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KFI drops ball over World Series Coverage?

Intheairnevada

Intheairnevada

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The fill in guy said they were going to stay on the air to cover events after the win, but they switched t “Malcolm Gladwell” droning on about something. I know their sports station had coverage, But traffic, and law enforcement concerns would have been more interesting than a podcast broadcast. …
 
KFI doesn't have the staff anymore to cover rolling events at non-peak times. They were already winding down local operations for the day during Mo Kelly's shift when they actually had someone live in the building; they're likely doing so even earlier now with fill-ins from out-of-market. If you wanted live coverage form a sports perspective, you had KLAC (which is probably where almost all of their efforts were focused). They've clearly ceded coverage from a news perspective to KNX. I highly doubt the next permanent show in that slot will be based at KFI. It'll likely either be someone from out-of-market, something from the Premiere syndication suite, or best-of from that day's earlier shows.
 
I was listening, and the host made it clear that if any happens that warrants coverage, they would immediately break in to programming. Fair enough, considering how well behaved everyone was after the win, no riots or unruly crowds, no vandalism. Only 7 people were arrested, and that was for something minor.

There was no need for it. They did cover the parade however.
 
Karl said:
I tuned in Monday to see if they would cover the Dodger's parade from Phoenix. Hardly any mention of it.
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How do you make parade coverage on radio interesting or exciting?

You can't.

That is why radio does not broadcast parades.
 
davideduardo said:
How do you make parade coverage on radio interesting or exciting?

You can't.

That is why radio does not broadcast parades.
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There is one niche exception to that. Some of the radio reading services for the blind (mostly carried on subcarriers or HD channels of other stations) do provide visually descriptive coverage of some parades for their blind and visually impaired listeners.
 
davideduardo said:
How do you make parade coverage on radio interesting or exciting?

You can't.

That is why radio does not broadcast parades.
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au contraire..... as i like to be the pedantic outlier.

KZZJ 1450 in Rugby, ND did earlier this year, cant remember which one/why.

I know KVSH 940 Valentine NE has done so in the past.

I'm pretty sure some stations I've worked at over the years have.
 
ted chittenden said:
There is one niche exception to that. Some of the radio reading services for the blind (mostly carried on subcarriers or HD channels of other stations) do provide visually descriptive coverage of some parades for their blind and visually impaired listeners.
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When I was still living in NYC, I did volunteer reading for InTouch, the then radio reading service that went out on an SCA subcarrier of WKCR, Columbia University's FM station. I had the opportunity to work alongside industry pros, including someone who had spent a chunk of his career at the VOA. There's a lot of talent at those services, and except for a small handful of paid staff, it's largely volunteer. Damn right they could do play-by-play and color for a World Series parade.
 
TheBigA said:
His podcast is distributed by iHeart, and they own KFI. Saturday night is a very low listening time. So they run podcasts.

Nobody wants to work on Saturday night. When I was a teenager, I took a radio job working Saturday nights. That was the last time I did that shift.
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At my college radio station and at a small country station in the same town I loved being a DJ on Saturday night. I had my own one person party with the fastest and loudest records I was allowed to play. Probably not a lot of listeners, but I received a lot of requests on Saturday night. Since there were fewer listeners and commercials, I could experiment more. Happy memories from over 40 years ago.

I think it’s ridiculous for KFI, the most powerful signal in Los Angeles, to hesitate to provide live and local radio after 7 PM. I think they still have the entertaining psychologist, Dr. Wendy, from 7-9 PM Sunday evening.
 


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