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KRMG Changes?

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Glenn Quagmire

What's going on at KRMG?

I noticed the Savage Nation was on at 5pm? Is KRMG airing its national shows live?

Also, KRMG is no longer doing live news after 6pm. Taped cut ins now run throughout the night.

I know Neal Kennedy recently retired, I assume Marshall Stewart is still there?

Is the newsroom expanding, contracting, or staying the same?
 
I hope that they aren't making any major daytime programing changes.

I live in Midwest City and listen to Neal Boortz on KRMG from 8:30 to 11:00, switch to KTOK for the first hour of Rush Limbaugh back to KRMG for all three hours of Rush and then to KOMA for the Boortz "information overload" hour with Jamie Dupree. It works out very well for me.

Just yesterday, I took delivery of a small C Crane FM modulator that I can plug in to a radio with better reception and retransmit the KRMG signal to the Walkman portable and noise attenuating headset that I wear while I'm working as the AM signal directly into the Walkman is very marginal and subject to interference.
 
I noticed several months back that they're taped pretty early on in the evening; I drove by the studios one night and the windows were DARK. :( Seems like the change came not long after Durkee left. Occasionally Paul Crocket gives the impression (time checks, etc) of being live, but I don't know why some days it would be and some days not. Don Bishop has to be in at some point overnight but I don't know when and / or if he's live or Memorex... at least it is a warm body...

Marshall Stewart is still there; I hear him regularly in the mornings.

It took a while but I found this page listing their news team (it still has a nice bio of Neal Kennedy on it): http://krmg.com/inside/tablenews.html

Last I heard, they had only moved Rush up to noon, Hannity up to 3... are you sure it was 5 that you heard Michael, or 6? If they've moved it up an hour, then Rush & Sean may be live... either that, or they cut off an hour of Hannity, which doesn't seem likely.

WOODYRR: Although I love DX-ing for the fun of it, you DO know that you can listen to them crystal-clear online at http://krmg.com? If you weren't aware, give it a shot... where I live, I lose them at night so when storms come in I click on the "LISTEN LIVE!" link (until the power goes out...).

If KRMG ever DOES get rid of Boortz (which would be a shame; the guy's a hoot!), you can always listen straight from the source, News / Talk 750 WSB in Atlanta at http://wsbradio.com/. They have him on 7:30am to noon our time weekdays! (I think the 1st 30 minutes of that he may be doing something similar to what Joe Kelly does here ("Here's the news / here's the weather / here's the traffic") but it still might be entertaining to hear Boortz doing "regular" radio.
 
Rush Limbaugh airs live on KTOK at 11:00. On KRMG, Rush follows Boortz at 12:00 which is a one hour tape delay. The KRMG delay allows me to hear the part of the program that I miss while having lunch.

I could listen online, however, while I'm working, I wear a David Clark noise attenuating aviation headset to keep entertainment in and noise out. I would still have the challenge of getting computer audio into my walkman. I get a good KRMG RF signal into a portable radio in my shop but I am going to have to tweak the FM transmitter settings in order to get good coverage of the rebroadcast signal.

This morning, I did download an application for my iPhone that allows me to tune in KRMG and KTOK as well as NOAA WX Radio stations. The KRMG stream seemed to work fine through my wifi network here at home, but I don't know how well it will work when I am out of range and have to rely on the AT&T Edge network. I also don't know what effect driving the speakers of the headset will have on battery life.
 
woodyrr said:
This morning, I did download an application for my iPhone that allows me to tune in KRMG and KTOK as well as NOAA WX Radio stations. The KRMG stream seemed to work fine through my wifi network here at home, but I don't know how well it will work when I am out of range and have to rely on the AT&T Edge network. I also don't know what effect driving the speakers of the headset will have on battery life.
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what application did you download? If you are able to listen to windows media streams, you might like http://tuned.mobi (visit from your iPhone). I have a PPC phone and sometimes connect it to my car stereo and listen to Boortz live on KRMG, or WSB (he's on WSB starting at 7:30am CT - local for the 1st half hour). Just remember, most (all i think) carriers have a ~5gb data limit per month.
 
milton77 said:
what application did you download?
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The application is called WunderRadio from the WeatherUnderground folks. The user reviewers gave it four and a half stars, but on my first generation iPhone, it's not ready for prime time. Away from wifi, the phone cannot buffer fast enough to keep an interrupted stream going. When it gives up it crashes the app. I downloaded it primarily to listen to online radio scanner streams, but I thought that it might be useful, for instance, for occasions like when I was in Purcell last week away from a good walkman signal even from KTOK.

The little transmitter that I bought turned from a poor excuse for a radio to everything that I was looking for after I followed the tuneup suggestions posted by users on amazon.com. It works well to send a good KRMG signal into my walkman.

I am unable to receive radio stations from tuned.mobi using the iPhone. But like you pointed out, it's probably bad practice to become dependent upon internet radio for the time being.

I did notice a mistake in one of my previous posts: I misidentified KOKC as KOMA. I don't know why someone relinquished the KOMA call on 1520. It seems to me to be as improbable as KDKA or WKY giving up their call.
 
The man that convinced the boys in the big office to drop the KVOO-AM calls is not longer in the state of Oklahoma.
 
I have no idea who Journal Guy is...or why people choose to not use thier names on hear (I can only imagine why), but for the record....the man who decided to change the calls was never in the state. It was Carl Gardner. As a Journal Guy, presume you know him as THE TOP of your chain of command. Just an FYI.
 
DelGiorno-KFAQ said:
I have no idea who Journal Guy is...or why people choose to not use thier names on hear (I can only imagine why), but for the record....the man who decided to change the calls was never in the state. It was Carl Gardner. As a Journal Guy, presume you know him as THE TOP of your chain of command. Just an FYI.
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Carl is no longer with JBG. He took a GM position over a station group in Seattle. I believe Mr. Wexler moved into his position.

O'Shea
 
KOMA-AM was changed to KOKC for the same reason that KVOO-AM was changed to KFAQ. It was due to name confusion. Personally I think it was, at least in KOMA-AM's case, a POOR excuse thrown up by FORMER "program director" of the station for his extremely poor performace of his station. Among other things, he changed the calls. As far as I can tell it hasn't impacted their ratings positively by changing calls.
Shameful in both 1520 and 1170 IMHO.
 
Bob Oshea said:
DelGiorno-KFAQ said:
I have no idea who Journal Guy is...or why people choose to not use thier names on hear (I can only imagine why), but for the record....the man who decided to change the calls was never in the state. It was Carl Gardner. As a Journal Guy, presume you know him as THE TOP of your chain of command. Just an FYI.
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Carl is no longer with JBG. He took a GM position over a station group in Seattle. I believe Mr. Wexler moved into his position.

O'Shea
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If there were any out there who thought kissing up doesn't pay off, look no further than Mr. Wexler.
 
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