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Mo Kelly show out at KFI

I wonder if MO producer Tuwala Sharp shares kobylt view that fire rebuild is not going when? The Newsom podcast was good in the beginning, but a little less interesting now. Kobylt does a good job representing the average Joe from his home in Brentwood
 
davideduardo said:
It was an economic disaster, but the programming was a good sampling of progressive opinion and it was fairly well executed. The problem was not "signals" as many declared (it was on some very big signal Clear Channel stations). It was, in the view of many experienced talk programmers, the fact that liberals tend to be divided into separate groups with different and sometimes conflicting agendas.

They were billing enough to go without Rush. And they had a good signal for the Rush line-up. And Rush did not run in mornings, anyway.

50 kw on 1150 is worthless? It is not KFI, but it is one of the better secondary signals.

Nobody is disagreeing with that.
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If 1150 were non-directional it would be almost as good as KNX. Problem is that their narrow pattern, although halfway decent in the LA Basin, has practically no signal to the north, south, and east. At night, forget the west SFV.
 
Here was a Sacramento station that could be heard during the day in SF Bay Area. They had a liberal, a moderate and a conservative…didn’t last long. Polarized programming, when KSFO came along seems to be the norm. Late night TV verses AM radio?
 
There's a great article in the LA Times about the Mo situation, and KFI at large:

www.latimes.com

L.A.'s KFI cancels its evening talk show as AM radio woes mount

'The future of AM radio as we know it is coming to an end,' Morris O'Kelly said after cutbacks at KFI-AM (640) resulted in the cancellation of his evening talk show.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com

Yahoo! News has a free version without a paywall:

www.yahoo.com

L.A.'s KFI cancels its evening talk show as AM radio woes mount

'The future of AM radio as we know it is coming to an end,' Morris O'Kelly said after cutbacks at KFI-AM (640) resulted in the cancellation of his evening talk show.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
 
All the fill in folks KFI has had don’t seem they are any better than Kelly from my perspective, Merrill, seemed a little more conservative when ai I heard him in Phoenix is probably less $$ than Mo. but nothing special…although that is just what moves the needle for me. If I want Dodger talk I’ll go to a sports station. I wonder how long they are going to be in host limbo?
 
TheBigA said:
These big names don't want to do talk radio because it's too much work. Sitting in a studio for four hours every day is like being in jail.
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This.

As much as I loved radio, and I did...after 30 years of TV news where, if you're anchoring, you're on the set for an hour, the biggest adjustment for me when I started anchoring at KFBK was being in the studio for four hours in mornings or three in afternoons.

Yeah, it's the same amount of time (or less) that I used to spend in the studio as a jock, but it's a totally different dynamic.
 
michael hagerty said:
This.

As much as I loved radio, and I did...after 30 years of TV news where, if you're anchoring, you're on the set for an hour, the biggest adjustment for me when I started anchoring at KFBK was being in the studio for four hours in mornings or three in afternoons.

Totally different dynamic.
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Very different. My partner went from a morning newscast on KMEX when it was just a half hour followed by the national SIN newscast to a 4 hour recorded show done in Hollywood and driven daily to Tijuana.

The greatest difference was having to sit through the songs without saying anything after nearly non-stop talk in the newscast.
 
I listened to Chris Merrill's show and it was WAY more relaxed and enjoyable to listen to. Even the normally jovial Mark Rauner seems to be way more at ease and really fun to listen to.
 
sdwulfdawg said:
I listened to Chris Merrill's show and it was WAY more relaxed and enjoyable to listen to. Even the normally jovial Mark Rauner seems to be way more at ease and really fun to listen to.
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As someone said MO seemed a little “preachy” (if that is a word). Listen to me I got the definitive information, His voice seemed a little strained and raspy.. one of the fill ins is actually taking calls, and not the internet talk back ones.
 
(shrug) I like both Mo's show and Chris Merrill.

KFI is just KIIS FM, except talk instead of music. As long as the talk host sticks to the format, it's a good listen.
 
henry said:
KFI is just KIIS FM, except talk instead of music. As long as the talk host sticks to the format, it's a good listen.
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That is an excellent point of comparison. Consistency in programming is what keeps listeners tuned in and coming back, because they know what to expect each time.
 
I called Bill Handel once and he told me to “flush my head down the toilet “. ….(I thought he was being a little over the top in praising the LA Korean community, certainly a lot of success stories, but he was he was into some “model minority stereotyping”)
 
Intheairnevada said:
I called Bill Handel once and he told me to “flush my head down the toilet “. ….(I thought he was being a little over the top in praising the LA Korean community, certainly a lot of success stories, but he was he was into some “model minority stereotyping”)
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I'm not sure what the relevance is to Mo Kelly's cancellation. Could you elaborate on your point?
 
ChannelFlipper said:
RayydioLA gave us a page-long rant about the content of John Kobylt's program, which is also of dubious relevance to Mo's cancelation, yet you seemed to approve, or at least not take issue with that one.
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Would you consider that it might have been a case of TL;DR?
 


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