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Atlanta's 1010 airing Liberal Talk

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wpb1999

WGUN's new Progressive talk lineup has been released.

At Sign-on time at 10am-1pm Warren Ballentine formerly of WAOK
1pm-3pm: The lying idiot from NBC, Ed Schultz
3-6pm: The queen of liberal talk, Randi Rhodes
6-9pm: Thom Hartman
9-12mid: Former WSBB host Mike Malloy

Sounds like every other liberal talk station in America...... boring idiots talking crap about Mitt Romney, That's all we need, isn't it.
 
Mike Malloy was never on WSBB.

And, with their night power, nobody will ever know that he is on WGUN either.
 
jabba17 said:
Mike Malloy was never on WSBB.

And, with their night power, nobody will ever know that he is on WGUN either.
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Sorry, WSB-AM
 
Liberal talk on wGUN? Will they change these very ironic calls?

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wpb1999 said:
Sounds like every other liberal talk station in America...... boring idiots talking crap about Mitt Romney, That's all we need, isn't it.
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Of course Sean Hannity and Rush talking crap about Obama is sooooo much more interesting. I am tired of listening to politics all day/all night on talk radio. There is more to my life than who is in control of the White House or Congress.
 
Another Failed Attempt at TRYING to do Anything with this station !

We have all watched from the sidelines during what seems like a outbreak of format changes on this station and they have all went in the crapper. Malloy will never be heard during the 78 watt power surge, and its just a failed radio station plain and simple !
 
Face it, unless you are an iconic radio station in your market (WSB, WGN, WINS, WABC) you are dead. Done. Over. No format change will give you ratings. Now, you might make money, but you wont get ratings.
 
Has anybody found a website? Rodney Ho referred to atlantas1010.com in his article, but that is still the music format. Also, what is the morning show?
 
1010 has a technologically signal challenged at night. The ownership issue has dogged this station for years. But if the thread that quoted the manager is true about the 25 KW night signal and such a signal become a fact, there is enough talent sidelined in Atlanta in the last 3 years to make something of this signal. As this station currently is licensed, the daytime footprint of this station should allow a 250 watt translator to be put near the top of any tall building or TV tower downtown, should one be secured. A really sharp engineer could come up with a directional pattern like WWL has that resulted in an "enhanced" (well over 50KW) signal covering the heavy populated part of the market. Even without technical improvements, this station would fetch a healthy price in this depressed market. I could even program it and make some money. I know there are a lot of folks that could even better. All you need is an ownership that has experience or is willing to hire it. The liberal talk (not my first choice) will work better than trying to go against a couple of FM's playing a form of R & B. This is not a failed station, as some would have us believe. The ownership is recovering from a legal battle which is never any fun. If they are struggling in 2 years then the ownership has failed. The 1010 Atlanta license will still have value.
 
No one EVER pays attention to this subject line

My point is, conservative talk is ALOT more entertaining than liberal. It might just be about whoever is in the presidency. The first 6 years of Bush, conservative talk was BOOOOOORING. My favorite talkers are Boortz and Beck.
 
upstate29651 said:
Liberal talk on wGUN? Will they change these very ironic calls?

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Hope not...WGUN is one of the oldest callsigns in town.
 
Re: No one EVER pays attention to this subject line

wpb1999 said:
My point is, conservative talk is ALOT more entertaining than liberal. It might just be about whoever is in the presidency. The first 6 years of Bush, conservative talk was BOOOOOORING. My favorite talkers are Boortz and Beck.
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I'm no liberal (I'm a right-libertarian) but I do find Randi Rhodes's show to be well-done and entertaining. I knew Air America was a goner when they fired her.

I think progtalk will do OK on 1010. 1010 has a much better, much stronger signal than either 1310 (2500W) or 1690 (10k).

If 1010 can get a 25k night signal, then it will be the second-strongest station on the dial at night.
 
My point is, these people are just plain dumb. NOOOO Listeners, NOOOOOO Brain, and NOOOOOO point. No one likes progressive talk. Boortz just talked WGUN. They will not last long.
 
First of all, some Progressive Talk stations do moderately well. Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Denver all have modestly successful Progressive Talk stations. Madison Wisc. has a successful FM Progressive Talk station. Atlanta, being a top 10 market, should have one Talk station that isn't a cookie-cutter of conservative talk.

Complaining that you don't like a format doesn't make much sense. Should I complain I don't like Hard Rock or Top 40 radio? I don't see how that helps anyone. An AM radio station with a so-so signal in a Top 10 market is trying to find a niche. Georgia might be conservative but Atlanta is fairly liberal. Maybe this will keep the station on the air, with a small paid staff and a return for the owner. Let's hope.

I honestly don't know how anyone listens to Beck or Boortz. Beck is so loony he lost his TV gig on a conservative network! He's also off the radio in NYC, Philadelphia and other major cities where he used to be heard.

And Boortz's car jacking discussion should have gotten him suspended from WSB for a week, if not for adding "Yo. Yo." to his comments, thereby making it racial, then for editing out the words "Yo. Yo." when he later played back the segment on the air, trying to claim it wasn't racial. Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime.

But I guess there's a market for even this nonsense. If it keeps people employed, OK.


Gregg
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FLjack2 said:
Face it, unless you are an iconic radio station in your market (WSB, WGN, WINS, WABC) you are dead. Done. Over. No format change will give you ratings. Now, you might make money, but you wont get ratings.
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sorry. I meant iconic AM station.
 
Never forget Boortz was a speech writer for Governor Lester Maddox. There was even a picture of them from those days in R and R.


First of all, some Progressive Talk stations do moderately well. Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Denver all have modestly successful Progressive Talk stations. Madison Wisc. has a successful FM Progressive Talk station. Atlanta, being a top 10 market, should have one Talk station that isn't a cookie-cutter of conservative talk.

Complaining that you don't like a format doesn't make much sense. Should I complain I don't like Hard Rock or Top 40 radio? I don't see how that helps anyone. An AM radio station with a so-so signal in a Top 10 market is trying to find a niche. Georgia might be conservative but Atlanta is fairly liberal. Maybe this will keep the station on the air, with a small paid staff and a return for the owner. Let's hope.

I honestly don't know how anyone listens to Beck or Boortz. Beck is so loony he lost his TV gig on a conservative network! He's also off the radio in NYC, Philadelphia and other major cities where he used to be heard.

And Boortz's car jacking discussion should have gotten him suspended from WSB for a week, if not for adding "Yo. Yo." to his comments, thereby making it racial, then for editing out the words "Yo. Yo." when he later played back the segment on the air, trying to claim it wasn't racial. Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime.

But I guess there's a market for even this nonsense. If it keeps people employed, OK.


Gregg
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I disagree, Brent. 1690 had a fairly large audience for an AM station and the demos were very desirable. If WGUN can come up with the resources to market the new format it could possibly do a 1 share 6+....maybe a little more.
Even if they can start coming up with some numbers they still will need skilled sales people to get the dollars coming in. And they will need a goodly dose of patience. I'm thinking it will take a year or so of day in day out hard work to get this programming established and sales to a level of profitability. Most owners are looking for the quick fix.....this ain't it.
I liked the old school soul music, too! But music on AM is a tough row to hoe....I think they made a good choice to go this direction. Guess we will have to wait and see what happens.......
 
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