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Robert Feder Has Heard Enough Of FM News 101.1

cyberdad said:
We also tried having two local commercial all news stations here twice before.
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Three times before. You forgot the previous attempt at all-news on 101.1 - NBC's WNIS in the mid '70s.

Neither experiment lasted very long.
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Very true, although the demise of WMAQ wasn't due to low ratings or poor quality, but that CBS had to dump one station while keeping The Score operating. 1160 was the most expendable.
 

Very true, although the demise of WMAQ wasn't due to low ratings or poor quality, but that CBS had to dump one station while keeping The Score operating. 1160 was the most expendable.
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Agree....

WMAQ as all news indeed had a fairly good measure of staying power, and I understand why CBS made the moves that they did. But they eventually did go away.

Actually, I didn't forget WNIS. I was referring to them and WMAQ.

Originally I was going to also include WNUS, but if memory serves, all...if not most....of their life as all-news came before WBBM flipped to all news in 1968. Thus, it pretty much had the all-news space to itself during most of its run. Obviously, McClendon correctly sized up the situation. I was in college during most of that time, and I remember it as a very worthy effort.

In fact, the other thing I remember is that all three defunct all-news operations offered a superior product to what Merlin has been offering so far.
 
KeithE4 said:
cyberdad said:
We also tried having two local commercial all news stations here twice before.
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Three times before. You forgot the previous attempt at all-news on 101.1 - NBC's WNIS in the mid '70s.

Neither experiment lasted very long.
Click to expand...

Very true, although the demise of WMAQ wasn't due to low ratings or poor quality, but that CBS had to dump one station while keeping The Score operating. 1160 was the most expendable.
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Wow this is like San Francisco they had previous attempts to have an all-news radio station to go after KCBS prior to Cumulus removing 4 talk show hosts on KGO due to budget and contract issues at KGO-AM. I know in the 1970's KNAI-FM 99.7(NBC NIS) tried to compete against KCBS and in 1994-1995 KPIX-FM tried to Compete against KCBS and KGO for News and talk in the market but by the time Group W bought CBS the company decided to remove KPIX-FM due to low ratings and put resources on KCBS. Fast Forward to 2011-2012 season KGO-AM tries to go all news but KCBS still beats them in the SF books. Techincally there are 3 all-news stations in Northern California KLIV(NBC Radio Affiliate) in San Jose but they only focus on (south of the Dumbarton Bridge) and some weekend talk. KGO-AM(ABC-I affiliate) inserts fore features and Human interest stories (Profiles of a Bay Area Contributor's Life) in their News Format and Weekend Talk. KCBS-FM is more on Hard News more focus on Crime, Politics, State, National and World Issues.
 
I know DC in some ways is like Chicago WTOP Radio Killed off WAVA in the 1960's when they went all-news. as of 2012 WTOP-FM (CBS Network Affiliate/Hubbard Owned) find themselves competing against WNEW-FM (CBS O&O/Cumulus Affiliate). WNEW is more like WINS,KYW and WBZ in their format they go on the 30 minute cycle while WTOP uses the 1-hour cycle like KCBS/WCBS/KNX/WBBM (CBS O&O's)WYAY(Cumulus O&O) does. 101.1 Could model themselves after WINS, WNEW, KYW, WBZ if Cumulus gets a permit to take over the station.
 
Some one once said that it's not wise to argue with a person who buys ink by the pound.....and the reason is rather obvious. However, just because some crum bum gets a job with a newspaper and is assigned to the job of criticizing radio, tv, movies, or brain surgery, doesn't make that person an expert in the field that he/she has been cast in...... However, most newspaper hacks develope some sort of sense of superiority and become self proclaimed "experts" in a field in which they have zip experience. That is the case with Feder. He's a hack who knows nothing of which he speaks, and no one with half a brain should pay any attention to him. ;D
 
I like Robert Feder and I read him everyday. I don't always agree with everything he says, but I think he's right on most of the time.
He is the best radio/TV writer Chicago has ever had.
 
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