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Journal, Journal, Journal

Hopefully they'll chapter 7 soon and a local owner that actually cares will buy up Tulsa for a reasonable price. Wouldn't it be funny if the Stewart's bought it back? Maybe the Griffins could do it. Who knows... I'd think there's at least a few decent people around Tulsa, for the right price, that would be willing to get their feet wet in the radio pool. The thing that's kept sane people out of buying radio for years is the inital cost of purchase of properties. Radio, although going through a darker day in sales, is STILL a extremely profitable machine without the debt service. After the discharge of overburdening debt through the eneviable bankrupcy of big corporate radio chains, new owners with new and fresh ideas can come in and help the industry and the themselves make money. Until then, we have to suffer along with the same stupid people that got us into this mess.
 
Bryan Pennington said:
You've gotta spend money to make money!!

:D
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then WHY not spend it on the PEOPLE who keep it on the air? my guess is they will buy it, and then fire everybody at the station they just bought to SAVE money!
 
All right, then let's have some fun... Journal goes Chap 7, you win the lottery, hmmm, how about some stations? I mean you have 100 mill to spend and Journal wants to sell at a reasonable price (as in, "Get us out of here!") and everyone agrees. They hand you the keys to the place and .....

then what do you do.

Here's some top of mind ideas....

1. Leave KVOO FM alone
2. Goodbye KFAQ, Hello KVOO-AM, The Voice of Oklahoma (Branding made by God Himself!)... WBAP, WOAI come to mind as examples.
3. Here's the live wire, leave Big Country alone (only take it live and treat it as a SEPARATE station, not one just taking up space as Journal has done)
OR.... simulcast (sp?) KVOO-AM.
4. Keep the staff they have (the do have some very hard workers at KFAQ/KVOO) and grow it. My hunch is to lean a little less on the politics and more on local information and news (and not just bash the Mayor every day). Turn Brian Gann loose and tell him, "Brian, give me a newsroom that is a killer--like you used to have years ago." Brian is one of the best this town has ever seen.)

And let that pony run!

Thoughts?
 
Your #1 best idea there was ADD STAFF. I was listening yesterday afternoon, 5:30 newscast, I didn't hear ANY local news, just local traffic. I'm afraid it may be all Brian at this point, I'm wondering if they've gotten rid of everybody else.

Live local entertaining announcers who engage with the audience put between the right songs = win.

Right now it sounds like there are three people rattling around in the big black monolith off the BA.

I used to tease Clear Channel for their beautiful, "empty" building at 27th & Memorial; these days, it's everybody.
 
cspotrun said:
then WHY not spend it on the PEOPLE who keep it on the air? my guess is they will buy it, and then fire everybody at the station they just bought to SAVE money.
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Hey if it takes more than one PD and and engineer to run a cluster of stations you're doing something wrong!!

(SARCASM ON in this post and the previous one, just in case it didn't translate to typing.)

Bryan
 
I would simulcast 1170 and "Big Country" together for about 6 months with the branding of Big Country KVOO-AM. I'd make a ton of fanfare that a local owner now owns the place and is bringing back some of the old guys and the imaging to go with it. KVOO, the legendary station returns HOME to 1170. After the transition period, I'd take the FM and re-launch a news-talk. This time I'd do it right. (in the mean time they only have a couple people working there anyway so just let them service the music stations for 6 months) Then, I'd give KRMG a run for their money. I'd start emptying their staff of the present and past right out from under them. Earling, with all of his opinions would be my morning man and I'd let Brian build up a hell of a real news staff. News-talk is 100 percent or nothing. Journal has put very little into KFAQ so they in effect have nothing. Game over folks... Time to give the public back their legendary country on that powerhouse, regroup, and then hire some HELP to relaunch news-talk on FM this time (where it should have been all along).
 
I would stunt 1170 with the playing of Bob Willis records 24/7 for about 3 weeks, then re-launch as "The Voice of Oklahoma...Big Country 1170 KVOO". Let Gann run loose and assemble a real news team.

I would flip 99.5 to Hot AC to compete with Mix and try to steal some of the young'ins from K-Hits.
 
Journal is digging it's own grave (among others in the radio biz) about as fast as it can.

If Journal were to liquidate I would buy 1170 and retain every employee.

I would then call every KFAQ employee into my office one by one to be fired on the spot. Yes, you heard me, every employee who works there would lose their job. (Check my new topic on the message board to see why)

I would then air nothing local and attempt to maximize my profits while spending as little money as possible.
 
Glen,

AM 1170 went hard-right talk 7 years ago in two weeks...

...how did you managed to miss their ultra-conservative slant until now?
 
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