bridge collapse coverage

[newsgodaz]

Well, I'm astounded. This is a "one-story" news day as of now with the Minneapolis bridge collapse. KTAR is doing a superb job. KFYI has "the blowhard" off topic. This has to be the worst performance of any news-oriented radio station in history. If this isn't the so-called dude-boss's last day, the Phoenix Clearchannel cluster has lost all clue. :-[

 

[LassoG]

Well, I'm astounded. This is a "one-story" news day as of now with the Minneapolis bridge collapse. KTAR is doing a superb job. KFYI has "the blowhard" off topic. This has to be the worst performance of any news-oriented radio station in history. If this isn't the so-called dude-boss's last day, the Phoenix Clearchannel cluster has lost all clue. :-[

i disagree that this is now a "one story news day." the problem with news today IS the wall to wall coverage of events. cover it, give frequent updates, good. wall to wall? its just not necessary. what id really like to hear in this city is a REAL news station....24/7 news. not talk radio that gives headlines every 30 minutes.

bash away...

 

[vettalkguy]

DUDEBOSS IS FINISHED.

Friday and now this? There's no way he survives.

 

[newsgodaz]

"I disagree that this is now a "one story news day."
obviously lasso is not in the news business. but KFYI claims to be. Let me be quite blunt about this. I care about news radio. Decades of top market work compel me to make this point. I've seen it all. Even in the number 1 market I've seen producers "freeze" when the dung hits the fan. They are usually removed. This dudeboss obviously doesn't belong in this part of the business by recent track record. Today was a no-brainer. I understand he's a nice guy. Sales perhaps?

 

[DrAkbar]

Bash away...right call by Dudeboss, let KT'R run with it. A bridge collapse in MSP is tragic, but it's importance to Phoenix talkradio is way down the scale. TMISU are sticking with what works best for them: News and the CCU suits are sticking with what's best for them (the Blowhard excepted!)

 

[Legend City]

Baloney, Ded Simons was crowing about being the "only station in town with LIVE coverage"

Of course, the live coverage was just playing MSNBC.

Weak.

Its not that compelling or dynamic of a story. A bridge collapses, 2000 miles away.

No real ongoing stuff to report after that.

 

[Intheday]

KTAR has built it's repitation for the last 20 years on NEWS and SPORTS. Now being split in half AM and FM they are able to be the valley's NEWS leader on radio. No one has ever or will ever out spend KTAR when it comes to news, it is just a very expensive undertaking.

KFYI was built on controversial TALK and that is what made that station what it was. KFYI has gone so far in the oppisite direction of it's success that the shell of a station is what's left. It will survive for years to come because of the foundation that was built years ago. JD "great guy" but he isn't going to say anything to rial Arizonan's up. Barry "great mind" but he belongs in Sun City playing golf in the morning and cards in the afternoon. Rush is Rush, need I say more. Savage, wouldn't it be great to of heard him 20 years ago? Hannity the car salesman for the republican party. The morning guy...I can't even remember his name now, oh well I gues enough said.

KTAR is still doing what brought them and will continue doing it. No matter who KTAR puts on any mic they will continue to get what they have been getting over the last 20 years. KTAR is NO DIFFERNT today than it was in 1986. KFYI however is relying on the past way to long. The chick boss rode that ride for all it was worth. Dudeboss climbed aboard when the ride should be repaired. KFYI where are your young radicals TALK host that are saying and doing things that get KTAR to write letters to your advertisers saying "did you here what KFYI said, we at KTAR would never do that, pull your advertisng from KFYI." KFYI where are the national news trucks outside your station wanting an explanation for what one of your talk hosts said? KFYI where are the demonstrators outside your station demanding one of your hosts resign? KFYI where are AZ Republics cartoons about your hosts and station? KFYI where are the newspaper editorials WEEKLY about your radio station? THAT WAS THE KFYI THAT GOT TO THE TOP.

Bottom line to owners is cash flow, who's is better?

