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What is Klove going to do with Len and Sara in Cleveland ?

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As a loyal listener of Len and Sara in the morning in Cleveland I’m deeply concerned about what will be happening with them come February!! Do we know if they will remain on the air? They are so uplifting and positive, a big part of my morning.
 
@b-turner on the Dallas board said "When you are running a national feed, you don't localize. The deal is the music will have lots of carryover and people that listened to KLTY will enjoy K-Love or Air1. In fact, they'll be happy the family friendly content is still there. "

EMF runs national formats, and will no keep any of the Fish programs unless they were to hire them to move to their Nashville area studio facility.,
 
fybush said:
EMF is acquiring only the WFHM license. As with any EMF purchase, they're not acquiring the existing staff or studios from Salem. So, no, they will not remain on the air, at least on 95.5.
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So Salem still has the Intellectual property rights to "The Fish"?
 
Jan C said:
As a loyal listener of Len and Sara in the morning in Cleveland I’m deeply concerned about what will be happening with them come February!! Do we know if they will remain on the air? They are so uplifting and positive, a big part of my morning.
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Unless another station in the market hires them, they are done (sadly), that's just the nature of the way EMF operates K-Love, Air1, there is no local presence outside of the legal ID and maybe a :30 or :60 concert promo inserted during the hour.

Not a super huge fan of how K-Love operates but with that said they do have a very family friendly 'morning show' if that's what you're looking for on your commute in Cleveland.
 
xmusicmatt said:
Unless another station in the market hires them, they are done (sadly),
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Kevin & Taylor (Fish Atlanta mornings) said their agent is trying to get them another job. There will be no survivers except for the Salem AM folks. The Fish and KLove are on the same tower and use the same antenna too. I assume both can be handled by the same engineer.

Their sales folks are in a weird position, trying to sell a station that goes away Feb.1. I hope Salem cancels the non compete for all The Fish employees.
 
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Andy Travis said:
I've no real axe to grind with EMF, but more disgusting is that Salem's losing positive, entertaining people who connected with people in a non partisan way and still able to employ the likes of what airs on their AM talk stations. If only it were the reverse.
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Why would the FM station be partisan if it was playing music? The AM stations are a political channel. Obviously the AM stations have listeners so they don't sell or change that format. I've noticed when it is conservative talk it is always "partisan" but when it is liberal talk it is mainstream. Always amusing to me.
 
skiwest said:
It's all about $$$$. Those positive, entertaining people need to be paid. I don't think there are very many locals on their AM stations. Most of the programming is syndicated or brokered.
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Although some, or even more, brokered programming may be local people buying the time. Therefore, it is local radio.
 
johnbasalla said:
Although some, or even more, brokered programming may be local people buying the time. Therefore, it is local radio.
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Brokered programming is really community radio. It is also, in some respects, narrowcasting because the shows have limited appeal. That's why no one really cared about WERE 1300 when they had the all-brokered format.

WHK being all-brokered, all-weekend speaks as to how profitable (or lack thereof) the talk format actually is.
 
CleveRadioInsider said:
Why would the FM station be partisan if it was playing music? The AM stations are a political channel. Obviously the AM stations have listeners so they don't sell or change that format. I've noticed when it is conservative talk it is always "partisan" but when it is liberal talk it is mainstream. Always amusing to me.
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Not a few FM stations have polarizing morning shows, most notably Rick Stacy in Orlando on an otherwise classic hits station.

My point was simply that these more positive, uplifting personalities on the music stations for Salem bonded with their community and did things that connected without the politics. It brought people together. The exact opposite of what Salem's AM lineup strives to do.

Has nothing to do with conservative or liberal, everything to do with tone and results.
 
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