"Just in case you're joining us..."

[pattiwacki]

Looking forward to the radio mystery meat combo of Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas filling in for Jacobs on Friday....

Legend City.... I know you're an Arpaio fan... Will you be tuned in...?

Is this true? This may finish me off on KFYI (except for Bill Handel, Kim Kommando, Leo LaPorte and occasionally Barry Young, and that Ian Punnett guy is kind of fun).

 

[pattiwacki]

I listened to Hendrie last night and recoiled in horror as he was forced to do one of those terrible "Tahiti Villiage" free Las Vegas commercials. They used to use the talentless Tanya Roberts, now they use the very talentless Roseann Barr.

What is so awful is that its painfully obvious that Roseann cut her half of the ad, and Phil was reading off a script to attempt to make it look like a contemperaneous conversation.

But, I guess that what you get when you quit a good show and start one that is not so good.

I had Savage running the other night and he did the same thing, also w/Roseanne Barr. It was embarassing because he pretends to be a crusty old crud and here he is reading this script and making nice nice with someone you know he most likely hates.

 

[sidew]

David Eduardo

I stopped at 8 am you went to 9 on the am drive numbers. You counted Barry. I didn't.

AM Drive is 6-10, and PM drive is 3 to 7 PM. That's why Arbitron calls them that way.

If I saw your numbers right daviid then KTAR is tied with Jacobs and Young and beating Hayworth and the last hour of Hannity. If I'm seeing straight that is big. I agree with the akbar guy that KTAR messed up when it moved bands but they are moving the right way now. I think they are the better station now and KFYI is hanging onto its past.

 

[pattiwacki]

KFYI isn't hanging on to anything-they have nothing to hang onto. No direction, no support (financial, technical or otherwise). And they are STILL the number 1 talk station in the valley. As mad as I get at them lately, that is an amazing accomplishment, ESPECIALLY when you compare it to all the support and advertising KT'R HAS had going for them. If anyone ever steps up to take control and put things right for them, KFYI will do fine. And Barry Young isn't hanging onto the past-the guy is the smartest and funniest personality in Valley radio (locally.Dennis Miller and Phil Hendrie have the syndicated honors).

 

[DrAkbar]

If the Master Blogger wants to make a dent in mid-days, he needs Rush, Sean or the Nearly Bald One. Anyone one of them would give KT'R a lot more traction and put KFWhyEye in ICU. Nurse Jeff and I know the thought plays in his fertile grey matter. But then again we keep coming back to 95 punto Cinco and how interesting things would be if only..........

 

[Radio Pro]

This has been interesting to see the evolution of KTAR-FM and KFYI.
Regular board posters have all but dismissed KTAR after the switch to FM.
But change had to happen. They were long in tooth with hosts, past their AM prime and Bonneville took
the lead to head to another frequency with wholesale changes.
This all takes time to develop. I don't think anyone thought that it would be an immediate impact for
the former KTAR audience to make the switch with them and grant quick success.
New hosts, new programming, changes along the way..all of that is unsettling for all.
I think we can all agree that the level of newstalk in Phoenix is not quite what it should be, for a city
this size. But given time to build, can KTAR regain it's past glory? Could happen.
KFYI is a puzzle. It's hard to imagine letting it lanquish as it is. If they are committed to stay around,
the inevitable move to FM may come. Or in months, and years to come, it may go away.
Of all formats, newstalk or it's many variations, takes a lot of time and money to develop.
It will be interesting to see and hear what comes about.

 

[KOHS]

This has been interesting to see the evolution of KTAR-FM and KFYI.
Regular board posters have all but dismissed KTAR after the switch to FM.
But change had to happen. They were long in tooth with hosts, past their AM prime and Bonneville took
the lead to head to another frequency with wholesale changes.
This all takes time to develop. I don't think anyone thought that it would be an immediate impact for
the former KTAR audience to make the switch with them and grant quick success.
New hosts, new programming, changes along the way..all of that is unsettling for all.
I think we can all agree that the level of newstalk in Phoenix is not quite what it should be, for a city
this size. But given time to build, can KTAR regain it's past glory? Could happen.
KFYI is a puzzle. It's hard to imagine letting it lanquish as it is. If they are committed to stay around,
the inevitable move to FM may come. Or in months, and years to come, it may go away.
Of all formats, newstalk or it's many variations, takes a lot of time and money to develop.
It will be interesting to see and hear what comes about.

I'm not sure dismissed is the right word. I think the right word would be dissed or ridiculed for getting beat by a station without a PD and a budget. ;D

KTAR is making the right moves, but I think the good Dr. is correct in saying that in order to beat KFYI, they need to steal Hannity, Rush or Barry Young.

 

[pberger]

KTAR 620 AM was the closest thing Arizona had to a "heritage" station. Bonneville should have continued the simulcast, as they do with KSL in Salt Lake City.

KTAR AM could be heard from Tucson to beyond Flagstaff. Not so with FM. The station is no longer the station I turn to when I want the latest Arizona news. (In fact, there no longer is a station you can turn to for the latest local news.)

I still listen to AM 99% of the time. I have buttons set for KFYI, KKNT, KPHX, KXAM, KFNN, KAZG, and KFNX. The other three are set to KGO, KSL and one that will be set to KFI when they get their power back. KTAR is out of the loop. They would have a button if they were still on AM.

Maybe if they got a local host that I really liked, I would switch to FM, but right now they do not have that magnet.

 

[pattiwacki]

Ty pberger, I too prefer AM to FM though it may just be a nostslgia thing.

 

[DrAkbar]

KTAR 620 AM was the closest thing Arizona had to a "heritage" station. Bonneville should have continued the simulcast, as they do with KSL in Salt Lake City.

KTAR AM could be heard from Tucson to beyond Flagstaff. Not so with FM. The station is no longer the station I turn to when I want the latest Arizona news. (In fact, there no longer is a station you can turn to for the latest local news.)

A three month simulcast preceded the Jan 2 2007 split of KT'R & KT'R-FM. Continuing the simulcast would not have caused all the old farts to migrate elsewhere, plus there was no room for all the sports that wound up on Sports Parking Lot 6~twenty. The Master Blogger should have moved quicker to dump all the baggage that made KT'R so popular with Aunt Edna in Sun City and go for the younger demos waiting on FM. While 6~twenty covers Flag and Tucson, it doesn't matter as advertisers can buy those markets a lot cheaper locally. The Nurse likens it to cramming a Hemi under the hood of our Gremlin - we still can't go over the speed limit (nod-nod, wink-wink) and the cost of gas is killin' us!