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Dori - Jessica Cross Talk ?

There's only one GIANT problem. The "classic" KIRO programs everyone is talking about no longer exist.

Oh, you might find an hour or two here or there. And certainly Jim French has every hour of his Harry Nile radio drama programs. But those have been running on the Sandusky station for years now, ever since KIRO brass dumped them from the KIRO lineup about 10 years ago.

But there is no archive of 70's or even 80's & 90's KIRO programming on tape or digital. Does NOT exist.
 
EQ has a good point - the audio would have to exist. Which brings up another point:

Looking back at all the stations I've worked and have had good friends work - many of them classic calls - it's disheartening at how little effort the stations put into archiving. Especially this last decade, when years of a station's audio can be kept on a $200 drive. I saw a 2 TB drive the other day for like $150. Incredible. At some point I would think KIRO could have profited from rebroadcasting classic audio, maybe on an HD channel. You'd need to have on-air personalities sign off but I honestly believe that classic, full shows from KJR/KISW/KIRO/KING-AM/KOL/KZOK etc would draw listeners. And an intern could pull the shows from a hard drive and put them on the air.

I doubt that it will ever occur, but it would most likely work.
 
Once again the Guru is here to interject some healthy reality..

Even if one were to archive old, previously popular good-ol-days content, nobody but a handful of hobbyists or little old ladies would care.

The demos that pay the bills don't care about the old days. Getting a real audience is what matters. That's why nostalgia shows and radio dramas have been relegated to HD3 channels even by some NPR stations.

To even suggest that wasting a full market signal with old radio shows from the past is absurd. Put it on line where hobbyists can relive their childhood perhaps, but that's about it.
 
KVI broadcasts classic art bell shows from the ninety's and early 00's, on saturday night, just prior to the live coast to coast episode. and has been doing it for several years.

i can see where KIRO could make classic dave ross shows/interviews work, seeing as he is a current well known/liked KIRO radio commodity. this would obviously depend upon how much old archives KIRO, and dave ross have. it would be an interesting experment for KIRO to do some day, if they actually ran, and promoted an old ross show from the 80's, if it was relevent ie: "dave ross KIRO broadcast from 25 years ago on this date". sounds like a cool one time or occasional pride in KIRO heritage promotion. i'd tune in for that, and so would you, even if you aint a little old lady, or radio knut hobbyist.

that may work for dave ross, but then again 25 years from now, i wonder if anyone would want to hear the current and continuous abbott and costello-ish "whos on first" style schtick act of the ronandons???
 
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