Was wondering if anyone had a thought on any of the Fisher stations. Here are my thoughts,
KVI, for a full service format, long sets of music, personalities, and news at the top and bottom of the hour. Sounds like a small-market station with some big tallent. The station has two major problems though, its location on the AM band, and the saturation of the oldies format in the market, KVI being the fifth station in the format, KJR-FM, KJR-FM-HD2, KJAQ-HD2, and KMCQ.
KOMO, they've got frequent trafic reports which is good for the commuter, if we're going south Dad will always turn to them briefly for a trafic report. They've gotten better about taking fewer commercial breaks during the news portions of the day, and sometimes at 15 and 45 passed the hour, they'll have some pretty interesting stories. I have one major problem with the format though. I have been listening to newsline sometimes when I wake up in the morning and it sounds really rushed. Here's a typical half hour, ABC headlines the first 2 minutes, local headlines for the next two, then trafic and weather, then newsline. The topic is introduced, and they might take a few callers depending on how long he wants to go over the topic. Then trafic and weather, a 4 minute commercial break, a couple more callers, trafic and weather again, more commercials, a teaser for the topic that's coming up in the next half hour, then the schedule repeats. On a side note, it sounded like with the exception of trafic reports, they were entirely fed by ABC, with headlines at the top and bottom of the hour, a commercial break after the headlines at the bottom, then the consumer reports back to school special.
KPLZ, not sure what to make of there situation, although they could syndicate John Tesh right at night. The program starts about 5 minutes after the hour, and at least the first story of every hour is cut out. I've heard many other stations where John drops in after every song or every other song with a tidbit. Here, John just drops in before a commercial break. Also I've never understood the formula they use to pick the music. I'm listening to KJMY right now and a little while ago they played Brighter Than the Sun by Colby Cailet, and I haven't heard that on KPLZ. Other stations also play Move Along by the All American Rejects, but I never hear that either. The format could maybe use an overhall as a hole, the music is pretty good, although they have a long way to go to reach Click. They also could maybe cut out a commercial break with the exception of the morning hours. Then the format would need to be altered slightly, I'm not sure what they should do. What are your thoughts?
KVI, for a full service format, long sets of music, personalities, and news at the top and bottom of the hour. Sounds like a small-market station with some big tallent. The station has two major problems though, its location on the AM band, and the saturation of the oldies format in the market, KVI being the fifth station in the format, KJR-FM, KJR-FM-HD2, KJAQ-HD2, and KMCQ.
KOMO, they've got frequent trafic reports which is good for the commuter, if we're going south Dad will always turn to them briefly for a trafic report. They've gotten better about taking fewer commercial breaks during the news portions of the day, and sometimes at 15 and 45 passed the hour, they'll have some pretty interesting stories. I have one major problem with the format though. I have been listening to newsline sometimes when I wake up in the morning and it sounds really rushed. Here's a typical half hour, ABC headlines the first 2 minutes, local headlines for the next two, then trafic and weather, then newsline. The topic is introduced, and they might take a few callers depending on how long he wants to go over the topic. Then trafic and weather, a 4 minute commercial break, a couple more callers, trafic and weather again, more commercials, a teaser for the topic that's coming up in the next half hour, then the schedule repeats. On a side note, it sounded like with the exception of trafic reports, they were entirely fed by ABC, with headlines at the top and bottom of the hour, a commercial break after the headlines at the bottom, then the consumer reports back to school special.
KPLZ, not sure what to make of there situation, although they could syndicate John Tesh right at night. The program starts about 5 minutes after the hour, and at least the first story of every hour is cut out. I've heard many other stations where John drops in after every song or every other song with a tidbit. Here, John just drops in before a commercial break. Also I've never understood the formula they use to pick the music. I'm listening to KJMY right now and a little while ago they played Brighter Than the Sun by Colby Cailet, and I haven't heard that on KPLZ. Other stations also play Move Along by the All American Rejects, but I never hear that either. The format could maybe use an overhall as a hole, the music is pretty good, although they have a long way to go to reach Click. They also could maybe cut out a commercial break with the exception of the morning hours. Then the format would need to be altered slightly, I'm not sure what they should do. What are your thoughts?
