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Bohannon back on KOMO

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Apparently the powers that be decided it was better to have a talk show instead of recorded news casts from the previous day...
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Jim Bohannon Show Added At WGN & KOMO - RadioInsight

Westwood One has announced that the Jim Bohannon Show has been added at Nexstar News/Talk 720 WGN Chicago and Hubbard News 1000 KOMO/97.7 KOMO-FM Seattle. WGN added Bohannon earlier this year and will air his show from 1-4am making it the only syndicated product on their daily schedule. KOMO...
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"he show can now be heard on over 275 stations nationwide."
Surprised he has that big clearance. I tune the dial and don't hear him other than Chicago.
 
Overnights?? We air him at 7-10 pm live on KBKW.
 
KOMO has tried a variety of solutions to cover the overnight hours in their 19 years of "All News."

The best solution was their first - when AP still had the AP All News Radio product and they'd run that with traffic cut ins and an overnight producer reading local news headlines at the top of the hour. The main overnight anchors on that AP service were longtime AP veteran Sandy Kozel (who was laid off from AP a few years ago and is now at WTOP) and ....... Camille Bohannon, Jim's ex-wife.
 
I disagree. Yes, Bohannon has some interesting guests who are not political. Authors, sometimes a star from a past TV show or sitcom, sometimes a singer of past hits. I heard him interview Don McLean last year and enjoyed it!

But too often he's doing conservative politics. He's not as conservative as some syndicated talk show hosts. But I don't want ANY partisan politics on an All-News station. I tried listening this week. At one point he was giving Democrats a hard time for trying Trump even though he's no longer in office. Later he was making jokes about Hunter Biden. No, I don't think that's right on an All-News station.

Then at 2 a.m. PT (5 a.m. ET), KOMO could switch to the syndicated early morning news shows. I believe they run America in the Morning (which Bohannon used to anchor) and First Light. They're both produced by Westwood One. They're good, because they are live, news-oriented and non-political.

If Sinclair doesn't want to pay for live news overnight, go back to prerecorded news with live traffic. That's what WBZ Boston (iHeart) and KYW Philadelphia (Entercom) do. If Bohannon stayed totally non-political, OK. But he doesn't.
 
^^^^^^ Larry King, his predecessor, didn't totally refrain from politics, either. But politics wasn't the central focus of the show, and from what I've heard of Jim Bohannon's show, politics isn't the central focus of his show either.
 
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KMan said:
KOMO has tried a variety of solutions to cover the overnight hours in their 19 years of "All News."

The best solution was their first - when AP still had the AP All News Radio product and they'd run that with traffic cut ins and an overnight producer reading local news headlines at the top of the hour. The main overnight anchors on that AP service were longtime AP veteran Sandy Kozel (who was laid off from AP a few years ago and is now at WTOP) and ....... Camille Bohannon, Jim's ex-wife.
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AP All news radio was very cool. You could pop in and out local stuff by the minute. Too bad they never had enough affiliates to make it work. We used it until they bailed.
 
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