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BIG CHANGES AT WYSL AM-FM

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Savage

Always fun making announcements like these.....and we have several bits of news for you.

First of all, effective the first of this week, WYSL has discontinued ABC Radio News and replaced all national-world casts with SRN - Salem Radio Network news. We feel it's a vastly improved product compared to ABC. Being aware of the political persuasions of many who post here, I'm sure I'll get some disagreement on this, but we feel SRN is more balanced with far less left-wing advocacy.

We're also expanding our local news product with fresh local casts, as opposed to headlines, all weekdays during all daytime hours. In conjunction with this WYSL promotes Joe Lasky to the new position of News Director. Joe also oversees our social media and web activities.

Salem Radio Reps have been appointed WYSL's national sales rep firm. And we are pleased to announce that Kevin Meath will assume the Sales Manager position here effective Monday 6/25. Kevin is well-known as the former sales manager and account exec for WVOR and WHTK for many years, as well as heading his dad's Eddie Meath Penny Fund and being former president of the Rochester Press-Radio Club, serving as board member of Monroe County Special Olympics and School of the Holy Childhood.

We send hearty congratulations to Kevin, Joe and the great people at Salem!
 
Left wing advocacy?

Never heard that about ABC, its parent company the Mouse, or its corporate partner in radio Lew Dickey Jr. ABC's about as non-partisan and apolitical as it gets among commercial nets. Guess definitions of what's left-wing are in flux, to say the least...

Never heard Salem's news offerings so I guess we'll have to listen to find out what they're like.

Meanwhile, any move that localizes more content and puts more local news on the air is a good one, and deserves applause.
 
Salem News was once Standard News I think I recall. I interviewed with them in 1994 and they were right next door to the PTL Club Offices in DC. A great news organization I will say.
 
Since WHAM dropped CBS on the hour news for FOX, I switched over to WYSL for ABC news.
 
Oh, believe me, Roberto, there is left-wing advocacy on ABC News. We made the decision not to renew ABC last fall after weeks of serial bashing of each GOP presidential frontrunner in turn (Herman Cain - he's having an affair! We think!! Rick Santorum...CHRISTIAN, ecch! Michelle Bachman - nut job! Newt Gingrich -- all of the above!!) plus adoring coverage of everything Democrat and "progressive."

In any case I think most folks will find SRN an excellent - and unbiased - product. As always your comments are welcome.
 
RCS... management moves...part of the biz!
Good to hear you've got Kevin Meath in the stable. I've worked with him in the past..an all around good guy. Cudos to Kevin too!!
Not catching YSL over here on the Lake Erie Coast...I believe your judgment of un-biased news works in your best interest.
All the best!!

Now your one of those "ownership" scenarios seen so often here :D

HDBG

Ex post facto: I'll bet the respect you hold here overrides many of the the opinions not yet posted ;)
 
From SRN's web site:

"Originating from its state-of-the-art international NewsCenter just 10 minutes from the White House and Capitol Hill, SRN News fields a team of the finest anchors and reporters in Christian journalism providing on-the-spot coverage of breaking news from around the world."

Take from that what you will.
 
3WG was an SRN affiliate when I was there throughout the 90s & the first part of the last decade. We carried their newscasts every non-bartered hour on the hour. I found their reporting to be completely non-biased. Good choice to go with SRN!
 
Adding further descriptions from their website:

"SRN News is the only Christian-focused news organization with fully-equipped broadcast facilities at the U.S. House, Senate, and White House manned by full-time correspondents — ensuring timely, on-the-spot coverage of breaking news.
Written, produced and anchored by respected news pros, SRN News is family-focused and credible — specifically created for Christian-formatted radio stations."

I think this says it all. To think their news would not be influenced or slanted in terms of presentation, would pretty much put them into the same category as saying Fox News is Fair & Balanced! I think SRN is carried by Family Life Network, if I am not mistaken.
 
Down yonder here in Timbuctoo, aka Allegany Co.,we (maybe with the exception of the People's Republic of Alfred) like the the changes Mr. Savage has made with the addition of SRN. It's good to hear some balanced news reporting for a change! Keep up the good work RCS!

