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now what at KRLD?

"Winds" being the operative word. Hmmmmmmmmm...what's Troy Dungan doing these days? Coulda kept Brad Barton, morons...

Troy's personal services contract is up at Channel 8, I do believe.
 
Let's hope the winds bring in a new afternoon anchor. Rancken makes it a really rough listen. Alice is terrific but David just derails the flow.
 
Nightpattern said:
Let's hope the winds bring in a new afternoon anchor. Rancken makes it a really rough listen. Alice is terrific but David just derails the flow.
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They need to go back to all news...thats what a news station is supposed to do...at a minimum, an hour of news at noon
 
I guess when your position is "eliminated," they can "un-eliminate" it whenever they think the truth has expired.
I met Krista once at the NWS. She's very nice and I'm sure she's a very serious meteorologist. I wish her only the best.
I'm sorry Tom Hale, who carried the water as my backup all those years, didn't get a chance at the job. I can honestly say that the atmosphere at WBAP is the most positive, pleasant and professional of any broadcast operation I've been a part of, ever. Three of my CBS endorsement sponsors, Stark, Clarity and AutoFlex seem to like it pretty well. And WBAP's audience numbers and market rank look pretty good, too.
 
Nope, not at all.

But other stations are wasting their money (if they choose to actually spend) because you can't beat Brad Barton's coverage of severe weather events.
 
Lancer, thanks for the kind words. I'm truly not bitter, because I'm in a better place, but I am angry about the uselessness of it all. I never looked for a job or negotiated hardball at contact time. I pretty much took what they offered and then all of a sudden, it was too much. They cut off my salary last August, but lost more than what they paid me in advertising revenue when Stark and Clarity left 1080 for BAP. So they were already at a net loss when they decided they'd better hire someone new to do local weather again which only expanded the loss. They looked bad in the papers, disillusioned the listeners, demoralized the staff even further, lost advertisers, lost credibility, AND lost money on the deal. I never claimed to be perfect, but I worked hard for 31 years to make 1080 something better than it was. A lot of good people are still struggling to do the job and keep their self-respect there despite some incredible blunders that are throwing away those efforts.
Meanwhile, I'm serious when I say WBAP is the most enjoyable broadcast environment I've been in since the Gaylord days of Ch11. Best radio job ever. And their numbers are excellent.
 
OpenMike73 said:
, but lost more than what they paid me in advertising revenue when Stark and Clarity left 1080 for BAP.
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That assumes that they couldn't/didn't replace those 2 clients with other paying clients.
 
OpenMike73 said:
I never claimed to be perfect, but I worked hard for 31 years to make 1080 something better than it was. A lot of good people are still struggling to do the job and keep their self-respect there despite some incredible blunders that are throwing away those efforts.
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Brad --

When I first moved to the market (from Pittsburgh) in 1987, I was very impressed with KRLD. Having been in earshot of 1010/WINS, WCBS and KYW, I heard what good news radio was all about. Although KRLD was somewhat more laid-back than that trio, it was a very worthy player in that genre.

Along with you, voices such as Alex Burton, Mark Watkins, Fil Alvarado, Nancy Jay -- and just about every sportscaster in existence were on 1080 as well as being the flagship for the Cowboys. And aside from Brad Sham and/or Dale Hansen on ``Sports Central'', KRLD was all news/all the time. Dick Wheeler was doing all the night news shift if memory serves.

Although I was working at KQZY at that time, all of my colleagues were avid KRLD listeners ``when we needed to know'' as the jingle went. I also recall that KRLD was consistently near the top of the Arbitrons, both 12+ and 25-54, behind only stations like KVIL and a strong KPLX of that era. One of our newcomers on the staff from the upper midwest upon hearing you asked ``...why isn't that Brad Barton guy at WBBM?' He's good.''.

So...what went wrong and why did it unravel? A station that was respected and performed well in the late 80's started adding in talk programming and lost its identity. Was it losing the Cowboys? An ownership change? Too costly? All of the above?
 
So...what went wrong and why did it unravel? A station that was respected and performed well in the late 80's started adding in talk programming and lost its identity. Was it losing the Cowboys? An ownership change? Too costly? All of the above?
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The loss of the Cowboys. The emergence of Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk. And the inability of KRLD to properly evaluate and hire local or national talk radio talent.

KRLD has always had solid news anchors and reporters. But Limbaugh changed the AM dial, and KRLD never filled in the day part gaps with talk talent that could pull ratings.

WBAP, KTCK, and even KLIF, have all out performed KRLD in gathering talk talent over the past 15 to 20 years.

Being owned by a slow dying radio company doesn't help.
 
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