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Funniest thing I've seen in a while

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from the Mark Mathis bio at kagm.com:

"Mark joined KAGM in July, 2005 when General Manager Scott Hutton had an epiphany: create New Mexico’s first husband and wife talk radio team. Hutton believed that combining Mark’s provocative and intellectual demeanor with the graceful presence of the most beloved and credible female broadcaster in state history would produce some of the most innovative, surprising and entertaining radio in the country. Hutton was right."
 
What about John & Betty King down in Roswell? Theyve been there since Jesus was a boy....<P ID="signature">______________
We learned more from a 3-minute record than we ever learned in school.</P>
 
> What about John & Betty King down in Roswell? Theyve been
> there since Jesus was a boy....
>

And they just sold KBIM AM/FM....
 
> And they just sold KBIM AM/FM....
>

No kidding? When did this happen? Who bought it? I worked there about 20 years ago on my first trip out to New Mexico.
<P ID="signature">______________
We learned more from a 3-minute record than we ever learned in school.</P>
 
> No kidding? When did this happen? Who bought it? I worked
> there about 20 years ago on my first trip out to New Mexico.
>

Filed with FCC at end of August:

KBIM-AM & FM/Roswell
PRICE: $1.8 million
TERMS: Asset sale for cash
BUYER: Weston Entertainment, headed by Manager Gregg Weston.
It owns three other stations.
This represents its entry into the market.
SELLER: King Broadcasting Company, headed by President John King.
FREQUENCY: 910 kHz; 94.9 MHz
POWER: 5kw day/500 watts night; 100kw at 1,880 feet
FORMAT: News/Talk; AC
 
Actually, it's kinda sad

> What about John & Betty King down in Roswell? Theyve been
> there since Jesus was a boy....

Yes, calling Mark and Dianne "New Mexico’s first husband and wife talk radio team" certainly could be perceived by long time fans of New Mexico talk radio as a slight to John and Betty King.

But beyond that is that in one part of his bio on the Talk-FM website Mark Mathis claims that, "He is the creator of the 'Media Rules,' the first and only methodology for successfully using the media to gain positive media exposure."

If his bio, which he certainly wrote himself, induces guffaws then his media rules might need some closer examination. It is so over the top with both the purple prose and the lack of any sense of humility that I believe the average reader is left aghast. If you wanted "positive media exposure" would you hire the guy who wrote that dreck?

I can't help but read the line that calls Dianne "the most beloved and credible female broadcaster in state history" and wonder if Carla Aragon would arm wrestle her for that title. It's ego overload to the extreme.

To compound the strangeness Dianne's bio on the Talk-FM site, which is simply an article from New Mexico Women from this past March, says "Dianne's show, (tentatively called What Women Want), will be geared toward women and issues of interest to women."

They've certainly veered far from the original concept of the show.
 
I just went to Marks's Website. Nicely done by the way. Question why can't Mark with all those great reviews and success get anyone to listen to his own show?

Why is KAGM so low in the ratings? When you consider all Great press coverage and a Billboard on every street in the city. I read where the GM said people just don't know we are here!!!!!

I am confused
 
Re: Actually, it's kinda sad

I have to admit it is funny. Some PR flack has time on
their hands to write this dreck.

Diane's husband better start implementing his "media rules"
pretty fast before they are all out of work. I can only
imagine the whole hire my hubby scenario. As a programmer
I've had to deal with several of these former promo queen/
cheerleaders who as soon as they have a kid stop doing
TV, then want to come back and do radio. Most don't have
the talent to pull it off. They are usually very high
maintence, and drama queens to boot.I can't pin any of
this on Diane since I've never heard the show.

Without the visual aid of a cute face or a nice butt,
they simply flounder and start interviewing everyone
under the sun, including their TV buddies. They don't
understand the art of radio. KAGM of course has more
problems than that. I would blow the
SOB up and start over.
 
Re: Actually, it's kinda sad

I would blow the
> SOB up and start over.

They did make some changes today. No more 20/20 news, now they have news at the top and bottom of the hour with Fox News at the top and AP news at the bottom.
 
Re: Actually, it's kinda sad

Another great step in the wrong direction. I know lets compete against KOB's 24/7 local news by droping local news. Great move. Hey have they hired a news director yet?
 
Re: Actually, it's kinda sad

> I would blow the
> > SOB up and start over.
>
> They did make some changes today. No more 20/20 news, now
> they have news at the top and bottom of the hour with Fox
> News at the top and AP news at the bottom.

First off, why are they paying separate cash/barter (are their ratings high enough to avoid cash?) to AP when they could use the one-minute Fox cast at :30:30. And what happened to Fox being on KTBL? Will they pick up CBS, CNN...?
 
Re: Actually, it might equal more news

> Another great step in the wrong direction. I know lets
> compete against KOB's 24/7 local news by droping local news.
> Great move.

They still have local news, it's just at the top and bottom instead of on the 20s. Instead of 20-20 news they are calling the local report something like "State Watch."

It might end up being more news breaks per day as during Dianne & Mark's show for the past few months they only ran news at the top of the hour, abandonning the 20-20 format for their program.

Now Dianne & Mark are running news at both the top and the thirty, albiet only the Fox & AP news, no local news during thier show except for the initial 10am top of the hour news, at least from what I heard yesterday. So you get four more news breaks during their show.

The 20-20 format seemed to be a challenge for the newsreaders during the Drive w/Chris & The Bean, as I have heard Chris & Phil slip into their impressions of their girl newsreader probably dozens of times when she did not show up in the studio to do the news at either the :20 or the :40 break. They even made a promo out of one of the bits.

Promoting the fact that the newsperson doesn't show up to do the news may be a questionable move to some, but The Bean's impression of a butch lesbian is kind of funny.
 
Re: Actually, it might equal more news

Is it just me or does it seem stupid not to have local news during the show hosted by two former LOCAL TV NEWS REPORTERS!
 
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