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Goodbye Radio Pig (AGAIN) and Music Of Your Lives, Hello More Right-Wing Radio

I just looked at The Point's new website and it has their hosts/shows listed which includes...

DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

News & Views w/Dr. Larry Bates & Chuck Bates! I think one other show (Matthew Hill) is syndicated by the Bates & IRN. Good to see the Doctors playing nice. ::)
 
IRN is based in Memphis, no? Does that make the IRN shows "local programming"? ;)

And about that newspaper article...man, is it a poorly rewritten press release.

The Point – the first conservative talk radio show in the Memphis market
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Huh?

Skoda also announced that the “Mark Skoda Show” will be simulcast on WMPS TV 6 where he has also launched “Fire From The Heartland with Mark Skoda.” Additional content will be developed for the TV station in the coming weeks.
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OK, now she's confusing me (by copying and pasting from Skoda's press release). Will LPTV 6 be a 24/7 audio simulcast of the radio "Point" format, as it appears to be set up, or will they do different content for 6?

Or will Mark set up a camera in the studio, and do extra video during the radio show? ;)
 
snazzyjazzy said:
Mark Skoda grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio, area.
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The name doesn't ring a bell. Do you know if he did media here?

Of course, KABC's Larry Elder did some TV around here, but it was mostly low-profile TV public affairs.
 
Answering my own question - sounds like he was only here through his college years:

http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/profile-mark-skoda-tea-partys-thought-leader

His fractured, fractious political roots began when his great-grandfather immigrated to America from the Slavic town of Ljubiajna. From the hotbed of balkanization, his family moved to Cleveland.

Skoda's hometown was swallowed by riots a week after his 12th birthday. His father was robbed at knifepoint during the unrest, he said.

Skoda put himself through college, the first in his family to attend, working days as a full-time supervisor for United Parcel Service and taking night and weekend classes at Baldwin-Wallace College, a private Methodist liberal-arts school in Berea, Ohio.
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smedge2006 said:
"First conservative talk radio in Memphis?" They can't be serious.
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WTF???

As if Conservative Talk Radio hasn't been done before and previously in Memphis??? Lets see, WREC ain't been running Beck-Limbaugh-Hannity all these years not to mention its own stable of local hosts (Flemming, Ferguson in the past), and Mark Davis didn't grace the airwaves of WHBQ in 1987-88 with right of center but by today's standards reasonable talk.

The Bates and Son (mostly Son) IRN-USA show is broadcast over on a brokered AM'er (KLRG) in Little Rock and its certainly not mainstream conservative---as if Conservatives in Memphis can't choose between Limbaugh, and the swill over on American Family Radio. Wait...isn't "News And News" broadcast in Memphis already over on WMQM 1600AM? (DX'd it from SE AR earlier this winter on a cold day) Oh no....Memphis and those Mississippi suburbs are sooo starved for conservative talk that they will lap up the D list jobbers on a LPTV station en drag!

My next questions are where the Pig will roost yet again in a few months, and what format will WPGF-LP ch6 will end analog LPTV broadcasting with when the FCC slams the door shut on these FrankenFM's?
 
I suppose WREC isn't considered conservative because it has George Noory overnights. Noory is to the left of Limbaugh. KWAM isn't conservative because it still has Dr. Joy Browne on for a couple of hours on the weekend.
 
rgseark2009 said:
smedge2006 said:
"First conservative talk radio in Memphis?" They can't be serious.
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WTF???

As if Conservative Talk Radio hasn't been done before and previously in Memphis??? Lets see, WREC ain't been running Beck-Limbaugh-Hannity all these years not to mention its own stable of local hosts (Flemming, Ferguson in the past), and Mark Davis didn't grace the airwaves of WHBQ in 1987-88 with right of center but by today's standards reasonable talk.

The Bates and Son (mostly Son) IRN-USA show is broadcast over on a brokered AM'er (KLRG) in Little Rock and its certainly not mainstream conservative---as if Conservatives in Memphis can't choose between Limbaugh, and the swill over on American Family Radio. Wait...isn't "News And News" broadcast in Memphis already over on WMQM 1600AM? (DX'd it from SE AR earlier this winter on a cold day) Oh no....Memphis and those Mississippi suburbs are sooo starved for conservative talk that they will lap up the D list jobbers on a LPTV station en drag!

My next questions are where the Pig will roost yet again in a few months, and what format will WPGF-LP ch6 will end analog LPTV broadcasting with when the FCC slams the door shut on these FrankenFM's?
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I don't see the word "broadband" anywhere so the FCC will probably ignore the FrankenFM sitation. ;)

In addition to the conservative talk you mentioned, there's also the Kennett, Missouri station (830) that is weak but present in the city. They carry some conservative talk, including Dennis Miller, that has no other outlet in the city. I listened to it in Midtown and Bartlett occasionally to hear Neal Boortz and Miller.
 
WPGF-LP 6/87.7 is stunting on Sunday morning, enough tropo scatter to allow reception near Star City AR. A 10min or so loop featuring highlights of future programming. At 7:30AM, IRN-USA news breaks into the loop. The newscast seems stale as "Hope Duggar" reads soem business news. Going to be lots of "D-Listers" on this station.
 
I guess Flin has beaten CC to the punch. I always thought that WREC would draw in decent numbers if heard on a FM signal. It could have been something else to try after Radio Now fails.

I hate it when a station goes away that offers something different only to be replaced by something else that is already available. Even though I thought the Pig was more interesting in it's earlier days rather than this 80s format it tried this last time around.
 
I thought this talk radio juggernaut was going to launch at 4:00am today?

Did they decide to take President's Day off?

So far, no First Light, no Steve Gill, no Mike Gallagher ...

I just hope they can solve their issues by noon -- I want to get an end-of-the-world update from Chuck and Larry Bates.

Gee, Mark Skoda teaming up with Dr. Flinn. What could possibly go wrong?
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
After the analog sunset of LPTV, the "FM" side will not matter LOL!
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Well, it's interesting...

The folks who own these FrankenFMs seem to be clinging to the perhaps irrational hope that they will be grandfathered-in -- that they, unlike every other LPTV, will be allowed to stay analog. It's in the public interest, they claim.

I think they are misguided, simply believing their own rhetoric. The FCC has not shown any desire to grandfather these folks in. And, why would they? These broadcasters have contorted the Rules in ways the Commission had not anticipated. I doubt the FCC will give these guys a pass.

The FCC made clear in its NPRM about LPTV transition that it wants to be done with analog TV. Further, the NAB, which has big friends at the FCC, is pushing to get the FrankenFMs off FIRST. That does not bode well.

Still, I could be wrong. These guys could survive transition. But I strongly doubt it.

DE
 
DeadElvis said:
The FCC made clear in its NPRM about LPTV transition that it wants to be done with analog TV. Further, the NAB, which has big friends at the FCC, is pushing to get the FrankenFMs off FIRST. That does not bode well.
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I think you mean NPR, not the NAB, though the NAB may be opposed to this thing as well.

NPR is upset because these commercial "quasi-stations" show up right to the left of them on the dial.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
DeadElvis said:
The FCC made clear in its NPRM about LPTV transition that it wants to be done with analog TV. Further, the NAB, which has big friends at the FCC, is pushing to get the FrankenFMs off FIRST. That does not bode well.
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I think you mean NPR, not the NAB, though the NAB may be opposed to this thing as well.

NPR is upset because these commercial "quasi-stations" show up right to the left of them on the dial.
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or Don Wildmon's American Family Radio stations pop up on the left side of the dial.
 
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