, you're entertaining. :rolleyes:
 
101tm said:
KRLD continues its transition away from all news during the day:

radioinsight.com

KRLD Continues Evolution To News/Talk With Addition Of Joe Kelley; Move Of Mike Rogers

Mike RogersFollowing the addition of the Chad Benson Show from 12-3pm last month , Audacy News 1080 KRLD Dallas continues
radioinsight.com radioinsight.com
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Ah man. Mike is the best talent at the station and I hate reading this. I listen to KRLD in the mornings from leaving my garage to arriving at work. Just won’t be the same. (Any idea what’s happening to Mike’s current co-anchor Heather Behrens?)
 
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