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New Ratings are Out for the Fall Book
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lash said:Isn't it amazing how All Access is faster at releasing this information, than R&R since their merger. Its a shell of its former self.
With the addition of the 90 to 6 style of news block back on KD, and a new PD, it will be interesting to see if KDKA can come back and claim its one time king status.
Good comment about CBS and their FM stations. Is their even ONE good music PD in the CBS chain?
I didn't even know 90 to 6 was back. They'd better do a more stellar job of promoting things like that if they want to survive.
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lash
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I don't think their calling it 90 to 6. Sad to hear of the passing of the great Art Pallen. Enjoyed him after Jack Bogut for many years. We were reflecting on the 1970's and 80's KDKA line up during their AC music years. Did Trish Beatty follow Art?
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Everyone back home. We invite you to listen to our Tennessee station.
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lash said:I don't think their calling it 90 to 6. Sad to hear of the passing of the great Art Pallen. Enjoyed him after Jack Bogut for many years. We were reflecting on the 1970's and 80's KDKA line up during their AC music years. Did Trish Beatty follow Art?
Everyone back home. We invite you to listen to our Tennessee station.
www.am930.net
If memory serves me correctly, "Your Pal Pallen" did middays, then "Trish the Dish" in PM drive. Then Roy Fox, Cigna, and Perry Marshall.
Except for the time he did morning drive with Bob Trow (12/65 to 4/68, between Cordic and Bogut), Art worked the midday shift from about 1960 through his retirement in 1985. He was usually on from 10 to 2, but they had him 9 to noon at one point in the late '60s. In the later years when the afternoon news block got bigger and changed the overall schedule, he went from 9 to 1.
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Johnny Morgan
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In a similar vein, does anyone have a CD or other recording of the KDKA anniversary specials? Perhaps the 50 done in 1970 or the latest 80 in 2000?
Email's in the profile, or here: [email protected]
Email's in the profile, or here: [email protected]
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K-RockFan
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Who cares about the pittsburgh market they suck now since krock will be leaving. Who cares who's working at a radio station i have sirius radio and they play alot of songs you don't hear in pittsburgh. But i Think Star1007 should change into like k-rock but better version with all the hit songs that THE X plays and DVE plays Not comedy crap play good music.
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Johnny Morgan
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Shouldn't you change your name to "SiriusFan"?
Or is study hall access only so limited?
Or is study hall access only so limited?
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K-RockFan
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Johnny Morgan said:Shouldn't you change your name to "SiriusFan"?
Or is study hall access only so limited?
You think?
I am at home.
K-RockFan said:Johnny Morgan said:Shouldn't you change your name to "SiriusFan"?
Or is study hall access only so limited?
You think?
I am at home.
ROFLMAO.
K-RockFan said:Johnny Morgan said:Shouldn't you change your name to "SiriusFan"?
Or is study hall access only so limited?
You think?
I am at home.
That just goes to show the state of our educational system...
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K-RockFan
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So did any of you care? Of what i said about k-rock Put it on 1007?
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Johnny Morgan
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If K-Rock was successful in the first place, they wouldn't be replacing it.
Why would they move a loser format from one signal to another?
K-Rock lost. Pittsburgh's radio audience didn't want it. It's over, there is no future for it. You'll have to find someplace else to go for that music selection. It appears that you have already found one in Sirius.
In which case, why does it matter?
Why would they move a loser format from one signal to another?
K-Rock lost. Pittsburgh's radio audience didn't want it. It's over, there is no future for it. You'll have to find someplace else to go for that music selection. It appears that you have already found one in Sirius.
In which case, why does it matter?
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K-RockFan
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If K-Rock was successful in the first place, they wouldn't be replacing it.
You think
Why would they move a loser format from one signal to another?
I say get rid of kidd chris and loveline and there we go. Cause i love that format
K-Rock lost. Pittsburgh's radio audience didn't want it. It's over, there is no future for it. You'll have to find someplace else to go for that music selection. It appears that you have already found one in Sirius.