 

[K7VOR]

Re: Bridge collapse coverage

Anyone wanting wall-to-wall can do what I did. Go straight to the big local news station in the community affected. In this case it was WCCO with a tremendous effort and much success. Radio links were not yet established at the emergency news conference and CCO's reporter did what many do in that situation. He laid his cellphone on the podium. I was surprised by the excellent quality.

No lister call-ins taken randomly. Their broadcast is flowing so smoothly it sounds scripted. KFYI and KTAR could learn much from the WCCO coverage this evening.

 

[newsgodaz]

Legend City is obviously not in the news biz(or shouldn't be) either. This was compelling live radio. And it was ABC News not MSNBC. I have to laugh as I add that at 7 when Gaydos (who is Bruce Jacobs with complete sentences) came on I went back to Savage and heard 30 seconds and turned off the radio. Nothing left to listen to. P>S> Legend City: A very large population of formerTwin Cities residents now resides in or regularly visits our area. Again, a no-brainer.

 

[Legend City]

Its compelling radio until you get to a TV.

Then you could care less about the radio.

Saying that KTAR did a great job when all they did was play MSNBC audio is pretty funny.

 

[medina]

Its compelling radio until you get to a TV.

Then you could care less about the radio.

Saying that KTAR did a great job when all they did was play MSNBC audio is pretty funny.

I listened for over an hour. Never heard MSNBC. They were running ABC News on the radio special reporting. Flipped over the blowhard and couldn't believe how bad it was. I was glued to KTAR like for the helicopters.

 

[MASTER_CONTROL]

ktar had abc radio, cnn, msnbc coverage and several call-in interviews with eye witness' on the scene during the 45 minutes that i listened. abc radio also took feed from local minneapolis radio.

what local story was more important than this?

this could've been terrorism for all we know.

 

[MASTER_CONTROL]

ktar should have gone back to normal programming for the last half hour of afternoon news though, imo.

biz, sports & top local stories

 

[Legend City]

I don't listen to JD, so I missed his "coverage" I imagine it was painfully bad though.

 

[obihave]

I don't listen to JD, so I missed his "coverage" I imagine it was painfully bad though.

apparently you've never heard FOX News Radio?

news is news...it's what people are talking about! Hello?

 

[KMGX]

I listened for over an hour. Never heard MSNBC. They were running ABC News on the radio special reporting. Flipped over the blowhard and couldn't believe how bad it was. I was glued to KTAR like for the helicopters.

Some of you need to put down the kool-aide. I believe some coverage is necessary, but wall-to-wall coverage of a situation where the news reports are filled with mostly misinformation (at the early stages) is almost irresponsible broadcasting to be quite blunt. None of the local TV stations stuck with the coverage for very long, and KTAR stuck with wall-to-wall for about 90-120 minutes.

To cheer verbosely for KTAR simply because they opened up the ABC satellite channel and rebroadcast it is pretty humorous. "They flipped a switch, man what good coverage!" I tuned back in at seven, and everyone was back to normal programming, Gaydos was back to discussing media helicopters reporting on police chases, while KFYI had Savage... I honestly didn't check the other so-called news/talk stations as any station with less than a 1 share is pretty irrelevant.

My guess is that Gaydos did some really compelling radio like "Bridge collapse, what do you think, give me a call", in between discussing how great it is to have Gaydos on the radio. So, let's hold off on the applause for everyone's coverage; especially KTAR who said "We are the only station with LIVE coverage", live SATELLITE coverage--but wait, I thought they were local... oh the confusion!

I don't think KFYI did an amazing job, in fact, you'd hardly know that a bridge even collapsed there... but the self aggrandizing that KTAR is now constantly doing is getting real old, real fast.

 

[vettalkguy]

Some of you need to put down the kool-aide. I believe some coverage is necessary, but wall-to-wall coverage of a situation where the news reports are filled with mostly misinformation (at the early stages) is almost irresponsible broadcasting to be quite blunt. None of the local TV stations stuck with the coverage for very long, and KTAR stuck with wall-to-wall for about 90-120 minutes.

