Kansas Keitzman back on KCHZ & KCMO

[Dondd]

Even when KMBZ hosts talked national politics, which they did a few years ago on the daytime shows, it was lively and varied, and they still took calls.

I don't mind political discussions, just not the one-sided ones we get today and the smearing and calling "un-American" of anyone who doesn't vote the way the narrow-minded Trump hosts vote.

I wish KMBZ (FM) and WWL were the "norm" for major market talk outlets, I would say they're better stations than what you get in places like Chicago or New York for talk, but they have heritage and made the move to FM at the right time and stayed the course with local.

Me, too.
As a veteran talk radio host who heard Rush's first day of his nationally syndicated show in the late 1980s on Amarillo's 710-KGNC, I am dismayed at how the Trumphole hosts rule the medium.

Their political views aren't anywhere near a majority of the general public's.

Don't slam me for labeling them as their boss calls anyone he dislikes any and every name in the book with his scurrilous insults. I voted Repub. before many of them did.

 

[radiofan2023]

I've mentioned it before, but I've always thought Audacy got those efforts backward. I know he has his fans, but I've always thought Lazlo is, by far, one of the worst on-air talents that I've ever heard. He's completely unlistenable to me. I'd rather listen to nails scraping on a blackboard than Lazlo's show. On the other hand, he's one of the best managers I've ever encountered. He really built up the Buzz and its live events. The artists loved him. The sponsors loved him. He was also electric on the stage during live performances. He would've been perfect to head up the programming side of the Audacy alternative stations. Instead, Audacy took away his management functions and nationalized his show. No surprise it failed.

Lazlo isn’t great, setting aside his voice, which sounds like he starts his day gargling with razor blades. His cohost Slimfast and whatever the other guy’s name is are way better. If his show was just him I wouldn’t listen.

 

[Kent]

Lazlo isn’t great, setting aside his voice, which sounds like he starts his day gargling with razor blades. His cohost Slimfast and whatever the other guy’s name is are way better. If his show was just him I wouldn’t listen.

I'm not a fan of his co-hosts either. I will say, however, that, despite my disdain for his product, I have some respect for Lazlo. First, he's gotten a lot farther than I have (and almost certainly ever will) in the industry. I also doubt that most of his listeners today were among his first listeners. Max Floyd and David Lawrence were always the gold standard of Kansas City radio, but, at some point, they stopped growing their audiences, and their audiences got old with them. Maybe Johnny Dare has accomplished the same thing with The Rock going on 33 years, but Lazlo has been on a younger skewing station for over 20 years. The Buzz/Alt 96.5 lasted roughly as long as KY-102 did with an audience that had to have experienced significant turnover. That's really impressive when you think about how few alternative stations had staying power, and Lazlo was the biggest contributor to that and was about the only constant on-air during that run.

 

[radiofan2023]

I'm not a fan of his co-hosts either. I will say, however, that, despite my disdain for his product, I have some respect for Lazlo. First, he's gotten a lot farther than I have (and almost certainly ever will) in the industry. I also doubt that most of his listeners today were among his first listeners. Max Floyd and David Lawrence were always the gold standard of Kansas City radio, but, at some point, they stopped growing their audiences, and their audiences got old with them. Maybe Johnny Dare has accomplished the same thing with The Rock going on 33 years, but Lazlo has been on a younger skewing station for over 20 years. The Buzz/Alt 96.5 lasted roughly as long as KY-102 did with an audience that had to have experienced significant turnover. That's really impressive when you think about how few alternative stations had staying power, and Lazlo was the biggest contributor to that and was about the only constant on-air during that run.

My dad loved listening to David Lawrence, he was great. Loved his Joke of the Day!

 

[Mark Roberts]

My dad loved listening to David Lawrence, he was great. Loved his Joke of the Day!

There were so many things about WDAF that were good. Certainly David Lawrence. John Wagner when he was the "Sky Spy". Charles Gray on news. That was a radio station that was well put together. Country music wasn't my thing, but I definitely tuned into WDAF for news. The day that the Esther Williams Swimming Pool Center on Troost...yes, there was such a thing and it wasn't far from where I lived at the time in the 1990s...caught on fire happened to be a Sunday morning. Only WDAF was staffed to have someone go out to the fire and find out where the acrid smoke covering the neighborhood was coming from. I don't think it was Charles Gray that went out there that time, but he rarely missed a fire of any significance.

 

[Dondd]

There were so many things about WDAF that were good. Certainly David Lawrence. John Wagner when he was the "Sky Spy". Charles Gray on news. That was a radio station that was well put together.

That was a great station, even WHB-710 was even in the 80s when I first became exposed to it. First, as a contemporary station (which was hard to find in western KS, but we got it to Manhattan or Salina) and, later, as oldies, which I loved.

Country music wasn't my thing, but I definitely tuned into WDAF for news.

I listened for Paul Harvey.
Yes, WDAF's news was top-notch.