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Any New Tyler Hullabaloo

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A bit behind, but I was just looking at the last book and the crumbling of the KKNGdom. There was a post about several people being shown the door 6 or 8 weeks ago...was that in response to that, or has there been any more bloodletting lately? It will never stop aggrieving me how much better KKNG and KOJK could be, if they'd only allow it to happen! As I said about 6 months ago in another post:

"What're the odds Mike and Kevin could stop using that awful Jack feed and go local and remember KOFM, and old KJ, and Z99, and 95X, and 96X, and old KATT, and KTNT, and so on? It can be all voicetracked and automated for all I care, as I understand the lack of cost-effectiveness for the low-power stick vis à vis being live 18 hours a day; but they could at least play OKC hits rather than the favorite songs of the jackashes who program the national feed."

And KXY is obviously showing they know how to leaven in "classic country", while The Twister's got the currents; KKNG needs to go back to where they started--be like a country KOMA...but forward about 10 years, with a 25 year span or so. Is there any room for any fresh ideas, oh Tylers? Don't let a long professional relationship with your staff sink your boat! Like I said before, sounds like the wrong people are being let go!
 
I wouldn't look for Jack-FM to ever be taken locally. They are going to do the cheapest thing they can on that station just because it's a 1k stick and they really don't have any extra $$$ floating around in that building due to Black Hole TV, Inc.
Not being able to sell KKNG on the streets is a sales function, not a programming function. Blame is being shifted to programming because the "audience is too old." The truth is the right sales people could sell it as a classic country, but thats obviously not how it's going to work. Shifting in mid-stream isn't going to be a good thing for them IMHO.
 
Truly, I just mean local programming, not live jox or anything. I'm assuming the satellite is cueing the local spots off a local harddrive, so fill said harddrive up with 2000 songs and play something interesting and with local appeal. Just listening to Casey Kasem's 80s shows shows how much is out there that Magic and Kiss don't touch. They hardly need the feed's rock bent, as we've got more than enough rock-oriented stations. Any true rock and roller is going to listen to the KATT or KRXO or Bob first. Why be fourth when you could go 80s and 90s Pop and be the only game in town? The smidgen that the Jack feed throws in isn't enough to attract the average Pop partisan for very long. How easily we forget how high the ratings for CHRs KJ103 and Z99 were back in the day...I don't think those kids are out of the salable demo yet!

So why can Renda sell KOMA's oldsters but Tyler couldn't sell KKNG's? Or is KOMA just resting on the laurels of Magic and KRXO? Really, the main problem was that KKNG was TOO old...I just don't know 95% of that 60s country they used to play. Just pick out the famous ones like Crazy and Flowers On The Wall, then focus on '74-'94.
 
KRXO and KMGL carry the weight of KOMA and KOKC. There sales staff is made of 20 year olds who can't sell the dying oldies format as in the listener dying off, sure you have some talented people at KOMA like Ronnie and Dave Martin and Danny and god knows that is who they need is the most to keep that place up and I am sure they will tell you they would rather have it be 50's and 60's insted of 60's and 70's
 
Classic Country can be a big money maker, trick is, it needs to be sold correctly by a bunch of devout fanatics of the music and the station.

Local and direct. It starts with believers.
 
Yes.... In both the cases of KKNG and KOMA the sales staff in general isn't old enough to really understand the format. Here lies the big problem..
 
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