KFMB-AM 760 rearranges the deck chairs....

[sdwulfdawg]

From what I see KFMB-AM has rearranged the deck chairs a bit.

Rick Roberts 5-9 a.m. (eliminating Paul Harvey at 9:45 a.m.)
Glenn Beck 9-12 p.m. (bumping Bill O'Reilly to 6-8 p.m.)
Sean Hannity 12-3 p.m.
Michael Savage 3-6 p.m.
Bill O'Reilly 6-8 p.m.
Mark Levin 8-10 p.m.

Not specified what is happening to Jerry Doyle.... 10-12 midnight?

 

[commando]

What an amazing Fascist Fest!

 

[ajhenderson]

Missed this one... although I've been suggesting it for two years now. O'Reilly is getting tired, Beck is gaining, and Jerry Doyle can only be propped up by Savage's success for so long.

Call it what you like, commando, but they are playing the hits.

 

[SDRadio]

O'Reilly is getting tired, Beck is gaining, and Jerry Doyle can only be propped up by Savage's success for so long.

In several markets where Blen Geck and Lush Rimbaugh are in the same time slot, Mr. Geck wins. Cincinnati is one of the markets.

He (Geck) is the third most listened to show in the U.S., right behind the insanity of Hannity.

Likewise, KFMB is in it for the ratings, not the readers for R-I.

 

[ajhenderson]

Beck was really never on against Rush in Cincy, as he was on KRC before Rush, then eventually returned 10-1, going against Rush for one hour on a failed FM talker, which eventually moved him to 9-noon. St. Louis is an example of what you say, though.

The #3 ranker is 25-54, which is what KFMB should be targeting as KOGO sounds more and more for the 70-year-old set.

 

[dustintv]

News/Talk radio looks really awful there in San Diego. For one, you've got this mess at KFMB with only one local program with the rest all syndicated on a 50,000 watt station. Then there is KOGO...

4AM-5AM: WSJ This Morning
5AM-9AM: Local AM host
9AM-12PM: Rush
12PM-3PM: Dr. Laura
3PM-7PM: Local PM host
7PM-4AM: Coast to Coast

Live and local in both AM and PM is a plus, but geez, NINE hours of Coast to Coast?!

 

[SDRadio]

St. Louis is an example of what you say, though.

Thank you for the clarification. I thought -- after posting -- that "The Big One" WWL would have Rush as number one. (WWL is the original Big One, not like KOGO that tried to pick up the moniker.

Live and local in both AM and PM is a plus, but geez, NINE hours of Coast to Coast?!

That's pathetic. I like George, but I like him at 10 p.m., not all fracken evening and overnight. So much for having a live local show after Mark Larson left for 1700 AM.

Thank you for playing!

 

[ajhenderson]

Yes, Dustin, that is a bit much Coast for me, but like KVI in Seattle is doing well at night with Coast starting at 8pm, you have to give the people what they want. I was suprised KOGO put Beck on 6-8 only to take him right off. Of course, KOGO's attempt at midday local talk didn't go over too well, even though Dr. Laura has always had San Diegans listening to her on KFI as well as live on KOGO.

Not to nitpick, Chris, but the Big One you are thinking of is WLW. WWL is in New Orleans. It is also a big one, just not THE Big One.

 

[SDRadio]

Not to nitpick, Chris, but the Big One you are thinking of is WLW. WWL is in New Orleans. It is also a big one, just not THE Big One.

Thanks, no worries, better be corrected than saying stoopid things like "Mission Accomplished!"

Resume normal broadcasting, your program already in progress.

 

[136kgb]

KOGO is still and always has been an awesome station. But the top news talkers in the country are:

WLW, KMOX, KFI, KOA, WLS

If KOGO was to become a carbon clone of any one of those it would be huge and untouchable like the other monsters. But KFMB-AM is just a joke now!

 

[ajhenderson]

KMOX is bigger than KABC? Why is KFMB a "joke"?

 

[SDRadio]

KMOX is bigger than KABC?  Why is KFMB a "joke"?

