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KNST, Er, KFYI News

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oldiesfan6479

Cheap Channel at its finest*...

I stumbled upon an item on azbiz.com regarding the local news
effort by KNST:

http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2008/02/29/media_technology/inside_media/doc47c8549569b28213013764.txt

"Most of the news reports on...KNST...are coming out of
sister station KFYI in Phoenix."

Along with traffic and Royal Norman's canned WX from CC PHX.

I can find only one newsroom staffer--the morning news anchor--
listed on the KNST website, which labels itself as "southern Arizona's
largest radio news room."

Gee, I'd hate to know what southern Arizona's smallest radio
newsroom is like. ::)

And get this--you click the "local news" link on the KNST site and
it takes you to kvoa.com.

Wonder what's on the air at KNST now (9:25pm Sunday), let me
check the site...oh, it's the Drudge Report. I did not know they
were running shows on a five-month delay. ;D


*: In the interest of equal-opportunity bashing of current corporate
radio idiocy, the "Cheap Channel at its finest" line could certainly be
renamed to honor (C)BS and/or Farid-adel.
 
No, the dump is the Sunday brokered colon program...


Hey, it's funny to hear Brian Jeffries spots for Window Depot on KNST. Times have changed that they'll accept ads with his voice on them after they tried unsuccessfully to enforce a non compete clause whan the Wildcats sports package went to Citadel a few years ago.
 
KNST hasn't had a respectable newsroom in many years. I worked in p.r. in Tucson from 1993-96 and never had luck with them because they had no street reporters to speak of. It was pure rip 'n read and a far cry from the pre-1990 or so KNST which actually had a decent-sized staff. I

n fact, in 1987 or so, KNST cared enough and had enough budget to hire me as a Phoenix-based stringer for the Frank Atwood trial. Atwood was a creep who killed a little girl in Tucson and they moved the trial to Phoenix. You don't see radio stations paying for that kind of coverage anymore.

My experience while in p.r. was that Tucson TV was actually very good about covering the issues I handled because they care about local news, but radio was a wasteland with the possible exception of KUAZ.
 
And if you want Colon Blow Saturday, tune in the Giant 580
right after Dancin' Dan at 7:00am for several hours of colon
cleansing and similar "remedial radio."

With the sun rising earlier, the last half of the Disco Polka show
can again be heard "all over Arizona." Can't wait for April. :)
 
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