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Frank Sontag Out at KLOS

They are probably just cutting back. I think Frank may be the longest continuous on-air personality KLOS had. His show was really a hold-over from the days when stations were required to have public affairs programs. Do they still have that requirement, by the way? I feel like some stations have no community service at all these days (Jack-FM, for example.)

I'm still wondering what the point was of firing Rita Wilde and hiring a big-time PD. I hear absolutely no difference on the air whatsoever: still boring as ever on 95.5.
 
RicoGregg said:
He made the announcement last night on his program. He was gracious and classy, and fans called in to express their disappointment.

Like everyone else, I'm wondering if this is the beginning of things to come at 95.5? ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sontag
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He has really become a part of SoCal radio, but he is doing talk and KLOS should be about music. I think this move was obvious and the right one.
 
Yeah the show comes from a time when many contemporary stations had Sunday night talk shows, many dealing with younger people and their problems. Back then stations were required to serve the public with news, public affairs and community information. This was not unexpected as Citadel is cutting back as much as they can since they're so cash strapped.

Hey Channelflipper, pretty cold comment about Frank being dead weight. In today's radio world the show was a dinosaur, but I listened in and Frank was well informed and as mentioned in another post by Ricogregg he was a class act, something that's getting harder to find on today's airwaves...
 
calguy said:
Yeah the show comes from a time when many contemporary stations had Sunday night talk shows, many dealing with younger people and their problems. Back then stations were required to serve the public with news, public affairs and community information. This was not unexpected as Citadel is cutting back as much as they can since they're so cash strapped.

Hey Channelflipper, pretty cold comment about Frank being dead weight. In today's radio world the show was a dinosaur, but I listened in and Frank was well informed and as mentioned in another post by Ricogregg he was a class act, something that's getting harder to find on today's airwaves...
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Sorry, but community affairs programming on a full-signal commercial music station is dinasourian (new word?) in 2009. The public affairs requirements have been gone for decades and most everyone else has done the sensible thing and dropped them like the bad habits they were. He helped out on the M&B show, but the number of monetizable eardrums he brought to the station is zero, and that's they way it has been for a long time. There are lots of "class acts" on the sidelines and lots of idiots on the air. Classiness has nothing to do with business, especially this one.
 
My point is that while the show may be considered dead weight by today's standards, Frank Sontag was not. Personally I would be a little insulted if I heard someone call me dead weight. Otherwise I agree with you... I'd like to point out that at some stations public affairs programs have tie-ins with sponsors and the company actually makes money on them, or at the very least gives a client a "freebie" as part of their deal with the station. I know that at most CC stations PSA's are tied to a client...
 
Mark & Brian and also Jim Ladd will next to go......The station will flip formats as well there is no need to keep the same format if you fire the program Director....Big changes at KLOS coming very soon.....
 
paul_danzig said:
Mark & Brian and also Jim Ladd will next to go......The station will flip formats as well there is no need to keep the same format if you fire the program Director....Big changes at KLOS coming very soon.....
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THAT doesn't make sense since they just hired Bob Buchman who came from 3000 miles away to be PD. And have you not been paying any attention to the thoughts here about Mark & Brian's ratings? So much for flipping formats.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
paul_danzig said:
Mark & Brian and also Jim Ladd will next to go......The station will flip formats as well there is no need to keep the same format if you fire the program Director....Big changes at KLOS coming very soon.....
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THAT doesn't make sense since they just hired Bob Buchman who came from 3000 miles away to be PD. And have you not been paying any attention to the thoughts here about Mark & Brian's ratings? So much for flipping formats.
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All depends if/how Bob Moore renegotiates Mark & Brian's contract which, in public, he said is one of his first tasks as the new GM. As for Jim Ladd, fossil, dead weight, fire him. No ratings.
 
I'd sure love to know what Jim Ladds rating are 8 pm-1 am. He seems to get kudos from some because he's "The Last DJ" who plays what he wants to play.... Which is the same old artists just a little deeper but no new artists the few times I have sampled him in recent times. That's a 'good thing'? And he did pontificate too much on the political side. Yuch
 
SuperRadioFan said:
I'd sure love to know what Jim Ladds rating are 8 pm-1 am. He seems to get kudos from some because he's "The Last DJ" who plays what he wants to play.... Which is the same old artists just a little deeper but no new artists the few times I have sampled him in recent times. That's a 'good thing'? And he did pontificate too much on the political side. Yuch
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Bet it was another block of the Doors...

Note to Jim: The Doors haven't made a new record in well over 30 years. I know their your favorites and all...
 
Why would Ladd play any new music? It is a Classic Rock station after all. I know that KLOS does sometimes play cuts on new CD's by Classic Rock artists that are still active, but never for long.
 
Calguy, I should have clarified my statement... I didn't mean he should play new music even it that new music is by an established classic rock artist. I meant to say Ladd plays the same Usual Suspects roster of maybe 10-15 artists. They are all the worn out bands and artists. Not that there's annything wrong with any of them except we are all too famioliar with each one.

BTW was that you I saw on the Pirate Radio board yesterday?
 
SuperRadioFan said:
Calguy, I should have clarified my statement... I didn't mean he should play new music even it that new music is by an established classic rock artist. I meant to say Ladd plays the same Usual Suspects roster of maybe 10-15 artists. They are all the worn out bands and artists. Not that there's anything wrong with any of them except we are all too familiar with each one.

BTW was that you I saw on the Pirate Radio board yesterday?
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Yeah I see what you mean, Ladd has his favorites to be sure, but he does still surprise at times and I hope they continue to let him do his show his way.

Not me on the Pirate board sorry...
 
calguy said:
Yeah I see what you mean, Ladd has his favorites to be sure, but he does still surprise at times and I hope they continue to let him do his show his way.

Not me on the Pirate board sorry...
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You mean 'calguy' is not trademarked? :eek:
 
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