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KMOX Trivia Shows

C

Calhoun

For years, I listened to the Sunday night trivia show on KMOX. It was hosted initially by original "Jeopardy" host Art Fleming and a local school teacher, David Straus. After Fleming retired, Strauss ran the show solo until he moved to KTRS in the mid/late 90s. Not sure how long he stayed at KTRS, but I know he died 8-10 years.

After Strauss left KMOX, they continued to do a Sunday night trivia show. It was more of group grope deal, there were several people in the studio. Not sure how long that show lasted, after a few weeks I gave up on it, too hokey.

Those shows featuring Fleming and/or Strauss would make for good streaming....if they were recorded and depending on who owns them. Figure fifty, three hour shows/year for maybe fifteen years, that's a lot of potential material.
 
Broadcasters have not, and do not think that far ahead when it comes to programming. Any shows broadcasters make for the public that get archived like this were made by listeners who recorded them to audio tape. That is how the majority of airchecks that float around the web, and in physical archives and libraries exist.
 
spiritof67 said:
Broadcasters have not, and do not think that far ahead when it comes to programming. Any shows broadcasters make for the public that get archived like this were made by listeners who recorded them to audio tape. That is how the majority of airchecks that float around the web, and in physical archives and libraries exist.
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I have heard that KMOX has an incredibly comprehensive library of archives in-house. Some of that content was heard on air during their 100th anniversary broadcast.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
I have heard that KMOX has an incredibly comprehensive library of archives in-house. Some of that content was heard on air during their 100th anniversary broadcast.
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That may be true, but would there be enough of an archive for the shows the original poster have in question? And would there be an audience for it? I have doubts, even though I like archives and retromedia myself.

KMOX broadcasts in HD on 104.1, though the station does not utilize their HD subchannels, either as a stand-alone channel, or as an origination station for translators.
 
spiritof67 said:
That may be true, but would there be enough of an archive for the shows the original poster have in question?
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I don't know that. Just pointing out that KMOX is notable for having retained such a vast library of archives, a claim not many other radio stations can make.

WOR, which also celebrated its 100th anniversary recently, had almost little-to-nothing archived. The producer had to scrounge up what he could find online, and ironically got a helping hand from his counterpart at WINS who apparently had more archival content on hand there than WOR had in-house.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
WOR, which also celebrated its 100th anniversary recently, had almost little-to-nothing archived.
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That may have happened when the station was sold to iHeart. At one time, they had a great archive, going back to the 1940s.

Sometimes when a station is sold, its archives is donated to a museum or college. That may have happened to WOR.
 
TheBigA said:
That may have happened when the station was sold to iHeart. At one time, they had a great archive, going back to the 1940s.

Sometimes when a station is sold, its archives is donated to a museum or college. That may have happened to WOR.
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WOR has moved at least twice since then, to iHeart's Tribeca facility and then to its current headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

There's not much sentimentality for history in a company like that, they only care about their current plans. Equipment gets sold to a liquidator, given away to lucky staffers, left behind or thrown to the curb. I don't know whether those WOR archives were donated or sadly lost when the new owner took over.

Anyway, back to the original question. I don't know how well old trivia shows would hold up today, even if KMOX does have the complete set in its archives. Did you ever try playing an old game of Trivia Pursuit? A lot of those old questions feel very outdated now, and the same would probably be true for old trivia radio shows.
 
spiritof67 said:
That may be true, but would there be enough of an archive for the shows the original poster have in question? And would there be an audience for it? I have doubts, even though I like archives and retromedia myself.

KMOX broadcasts in HD on 104.1, though the station does not utilize their HD subchannels, either as a stand-alone channel, or as an origination station for translators.
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I was thinking primarily of a streaming platform, or even a weekly "best of" over-the-air broadcast in a low revenue time slot....like the show's original Sunday 9-midnight slot, maybe. If you're eating the cost of the airtime, use something you own and is already in the can.
 


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