When the Cards were on KMOX, they owned the Midwest and beyond. The station still owns St Louis even with some erosion in the listener base.

 

[amfmxm]

KOGO is still and always has been an awesome station. But the top news talkers in the country are:

WLW, KMOX, KFI, KOA, WLS

If KOGO was to become a carbon clone of any one of those it would be huge and untouchable like the other monsters. But KFMB-AM is just a joke now!

WGN--Chicago's #1 station--kills #10 WLS. SF's #1 KGO deserves a place on the list, as does Boston's #2 WBZ. There may be room for Atlanta's #2 station, WSB, as well. On a slightly smaller-market level, "New Jersey 101.5" (WKXW/WXKW) deserves Special Mention, too. With the exception of WLW, the trouble with most of your list is their reliance on network programming. Plug & Play & Walk Away. That don't take no brains...

 

[ajhenderson]

I meant WABC/

 

[Dr. o Fun]

KOGO is still and always has been an awesome station.

What makes KOGO an awesome station?

10 daily hours of Coast to Coast?
A skeletal news team?
One local talk show?

But the top news talkers in the country are:
WLW, KMOX, KFI, KOA, WLS

WLS is second to WGN. The rest is accurate.

dr

 

[136kgb]

What makes KOGO an awesome station is the fact that it is the last REAL radio station in San Diego. It has a news room news staff, news vehicles, a booth at city hall, and during the fires no station in San Diego comes close to the coverage that KOGO did. In comparison KPBS and KFMB were both jokes. And it is not a skeleton news staff, besides that were the only RADIO station in that market that can boast a news staff! skeleton or not!

The problems with KOGO is that the station sounds like KSDO of the 70's and 80's. KOGO needs a fresh sound and a fresh approach, but with that having been said it has the best signal, and the best staff in SD radio. Plus KOGO has a full rich history, just like WSM, WLS, WGN, KFI, KNX, KMOX, KOA, KSL, WSB, KDKA, WEAF, WJR, WBAP, KWKH, and many many more. To evaluate a station's greatness you must also look at its past, and KOGO/KFSD has been doing radio in San Diego since 1925. The only station in SD to come close to KOGO's greatness is 1360 (the former KGB).

And by the way the station in the U.S. that has had the most impact on it's city on the country and on the world is "The Aircastle of the South" 650 WSM.

 

[Dr. o Fun]

What makes KOGO an awesome station is the fact that it is the last REAL radio station in San Diego. It has a news room news staff, news vehicles, a booth at city hall, and during the fires no station in San Diego comes close to the coverage that KOGO did.

Compare KSDO of the '80s to the current Clear Channel stripped-down edition of KOGO and you'll have to agree the differences are night and day. KOGO is perceived as a real station because they don't have any competition, even with a skeletal news staff.

dr

 

[SDRadio]

KOGO is perceived as a real station because they don't have any competition, even with a skeletal news staff.

dr

The station of record is KPBS-FM for radio news. The Union Tribune printed last Monday they are not the paper of record.

Newspaper editor Karin Winner wrote about the diminishing expectations of the paper. “We can’t be a newspaper of record anymore.” That leaves a wide gap in coverage if that is the paper’s position. See the report at the <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080421/news_mz1e21goodhu.html">UT’s site</a>.

 

[Bob_Hudson]

The station of record is KPBS-FM for radio news.

I listen to KPBS more than any other station but having spent 30 years on and off in journalism, I think their local news comes across as very weak: much of it sounds like they are still college students learning how to report and read the news: no gravitas and the story choice often seems like it was the result of some random process. They are certainly not the place you'd tune to during big fires or other disasters.

 

[SDRadio]

Noted Bob, but they have a commitment to news on both sides of the border and really stepped up to the bar during the fires last year. KOGO's news commitment went out the door during the last gutting of the station, and who knows with the current climate of "private and not-private" on CCU, KOGO, not even KFI-lite-lite could just farm their news out to ... the in-house traffic service.

It's not that the current news staffers of KOGO lack commitment; it's the company pulling the purse strings from Texas are also pulling in the bank books.