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KFYI: The Valley's Tape Delayed Leader

Love the argument from the clearchannel hacks. "Leave us alone we were all over that plane into a building in new york. We mentioned it in our hourly newscast." Crack up city. But wait, we've heard this before. Remember the immigration march. Like Arkbarf says, KT'R smoked KFYI on it. But at least KFYI ran those hourly updates. Nevermind KT'R went all day and night.


The fact is KFYI ran the plane crash news an hour late. If the plane crash didn't matter then tell me why seanhannity spent his first two hours talking about it. Would have been good coverage if it wasn't on tape. They call that a smackdown. It never would have happened if they had made Sharpy the pd as he wanted but instead they stick him and the rest at a desk making calls while KT'R is all over the place. It's why morale is so low.
 
The plane crash didn't matter, if it were crashing into a house in Wichita it never would have made news.

The media needed a story to flog for 8 hours. It was a 4 seat plane that hit a building, anyone in Manhattan could have figured that out in about 20 minutes.

Now, if it happened in Phoenix, sure, especially if it was raining and all the dessicated denizens of the KTAR weather brigade were out reporting that, by golly, its raining in Sun City!
 
It was important for Sean Hannity to harp on it for 2 hours. On tape-delay. With out of date information.

When seconds matter, K-SNAFU doesn't.

Face it, KFYI has run out of gas, and their brilliant decision to go with hour-old programming during fast-breaking developments - be it an important story or not - is incredible.
 
I have to grudgingly stick up for Mr. Sharpe here, even though it's already been leaked to elite Radio-Info Insiders that I, he, and the rest of our desperately low-morale newsroom completely despise each other. Fine, he got the story on the air right away, and kept it in the news – where it belonged. But I still hope he and the rest of them die in a fiery explosion.

I'll also try my hand here in the backseat PD game. (I don't know the first thing about successfully programming a radio station, but that doesn't stop anyone else here.) Was it the best situation in the world to have Rush and Sean on the air an hour behind the news? No. That part kinda sucked.

But under those mildly unfortunate circumstances, the alternative was to do what KTAR did: air an hour of Live, Up-to-the-Minute Speculation from the network (“it was a plane...no, wait...a helicopter...we're now getting witness reports of a German airship”) on what was pretty clearly from the outset a relatively unimportant story, unless Al-Queda had dramatically lowered its standards. That's KTAR's right. But if the coverage of this dramatic news event made for can't-tune-away radio, no one on this board would have ever discovered that the fools down on 550 were airing actual programming that people wanted to listen to. And my hunch is that the people taking potshots here weren't the only listeners who decided to see what else was on the radio after hearing the first 5 minutes of commercial-free repetition. If only Arbitron did overnights.

Anyway, there's some more ClearChannel® hackery for the other team to anonymously heap scorn upon. But let the record show that our hacks don't hide behind fake usernames, or username1s, as the case may be.
 
At least Jim Sharpe has the testicular fortitude to come on this board using his real name to defend the fact that he DID cover the story. Oh and could username1 BE coming off more like a disgruntled former clearchannel hack?!?!
 
Hey the Nurse and I are Buckeye media hacks and don't have to apologize for anything. We're not on the payroll of the CCU Suits or TMISU. KT'R can cover a story with 150 reporters, but they STILL can't talk about it they way it's done on KFWhyEye. We guess if you were listening aboard the SS Minnow in Pt Hueneme harbor, you'd think News 92~three was the market leader simply because it's on FM. But The Middle Eastern Men of the Meida know better....

You can take KT'R off AM, but you can't take the Toaster Talk off KT'R!
 
KFYI like to tape-delay news all the time that lessoner is jumping on KTAR to get their news without tape-delay.
 
KFYI like to tape-delay news all the time that lessoner is jumping on KTAR to get their news without tape-delay.
 
Radioguy2006 said:
KFYI like to tape-delay news all the time...
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I think it's been established that 55/FYI does their news live, the arrows
seem to be flying over El Rushbo and Hannity being on a one-hour delay
with the "breaking news" content vs. KT'R being live the whole time.

And BTW...aren't you breaking some house rules? I thought it was
lights out at 9pm over there in the Winnie Ruth Judd Memorial Dorm.
 
Yes, KFYI should cut a show that cumes 200-some thousand listeners a week down to an hour so Rush can run live all year instead of (gasp) on a one-hour delay, so that every thirteenth week when something of questionable importance comes up during his show, we can hear it right away. Does anybody listen to Rush to get the news anyway? And what about stations where Hannity runs on a four, five, or six hour delay -- such half-assed operations as WLS! Not to mention WBAP and WSB, two other horrible stations who also run his show on a one-hour delay. Maybe next week KFYI will report an hour late on the locating of the real killer of Jon Benet or another varsity cheerleading captain lost in Aruba.
 
