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Ken Charles says KTRH is still a big news station

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petertrip

The Chronicle finally noticed that Rush Limbaugh is now on KTRH and writes this award-winning piece:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4419109.html

But putting Limbaugh, talk's biggest name, on a news station has raised questions among listeners, Charles said.

"They ask if this has changed our (KTRH's) news commitment, and the answer is a very large no," he said. "Our commitment to news has not changed. We still do more news than any other radio station in Texas, and our staff is still focused on providing Houston the news it has always come to expect from KTRH."
 
Wtf They only do like 2 to 3 hrs of news a day that does not make them a news station @ all. I remember 10 to 15 years ago they would do like 6 or more hrs of news & break in with breaking stories now they are talk radio.
 
A good news station CAN have a lot of talk and a talk station CAN have good news. I argue that WGN in Chicago does this quite well. KTRH, however, has become a terrible news (and in my opinion) talk station.
 
petertrip said:
"They ask if this has changed our (KTRH's) news commitment, and the answer is a very large no," he said. "Our commitment to news has not changed. We still do more news than any other radio station in Texas, and our staff is still focused on providing Houston the news it has always come to expect from KTRH."
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That statement is a crock (I hope this word makes it past the moderators). I checked KTRH (740) Houston; WBAP (820) Fort Worth; KRLD (1080) Dallas; WOAI (1200) San Antonio; and KLBJ (590) Austin for amount of hours of News Broadcast and KTRH came in DEAD LAST!

Dallas-Fort Worth, while lacking a fulltime News station like Houston, which I find inexcusable for Market 5 and a metro area of approximately 500,000 more people than Houston, had the most hours of News.

KRLD 1080 Dallas - 48.5 hrs/week, 9 hours weekdays ; Sat 1 hr and Sun 3.5 hrs
WBAP 820 Fort Worth - 38 hrs/week, 6 hrs weekdays; Sat 2 hrs and Sun 6 hrs
KLBJ 590 Austin - 25 hrs/week, 5 hrs weekdays
WOAI 1200 San Antonio - 22 hrs/week, 4 hrs weekdays and 2 hrs Sat
KTRH 740 Houston - 20 hrs/week, 4 hrs weekdays

This places KTRH at the bottom of the barrel for reporting News and I'll bet they cut the morning News block back in 2007 or even due away with it completely. There is very little staff left at KTRH to even gather News. Sounds like Mike Shihloh's statement that while Martha was away he would grab the news from various sources and rewrite for on air presentation by himself and then report what he had rewriten. Must have been great fun!

The most News on KTRH - NO
Staff - what staff?
What listeners have come to expect from KTRH - I'll buy that part of the statement, I don't believe many expect anything from KTRH in the News department any longer.

I am a little surprised that WOAI or KLBJ hasn't gone All News and cover the I-35 corridor. The population of metro Austin/San Antonio should be around 3.5 million. WOAI is a 50kW Non-Directional blowtorch and covers both cities excellently. KLBJ is 5kW Non-Directional daytime and covers San Antonio very well, at night KLBJ drops power to 1kW, but the major lobe is over San Antonio and suburbs. I don't remember how great the nighttime coverage is, but it should be fairly good.

Mike O
 
Mike O said:
KRLD 1080 Dallas - 48.5 hrs/week, 9 hours weekdays ; Sat 1 hr and Sun 3.5 hrs
WBAP 820 Fort Worth - 38 hrs/week, 6 hrs weekdays; Sat 2 hrs and Sun 6 hrs
KLBJ 590 Austin - 25 hrs/week, 5 hrs weekdays
WOAI 1200 San Antonio - 22 hrs/week, 4 hrs weekdays and 2 hrs Sat
KTRH 740 Houston - 20 hrs/week, 4 hrs weekdays
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Look at the ownership of the stations and you can see a pattern -

KRLD 1080 Dallas - Texas CBS Radio Broadcasting
WBAP 820 Fort Worth - Wbap-Kscs Operating, Ltd.
KLBJ 590 Austin - Emmis
WOAI 1200 San Antonio - Clear Channel
KTRH 740 Houston - Clear Channel

The sad thing is, both WOAI and KTRH at one time were decent news stations. Apparently CC won't (or can't) do a news station justice.
 
stan said:
WBAP 820 Fort Worth - Wbap-Kscs Operating, Ltd.
KLBJ 590 Austin - Emmis
WOAI 1200 San Antonio - Clear Channel
KTRH 740 Houston - Clear Channel

The sad thing is, both WOAI and KTRH at one time were decent news stations. Apparently CC won't (or can't) do a news station justice.
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WBAP should be ABC Radio, Inc. Though the holding company maybe say that on the paperwork.

Anyway, that's the one thing about CBS: they know how to operate all-news stations. Even if KRLD isn't necessarily a full-time headline service (like big sisters KNX-LA, WCBS-New York, WBBM-Chicago) they still do more justice to the "Newsradio" moniker than KTRH ever could.
 
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