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93 KHJ in America Samoa airs the Fox Hourly News

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recto101

http://www.khjradio.com/

Wow That's odd I listened to 93KHJ Samoa and at 8pm Los Angeles time they aired the Fox Hourly News. As Far as I know they went straight back to music at 8:05pm last night. For one Second I thought 93KHJ Samoa switched to Talk format. I thought the Fox Hourly News is usually contracted to stations that have the all-news format or NewsTalk Format like KFBK, KFI and KKSF.
 
I do remember an AM station in Kona Hawaii aired the CBS Hourly News and I thought the Kona Hawaii station was an all-news station. But the Kona station that aired the CBS Hourly news simply went back to music playing Bruno Mars. I usually think of the CBS Hourly News with all-News stations like KNX, KCBS, WBBM, WTOP and WCBS. But I had no idea they can air on music stations too in smaller markets.
 
Actually, in the area where I live(Seattle-Tacoma) there are several music stations on AM(and FM) that are in smaller markets that have network news.

For example, in Olympia(south of where I live) KGY 1240 AM has a music format(I think it's Adult Contemporary) and airs CBS News on the hour.

In Centralia(way south of where I live), KITI 1420 AM has an oldies/classic hits format and carries ABC News on the hour; ditto with a station in Shelton, KMAS 1030 AM, when they were an oldies station(they recently switched to News/Talk) they carried ABC News on the hour.

So smaller market music stations carrying network news at the top of each hour aren't as uncommon as you think; i've also heard smaller market music stations in other states carrying network news at the top of each hour as well.
 
A lot of small town stations do network news on the hour. KSWW 102.1 in Aberdeen, WA is one (with ABC News at TOH). There's also a lot of midwest stations that have network news as well.

-crainbebo
 
WMST-1150 in Mount Sterling, KY has a music format with CBS News (5 min) at the top of most hours.
 
Before deregulation all stations carried news casts... It sounds foreign now, but there was a time when music stations had award winning news departments...
 
calguy said:
Before deregulation all stations carried news casts... It sounds foreign now, but there was a time when music stations had award winning news departments...
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I do know that KFOG and KLLC do air a 5 minute news update hourly but only on the morning shows.
KFOG would get their news scripts from KGO and KLLC Alice would get them from KCBS 106.9.

I do remember 93KHJ Samoa would do hourly news with a local staff during the morning hours but that would last 10 minutes. Well I need to check the radio listings for Samoa. I'm not sure if a Newstalk station exist there.
 
recto101 said:
I do remember 93KHJ Samoa would do hourly news with a local staff during the morning hours but that would last 10 minutes. Well I need to check the radio listings for Samoa. I'm not sure if a Newstalk station exist there.
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2AP in Samoa has a modified news, talk and information format.

But I think you are talking about American Samoa, which is where you seem to be referencing. Keep in mind that the 55 thousand persons in American Samoa have 9 stations to choose from; none is classified as news / talk, though.
 
calguy said:
Before deregulation all stations carried news casts... It sounds foreign now, but there was a time when music stations had award winning news departments...
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But they generally did not carry newscasts because they wanted to but, instead, because they had to.

I tend to think of "deregulation" as being the seminal 1996 change in ownership caps. The deregulation that changed "news on every station" happened well before that.

The FCC did not have a "must have it" rule, but there was, back when a manager spent several months every 3 years doing the reams of paper that was a license renewal, an expectation that a station would be renewed if it had a certain percent of news, Public Affairs and Other programming. A station with less was certain to get a letter from the FCC, just as would one with hours containing over 18 minutes of commercials in any hour of the composite week.

Once the "expectations" de facto rule was relaxed, music stations did what they knew all along that listeners wanted... they cut the news or limited it to dayparts where it was considered important to listeners.

Anecdotally, I recall when my friends and I would change from one Top 40 to another whenever the news came one... all the news did was push listening to another station in many cases.
 
DavidEduardo said:
calguy said:
Before deregulation all stations carried news casts... It sounds foreign now, but there was a time when music stations had award winning news departments...
Click to expand...

But they generally did not carry newscasts because they wanted to but, instead, because they had to.

I tend to think of "deregulation" as being the seminal 1996 change in ownership caps. The deregulation that changed "news on every station" happened well before that.

