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AM 790 Switches Formats

Stations that run formats based on personal likes and dislikes of the owners, without serious consideration of market needs, rapidly go broke. Many smaller AM stations try to find a niche they can fill like all business news, radio shoppers, Religion or whatever. If the market wants it, it may succeed if a few hundred other things come together. Nothing wrong with these formats, if there is a market for them. If there is no listener base, then the commercials are ineffective, the sales suffer and the station goes belly up like so many have done in recent years. Most people who own radio stations are not stupid but are wise enough to realize this, or have deep enough pockets to sustain the Hobby they are making of their commercial station.
 
kxnt had Dominic Brashaw?? and some other guy that were liberal, and someone else Joe Goldsmith? something, I forget, who was liberal, I think he went to NY?? Vegas seem crumb talk market no matter what.
 
MC said:
kxnt had Dominic Brashaw?? and some other guy that were liberal, and someone else Joe Goldsmith? something, I forget, who was liberal, I think he went to NY?? Vegas seem crumb talk market no matter what.
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You are thinking of Sam Greenfield.

I can remember Dominic when he used the name "Punk Rock Dom" on KUNV in 1982. I was amazed when I heard him on the radio again many years later hosting a talk show on KLAV in 1991.

KDWN believe it or not had a liberal show in the early 80s. Actually it was half liberal.. Harve Allen was the conservative I forgot the name of the liberal he teamed up with.
 
Jay F said:
MC said:
kxnt had Dominic Brashaw?? and some other guy that were liberal, and someone else Joe Goldsmith? something, I forget, who was liberal, I think he went to NY?? Vegas seem crumb talk market no matter what.
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KDWN believe it or not had a liberal show in the early 80s. Actually it was half liberal.. Harve Allen was the conservative I forgot the name of the liberal he teamed up with.
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I believe KDWN has a liberal talk show on now, although just for an hour early in the morning. Local Attorney Michael Gowdy is the host. He also sits in with Alan Stock from time to time.
 
Before KNUU(used to be called KNEWS) went all financhal (mostly brokered) we had legit talk shows, on the progressive side we had Ed Schultz, now with MSNBC. I don't remember how long it lasted or if the station or syndicator dropped him. He even did his show from our station for a week. We lost a sponsor because we carried hm, a car dealer whose name rhymes with harsh.
We had live local talk too. I can't say our ratings were any better than KDWN's.

The "let's get Obama" format really gets boring. I wonder if a balls to the wall KFI style format would work here. Nothing else does.

Jerry Gordon Jack B. show Salem Radio Network
 
Thats Right .. Dominic, and some other NY guy, and then Sam Greenfield in the afternoon. Maybe 790 is going to try to get some political ads this year?
 
Laura, that's a conservative talk radio line. Air America had only four decent hosts in its line up: Rachel Maddow, now the highest rated MSNBC host; Randi Rhodes, now syndicated by Premiere, same company that syndicates Rush; Mark Mason, now morning host on WWRL New York; and Al Franken, now U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

Air America was a poorly executed format with lots of hosts who may have moved in liberal political circles but weren't ready to host a three hour talk show, five days a week. Bill O'Reilly, Fred Thompson and Lou Dobbs all had syndicated conservative talk shows. Because they failed, we wouldn't say all of conservative radio has failed.
 
In SF KQED (PBS station) with a liberal talker gets great ratings. In Portland Oregon the Liberal station does well. In Vegas talk stations (all conservative) are not doing great ratings wise.
 
MC said:
In SF KQED (PBS station) with a liberal talker gets great ratings. In Portland Oregon the Liberal station does well. In Vegas talk stations (all conservative) are not doing great ratings wise.
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The liberal talker in Portland, KPOJ, gets a 0.7 share,,that's hardly doing well.
 
KMZQ is running USA Radio Network news, which is a network you get when you can't get a real network. KDWN was running AP, but I haven't listened in a long time since they screwed up the station. They used to have FOX, followed by local news every hour, but AP is a real snoozer.
 
720, 670, 970, 790 ratings about equal to that station in Portland and they say they are doing "great"
 
MC said:
720, 670, 970, 790 ratings about equal to that station in Portland and they say they are doing "great"
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The Portland station did good when it first came on. Either the novelty wore off or the ratings went down because of the switch to PPM.
 
KGO did great for 25 years running a mix of lib-mod-conservo talk in SF.

The Vegas talk radio market is weak regardless of what they do and the quality of sponsors of national talk radio seems to be going down hill.
 
Jay F said:
Even in the most liberal markets liberal talk radio fails to get much of an audience.
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In Seattle, conservatalk KTTH gets a much higher rating than libtalker KPTK. San Francisco recently lost their libtalker. Not sure if NY's is still around. If it is, it's on 1600 AM which hardly anyone can receive! :)
 
radiogossip said:
kenb said:
The sound of the station sounds muffled, overmodulated perhaps, as if the talk show hosts are talking thru a long pipe. I hope the station engineers can get
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Engineers?!?! You obviously are not familiar with Royce Broadcasting International.
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Ed has done it again!
 
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