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AM 540 drops the Zoo, adds Michael Jackson
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Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
It's so sad to see the Saul Levine, despite his participation in a 12 step "format consistency program" has apparently fallen off the wagon. javascript:void(0);
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Here is the schedule LARadio says will be simulcast on 540 and 1260 starting next week:
6 a.m. - Wall Street Journal Morning Edition
7 a.m. - Neal Boortz
9 a.m. - Michael Jackson
11 a.m. - Dr. Drew Pinsky
1 p.m. - Dr. Joy Browne
3 p.m. - Lars Larson
5 p.m. - Michael Jackson
7 p.m. - Larry King Live
8 p.m. - The Great American Songbook
6 a.m. - Wall Street Journal Morning Edition
7 a.m. - Neal Boortz
9 a.m. - Michael Jackson
11 a.m. - Dr. Drew Pinsky
1 p.m. - Dr. Joy Browne
3 p.m. - Lars Larson
5 p.m. - Michael Jackson
7 p.m. - Larry King Live
8 p.m. - The Great American Songbook
The newest "balanced" talk radio station KGIL/1260, which features Michael Jackson, the highest rated liberal talk show host in the 1990s, will make a significant move to increase it’s coverage and hopefully its ratings when XESURF/540 flips from country to talk tomorrow. Combined the two stations offer reasonably good daytime coverage in the two largest radio markets in the Southern California region – Los Angeles and San Diego. What is balanced talk and why are lib talk syndicators beginning to encourage this format? Find out in the current edition of Talking Radio
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barooosk said:
In recent years the lib talk programmers/syndicators haven't been encouraging a balanced format, and instead program stations that are all far-left or all far-right. The all far left stations don't make it because they are too agenda driven, and most talk radio listeners are conservative. Some of AAR's far left hosts are so consumed with preaching to the choir that they never talk about their personal lives to lighten things up. If they have a sense of humor, it is so elitist and new-yorkish that those of us from the upper Midwest and tree huggers from the west coast can't understand it. See Jay Marvin's post about being agenda driven on the national news/talk board.
Sadly, Air America might not make it because they didn't pay attention to what consultants were telling them 2-3 years ago. The decline in Air America, and its terrible management and poor selection of hosts, makes the rest of us who work with other syndicated liberal hosts deeply depressed and angry. We have been speaking out for years, and now our financial status is in trouble, because Air America has destroyed the credibility of the liberal talk format. Look what they did when Franken left, they didn't even get Ed Schultz to fill that time slot. Hartmann could have gone in some other daypart.
Air America, ASAP, would be advised to cancel Randi Rhodes, Laura Flanders, and Rachel Maddow, and get Jay Marvin, Jay Diamond, Staci Taylor, Peter B Collins, and Doug Basham into national syndication. And, they could use some lifestyle shows on weekends, how about Bill Flannigan (NYC) for a financial show, or Kenneth Landow MD (ex-KDWN, Henderson, Nevada) for medical advice. Why is Air America holding back from hiring the best hosts in the business? They're bankrupt, don't they want to make money?
ABQTom said:
Y'all are so scared of Liberal Talk, it's downright amusing. "Balanced Talk" is just a euphemism for Moderately Rightwing (or Non-Political) talk.
Yes, some Lib Talk hosts have a "sense of humor." Steph Miller is a damn riot. Rachel Maddow (& her "news" guy Kent Jones) are pretty damn funny. And Miller, Hartmann, Schultz & Maddow would make a pretty potent 6A-7P lineup anywhere in the country. Put a 50-kw AM signal or a 100-kw FM signal behind that Mon-Fri core of talent in San Diego and we'll sell the hell out of those ratings.
The idea of mixing right wing and reasonable talk doesn't make sense. It would be the equivalent of switching music from, say, bubble gum to complex jazz. People listen to right wing talk because they like it, and people listen to reasonable talk because they like that. It is very hard to see a "mixed" format succeeding.
TalkingRadio... the only thing "balanced" about WTAN is that whoever's check makes up the biggest part of the balance sheet gets to be on the air.
As to Bill Flanigan, I heard him on Moneytalk this weekend while sitting in Palm Springs traffic for 2 hours... not exactly my fave. He needs an injection of something to get me interested.
As to Bill Flanigan, I heard him on Moneytalk this weekend while sitting in Palm Springs traffic for 2 hours... not exactly my fave. He needs an injection of something to get me interested.
It's amusing for me to watch all the usual suspects blather on the same way they always blather on.
As a Lou Dobbs independent it is interesting watching progressives complain about the failure of their radio station. You guys keep forgetting that this is not Canada, and that radio is a BUSINESS. It all comes down to the fact that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. No matter what pejoratives and labels are attached to those who DARE to have another point of view in the eyes of progressives, this has been more of a case of leading a horse to water and having him end up barfing.
The success of a station depends on doing "must hear" radio. You have to generate interest and keep generating it. If your hosts are boring and don't do "must hear" radio shows, the station will fail.
As a Lou Dobbs independent it is interesting watching progressives complain about the failure of their radio station. You guys keep forgetting that this is not Canada, and that radio is a BUSINESS. It all comes down to the fact that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. No matter what pejoratives and labels are attached to those who DARE to have another point of view in the eyes of progressives, this has been more of a case of leading a horse to water and having him end up barfing.
The success of a station depends on doing "must hear" radio. You have to generate interest and keep generating it. If your hosts are boring and don't do "must hear" radio shows, the station will fail.
Tune in to 540 on the way to work. WSJ wasn't to bad of a show. Tried to tune in at work (North Island) and got nothing but static inside the building. Tune in about 5:45 PM driving around Clairemont, station had bleed over from somewhere else. To be fair, it's not really balance at all. Micheal Jackson is more middle of the road(easy to listen to, however) and Boortz and the Lars are pretty much solid right wing wackos(terrible to listen to).
amfmxm said:
Rachel Maddow is not entertaining, and why should anyone give PT (or any format) a monster stick when it can't prove itself on a lesser one? 1360 is hardly a bad signal. KCEO has had some of the same bad brokered shows renewing for years on its far worse signal. I'm sure if Phil Boyce gave you a show on WABC you'd have a lot of listeners, too.
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