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Daylight Savings Timme - A plot to Save Barry Young?
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Re: Daylight Saving Time - A plot to Save Barry Young?
Because the Nearly Bald One won't come back at 3 PM to do his third hour?
But since El Rushbo won't come down the sat feed until 10 AM starting next Monday anyway,
your wish is a moot point until mid-March 2012. And Akbar always shoots me down when I
suggest that KFYI air Rush and Hannity live during DST.
Fixed.
MC said:
Because the Nearly Bald One won't come back at 3 PM to do his third hour?
But since El Rushbo won't come down the sat feed until 10 AM starting next Monday anyway,
your wish is a moot point until mid-March 2012. And Akbar always shoots me down when I
suggest that KFYI air Rush and Hannity live during DST.
Fixed.
Again....
For those of you new to the Valley or who have no long-term memory, KFYI once carried Rush live during the entire year. That means he started at 9 AM for part of the year and 10 AM the other half. It was not a good idea. People want to know when their shows will be on and that time needs to be consistent throughout the year. Yes, KNST carries Rush live (or used to, I dunno now) and KKNT changes times, too. It's dumb. KFYI isn't programmed to cater to the .01% of people who might call Rush, they want to be able to say he's on at 10 AM no matter what. Barry has nothing to do with it.
For those of you new to the Valley or who have no long-term memory, KFYI once carried Rush live during the entire year. That means he started at 9 AM for part of the year and 10 AM the other half. It was not a good idea. People want to know when their shows will be on and that time needs to be consistent throughout the year. Yes, KNST carries Rush live (or used to, I dunno now) and KKNT changes times, too. It's dumb. KFYI isn't programmed to cater to the .01% of people who might call Rush, they want to be able to say he's on at 10 AM no matter what. Barry has nothing to do with it.
Re: Daylight Saving Time - A plot to Save Barry Young?
And going even further back, KFYI once aired El Rushbo noon-3. Year-round.
I don't recall who was on 9-noon (Mohan?), or if this was before the NBO was
KFYI's "golden boy."
buster2 said:
And going even further back, KFYI once aired El Rushbo noon-3. Year-round.
I don't recall who was on 9-noon (Mohan?), or if this was before the NBO was
KFYI's "golden boy."
My memory gets fuzzier with time (whose doesn't?), but Mohan once held down the 9-Noon slot and Barry did AM drive. The idea was to have Barry counter-program the news block on KT'R. He pulled that shift for some time and it was brutal for him to attract callers between 5 - 6 AM.
Once Rush came on KFYI, they moved things around more than once, but Mo and Barry were still on in the AM and you had guys like Jack Cole pulling PM drive. The "classic" and most successful KFYI lineup would probably be considered Barry 9-noon, Rush Noon-3 and Mohan from 3-7.
Once Rush came on KFYI, they moved things around more than once, but Mo and Barry were still on in the AM and you had guys like Jack Cole pulling PM drive. The "classic" and most successful KFYI lineup would probably be considered Barry 9-noon, Rush Noon-3 and Mohan from 3-7.
buster2 said:
That goes back to their 9~Ten days. And the Nurse and I recall Mohan pleading for callers to hang around after the pattern was changed in the late afternoon. Just a few holes in that coverage map: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KGME&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
Mohan situation, a national, no an international tragedy...Maybe they can't run baldness cure ads on Young and Rush? That is quite a "baldness cure" free time block. Barry can get his leather jacket out of the closet for winter now, so he can look "young" and hip. Daylight savings time, "obviously" a Marxist plot.
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Maybe this problem would be solved if AZ would finally go on Pacific time year-round.
desertv said:
But it would mean PHX sunset at 4:20 PM PT in early December.
oldiesfan6479 said:
Yes, that's a normal late December sunset time. At least for Chicago.
What is a normal Dec sunset time in Phoenix?
If you look at time zones, the divide between eastern/central would naturally fall on the Miss. River.
There should be another time zone divide running through about Albany, New York for everything east of that.
Instead, we have a disproportionately large "eastern" time zone that reaches way out west.
In the middle of zones , there's not much of an issue, but at the edges there is dissatisfaction.
It "pushes" the daylight back and forth, as "available" in certain areas, and this is why states like
Arizona and Indiana did not want to change time, as there was ALREADY enough light in the "evening".
Farmers were the most annoyed at all by daylight saving time, and it made keeping track of what time it is in Indiana
(by region) a normal mental "app" most of my life.
As a boy, this really steamed me, as being "in by dark" seemed unfair when only 30 miles away
that would mean I could be out playing an hour later.
Even now, I'd rather not have the daylight so early that birds begin singing at 4 AM.
Tom Wells said:
5:20 PM MT in early December. PT would simply be an hour earlier (4:20).
As far as the time zones, the center of each zone is 75 deg (ET), 90 deg (CT), 105 deg (MT)
and 120 deg (PT), west longitude. The divider between ET and CT should be 82 deg 30 min W,
CT to MT at 97 deg 30 min W, and MT to PT at 112 deg 30 min W. But it's all been pushed
westward over the years. Heck, all of IN should be on CT.
desertv said:
Technically, Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone and always stays on Mountain Standard Time (MST). Right now, from November to March, Arizona is following the right time for their time zone. It's during the summer where we diverge and stay on MST when the rest of the time zone goes to Mountain Daylight Savings Time (MDST). We should never be on the same time as the Pacific Time Zone, but, thanks to this state's decision to not follow daylight savings time, from March until November, we are on the same time as Pacific Daylight Savings Time (PDST).
Personally, I would rather follow daylight savings time, which means we would never diverge from the rest of the Mountain Time Zone. The sun would never be setting as early as 4:20 P.M. (like some people have said) because the time we are currently on now, Mountain Standard Time (MST), would not change from our current situation during the winter months. The earliest the sun would set would remain at 5:20 P.M. If we switched to Pacific Time (which would never happen), then yes, the sun would set as early as 4:20 P.M. The difference would be during the summer when the sun would set an hour later, which could be as late as 8:40 P.M. on the longest days of the year. I think this would be better than the current situation where it starts to get light out around 4:20 A.M. during the longest days of the year. This situation has to be worse in eastern Arizona, i.e. Springerville and Show Low, where I'd imagine it starts getting light out around 4:00 A.M. In my opinion, that's ridiculous. People would rather have the daylight late into the night than being awaken by signs of daylight around 4:00 A.M.
In summary, I believe Arizona should follow daylight savings time and always be on the Mountain Time Zone. If we did, we wouldn't have these problems with TV, radio, and other schedules being screwed up every year. I can imagine it's a total headache for airlines and other businesses to deal with Arizona's peculiar situation!
asugeorge1 said:
Have you ever had to reset the dash clock in a '76 Gremlin? Believe Nurse Jeff and me, sticking to MST year round has saved us a lot of grief over the years. If you don't like 4:30 am sunrises, then go to bed earlier...or get some black-out shades! Problem solved thanks to Los Buckeye Boyz.
MC said:
I think the Buckeye Media Hut uses GMT+14, to be just like Kiribati. ;D
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