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24 hour Radio News, Never in Vegas

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I have to agree! John David Wells, you said it first. Las Vegas will never produce a station as an "all news" outlet!
The budget here is small town. Whether its KNUU, KXNT, or any other station in the valley, Las Vegas will NEVER EVER have a 24 hour news station. For now we listen to a simulcast of fox 5 live at 10 or pray our pd sends a reporter to break the news while it happens during live programming.
I don't believe any changes have been made in our programming. Maybe they were just embarrassed by JD's comment on nobody being at the press conference of Sgt. Prendas death while in the line of duty. It was a shame to hear not even one radio station in this valley covered the conference. That was big deal and showed how small market mentality it really is here in Vegas! If I can recall, the last time an officer was killed in the line of duty (1988), a radio news outlet was there to cover the press conference whether they were live or just recording the audio.
It goes to show, theater of the mind clearly does not exist in Las Vegas radio unless those stations can make a buck on what they broadcast!
JD, I know if you were the pd of a local radio news station, you would cover the news and not read it from the "Review Journal." A solution would be, invest $200 in a police scanner and send out the "blood hounds" (producers) to cover the stories. This way, the reporter could own their news. Why not send the producers out for the grunt work? We do all their research anyway!
 
> I have to agree! John David Wells, you said it first. Las
> Vegas will never produce a station as an "all news" outlet!

Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta are top 10 markets and have no all-news station. The folks in Seattle should be counting their lucky stars that anyone there ever tried an all-news format; those of us in Phoenix will never have one because WE'RE too small. Even heritage stations' "Morning News" are dying off thanks to talk competition, and the "Afternoon News" died in all but the most isolated instances long ago. Unless you live in your car all day, there are plenty of places to get the news, and people are using them (and even in the car, PDAs with wifi, etc).
 
> > I have to agree! John David Wells, you said it first. Las
> > Vegas will never produce a station as an "all news"
> outlet!
>
> Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta are top 10 markets and have no
> all-news station. The folks in Seattle should be counting
> their lucky stars that anyone there ever tried an all-news
> format; those of us in Phoenix will never have one because
> WE'RE too small. Even heritage stations' "Morning News" are
> dying off thanks to talk competition, and the "Afternoon
> News" died in all but the most isolated instances long ago.
> Unless you live in your car all day, there are plenty of
> places to get the news, and people are using them (and even
> in the car, PDAs with wifi, etc).
>

it's a tossup. do we need a radio station that plays a top 40 keeping us updated on a cop shoot out? I don't think so. do you think the age bracket listening to top 40 cares there are shell casings riddled all over the downtown area? most likely not.

does a station like KJUL 104.3 need news updates? (I am aware it is off air and is coyote 104.3 now) I don't think so also. When I tuned into KJUL, I wanted to hear frank sinatra and big band music as well as other styles. I don't care that cars in north las vegas are riddled with bullets. I don't care a bunch of troops in iraqinam got blown up either. I am listening to escape parts of life I find undesireable, not to be reminded of it.

if I want news updates of bodies hanging out of cars on the I15 and people in hospitals from eating at mcdonalds and getting poisoned, I'll turn on 3,5,8,13 or 25 for news updates. same goes with a news paper. or turn to the diluted am band and turn on AM 840 or any other station.

Give me back the airwaves with *music* not crap I can care less about.

I think this "pre packaged clear channelified" radio station model needs to go out the door. Traffic updates? fine. since when should I care while driving to work that a bunch of soliders got crisped in iraq? I can't change it, I can't rush over to iraq and save the soliders from the bombs, so why should I care again? "because it affects me?" how? is there a illegal draft going to be forced tommorrow? then I am not affected. *click*

Stations and PD's need to learn we will seek out the news if we want it, don't force it down our throats. Wanna hear a surprise? Online radio fits this bill for me, but only when I am at home. I'm listening to a online radio station from chicago right now with no annoying dj's, false war in iraq updates and other junk. It's playing Johnny Rivers now and will be playing Bobby Darin hours later with no irritating war updates. Does KQOL 93.1 (clear channel crap-a-thon) do that? nope. I gotta hear about bush's failing poll numbers and propaganda in between diana ross and elvis (wait, there is no such thing as "1950's music" according to program directors but that is a different discussion). I want diana ross, I don't want have the news forced down my throat. why does star 102.7 after the morning show is over not keep reminding me on how dangerous and evil iraqi's are? turn to 93.1 at anytime of the day at the top of the hour, and we get that filth.