I agree. If the Sears Tower in Chicago gets hit by a plane today I think it would be stupid for anyone to do wall-to-wall coverage where the news reports are filled with mostly misinformation (at the early stages) that is almost irresponsible broadcasting to be quite blunt.

If that were to happen I think the radio stations should wait until they know exactly what happened and then go on the air. Or, maybe only mention it for a second so they don't give out any misinformation and then go back to normal programming.

 

[KMGX]

Some of you need to put down the kool-aide. I believe some coverage is necessary, but wall-to-wall coverage of a situation where the news reports are filled with mostly misinformation (at the early stages) is almost irresponsible broadcasting to be quite blunt. None of the local TV stations stuck with the coverage for very long, and KTAR stuck with wall-to-wall for about 90-120 minutes.

I agree. If the Sears Tower in Chicago gets hit by a plane today I think it would be stupid for anyone to do wall-to-wall coverage where the news reports are filled with mostly misinformation (at the early stages) that is almost irresponsible broadcasting to be quite blunt.

If that were to happen I think the radio stations should wait until they know exactly what happened and then go on the air. Or, maybe only mention it for a second so they don't give out any misinformation and then go back to normal programming.

Ahh, so you're comparing the Sears Tower, holding and affecting tens of thousands to a bridge which held 100-150+. I'm not saying that the Bridge collapse wasn't news, but Wall-to-wall coverage? Pretty ridiculous. (especially on the radio). It's an odd double-standard that you (and others in the valley) hold when it comes to news.

Explain to me how two helicopters colliding when covering a police chase garners far more attention on that beloved self-aggrandizing station than a bridge collapsing. The bridge incident, by the way, involves more people, has far greater ramifications and yet got less coverage. Your double standard is amusing, but also terrifying; wall-to-wall coverage for most events (especially multi-hour wall-to-wall) is just overkill, especially when it's simply satellite coverage which any of us could hear elsewhere or flip on a TV... ugh.

 

[MASTER_CONTROL]

Mmmm... Kool-Aid.

what's the average tsl for afternoon news radio?

 

[KeithE4]

Ahh, so you're comparing the Sears Tower, holding and affecting tens of thousands to a bridge which held 100-150+. I'm not saying that the Bridge collapse wasn't news, but Wall-to-wall coverage? Pretty ridiculous. (especially on the radio). It's an odd double-standard that you (and others in the valley) hold when it comes to news.

A terrorist attack on Sears Tower similar to 9/11 would require wall-to-wall coverage on all stations, of course. A fire that might break out in one of the offices in the tower, for example, would only warrant coverage on Chicago stations, and maybe some time on the cable news channels.

Explain to me how two helicopters colliding when covering a police chase garners far more attention on that beloved self-aggrandizing station than a bridge collapsing. The bridge incident, by the way, involves more people, has far greater ramifications and yet got less coverage. Your double standard is amusing, but also terrifying; wall-to-wall coverage for most events (especially multi-hour wall-to-wall) is just overkill, especially when it's simply satellite coverage which any of us could hear elsewhere or flip on a TV... ugh.

The chopper crash was a Phoenix news story and wall-to-wall news coverage on Phoenix stations was appropriate. It probably got some coverage on CNN & the others (I wasn't watching any of them so I'm guessing), but it wasn't a story that deserved extended coverage on CBS, NBC, or ABC, or on any national radio network.

Neither was the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. It's relevant to the Twin Cities and their news media, but not Phoenix. Given the greater number of deaths and injuries, plus the slim chance that it might have been terrorist-related (quickly refuted), the national cable networks covered it. But, like the Channel 3 & 15 choppers, it wasn't a story that warranted national news coverage. I think it should have been left to the local Twin Cities media to cover their own story and allow CNN, FNC, and MSNBC to cut in when events required.