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ENTERCOM ASSUMES KBLX CONTROL TUESDAY; STEVE HARVEY TO MORNINGS
- Thread starter noknownuser
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Typical Entercom getting rid of Kevin Brown. Age? Cheapness?
Also AFTRA again folds like a cheap card table to Entercom. They let the KOIT staff down and did the same for the KBLX Personalities.
Also AFTRA again folds like a cheap card table to Entercom. They let the KOIT staff down and did the same for the KBLX Personalities.
KBLX was the only urban Ac station left to maintain local programming 24/7 while the majority of its counterparts were taken over by Tom Joyner (KISQ carried him once), Michael Baisden, Steve Harvey and Keith Sweat. Only a handful carry Doug Banks in the PM drive; at least comedian Monique ran her syndicated show for six months in 2009 ON Radio one stations that did not carrY Basiden.
sfradio said:
Well...syndicated morning shows don't work in the Bay Area unless they do...sometimes. Howard Stern worked. Steve Harvey is very popular in the African-American community, does stand-up, sells a line of suits, and has a hit movie out.
Ironically perhaps, his morning show is carried by former sister station WBLS in New York, which (if the website is up-to-date) is still owned by Inner-City.
http://wbls.com/pages/4193301.php
Lkeller said:
WBLS is now owned by YMF Media. They are merging with Emmis' WRKS (98.7 KISS-FM). Emmis is leasing 98.7 FM to ESPN starting Monday.
Under ICBC-turned-YMF ownership also, WWDM also has Steve Harvey as well, but WKXI has Tom Joyner. In the case of Entercom, WQMG has Joyner while WVKL has Harvey, and I can't find if WWWS is all local or not.Lkeller said:
How Harvey can reach the unique Bay Area audience has yet to be seen; he didn't last too long in Orlando or Kansas City.
Is Steve Harvey show going to start 3 am pacific time or tape delay on KBLX ?
I doubt it will last. The demographics in the Bay Area are not conductive for this show to survive, and in a way I see it as a way for Entercom that ruin and kill this station. It would make sense because why wouldn't they just play the 'wait and see' mode on the cash flow of the station for a quarter or two prior to make any changes.
kilamanjero said:
Here is what I don't get: KBLX has 30% non-Black listening. And that could mean that it has to have a coalition in a market that does not have as high an African American population as the core Harvey markets... or it could mean that the new owners believe that the station is too broad and they are willing to blow off the other listeners to better serve African Americans.
You decide.
Looking at other markets, the Harvey morning show gets 95% of its listening from Blacks in Chicago, and 86% in Dallas... both markets 15 to 20 percent African American populations vs. the 6.7% in the San Francisco radio market.
http://www.radio-info.com/news/kevin-brown-exits-kblx
Antoine Davis also out; Nikki Thomas to be the local news/traffic reporter during the Steve Harvey Show.
10am-3pm Sterling James
3pm-7pm Victor Zaragoza
Antoine Davis also out; Nikki Thomas to be the local news/traffic reporter during the Steve Harvey Show.
10am-3pm Sterling James
3pm-7pm Victor Zaragoza
SMH, Entercom is straight getting out of hand with this bull. It would be one thing if they did a 'wait and see' with this station, but they start out the gate slashing and burning.
They said to SAG~AFTRA don't worry...then broke up the CBA at KBLX, now this....
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=10112
I wouldn't trust Entercom with a 10 foot pole
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=10112
I wouldn't trust Entercom with a 10 foot pole
rockerchick said:
I see this as an attempt to generically and whitewash KBLX so they can eventually have an excuse to flip the format of 102.9 frequency. KISQ and KMEL needs competition because they will become very complacent without it and at the moment KMEL is at its best because it is competing with KBLX and vice versa.
kilamanjero said:
Since when do station owners need to "whitewash" ...or otherwise tinker with an existing format - before changing formats altogether?
And does KBLX really compete with KMEL? I work in a large company in Oakland. KBLX is definitely the favorite station in the office, and in our satellite locations. But our average employee is probably 45 or more years old, predominantly African-American. Most of them dislike Hip-Hop and Rap music, and the influence they are worried that it has on their kids. Conversely, I can't magine many 22 year olds (black or white) spend much time listening to "soft and warm" old school.
Lkeller said:
You might want to research what the predecessors of present-day Clear Channel has done in a number of markets east of the Mississippi with urban stations prior to flipping then in the late 1990s after Telecom Act of 1996. They tinkered with these stations and then suddenly flipped it to overnight. It has happened numerous times in the past.
On the competition between KMEL and KBLX, they both compete for 25-34 year old adults. KMEL spends large sums of money hosting events like "House of Soul" and concerts with contemporary and established R&B and soul artists, and the majority of their attendees are within this demographic. You would be surprised how many 25-34 year olds listen to 80s & 90s R&B like what you hear during the day on KBLX, so I wouldn't be so quick to discount and assume what are their listening patterns. This demographic are more than likely to hold down full-time office jobs as well and be college educated, so their tastes may vary from hip-hop to soul music.
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