Get back to playing the music and leave the news crap to the tv news stations and talk radio stations on the AM band!
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mojavewolfpup on 02/14/06 11:20 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> >I don't
> care that cars in north las vegas are riddled with bullets.
> I don't care a bunch of troops in iraqinam got blown up
> either. I am listening to escape parts of life I find
> undesireable, not to be reminded of it.


You are a frigging moron. End of topic!
 
> You are a frigging moron. End of topic!

well this site has gone down hill. such a quality post, please stop you are killing me here with it's high caliber content.

Adios, I hope you enjoy the spoon fed media crap and bush's brand of propaganda when you turn the news on. are you able to possibly get it through your tiny thick head that maybe some people just don't care about news because we have it forced into us from all angles? no longer are we allowed to choose when we hear it, we MUST hear it.

*warning! previously typed out lines don't make sense to 99% of this section!*

I bet you are one of the many who spent more time slamming jack-fm before it got off the ground even. hopefully the woman and team doing the jack-fm remote at CCSN west charleston when I worked there checked in to see the (BLEEP) muck raking going on here against jack-fm.

this forum is a worthless blip on the radar that spends all it's time bitching about everything "wahh, coyote-fm sucks" "wahh, jack-fm sucks" "wahh, radio sucks in las vegas" yes it does, but for christs sake, STFU already and give the stations that came into the town a chance to mature.

It may take many program directors and dj's until the station evens out and finds it groove. LET IT! They don't need your weak and ill formed opinions. don't give me the "but I am veteran of radio, yada yada" lines. you are not, you are just probably some arm chair "expert" on radio.

so the market is crap? give new comer stations a chance to mature and become a part of the community!

where is john david wells? I love to see him shake up the crusty old whining farts in here!

signing off,

-mojavewolfpup
 
> > You are a frigging moron. End of topic!
>
> well this site has gone down hill. such a quality post,
> please stop you are killing me here with it's high caliber
> content.
>
> Adios, I hope you enjoy the spoon fed media crap and bush's
> brand of propaganda when you turn the news on. are you able
> to possibly get it through your tiny thick head that maybe
> some people just don't care about news because we have it
> forced into us from all angles? no longer are we allowed to
> choose when we hear it, we MUST hear it.
>
> *warning! previously typed out lines don't make sense to 99%
> of this section!*
>
> I bet you are one of the many who spent more time slamming
> jack-fm before it got off the ground even. hopefully the
> woman and team doing the jack-fm remote at CCSN west
> charleston when I worked there checked in to see the (BLEEP)
> muck raking going on here against jack-fm.
>
> this forum is a worthless blip on the radar that spends all
> it's time bitching about everything "wahh, coyote-fm sucks"
> "wahh, jack-fm sucks" "wahh, radio sucks in las vegas" yes
> it does, but for christs sake, STFU already and give the
> stations that came into the town a chance to mature.
>
> It may take many program directors and dj's until the
> station evens out and finds it groove. LET IT! They don't
> need your weak and ill formed opinions. don't give me the
> "but I am veteran of radio, yada yada" lines. you are not,
> you are just probably some arm chair "expert" on radio.
>
> so the market is crap? give new comer stations a chance to
> mature and become a part of the community!
>
> where is john david wells? I love to see him shake up the
> crusty old whining farts in here!
>
> signing off,
>
> -mojavewolfpup


You have no idea who you're talking to. I have nothing to say about Jack FM.
You f----ing punk, you made a comment about not giving a ---- about our
troops getting blown up in Iraq. That's the reason for my comment. You
bet bla bla bla. You don't know a damn thing.


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