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HEIDI HARRIS OUT AT KDWN

bilco said:
First Heidi, and this morning there is a brokered show talking about permanently being in the place where Kim Komando has been heard. This station has gone down the toilet. Adios KDWN
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Weekends on KDWN are unlistenable. I hate it. What a difference from 30 years ago. I was just a teen back then and I thought the K-DAWN weekend lineup was excellent.The topics were so interesting that my heart would beat in excitement as I tuned into 720 to hear those great local talk shows.

The current weekday lineup on KDWN is not bad. I like Stock, except when he's hosting an infomercial. I also don't like their 6PM paid programming hour. 6PM has become my worst hour of talk radio as I'm also not interested in Dave Ramsey at all on KXNT.

I guess everything I hate on KDWN happens to be where they make their money. But if they are really outbilling FM stations like KWNR that's pretty impressive.
 
Sad to say that brokered shows seem to be the only way AM radio can make it these days.
Most of it is pretty bad compared to the old days when network radio was mostly brokered, ad agencies bought each half hour and pretty much contolled the networks but the shows were good, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Fibber Mcghee & Molly, even Edgar Bergen( a ventriliquist on radio?..Yeah,and big ratings). Yeah, they were brokered but with big time sponsors they had to be good and get good numbers. Some of today's succesful syndicated shows are also brokered. We need more of those.


Jerry Gordon
 
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