THE NEW LINEUP-KPRC
5:30-10 a.m. — Walton & Johnson
10 a.m.-Noon — Mancow
Noon-2 p.m. — Dave Ramsey
2-4 p.m. — Baker & The Hunt
(Chris Baker & Cynthia Hunt)
4-5 p.m. — Mancow Happy Hour
5-8 p.m. — Michael Savage
8-10 p.m. — Phil Hendrie
10 p.m.-Midnight — Mark Levin
Midnight-2 a.m. — Bill O’Reilly
2-4 a.m. — Jerry Doyle
4-5:30 a.m. — Glenn Beck
KTRH
4am- Wall Street Journal This Morning
5am- KTRH Morning News
9am- Joe Pags (moves from 6pm)
11am- Rush Limbaugh
2pm- Sean Hannity (moves from KPRC and loses one hour)
4pm- Chris Baker (pushed back two hours)
7pm- Michael Berry (moves from 6am, KPRC)
9pm- Dennis Miller (pushed back one hour)
11pm- Coast to Coast AM (pushed back one hour)
If I could offer a couple of comments as an alumnus of both stations. I confess I’m beginning to feel like a dinosaur of sorts. It does seem as though you need to be either an arch right-winger preaching to a diminishing choir or a frat boy making insightful observations about Pam Anderson. I confess I don’t know Chris Baker but have heard good things about his show. I can gather the basic W&J schtick from the things I’ve heard on the boards. It is the old S&P thang with less fun, more uninformed politics and one less toupee. Savage/Wiener is a moron who trades in outrage and Levin is only a little less so. Hannity is on the downside of his parabola and Limbaugh will be on top as long as he wants to be, whether the energy is gone or not. Berry? The fact that your only local shows are a couple of overaged adolescents, one quality product, and one amateur doing vanity-press radio tells me a lot.
I was one who had an interview with Martiny for the programming job and told him his KPRC lineup was too disjointed and bland to produce any loyalty. He seemed like a decent guy and has to do what he has to do. No sour grapes, it's a competitive business. They made their choice and I love the stations and hope for the best. But now, we have potty jokes, shock, followed by money-talk, then I gather some decent local observations, more shock and then Savage’s contrived mouth-foaming act and then a nighttime hodge-podge which really doesn’t matter since people are in front of the tube, the pattern changes, etc.
On KTRH, you follow a legendary morning news program with more uninformed, imported opinion, a franchise syndicated show, Hannity’s oh-so-earnest cue-card rants and then your best local show followed by a couple of ego-hours and for that you push back Dennis Miller?
I had the good fortune to be around when talk went from recipes and local gripes about the neighbor’s dog and what’s happened to kids today to folks sounding off on the issues of the day, interviews with real newsmakers and hosts who were usually former news-pros having a little fun and doing their homework. There are still a few, and for those who want their liberal fix, Stephanie Miller is probably the most creative and consistently entertaining host out there on either side of the political divide. But it’s no longer an industry that interests me or a lot of people all that much any more. Chuck was with us when we tried to break the mold yet again just a bit, but we now have dumbed it down to the back end of the bell-curve and what once would have been a rock and roll morning show now leads off a legendary talker.
Any number of us who have been around awhile (37 years for me) would have done it differently and, who knows, they might pull it off. But I think it is a mistake to write off a certain respect for tradition in search of the latest trendette. I use the diminutive because it will be supplanted by something else fairly soon. Personally, I’m looking at a small station to buy and program until I keel over. I’m glad I’m not starting today. That sounds more codgerly than I intend because I’m only in my late fifties. But I’ve worked with enough pros to know it just isn’t that hard to do it right. Wouldn't it be nice, just once, if we respected the intelligence of the listeners?
5:30-10 a.m. — Walton & Johnson
10 a.m.-Noon — Mancow
Noon-2 p.m. — Dave Ramsey
2-4 p.m. — Baker & The Hunt
(Chris Baker & Cynthia Hunt)
4-5 p.m. — Mancow Happy Hour
5-8 p.m. — Michael Savage
8-10 p.m. — Phil Hendrie
10 p.m.-Midnight — Mark Levin
Midnight-2 a.m. — Bill O’Reilly
2-4 a.m. — Jerry Doyle
4-5:30 a.m. — Glenn Beck
KTRH
4am- Wall Street Journal This Morning
5am- KTRH Morning News
9am- Joe Pags (moves from 6pm)
11am- Rush Limbaugh
2pm- Sean Hannity (moves from KPRC and loses one hour)
4pm- Chris Baker (pushed back two hours)
7pm- Michael Berry (moves from 6am, KPRC)
9pm- Dennis Miller (pushed back one hour)
11pm- Coast to Coast AM (pushed back one hour)
If I could offer a couple of comments as an alumnus of both stations. I confess I’m beginning to feel like a dinosaur of sorts. It does seem as though you need to be either an arch right-winger preaching to a diminishing choir or a frat boy making insightful observations about Pam Anderson. I confess I don’t know Chris Baker but have heard good things about his show. I can gather the basic W&J schtick from the things I’ve heard on the boards. It is the old S&P thang with less fun, more uninformed politics and one less toupee. Savage/Wiener is a moron who trades in outrage and Levin is only a little less so. Hannity is on the downside of his parabola and Limbaugh will be on top as long as he wants to be, whether the energy is gone or not. Berry? The fact that your only local shows are a couple of overaged adolescents, one quality product, and one amateur doing vanity-press radio tells me a lot.
I was one who had an interview with Martiny for the programming job and told him his KPRC lineup was too disjointed and bland to produce any loyalty. He seemed like a decent guy and has to do what he has to do. No sour grapes, it's a competitive business. They made their choice and I love the stations and hope for the best. But now, we have potty jokes, shock, followed by money-talk, then I gather some decent local observations, more shock and then Savage’s contrived mouth-foaming act and then a nighttime hodge-podge which really doesn’t matter since people are in front of the tube, the pattern changes, etc.
On KTRH, you follow a legendary morning news program with more uninformed, imported opinion, a franchise syndicated show, Hannity’s oh-so-earnest cue-card rants and then your best local show followed by a couple of ego-hours and for that you push back Dennis Miller?
I had the good fortune to be around when talk went from recipes and local gripes about the neighbor’s dog and what’s happened to kids today to folks sounding off on the issues of the day, interviews with real newsmakers and hosts who were usually former news-pros having a little fun and doing their homework. There are still a few, and for those who want their liberal fix, Stephanie Miller is probably the most creative and consistently entertaining host out there on either side of the political divide. But it’s no longer an industry that interests me or a lot of people all that much any more. Chuck was with us when we tried to break the mold yet again just a bit, but we now have dumbed it down to the back end of the bell-curve and what once would have been a rock and roll morning show now leads off a legendary talker.
Any number of us who have been around awhile (37 years for me) would have done it differently and, who knows, they might pull it off. But I think it is a mistake to write off a certain respect for tradition in search of the latest trendette. I use the diminutive because it will be supplanted by something else fairly soon. Personally, I’m looking at a small station to buy and program until I keel over. I’m glad I’m not starting today. That sounds more codgerly than I intend because I’m only in my late fifties. But I’ve worked with enough pros to know it just isn’t that hard to do it right. Wouldn't it be nice, just once, if we respected the intelligence of the listeners?