Correct, for their ads are also heard on WBZ.
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RKO scraps AM Drive newscasts at top and bottom of the hour.
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I tuned into WRKO just before 7:00 AM today, I found it interesting that Kuhner took a caller thru the top of the hour, then to a guest at about 4 minutes past the TOH without a legal ID, commercial, promo, etc.
It's amazing how a person can be misled by a thread title: I thought it meant that the RKO network had dropped its newscasts! In the mid 1970s, RKO was stripped of all of its broadcast holdings due to the behavior of parent company General Tire and at the same time, I thought the network went out of business which I'm pretty sure happened. Imagine my shock 45 years later, to read something to the contrary! Between 1928 and 1957, before having their own radio network and multiple radio and TV outlets, RKO was one of the big motion picture companies. Think "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers".
IIRC, the only network that RKO-General owned/operated, at least in the New England states, was the venerable Yankee Network, whose flagship station was the old WNAC 680 Boston, but that ceased operation in 1967 when WNAC passed on and became The Big 68 WRKO. RKO-General may also have had some holdings in the now-defunct Mutual Broadcasting System, whose flagship was WOR 710 New York. How times have changed.
That's not correct. That Yankee Network you mention predates RKO General, which was formed by the merger of RKO and General Tire in the 1950s. However, RKO General did start a radio network in the 1970s, and was then merged with United Stations, which still exists today:
RKO Radio Network - Wikipedia
The Yankee Network was indeed based at WNAC, which was owned by General Tire:
And the Yankee Network was a parallel to the Don Lee network, formed in CA by another dealer who was molded in the fashion of Earle Anthony, using radio for both ego satisfaction and business expansion.
Isn't this the fellow who would drive potential advertisers out into the desert until they lost KNX and then get out of the car and walk until they lost KFI?
Sandy in for Jeff today, wanted to hear the 7:00 TOH, started listening at 6:55, call was taken thru the TOH, again no "legal"
I may not be current on FCC stuff, but it used to be as close to the TOH as possible or in a natural break wasn't it?
The FCC lives for this sort of thing, in the last year we saw a Salem station nailed for not disclosing parts of a program were pre-recorded now stations all across the country ( Barry Armstrong's show has multiple disclaimers) are not only making sure paid content/placement is disclosed, but "portions pre-recorded" is now something I hear daily.
I may not be current on FCC stuff, but it used to be as close to the TOH as possible or in a natural break wasn't it?
The FCC lives for this sort of thing, in the last year we saw a Salem station nailed for not disclosing parts of a program were pre-recorded now stations all across the country ( Barry Armstrong's show has multiple disclaimers) are not only making sure paid content/placement is disclosed, but "portions pre-recorded" is now something I hear daily.
I believe General Tire also bought the Don Lee Network at one time as well. Before it bought RKO.
It was radio consolidation in the 1950s!
If you have time to say 617 266 6880 680 WRKO between calls, you can do it as " 617 266 6880 WRKO Boston" and log it as a legal ID. I am assuming WRKO is on a HD2 or HD3 somewhere, I'll have to find it tomorrow and see how they handle it (automated at the TOH perhaps?) or do they rely on the recorded WRKO drop in that is normally at TOH before the news
I am amazed that you felt mislead by my thread title considering the RKO Radio Network went out of existence in 1985. I did not believe it was necessary to title the thread WRKO AM 680 scraps top and bottom of the hour am drive newscasts. United Stations owned by Dick Clark bought the assets of the RKO Network.. In addition to news and sportscasts, The network produced what I consider to be one of the best national overnight talk shows. America Overnight was hosted for the first three hours by Ed Busch in Dallas the last three hours by Eric Tracey in LA.
In addition to the motion picture studio, RKO also owned movie theaters before studios were prohibited from owning theaters. The law passed in 1938 and overturned by a federal judge last August clearing the way for the studios to get back into the exhibitor business.
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And their billing is a fraction of the top 7 stations in the market. Motown and I have a differ on how success is measured in the broadcasting business. I would say they are surviving with a dying format
Hey @Motown , Jeff, Grace, and Howie are the reason?
WTF else do they have? 2 hours of PAID time financial show, that takes no calls and does not fit the format in the 10 to Noon slot that is listened to by exactly whom?
The delayed shows they run at night that are sometimes (mostly) stale by the time they run?
the re-runs of Jeff on Saturday morning in the slots they thought they were going to be able to monetize after they booted Moe Lauzier?
All the Dolla a Holla paid time shows on the weekend?
The Episcopal Hour on Sundays must really get that PPM spinning!
All they have is Jeff, Grace and Howie, and out of those 3 only one of them is one they have any control over.
If anything happened to Jeff, they have Sandy to plug in for the short term, but she is too intelligent to carry the typical WRKO listener for any length of time.
They have no farm team.
yep, they have Jeff, and Grace, and Howie.... and not a lot of anything else, just filler
WTF else do they have? 2 hours of PAID time financial show, that takes no calls and does not fit the format in the 10 to Noon slot that is listened to by exactly whom?
The delayed shows they run at night that are sometimes (mostly) stale by the time they run?
the re-runs of Jeff on Saturday morning in the slots they thought they were going to be able to monetize after they booted Moe Lauzier?
All the Dolla a Holla paid time shows on the weekend?
The Episcopal Hour on Sundays must really get that PPM spinning!
All they have is Jeff, Grace and Howie, and out of those 3 only one of them is one they have any control over.
If anything happened to Jeff, they have Sandy to plug in for the short term, but she is too intelligent to carry the typical WRKO listener for any length of time.
They have no farm team.
yep, they have Jeff, and Grace, and Howie.... and not a lot of anything else, just filler
Huh? iHeart has a huge national farm team. They have access to all kinds of people. And we've seen that Howie has access to people as well. When RKO had an open slot, Howie provided a solution. So they in fact do have a farm team.
WZLX-HD2 but how many have HD radios... of course there's streaming on the app so that can solve
those reception problems.
As for RKO as a movie studio, the logo appears in the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show in the floor show/
pool at the end.
It's been replaced these days but I recall seeing a theatre on Main St in Brattleboro VT that had "Home of Paramount
Pictures" on the sign...from long ago
Walt Disney cartoons--presented by RKO Pictures
those reception problems.
As for RKO as a movie studio, the logo appears in the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show in the floor show/
pool at the end.
It's been replaced these days but I recall seeing a theatre on Main St in Brattleboro VT that had "Home of Paramount
Pictures" on the sign...from long ago
Walt Disney cartoons--presented by RKO Pictures
That's right. Walt used several outside distributers for his movies until he took it in-house in 1953.
I actually listened to the 530 to the TOH of Howie Carr on ZLX HD2 on my way home tonight
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