Okay. Your opinion. Wrong. But it's yours. And you're entitled to it. In truth, Barry's hilarious.
Your pomposity is almost as glaring as Barry’s. To assert my “opinion” as “wrong” while then stating yours as “truth” is a typical argument tactic done to demean and discredit the views of others. Your opinion is Barry is “hilarious”, mine wasn’t precisely the opposite of that, but I do have a different take, neither are “right” or “wrong”, they are opinions variable upon personal tastes and what we feel is good radio.
People know the difference. People listen. They enjoy and stay on 550. Arbitron results show this as a FACT,
I wasn’t arguing that point, and since you quoted me, that would presuppose that I made a statement contrary to yours and I did not. I said that Barry has excellent ratings—the reason he does is primarily because he’s the best thing on in this market at that time period (which I stated was sad commentary on this market). I don’t think you can find at any point where I said KFYI wasn’t doing well in the arbitrons—actually, anyone that reads my posts knows that I USUALLY defend KFYI. I don’t hate Barry, he’s probably a pretty good guy, but I believe his show has taken some steps back from what it used to be. He would interact with listeners (actually take phone calls, ::Gasp:: imagine that! Taking calls on a TALK station), do mostly content oriented radio and leave most of the sound effects in the 1970s where they belonged. Barry is a good broadcaster, he is intelligent, savvy and understands the business, which is why it’s even more disappointing to hear how his show has “evolved” the last several years.
You guys can whine and rage and carry on with your jabs and cuts all you like. At the end of the day, Barry wins. You loose. His advertisers win. In fact, if he's "phoning it in," it's the most listened to phone call in Valley Radio. And usually very entertaining.
Preston Westmoreland had pretty good ratings for a time as well, and he mailed in his show every day doing that typical “survey radio” style of talk “what do you think, give me a call!”, “Is it raining where you are?”. Simply saying, “he has good ratings so it must be good and you are wrong if you don’t like it” doesn’t wash with me. Don Imus would get decent ratings in markets until Howard Stern came in and obliterated him off the books. If anyone with some real punch came into the market in the 8am-10am timeslot, Barry would be in the backseat with Snooze 92-3 in the trunk.
Again, wrong. National Arbitron numbers show that you have no idea of what you're saying here any more than before. It's just an opinion, not factual. Not reality. Her numbers are very strong in both 12+ , 25-54 and 35- 64. The show is loved and accepted both by the industry and her listers. Her 400+ affiliates don't believe your absurdity and the people who buy her books don't, the 10 million+ who subscribe to newsletters being sent out each day don't agree with you either.
I will gladly parade a thousand IT professionals onto this board to tell you that Kim’s show is great for beginners or the novice, but generally beneath anyone who has taken more than a semester of a rudimentary computer course. There are a lot of “newbies” in the computer world, therefore plenty of people are able to listen to Kim’s program. I’m not saying everything she says is worthless information, but again, it’s mired in shtick (and as another person said), glitz and rather cheap gimmicks. Not every show that has decent or good ratings is the best show ever, nor does that mean it couldn’t be improved. Most of us on this board are in the radio business, aspire to be, or are avid listeners to terrestrial, satellite and/or internet broadcasts, therefore all of us offer opinions. I offer many solutions to the problems that this market has and go on record BEFORE HAND and state what will and will not work—FREE-FM (predicted by just about everyone to be a failure) is a horrible failure, for example.
Now, if you wish to assert your superiority over those of us on this board who have a contrary opinion to yours, then take it elsewhere. If you wish to offer a counterpoint with some degree of rationality and devoid of childish, ad hominem arguments, then great.
