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Bloomberg 960 ending October 1

boombox4 said:
Pairing conservative talk (or any talk) with Sports talk on a station doesn't seem to be all that unusual in some smaller markets. Most nights I can heard a mix of conservative talk and Fox Sports on a station about 130 miles down the I-5 corridor from me, KEDO 1270 out of Kelso-Longview, WA. They run Fox Sports overnight, and conservative talk during other times of the day. They even ID as "Newstalk / Sportstalk".
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I programmed an all-Talk rimshot here in L.A. briefly in 1989. Largely syndicated with a live morning show. Even back then, we did a live one-hour sports talk show at 7:00pm followed by a two-hour national program off the satellite. That sort of schedule wasn't uncommon at the time.
 
MOR stations of the 1960s frequently had heavy sports content, not just play-by-play but sports shows. Fred Hessler had half an hour every evening at 6:00 p.m. on KMPC.

Jim Healy was doing the same thing during KLAC's MOR format and came back years later during its country format. In fact, he succeeded Hessler at KMPC in the 80s, when KMPC was nostalgia.

In the 70s and 80s, Adult Contemporary KFMB in San Diego found such success with the Padres that they gave KFMB-TV sports guy Ted Leitner billing with afternoon host Mark Larson---Larson and Leitner---and Ted would do sports commentary throughout the afternoon.

And on talk radio, KABC had an evening sports program or two---the one I remember is "Superfan".
 
michael hagerty said:
And on talk radio, KABC had an evening sports program or two---the one I remember is "Superfan".
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Ah yes, Superfan, real name Ed Bieler. Worked at a number of SoCal stations over the years. His extremely strong opinions got him in a bunch of trouble, as this was well before the era of confrontational, in-your-face talk shows that are the norm today.

I recall Superfan from his stint at WFAA 570 in DFW. He was part of the original talent lineup when the station went all talk in late 1976. I heard his very first show, and he seemed to go out of his way to rile up his audience with some outrageous takes.

Scroll down (or search) to “Bieler” on this webpage to find out more about him: ~Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now, B
 
TheBigA said:
The official announcement came out this morning.

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iHeart Sports Talk & More To Launch On 960 KNEW

With Bloomberg ending their ten year lease of iHeartMedia's 960 KNEW San Francisco on October 1, iHeartMedia has announced it
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As I said in #306, apparently the HD-2 wasn't covered by the Bloomberg LMA, so they can do anything they want.

Not sure why they're running syndicated sports all day, other than to potentially take audience from other sports stations.

Earlier, we suggested they use the station for syndicated talk. There are no stations in the San Francisco running iHeart syndicated talk. The closest station running Clay & Buck is in Sacramento or Modesto. Hannity is even further away. So there are no market conflicts for that programming. Instead there are now two stations running Fox Sports programming.
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Hannity is on KSFO. He'd been on the station since circa 2000, except for the years when Michael Savage had the 12-3pm slot (to my recollection).
 
408listener said:
Hannity is on KSFO. He'd been on the station since circa 2000, except for the years when Michael Savage had the 12-3pm slot (to my recollection).
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I see it now on their station schedule, but it's not on Hannity's station finder. That's what I checked for my post.
 
boombox4 said:
Pairing conservative talk (or any talk) with Sports talk on a station doesn't seem to be all that unusual in some smaller markets.
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Including the miniscule market of Denver, where iHeart's KOA combines talk (right-leaning but not extreme; that's what iHeart has KDFD for) with sports talk and sports PBP. The station's slogan is "News. Talk. Sports." Not the most creative but it's fairly accurate.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Including the miniscule market of Denver, where iHeart's KOA combines talk (right-leaning but not extreme; that's what iHeart has KDFD for) with sports talk and sports PBP. The station's slogan is "News. Talk. Sports." Not the most creative but it's fairly accurate.
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In the same way that iHeart's WLW Cincinnati combines news and conservative talk with Reds baseball and nighttime sports talk with Lance McAlister.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Ah yes, Superfan, real name Ed Bieler. Worked at a number of SoCal stations over the years. His extremely strong opinions got him in a bunch of trouble, as this was well before the era of confrontational, in-your-face talk shows that are the norm today.

I recall Superfan from his stint at WFAA 570 in DFW. He was part of the original talent lineup when the station went all talk in late 1976. I heard his very first show, and he seemed to go out of his way to rile up his audience with some outrageous takes.

Scroll down (or search) to “Bieler” on this webpage to find out more about him: ~Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now, B
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Bieler was on Kansas City's KCMO (810) in 1987-89. The station chose not to renew his contract. Among other factors were his malapropisms - for example, referring to Troy Aikman as "Troy Aiken". Bieler at the time said that was part of his charm.
 
TheBigA said:
Yes we know. Reported in Post 303 about 6 hours ago

radioinsight.com

iHeart Sports Talk & More To Launch On 960 KNEW

With Bloomberg ending their ten year lease of iHeartMedia's 960 KNEW San Francisco on October 1, iHeartMedia has announced it
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Yes I know it was first reported when it was posted 6 hours ago but my sentence for some reason was not posted when it was suppose to say...but what kind of weekend schedule will Talk & More 960 have? We already know the weeknight but not weekends. I guess we will tune in and see.
 
At 7pm on Monday, KNEW dropped its old Bloomberg station ID in favor of a generic one simply mentioning the iHeart Sports/Talk brand, "960 KNEW", and city of license. Instead of the usual NBC News Radio at the top of the hour, they played the Bloomberg Money Minute as a part-time Bloomberg station would do.

I'm not sure if the format change will happen at 12am tonight or 6am tomorrow morning.
 
At 3am Tuesday morning on October 1, syndicated host Your Morning Show with Michael Delgiorno introduced and welcomed a new audience listening in San Francisco on KNEW 960. His show is unique with a mixture of not only just news topics but also some sports news to talk about also. Worth listening if you are an insomniac or an early morning person...
 
K.M. Richards said:
I programmed an all-Talk rimshot here in L.A. briefly in 1989. Largely syndicated with a live morning show. Even back then, we did a live one-hour sports talk show at 7:00pm followed by a two-hour national program off the satellite. That sort of schedule wasn't uncommon at the time.
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Newsradio 1100 (WTAM) in Cleveland does news talk sports. Most of their local talk shows are quite sports-heavy (since Cleveland is a jock town), especially the one in the evening when there are no ball games to carry. There's a full time sports talk stations on 850 (WKNR) for Cleveland and 1350 for Akron (WARF). In addition to Audacy's 92.3 FM WKRK.
 
Format flip just occurred at midnight PDT with an NBC News Radio hourlie to start things off, followed by Coast to Coast AM.
 
408listener said:
KNEW did switch to its new format at midnight, starting the hour with an unnamed news service (presumably iHeart's NBC News Radio), then Coast to Coast AM.

That hour of Coast to Coast started with such a long excerpt of "Friday on My Mind" that I thought this station scheduled oldies after dark!
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C2C has caught me off guard several times.. they play long segments of songs.. i think thats what they fill with so stations who dont take local breaks have cover
 
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