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MAJOR shakeup at KTAR-AM
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Chuck & Vince Live on KDUS is getting better and better, but now there won't be anything worthwhile to listen to in PM drive (Not a fan of Rock & Manuch, and I haven't bothered with Bickley & MJ in ages). Fortunately, I have the TuneIn app on my smartphone and can listen to The Score out of Chicago for real, professional-sounding sports talk.
I think Ash will definitely land on his feet somewhere locally. After all, Phoenix radio keeps recycling Bruce Jacobs, and Ash is 10 times better than him.
I also read, via a local sports message board, that Paul Calvisi is also out of there. I think TMISU shot themselves in the foot big-time.
I think Ash will definitely land on his feet somewhere locally. After all, Phoenix radio keeps recycling Bruce Jacobs, and Ash is 10 times better than him.
I also read, via a local sports message board, that Paul Calvisi is also out of there. I think TMISU shot themselves in the foot big-time.
KeithE4 said:
Face it...the halls of KT'R are pretty crowded with bodies. Given the fact that consolidation and constriction have eluded TMISU for some time, maybe now is the time to batten down the hatches. If some of the news readers go bye-bye, then Nurse Jeff and I will start believing some of the stuff we post!
Doug and Wolf is the show that needs to go. Boring and stupid.
Ash (through the remaining 8 months of his contract) and Calvisi (through football season) will remain with TMISU for the time being - Ash will work for the KTAR website and Calvisi will continue to be the Cards' sideline reporter. I thought the Cards paid the salaries of their broadcasters, not TMISU.
KTAR VP Ryan Hatch said "...changes were made to reflect a "great demand for a mix of national and local programming. "This is listening to our audience," Hatch said. "We've been getting asked for some time about 'Mike and Mike,' in particular." The changes were not made because of ratings or cost concerns."
Yeah, right, Ryan. Only if the people who've been doing the asking are located in Bristol CT.
My uneducated guess is that The Mickey Mouse Outfit grabbed KTAR management by what's beneath their secret underwear, and told them to carry the full Mike & MIke show and Cowherd live, or they'll go elsewhere (where? KMIK? They don't own any FMs here). I thought carrying both of those shows in full was a condition of ESPN affiliation.
Of course, if KTAR management had anything beneath their secret underwear, they'd tell Disney to put The Northeast-wide Leader In Sports where the sun don't shine. KTAR does (or did, before this shakeup) just fine with local programming (OK, get rid of Doug & Wolf) and play-by-play, and doesn't really need ESPN. And where would ESPN go? I've never got the feeling that Gumpdusky is interested, and vice-versa, and XTRA 910 is married to Clear Channel Fox Sports Radio. In any case, network sports talk should be considered filler (overnights & weekends) in a market the size of Phoenix, not the major reason for existing.
So then we'd have ESPN Radio 1580, a disaster waiting to happen. Who, other than grandma, a few millionaire-wannabes, people with a lumberyard & lamptimer fetish, three or four fuzzy-headed liberals, and mommies of 6-year-olds, tunes their AM radio above 1060 in this market? Really, above 620?
Link: AZCentral
KTAR VP Ryan Hatch said "...changes were made to reflect a "great demand for a mix of national and local programming. "This is listening to our audience," Hatch said. "We've been getting asked for some time about 'Mike and Mike,' in particular." The changes were not made because of ratings or cost concerns."
Yeah, right, Ryan. Only if the people who've been doing the asking are located in Bristol CT.
My uneducated guess is that The Mickey Mouse Outfit grabbed KTAR management by what's beneath their secret underwear, and told them to carry the full Mike & MIke show and Cowherd live, or they'll go elsewhere (where? KMIK? They don't own any FMs here). I thought carrying both of those shows in full was a condition of ESPN affiliation.
Of course, if KTAR management had anything beneath their secret underwear, they'd tell Disney to put The Northeast-wide Leader In Sports where the sun don't shine. KTAR does (or did, before this shakeup) just fine with local programming (OK, get rid of Doug & Wolf) and play-by-play, and doesn't really need ESPN. And where would ESPN go? I've never got the feeling that Gumpdusky is interested, and vice-versa, and XTRA 910 is married to Clear Channel Fox Sports Radio. In any case, network sports talk should be considered filler (overnights & weekends) in a market the size of Phoenix, not the major reason for existing.
So then we'd have ESPN Radio 1580, a disaster waiting to happen. Who, other than grandma, a few millionaire-wannabes, people with a lumberyard & lamptimer fetish, three or four fuzzy-headed liberals, and mommies of 6-year-olds, tunes their AM radio above 1060 in this market? Really, above 620?
Link: AZCentral
KeithE4 said:
Hey, I resent that remark!
doublex said:
540? You must be a big fan then of Radio Enciclopedia from Cuba on 530 AM!
KeithE4 said:
ESPN (on the TV side) doesn't treat Colin Cowherd with the same respect as Mike & Mike or Scott Van Pelt. Instead of ESPN2, he's relegated to ESPNU (and his show is not all about college sports). I'm sure the same holds true for his relationship at ESPN Radio.
Sports 620 hired Gambo & Ash to give themselves some credibility to sports fans who thought that the previous incarnations of the station were too close to the management and ownership of the local teams. Some "bite," so to speak. These moves just give Bickley & MJ more ammunition to call them out as "homers."
Gambo's love letter to Ash...
http://arizonasports.com/category/g...They-say-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/
http://arizonasports.com/category/g...They-say-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/
I hadn't seen Gambo's blog. Class move by B'ville to allow him to print it, and Gambo said all the right things. But the choice is still danged peculiar. Sometimes people change things up just to change things up, and that can be monumentally good, but often it's just monumentally screwed up. KTAR, I think, will learn that the changes they're making are much like what Coca-Cola did in 1985 or so.....
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