Yea...true but i still liked it better than THE X and DVE. Sirius is ok
In which case, why does it matter?
Hmmm let me think cause the music on it is better.
You think
Why would they move a loser format from one signal to another?
I say get rid of kidd chris and loveline and there we go. Cause i love that format
K-Rock lost. Pittsburgh's radio audience didn't want it. It's over, there is no future for it. You'll have to find someplace else to go for that music selection. It appears that you have already found one in Sirius.
Yea...true but i still liked it better than THE X and DVE. Sirius is ok
In which case, why does it matter?
Hmmm let me think cause the music on it is better.
K-RockFan said:If K-Rock was successful in the first place, they wouldn't be replacing it.
You think
Why would they move a loser format from one signal to another?
I say get rid of kidd chris and loveline and there we go. Cause i love that format
K-Rock lost. Pittsburgh's radio audience didn't want it. It's over, there is no future for it. You'll have to find someplace else to go for that music selection. It appears that you have already found one in Sirius.
Yea...true but i still liked it better than THE X and DVE. Sirius is ok
In which case, why does it matter?
Hmmm let me think cause the music on it is better.
Ohhhh good Lord...
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Johnny Morgan
Guest
Cause i love that format
Hate to break it to you, but radio stations do not broadcast for the sole purpose of entertaining one person. One person does not make a station rich.
The vast majority of pittsburgh does not agree with you. They do not like K-Rock, the ratings have been a disaster, the format is ending.
Why would they move it to a new signal simply to placate you?
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K-RockFan
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Hate to break it to you, but radio stations do not broadcast for the sole purpose of entertaining one person. One person does not make a station rich.
Not only me other people are fans of k-rock Hotel Herman likes it.
The vast majority of pittsburgh does not agree with you. They do not like K-Rock, the ratings have been a disaster, the format is ending.
Oh really. If they get rid of kidd chris show the ratings would go up. I know its ending.
Why would they move it to a new signal simply to placate you?
Cause it has better music than WDVE and THE X combined.
Not only me other people are fans of k-rock Hotel Herman likes it.
The vast majority of pittsburgh does not agree with you. They do not like K-Rock, the ratings have been a disaster, the format is ending.
Oh really. If they get rid of kidd chris show the ratings would go up. I know its ending.
Why would they move it to a new signal simply to placate you?
Cause it has better music than WDVE and THE X combined.
John, if I can use a sports analogy, I always thought K-Rock was sort of like a struggling rookie ballplayer that if you could only give guidance to could make it as a big star.
Sort of like when Mike Schmidt hit .196 his rookie year and struck out every third at bat.
Many other markets have, for lack of a better term, "Old and New" rock stations that have been successful.
When I listened to K-Rock, I heard a station that was trying. I mentioned how they covered concerts and WDVE didn't. I heard familiar and cherished songs on the station that other stations refused to play.
And they didn't have the nasty snarl that The X did.
In K-Rock, I heard a format that could satisfy my taste for songs from my youth along with my desire to know what is hot contemporarily.
Here's what I think killed K-Rock-
A- All of their promotion- I MEAN ALL OF IT- went into David Lee Roth.
B- As I said before, you never knew what the format was. Tune in at mid-day driving home from work and you heard the worst talk show imaginable. Tune in at 11 a.m. and you heard a promising format.
I used to have an hour long drive from Wheeling to Pittsburgh every day at midnight. I would have LOVED to listen to the music on K-Rock. Instead, I was driven away by "Loveline."
C- Opie and Anthony are legends, but maybe in 2006 their star isn't shining as bright as it was 10 years earlier.
D- On this board the station's criticism was doubled because many of the posters used to work for B-94, a station whose ratings weren't exactly tackling the top, either.
E- Despite the fact they'd be targeted for criticism, many K-Rock fans would come on this board and defend it. I'm not just talking about our grammatically challenged friend and myself- though I'd like to think our opinions count for something.
