Caller participation seems to vary by market. Audacy’s SportsRadio 610 in Houston is all host driven, and phone calls are essentially nonexistent. They do heavily interact with the text line, however.
Double edged sword. Callers can also drag down the conversation with bland, hackneyed or nonsensical takes that add nothing to the program. And if the first thing you hear from a caller is “Hello…hello…am I on the air? Can you hear me?” you know things are going downhill fast.
Which is where the host and producer can jump in, drop the caller, razz 'em a bit, and keep things moving. While callers can totally add great flavor, it's still the hosts who are the "meat and potatoes" and should be in control enough to know "Larry in Lynwood" is droning on and on and needs to kindly be introduced to a dial tone. Any quality host (and certainly one working in a market like LA) should be able to spin a dud caller into a funny moment.
Big Boy's YouTube channel has close to 2M subscribers and interviews regularly range from 20K-100K+. One would argue he is now an internationally recognized personality within the hip hop world, expanding his reach outside of LA. The radio show is a vehicle for the YouTube channel. He is syndicated. Big Boy would probably be upset that he is losing his home market where he got his start, but the reality is most of his audience is listening to him digitally.
Yep, much for the same reason alternative, CHR and hip-hop formats are declining. The news audience has moved to streaming, whether that's listening to podcasts or YouTube in the car, or they are listening to NPR. I don't know if anyone's mentioned that both NPR stations in LA capture a 5.5 share collectively (overall), which likely didn't help KNX on FM.
I stopped listening to KLSX 97.1 on August 1, 1995.
>>Why would people wanna pay good money in a bad economy to Become The Product™ for some camouflaged data mining device when all they have to do is press the conveniently-already-there AM button on their dashes and select 1070 in a second flat?>>
But "The Freak" failed and its talk programming was more expensive than a music format.
A lot of people stopped listening to 97.1 long before that flip 😅🤣
Was it programmed by Rick James?
Don’t quote me, but 97.1 KAMP was actually the most “successful” (emphasis on quotes) of then-CBS Radio’s nationwide Amp CHR initiative, and I believe the last to drop the format.
…No? Not even remotely likely to happen, even with talks of loosening ownership caps.
🤣🤣🤣 After Carson Daly left they never did get back on track. The only reason they had any ratings at first was because of 10,000 songs in a row and people were shocked the station Howard Stern was once on, was all of a sudden playing music
Was there a national directive from CBS to process all those stations at setting 11? Or was that just KAMP? Because at least when the format debuted on 97.1, I remember thinking it had the most aggressively-tuned processing I had ever heard in Los Angeles, rivaling density and clipping levels normally associated with the New York market.
Where else would some of the women go, if iHeart narrowed from three female dominant stations to two?
