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KUOW Questions

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WKomm

I generally like KUOW and most often listen to Stever Scher's Weekday but two minor questions.

Why bother with bumper music on Weekday? Most of the time that guitar riff thing is on for a few seconds and then potted down BAM! It's gone. Why bother?

And I don't get why every so often Steve will have a caller on for him or a guest and cut them off with "We're coming up to a break so I have to cut this short." I'd understand if the caller is obnoxious but awhile back a caller was really adding to the discussion with a guest and he did the "gotta take a break" thing.

What break? It was like :90 of droll listenm tonight for a discussion on cheese or Hasidic schools in Argentina and then back to the show. That break could easily be blown off or at least postponed a few minutes to allow a solid conversation to continue. Isn't that kind of what NPR/KUOW is all about?
 
WKomm said:
I generally like KUOW and most often listen to Stever Scher's Weekday but two minor questions.

Why bother with bumper music on Weekday? Most of the time that guitar riff thing is on for a few seconds and then potted down BAM! It's gone. Why bother?

You can say that for ALL bumper music. But I would do it in STYLE. At the end of my show, I'd probably play a whole song as my Song Of The Day, or something like that.

And I don't get why every so often Steve will have a caller on for him or a guest and cut them off with "We're coming up to a break so I have to cut this short." I'd understand if the caller is obnoxious but awhile back a caller was really adding to the discussion with a guest and he did the "gotta take a break" thing.

You gotta allow some room for PSAs (Hey, it's STILL a public station.) Here you're not sweating the clock like in commercial talk radio, but you still SHOULD at least APPEAR professional in your airchecks (or at least in your professional demo CDs.) In commercial talk radio, you're going to be doing that - a LOT.

What break? It was like :90 of droll listenm tonight for a discussion on cheese or Hasidic schools in Argentina and then back to the show. That break could easily be blown off or at least postponed a few minutes to allow a solid conversation to continue. Isn't that kind of what NPR/KUOW is all about?
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KUOW is GREAT public news/talk radio. They have (Arbitron rated) numbers that whip KIRO easily. But KUOW is, like the old KEZX used to be, a simple enigma.

Strange choice of words, but it confounds even the most seasoned talk radio experts why it succeeds so well with radio listeners here, It just does. EVERYBODY wants to crack that KUOW code, but it just maybe simply in the DETAILS of the local/regional news KUOW provides. These ain't exactly nice :10 sound bites here. It's the full buffet on KUOW. No politically partisan crap, just straight news, just the basic FACTS and nothing else. No speculation, no delusions of grandeur or directly glorifying anyone or anything.

(I know I just walked into a kennel full of right-wing pitbulls by saying that. But it's the TRUTH. KUOW is NOTHING like KPTK.)

And the talk shows? Well, just remember it's public radio, they TOO have time limits and if they can't answer everything you ask, there will be another opportunity when you can. Or mention it directly to the folks in charge: http://www.kuow.org/contact.php

There are SOME things I wish KUOW would pick up on, like the Driver To Driver, Neighbor To Neighbor coverage KOMO gives. But I figure they will once KOMO ever gets tired of it.

And all night, it's the Beeb (BBC World Service) How DOES KUOW get away with such high ratings?

Maybe because it's just good, balanced news/talk radio.........

Maybe because it's just COOL.....

YOU decide.......
 
Maybe it's because they are partly publicly funded and don't have to run 18 minutes an hour of 15's 30's and 60's. Nah, that can't be it, audiences love the post consolidation spotload!
 
Reasons I like KUOW:

1) It's a nice change of pace at different times of the day.

2) Variety. Reinforces my hunch that an FM doing old-school block programming would do well.

3) It is exactly what you hear. No pretense, no effort.

4) I agree that it's balanced.

I've done this occupation a long time and I don't recall being part of a newsroom that seemed biased one way or the other. That statement may also draw the pitbulls. So be it -
 
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