Radio stations have no way of tracking loyalty. It's not like you have a user name and password.
There were radio stations that had live staff on Saturday night. Just not the ones you sampled.
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Broadcast network coverage of Iran bombing
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Radio stations have no way of tracking loyalty. It's not like you have a user name and password.
There were radio stations that had live staff on Saturday night. Just not the ones you sampled.
Until just now, I had no idea who the weekend World News Tonight anchor was.
As best as I can tell there were 3 reruns of $100,000 Pyramid last night. The season premiere was in March.
Not for breaking news live coverage.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
My TiVo is designed to work for OTA, not cable.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I watched the start of it after the ABC News special report ended. Michael Strahan said "welcome to the season premiere" but since I don't watch these game show reboots (I still miss Dick Clark) if that was just a repeat from March I wouldn't have known.
I will presume that you are correct and therefore I wonder more than ever why the network bothered to run them out here instead of just letting the affiliates air the programming that was pre-empted by the special report (here in L.A., that would have been Eyewitness News, Jeopardy and Wheel Of Fortune; the fact that KABC-TV, being an O&O, did not air those tells me they were told to run the network feed).
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Don't have to. Anyone can see that the stations and networks aren't doing that. If they were, we would see that.
OTOH, you made a "statement of fact" about listener behavior, which is a different matter and not provable by observation (unless you are going door to door across the country asking listeners if they do what you say they will).
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
True. Now show me how live breaking news can be scheduled in advance so that people will tune in at the assigned time.
Stations don't sell TSL. A body is as good as any other body. If you stop listening, they don't know it's you.
I asked you earlier about WINS. KM asked you about KNX. But we could also add KYW.
I only listened briefly to KYW. When I had it on they weren’t doing wall to wall coverage but had frequent CBS Radio News updates.
Yes, I tuned in WINS. Like I said, it was basically headlines, nothing in depth, no discussion. Radio used to be much more than that, 24/7. If the current state of radio is OK with you, that's fine, but what's the point of defending it?
This was a surprise attack. There's no depth because there are no reporters on the ground in Iran. All we have are Pentagon sources. It's pretty predictable what they're going to say. There's no discussion until we have more facts. Radio isn't supposed to make stuff up just to entertain people. There isn't much more to say. This isn't about "the current state of radio." This is about reporting the news. Either you want news or you want entertainment.
Here in Orlando I checked the two N/T stations as everything was being reported.
WDBO was airing a best-of weekend edition of Sean Hannity, which was very ironically airing a segment talking about why Trump was smart to wait two weeks to make a decision before making any military moves.
WFLF was airing a public affairs show.
To do wall to wall coverage, you need reporters on the ground. There are none in Iran. The closest are either in Iraq or Israel. It was 3AM their time when this happened. It would take some time to wake them up and get them up to speed. Until then, all you can do is report the facts, quoting the gov't spokesmen who are talking. Until the 10PM News conference. Then you have some content to work with. But even then, it's limited. You're just repeating the same information over and over.
Whit Johnson on Saturdays; he seems to draw most of the weekday fill-in duty.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Which is why I was so impressed that Ian Pannell on ABC was on with Whit (from Tel Aviv) mere minutes after the special report started.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Whit is indeed the regular Saturday anchor and is also on GMA. Linsey Davis (yes, that's the correct spelling) anchors on Sundays. If either of them take a day off, Mary Bruce, the chief White House correspondent, fills in. Any of the three can be called up if David Muir is off during the week (vacations, holidays, sick days).
It may have been a repeat of said season premiere, but it was not an original on a Saturday night.