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Firings At KVOL

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Todd C Elliot and Stephanie Aware are out at KVOL. They cut the afternoon program, move Stephanie to mornings and moved Todd over to the 106.3 morning show just a month ago. I called the station and they said all they could tell me was they were no long employed with the station. I have no idea how someone as unprofessional and childish sounding as Stephanie stayed on the air so long but I think most people will miss Todd.
 
I heard the news last week. Too bad Pittman can't seem to keep it together because they actually had a chance to put KPEL-FM in the 1.0 share range. Now Lafayette news-talk listeners have to continue to hear what a great university U.L.-Lafayette is in sports when their record's show otherwise and never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever call out the football coach or basketball coache for their piss poor records.
In any other market in Louisiana those coaches would be toast. But hey, when you run U.L.-Lafayette football and basketball on KRKA, yes the Regent chr rhythmic station, I guess you keep it safe on KPEL and be the good 'ol boys. I remember reading an agreement a few years ago where U.L. only wanted their games carried on 100,000 watt signals. OK, makes sense but shouldn't you offer something in return like, a winning season or two?
The KVOL guys are stuck with a 6000 watt station and until that goes up at least to 50,000 watts, all of the controversy and great talk they create won't make it past Ambassador and Congress St. They weren't afraid to call Lafayette out on it's endless obsessions like being the next Hollywood, Lafayette Consolidated Government gestapo style management, the local TV's failure to cover major stories and so on on.
So Tonya Lacste, I guess you can go back to those four and five second uncomfortable pauses between every story of every newscast because KPEL once again looks like it doesn't have any competition.
Yes I know you had an increase in the fall Arbitron. You should have. It was election season. What I don't get is after five years KPEL still has dead air on a daily basis, early cue tones cutting off bumpers and identifiers. Listen every day and you hear the same misfires. Does anyone listen to the station inside of the building? I think after ten am the answer is no.
 
KVOL will continue to have local programming even though the hosts were changed. Also KVOL's signal covers the entire Acadiana area so it gets out slightly past Ambassador and Congress ;D.
 
The new morning show guy has grown on me. It took a couple of listens to really get him. He offers an opinion and will accept a different point of view. This is drastically differenct from when Todd and especially Stephanie would either make fun of the caller or just hang up. Its going to be funny to see how KHELL do against the horrible press release reading segment called the news.
 
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