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kabc switches lineup again

Mediafrog noted that we're now closer in time to 2060 than to 1960. In 2060 we'll probably be complaining that classic-hits stations are no longer playing Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams, Iggy Azalea, Bruno Mars and Meghan Traynor. :)
 
Maybe BigA isn't all that old. He misspelled the name of radio and tv announcer/narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis. In 1959, Van Voorhis recorded narration for an episode of The Twilight Zone titled Where Is Everybody? but before the episode was broadcast, series creator Rod Serling decided to use his own voice for the narration. I don't know if the original film with Van Voorhis still exists.

And now Mister wadio will think I am old. Okay, I can live with that. :)
 
BigA, I know how to spell without having to use spellcheck programs. And I doubt that the name "Voorhis" is going to be part of any spellcheck program's database. If I misspelled the name of Westbrook Van Voorhis, then so did Wikipedia, Amazon, HBO, IMDB, Fandango, Old Time Radio, Film Reference, The History Blog, Turner Classic Movies.....shall I go on?

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_Van_Voorhis

www.otr.com/march.html

www.imdb.com/name/nm0888214/

www.fandango.com/westbrookvanvoorhis/filmography/p72934

www.amazon.com/...Westbrook-Van-Voorhis/dp/B008MYVUX2

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/7138

https://www.hboarchives.com/marchoftime/Professor_Fielding_Preface.pdf

www.tcm.com/this.../75th-Anniversary-of-The-March-of-Time.html

http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Ma-Me/The-March-of-Time.html
 
LARadioRewind said:
If I misspelled the name of Westbrook Van Voorhis, then so did Wikipedia, Amazon, HBO, IMDB, Fandango, Old Time Radio, Film Reference, The History Blog, Turner Classic Movies.....shall I go on?
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I never said YOU misspelled it. I said that the spellcheck built in to the Radio Discussions program said you did. Two different things. I don't care how it's spelled. It was an incidental reference.
 
Spellcheck programs do not---and can not---include every English word and every given name and every surname. But that isn't your fault. Getting back to KABC, what does everyone think of the new lineup? Will the ratings rise above 0.7? And is another station going to hire Larry Elder? KEIB, perhaps? It's nice to not have to hear that idiotic sound effect of a gavel being pounded and Elder's pompous declaration "You've just heard The Word!" but I wish he was back on the air.
 
So david eduardo why dont you think kabc throws the towel in on talk? I remember at one point you thought they might. I think even if they got a huge show like a rush it wouldnt help. Seems like cumuless cares more about there nash brand then talk now😳
 
hotpatrick2004 said:
Seems like cumuless cares more about there nash brand then talk now��
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They go through cycles. They spent the last few years investing in country. But it appears they're about to do the same kind of approach in talk. They have a lot of AM properties, and they need to find a way to improve sales. They seem to be localizing content, while nationalizing sales. So it will be less obvious than what they did with country. But they seem to have a plan, and it's starting to get executed. What you're seeing at KABC is the beginning.
 
From merely an observer standpoint, I think several participants in this and many other threads they also participate in really need to get a room and work out some hate or revenge whoopie to release the palpable tension.
 
And speaking as a participant in this and many other threads, I only develop "palpable tension" when confronted with posts from (1) those who know nothing about this business yet post repeatedly that they know better than those of us who actually program radio stations; (2) those who divert threads into a discussion of politics; and (3) those who post just to prove to everyone that they have insights into other posters' state of mind.

None of that qualifies as "hate" or "revenge", Rob.
 
TheBigA said:
But they seem to have a plan, and it's starting to get executed. What you're seeing at KABC is the beginning.
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I don't see it. They now have a great morning host hamstrung by his surroundings (both on his show itself and by the rest of the lineup) then psychobabble during the day, political rantings at night and bartered programming on the weekends. Where's the plan?
 
LARadioRewind said:
It's nice to not have to hear that idiotic sound effect of a gavel being pounded and Elder's pompous declaration "You've just heard The Word!" but I wish he was back on the air.
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Well Steve, before Larry was fired the most recent time, I hadn't listened to him as regularly as I had during his first long run with KABC. But I can tell you that he retired the gavel along with "You've just heard the word" when he came back. So I guess you didn't listen at all or seldom during his last tenure. Ironically, I just happened to tune in to him on his last day at KABC and listened to his very last segment, not realizing along with all of his listeners that that was the end. And for K.M. Richards, it seems like, based on how he ended his show ---he said "we don't have time to talk about XXX but we'll get to it tomorrow" --- only there was no on-air tomorrow for Larry, so it would seem that he left involuntarily.
 
I listened "seldom." Hey, Larry Elder was on at the same time as John and Ken on KFI! A December 3 Hollywood Reporter story said that Elder and KABC "parted ways." Columnist Paul Bond added, "The station, owned by Cumulus Media, declined to comment on Elder's departure, though insiders said advertising sales executives were blindsided by the decision and voiced their displeasure to a defensive Drew Hayes, KABC's operations director." In other words: Yes, he left involuntarily.

Elder can still be heard at http://www.larryelder.com/ and http://www.elderstatement.info/ustream.html
 
SuperRadioFan said:
And for K.M. Richards, it seems like, based on how he ended his show ---he said "we don't have time to talk about XXX but we'll get to it tomorrow" --- only there was no on-air tomorrow for Larry, so it would seem that he left involuntarily.
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I am in one of those many areas where KABC does not come in well, so I rarely listen. Thank you for providing what reads to me as a definitive answer to the question I could not answer.
 
Addendum, I listened to Larry Elder on his Live 363-linked show on my drive home last night. A listener called in (bet no one would have any problem getting though now) and mentioned that he really enjoyed Larry's new "format" of being able to play long excerpts of sound bites and long monologues without the constant commercial block interruptions. Larry replied that when he was on air he was amazed that people would tolerate those 7-8 minute blocks of commercials.
 
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