If some of you are looking for slanted reporting, MSNBC is looking for a few good watchers! ;D
 
specifically created for Christian-formatted radio stations."

Not all Christians are right wingers but it seems all "Christian" broadcasters are. I just don't understand how such an organization will not be slanted to their point of view. Example: Pat Robertson and CBN.
 
Hey guys....I suggest you give it a listen. (More than once or twice.)

Then tell me what you think. It's a "proof of the pudding" thing......
 
Not to change the subject, but, how about fixing your logo; it is all over the road:

FM Talk
92.1 WYSL
Newspower 1040
WYSL1040.com

Which one is it?

Why not call it 'Talkradio 92-1 WYSL', and go with 921WYSL.com


or

'The Talk of Rochester' 92-1 WYSL.

or

Talkradio WYSL: 92.1 FM, 1040AM.


You got way too many different names for the same station in one logo, and none stands out. Pick one, and hammer that one on the air and in all your marketing material.
 
Savage said:
Hey guys....I suggest you give it a listen. (More than once or twice.)

Then tell me what you think. It's a "proof of the pudding" thing......
Click to expand...

I've heard it, we have an affiliate where I live. Fair and balanced is not how I would describe them.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Savage said:
Hey guys....I suggest you give it a listen. (More than once or twice.)

Then tell me what you think. It's a "proof of the pudding" thing......
Click to expand...

I've heard it, we have an affiliate where I live. Fair and balanced is not how I would describe them.
Click to expand...

It would be wise to not claim "fair and balanced" and yet still try to behave in such a way.

Until such time as we all come to recognize the value of being less biased, it may be that the best we can do is to have
proponents of any particular view or position to explain their viewpoint while acknowledging
their viewpoint honestly, as SRN does.

Then, too, if ANY source does a good job of news reporting without also always delivering a "here's what to think about it" slant,
they are a good news service.

There will always be some with closed minds who will reject anything/everything based on their "assumed intractable" opinion of the source, which permits an easy dismissal of any/all data not in keeping with thier world-view.

I really liked the old AP network radio news. Too bad its gone. I haven't heard the newer AP radio news product yet.

There IS a useful perspective to the SRN news, taken in context with other sources from "other" viwepoints.

The same applies to other "flavors" of news, too.
 
I'm old enough to remember the days when ABC, CBS and yes even NBC offered five full minutes worth of news that didn't contain editorial comments from the announcers. The last time I heard ABC news on WYSL it consisted of three minutes worth of one sentence stories with perhaps one field report added in.
The worse radio newscasts, in my opinion, is on CNN. That network could never get its act together technically.

My sincere hope is now that WYSL has named a news director that the radio station will dump Channel 10 news. I never have been a fan of a radio station carrying television news.
 
Funny how that bias thing looks different depending on a person's point of view. Folks on the right believe FOX is “fair and balanced”, while those on the left see NPR as an impartial representation of events.

I started my working days in media by delivering the Detroit Free Press at the age of 12. My older brother got up early to deliver the Detroit News. In addition to distribution, I also enjoyed reading both papers daily. But, I noticed the news seemed.... different depending on which paper I read it in. My old man told me something then, something I've never forgotten. He said that each and everything you see, hear or read, is being presented from someone's particular point of view, whether intentional or not. It's human nature, and each news organization has a collective point of view as well. The thing to do, he said, was to bear that in mind, and then see, hear and read as much as you possibly can, so that you can come to your own conclusions. Personally, I find it more interesting and enlightening to seek out perspectives very different from my own, but many, if not most, folks seem to prefer sticking with their own choir when the preaching starts.

Over the last 20 years or so, the use of religious identification by profit driven businesses has become, in my opinion, troubling. If a radio station, record label, or news organization says they are “Christian”, does that imply that all of the others are not? Or, is the term employed as a marketing device?

I'm no Bible expert, but it seems I remember there was a story in there somewhere about Jesus becoming angry at finding commerce being conducted in the temple. A for profit business making use of religion in its branding looks like pretty much the same thing, to me.
 
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