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KTAR plays tape delayed program during earthquake coverage

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Legend City

Where is the outrage? Hawaii has been shaken up badly and news is trickling out. Will there be a tsunami? How many people were killed?

I don't know, KTAR is playing a tape delayed ABC News show. ::)


(And KFYI is playing tape delayed Bill Handel show)

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
An earthquake in Hawaii is not a plane into a skyscraper in New York, but put that aside and this is still a big news story. Shame on KFYI. Shame on KT'R. Both stations have no news programming on the weekends and they should be ashamed.

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
 
Remember the Tsunami?

I do, I was over there in Thailand 3 weeks before hand and a few weeks afterward, it was a big story, one that was developing, bigger than a 4 seat plane hitting a building.

But, to be honest, neither story warrants wall to wall radio coverage, that is what CNN and Fox are for.
 
Were the natonal news services (ABC for KTAR and CBS or Fox for KFYI) have wall-to-wall coverage on today's earthquake? If so, they definitely should have pulled the plug and carried those events live. But on a weekend it's more forgiveable. You have a smaller audience, and the decision makers are at home, not in the office. The problem with KFYI's coverage of the plane crash was that they WERE covering it (albeit by way of national talkers to whom news is an add-on) but covering it an hour late! No news is better than hour old news. Especially when it is repeatedly an hour old for multiple hours straight!
 
The Nurse and I are mortified! However we know Pat McBland will be making calls to Hawaii on Monday morning asking how the weather is over there.

You can take KT'R off AM, but you can't take Toaster Talk off KT'R! ;D
 
Agreed, KTAR should have picked up live programming. Perhaps cherrypick KSSK from the web, or go to the KITV audio from CNN.

But, that ABC taped program on 620 wasn't about the earthquake, was it?

No, so KTAR was not pulling a KFYI: broadcasting out of date news about a breaking story.
 
Evidently you don't understand the fact that I am using an absurd assertion to reveal how absurd the original assertion about KFYI was.

Here is the deal, neither story warranted a multi hour radio broadcast.

And it was just sniping at KFYI.

I watched CNN and Fox for about an hour, heard everything in 5 minutes, and then they repeated what little they knew for the next 55.

It was of particular interest to me, as I very recently spent some time in the affected area.

And, yeah, we will probably have Pat regaling us with stories of going to a luau in 1978 and he will make a lame attempt at a joke regarding poi and puu puu.
 
Non-Sense! KTAR did not miss the boat (no pun intended) on any prospecitve tsunami coverage! Pat McBland may, in his nobody-can-duplicate-it-old-school way get an interview Monday morning with a newspaper reporter from Honolulu (oh boy!)........but this "story" did NOT warrant wall-to-wall coverage, nor did it necessitate breaking-in to regularly scheduled programming.

KTAR knows EXACTLY what they're doing........stay tuned............
 
I got your assumption, and I turned it back on its face.

It is not absurd to expect a news leader to go wall to wall on a big story.

I found the KITV coverage picked up by CNN to be excellent, and compelling. Fox News's weathercaster was just plain wrong when I sampled them - Hawaii is NOT at the edge of the pacific plate and vulcanism there is not a result of tectonics.

Like many mainlanders, I have relatives in Hawaii and have spent much time there myself. You found it "of particular interest"? So did I, so would others. Where was KTAR? BOTH stories warrant pulling the plug on taped programming, even if it was hour old.

And don't forget, no one at KTAR or KFYI should expect their audience not to keep coming and going. Without a doubt, persons finding out about the quake at various times during the day will start looking for news about it. No one will expect them to stay for long - but they will expect to find the big story when they first dial in.

I'll blast KTAR for not covering the big story correctly, and I won't buy any argument that "it was a Sunday morning and we don't have talk hosts or producers or news staff in then."

Get them in.
 
You didn't turn it back on its face, as I am still laughing at you.

If I wasn't near a TV, I would have just tried to get streaming audio/video from local stations there. I really don't expect KTAR or KFYI to go guns a blazing with 3+ hours of coverage, its just not that big of a story to the audience in PHX.


"Did I ever tell you the time Duffy and I stayed at the Royal Hawaiian? What is it with the drive-in's there? You don't drive in, you park. We bought a pearl from inside the oyster. I'm Pat McBland, and I'll be talking about it Monday, forever....." ;D
 
Easy, Legend City...our good friend ZumaPans may think you've teamed up with Nurse Jeff and me. Another right wing conspiracy, no less! We'll force ourselves to listen to Pat McBland Monday morning (it won't be so hard if Barry Markson is on for The Nearly Bald One). Wonder if Don Ho will provide expert analysis?...too bad Steve McGarrett is no longer around ;D
 
Ah, the Nearly Bald One, Nurse Jeff, Pat McBland resurface again. Where's the obligatory Buckeye Media Hut and '76 Levi Gremlin references?

Such a cute little imaginary play world.

How trite, how boring.
 
Oh, you are just jealous because you haven't been able to think up a clever meme that others picked up.

Akbar and Jeff's Airport deli "Where the elite meet to greet and eat greasy meaty treats"

Lighten up Francis, or I'll start listening to Matt Gerson again to come up with more material.
 
Leave it alone, Legend City...we proved the point: Topic #1 on Monday's McBland show was the Hawaiian eartquake! If that's not a big enough joke, Nurse Jeff and I still him refer to himself being in the left speaker while his guest is in the right. Apparently Captain Stupor just discovered FM when KT'R moved to the place where hip hop lived!
 
Hip hop? You mean like a sock hop? I used to MC those back in 65 before I became Gerald, why, this one time........
 
Point, match & set. Time for a new subject...there's no way our friend ZumaHens can recover from that! Oh by the way, we'll be looking for Captain Stupor on the Wallace & Ladmo stage at this year's Az State Fair! Just think...there's a whole generation out there that has no idea what a Ladmo Bag is all about.
 
... you're right , Ladmo Bags are three generations ago.

And Akbar, Nurse Jeff, and the whole Life in Hell gang iks two generations old.

I, luckily, have not set up an entire imaginary world around such dated relics.
 
No hans, you are your own relic.

In the immortal words of Groucho Marx

"You know, I'd buy you a parachute if I knew it wouldn't open."
 
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