Go back and you'd get plenty of people say they liked the songs.
In fact, originally K-Rock improved the ratings of the station when Howard Stern was on the air and the format would likely be growing had he not gone to satellite.
I once pointed out how if you look at their broadcast schedule, from 6 am to 1 a.m. K-Rock has a majority of talk programming. They aren't doing well in the ratings and they have gone down since introducing this programming.
And so now the antedote is MORE talk programming- and from hosts like John McIntire and Scott Paulsen whose previous forays into talk left something to be desired?
That doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me they would allow Clear Channel to have the rock format monopoly in town. It doesn't make sense in a town overrun with talk programming already- KDKA, 104.7, WPTT, The Edge, WPIT, WEAE, WBGG, WMBA- etc.- we're going to throw more cooks into the broth.
When you say "Pittsburgh didn't take to the format" I know where you're going- but my opinion is that the part of the format they aren't taking to is actually going to be what they are overrun with.
Sort of like when Mike Schmidt hit .196 his rookie year and struck out every third at bat.
Many other markets have, for lack of a better term, "Old and New" rock stations that have been successful.
When I listened to K-Rock, I heard a station that was trying. I mentioned how they covered concerts and WDVE didn't. I heard familiar and cherished songs on the station that other stations refused to play.
And they didn't have the nasty snarl that The X did.
In K-Rock, I heard a format that could satisfy my taste for songs from my youth along with my desire to know what is hot contemporarily.
Here's what I think killed K-Rock-
A- All of their promotion- I MEAN ALL OF IT- went into David Lee Roth.
B- As I said before, you never knew what the format was. Tune in at mid-day driving home from work and you heard the worst talk show imaginable. Tune in at 11 a.m. and you heard a promising format.
I used to have an hour long drive from Wheeling to Pittsburgh every day at midnight. I would have LOVED to listen to the music on K-Rock. Instead, I was driven away by "Loveline."
C- Opie and Anthony are legends, but maybe in 2006 their star isn't shining as bright as it was 10 years earlier.
D- On this board the station's criticism was doubled because many of the posters used to work for B-94, a station whose ratings weren't exactly tackling the top, either.
E- Despite the fact they'd be targeted for criticism, many K-Rock fans would come on this board and defend it. I'm not just talking about our grammatically challenged friend and myself- though I'd like to think our opinions count for something.
Go back and you'd get plenty of people say they liked the songs.
In fact, originally K-Rock improved the ratings of the station when Howard Stern was on the air and the format would likely be growing had he not gone to satellite.
I once pointed out how if you look at their broadcast schedule, from 6 am to 1 a.m. K-Rock has a majority of talk programming. They aren't doing well in the ratings and they have gone down since introducing this programming.
And so now the antedote is MORE talk programming- and from hosts like John McIntire and Scott Paulsen whose previous forays into talk left something to be desired?
That doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me they would allow Clear Channel to have the rock format monopoly in town. It doesn't make sense in a town overrun with talk programming already- KDKA, 104.7, WPTT, The Edge, WPIT, WEAE, WBGG, WMBA- etc.- we're going to throw more cooks into the broth.
When you say "Pittsburgh didn't take to the format" I know where you're going- but my opinion is that the part of the format they aren't taking to is actually going to be what they are overrun with.
SiriusFan730 said:Not only me other people are fans of k-rock Hotel Herman likes it.
Oh, well, that changes EVERYTHING.
Pratte, I think your example "B" is the main reason KRock tanked. Like I said, I'd hear on there either songs I loved, or songs I hated. There was no in between. Then sometimes I'd hear the talk shows, which were alternately amusing and hideous. I never knew what I was getting - and it wasn't in a good, holy crap BOB-FM just played AC/DC and then Whitney Houston sort of way. It was in a there's a 50-60 per cent chance whatever's on here is going to suck so I'll avoid it sort of way.
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