Serbu and others: as your friend its up to me to give you some advice. I think you should consider hiding behind brilliant usernames like mine. Admitting you don't know the first thing about programming is nice an proper. But I get worried when you start showing you might not know much about news. It gets me worried about you.

YOu see news is more than a two minute newscast. CNNMSNBCFOXNBCCBSABC never claimed they covered 9-11 by making sure they mentioned the story in between tapedelayed soaps. Clearchannel is the only place that calls that news coverage. Also, you mentioned how KT'R's coverage included speculation of whether it was a plane a helicopter or a flying lizard. That's called live reporting. I know this is not taught at KFYI and it can be difficult to understand when you thought to be a reporter you just had to learn how to cut up Fox10.

And another thing. It appears our other ccfriend has found a new toy

he can't stop playing with.
 
Back to the issue at hand...

Isn't the reason why Rush and Hannity are on tape delay is because AZ doesn't do Daylight Savings Time? I remember a conversation where KFYI didn't like changing their schedule every six months just to broadcast Rush live.
 
brian4 said:
Isn't the reason why Rush and Hannity are on tape delay is because AZ doesn't do Daylight Savings Time?
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Yes and no.

Yes, the 55/FYI brain trust doesn't want to slide between 10-4 and 9-3 twice a year,
probably because of what it would do to their "house" talkers' schedules (I would say
"local" but since Crummey's in El-Lay...;D)

No, the lack of DST in AZ would not stop them from shifting the air times twice a
year to always be live--if they wanted to.
 
I always thought Arizona stayed on standard time was so that Ev Mecham's Metamucil schedule wasn't disrupted.
 
username1 said:
Serbu and others: as your friend its up to me to give you some advice. I think you should consider hiding behind brilliant usernames like mine.
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Brilliant is a big word for you "username1"...
Cowards hide... Leaders stand up and fight... the braintrust at bon-bon wouldn't know the first thing about fight.

"Happy" is not only my name, but my state of being...

and no, I'm not Crummey.

as for the plane crash. Get over it. It's old news now.

The Nov. elections are right around the corner...and that's what PD's,ND's,AD's,MD's...should be enterprising.
Keep complaining about the tape delay crap...

that way your competitior can kill you come election night.

(KFYI had far and away the better coverage in Sept.)
 
And another thing. It appears our other ccfriend has found a new toy

he can't stop playing with.


:) :) :) What on earth are you talking about? :) :) :)

There is absolutely no valid reason to shift Rush & Hannity an hour due to the time change on the right hand coast. Nurse Jeff and I wonder how many of you recall that less than brilliant move AMFM made a number of years ago with the "Rush Sandwich"? The number of times important breaking news occurs during Rush & Hannity's shows is minute in the scheme of things. A private plane crashing into a NYC condo does not warrant wall to wall coverage, unless you're KT'R and specialize in that stuff. But why are we explaining this to wannabes who will never have a clue?
 
... because KFYI embarrassed itself by airing out-of-date programming in an era when the internet, cable TV and quality, up to the minute FM radio programming made them look stooopid...

...and you just can't stand it ...


Wnnabee? Wanna be what? Married to 1940s technology?
 
Zuma, get over it. You are trying to build a tempest in a teapot.

The crash was nothing, and as a very informed aviation enthusiast, listening to the ignorant reporters talking about anything airplane related is painful.

A 4 seat plane crashed, no story, it crashed in Manhattan into a building, a story worth repeating. But at no time was this story worth 3 hours of breaking wall to wall reporting. Honestly, they had zero info, then they quickly had all the info they needed and still flogged the story for a few hours.

I think your anti KFYI bias has surpassed your judgement on this one.

BTW, I'll be tuning into KKNT on Monday to see if they are playing Friday's news again, I love nostalgia.
 
Get over this: it was important enough for Sean Hannity to go for two hours about it on his radio show - two hours that were tape delayed.

Anti-KFYI bias? What do you call the same "ha ha, KT'R toaster talk, McBland" chorus that you and two other posters have been recycling here for years?

As a "very informed aviation enthusiast" you should get your feet on the ground.

This was a big story, and as the afternoon went on, got bigger, once the victim was identified - an hour late, FYI, on 550.

Sure, in the overall scheme of things it is not much of importance. But for those three hours of afternoon, there was no other subject that people wanted to hear about.

And if they wanted to hear hour-old "breaking" news, they had one place to go, and one place not to go: the station formerly known as KOY.

KKNT, love those calls.
 
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