The FCC did not have a "must have it" rule, but there was, back when a manager spent several months every 3 years doing the reams of paper that was a license renewal, an expectation that a station would be renewed if it had a certain percent of news, Public Affairs and Other programming. A station with less was certain to get a letter from the FCC, just as would one with hours containing over 18 minutes of commercials in any hour of the composite week.

Once the "expectations" de facto rule was relaxed, music stations did what they knew all along that listeners wanted... they cut the news or limited it to dayparts where it was considered important to listeners.

Anecdotally, I recall when my friends and I would change from one Top 40 to another whenever the news came one... all the news did was push listening to another station in many cases.
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Yes, the news rules were relaxed long before 1996, Just listen to any airchecks of music stations in the 80's. True too that stations wanted renewal to go smoothly by meeting or exceeding what they thought the FCC wanted in the amount of hours that aired of news and public affairs programming. Many Top 40's used to air shows like Powerline with John Rivers because it sounded pretty close to normal programming. It still aired most places on Sundays around 4 am. Most aired Town Hall as well and there were many shows that came and went.

As for tuning out when the news came on, for me it really depended on how good those newscast were. Stations like KHJ and especially KFRC had award winning news divisions and could be very compelling even to a teenager. Smaller markets though, well that's another story...
 
I agree; the newscasters at both KHJ & KRLA in the sixties (B.R. Bradbury, Lyle Kilgore & Paul Oscar Anderson among others) were always compelling.
 
I used to love Jo Interrante at KFRC. Such a great news department there, and when the late Russ Carlton was paired with Barbara Whitesides on KFI in the 80's 640 had to have one of the best sounding teams around. My question to anyone who was in California in the mid to late 70's is, does anyone remember Newspace? The main anchors were Tony Russomanno and Ace Young. It was one of the best contemporary news networks, and that says a lot considering that news departments in the 70's had a lot of great anchors and writers. I was also somewhat enamored with NBC's The Source back then as well. This was news aimed at the young adult and airing on mostly rock stations. Great news casts have always held my attention, though knowing what I do about radio and listeners, I can understand why the average person would want news gone from their favorite station. Time marches on....
 
Bryan Simmons said:
I used to love Jo Interrante at KFRC. Such a great news department there, and when the late Russ Carlton was paired with Barbara Whitesides on KFI in the 80's 640 had to have one of the best sounding teams around. My question to anyone who was in California in the mid to late 70's is, does anyone remember Newspace? The main anchors were Tony Russomanno and Ace Young. It was one of the best contemporary news networks, and that says a lot considering that news departments in the 70's had a lot of great anchors and writers. I was also somewhat enamored with NBC's The Source back then as well. This was news aimed at the young adult and airing on mostly rock stations. Great news casts have always held my attention, though knowing what I do about radio and listeners, I can understand why the average person would want news gone from their favorite station. Time marches on....
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I know John Evans, Mike Colgan and Dave McQueen of KCBS 740 did work for KFRC in the 1980's.
 
Remember "Monitor" on the old NBC network? It was news and features and special reports, it covered a few hours a day, and although it was not 'all news' it easily could have been made so.

In news on the hour stories...once camping on eastern Maui we had the Big Island's KIPA on a transistor radio, just as the 9 am (I think it was ABC...) news was being introduced we heard the station being knocked off the air by an earthquake, and a few seconds later things at our location began to rock and roll, too. The network led with a tape of KIPA being knocked off the air on their 10 am news. Another...I had KSDO on one Sept. morning for their 9 am CBS news. Suddenly a local announcer broke in. How weird, breaking in on national news, I thought. A PSA 727 had just crashed in the neighborhood of the studio (then on University Ave. in San Diego), in full view of everybody in the building. At the time it was the worst air disaster in history, certainly the saddest day in San Diego history.
 
DavidEduardo said:
calguy said:
Before deregulation all stations carried news casts... It sounds foreign now, but there was a time when music stations had award winning news departments...
Click to expand...

But they generally did not carry newscasts because they wanted to but, instead, because they had to.

Anecdotally, I recall when my friends and I would change from one Top 40 to another whenever the news came one... all the news did was push listening to another station in many cases.
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Yeah, my friends, too. That was reportedly why Bill Drake came up with 20/20 News at :40 past the hour. While the other Top 40s stations were doing news at the top of the hour, Drake stations generally pumped out back to back hits (no commercials) to validate their "More Music" claims.
 
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