Lois Melkonian is coming to KTRH 740 I'm not sure when her start date is on KTRH but she's coming from KOA-AM 850 here in Denver.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18247414
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18247414
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Lois Melkonian comes to KTRH 740
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I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would leave Denver and move to Houston. Denver is everything Houston isn't. Denver is a great place to live and work. Houston isn't.
Then again, she's moving from Clear Channel KOA Radio to Clear Channel KTRH. I'm guessing Clear Channel has contractual rights to send people anywhere they want.
I wonder what she'll be doing. KTRH hasn't been a News/Information station for some time now.
Then again, she's moving from Clear Channel KOA Radio to Clear Channel KTRH. I'm guessing Clear Channel has contractual rights to send people anywhere they want.
I wonder what she'll be doing. KTRH hasn't been a News/Information station for some time now.
There's a strong rumor that someone from the Clear Channel Cleveland cluster is joining either KTRH or KPRC. He supposedly joins either - or both - stations next week.
Hmmm.....
Hmmm.....
If I were to take a guess, I have a feeling that KTRH may be going local again in afternoon drive following Rush (with Lois taking a significant role therein). Hopefully that's the case. Everyone's being VERY tight-lipped.
I lived in and around Houston for more than 50 years, and over more than 40 years I worked at several big radio stations including KIKK AM and FM, KPRC and KTRH.
Every job I had was a move up for me and I was never fired. I stayed in Houston because I didn't think I could make a good living in radio anywhere else, and I didn't want to start over from scratch in another city. I retired last year after 17 years at KUHF Houston Public Radio.
Houston was a really great radio market when I got my first job in 1965, and Houston was a really fun place to live and work. It really was. Ask anybody who was in Houston radio in those times.
In the 1980s however, with federal deregulation, the conglomerates like Clear Channel started buying up stations, and by the 90s they had sucked all the joy out of the greatest business in the world. It wasn't fun anymore.
In my opinion, based on many years of personal experience and observation, Houston is not a good radio market anymore, and it's not a good place to live and work. If you stay there long enough you'll reach the same conclusion. Trust me, you will.
Every job I had was a move up for me and I was never fired. I stayed in Houston because I didn't think I could make a good living in radio anywhere else, and I didn't want to start over from scratch in another city. I retired last year after 17 years at KUHF Houston Public Radio.
Houston was a really great radio market when I got my first job in 1965, and Houston was a really fun place to live and work. It really was. Ask anybody who was in Houston radio in those times.
In the 1980s however, with federal deregulation, the conglomerates like Clear Channel started buying up stations, and by the 90s they had sucked all the joy out of the greatest business in the world. It wasn't fun anymore.
In my opinion, based on many years of personal experience and observation, Houston is not a good radio market anymore, and it's not a good place to live and work. If you stay there long enough you'll reach the same conclusion. Trust me, you will.
My thanks to Roger Gray for his kind thoughts.
I often wish some of the people who come to these pages would show more respect for the opinions of people with many more years of experience than they.
It's just possible that we geezers might have a few intelligent things to say about how great Houston radio used to be, and how it's gone straight to hell under the jackboot management style of the congloms that have taken over.
Some of these young people act like radio didn't exist till they got into it.
I often wish some of the people who come to these pages would show more respect for the opinions of people with many more years of experience than they.
It's just possible that we geezers might have a few intelligent things to say about how great Houston radio used to be, and how it's gone straight to hell under the jackboot management style of the congloms that have taken over.
Some of these young people act like radio didn't exist till they got into it.
FilioScotia said:
BRAVO Filio - BRAVO!
Is there any NEWS in the morning now on KTRH? My 35min commute consisted of 2 traffic reports, 2 weather reports, 2 calls from mo-mo's about saying God in a prayer, and a "news" story about a guy who tried to break out of prison in Mexico; and the rest talking about all the great responses about the new guy on the Facebook page... What a lousy excuse for a news station!! It was truly awful.
Here's what some of the listeners are saying.... I had to double check to make sure I was not on this board as it sounds awful familiar. That link on the last page made me chuckle though, but for some reason it wouldn't open.
http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=353711
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http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=353711
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To back up what FilioS. said about working in Houston radio...I worked in Houston at KULF from "70-'74..and they were the best years of my life and the most fun I had in radio. Radio was a real community..we all knew each other and what was going on at each station all over town.
I started at KTHT which became KULF on the overnite shift. We started a club called Houston All Nite Radio Assouncers Association or H.A.N.R.A.A. We would meet once a month for lunch (at 6:30am) and start drinking. Ah...life was good!
Jim Shannon
I started at KTHT which became KULF on the overnite shift. We started a club called Houston All Nite Radio Assouncers Association or H.A.N.R.A.A. We would meet once a month for lunch (at 6:30am) and start drinking. Ah...life was good!
Jim Shannon
I tuned into America's Morning News "powered by the [ultra conservative] Washington Times" for a few minutes on Talk 650 and then went over to Matt in the Morning on KTRH who was interviewing Karl Rove...its like 3 hours on both stations of bashing the president nonstop [BW, the Washington Times program always refers to "Barack Obama" rather than "President Obama"]...they only cite the polls and facts that support their cause and misrepresent or distort other viewpoints...do we really need more of this? Smerconish and Schnitt, while a little broader in subject matter, are so cookie-cutter in how they lead into subjects with most of their callers at maybe an 6th to 7th-grade level, I was bored after ten minutes.
And look at CBS Radio's websites, speaking of cookie cutter, so cluttered and unprofessional, slapped together and probably run out of some website mill in India...
The coveted 25-34 demo is gonna go somewhere else...no wonder NPR is attracting an increasingly larger and younger audience...its the closet thing we have to straight news...
And look at CBS Radio's websites, speaking of cookie cutter, so cluttered and unprofessional, slapped together and probably run out of some website mill in India...
The coveted 25-34 demo is gonna go somewhere else...no wonder NPR is attracting an increasingly larger and younger audience...its the closet thing we have to straight news...
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