stephen a. smith

[stod]

It may be in this thread, but I think Richmond, VA dropped it early on.

 

[livingfruitvirus]

It may be in this thread, but I think Richmond, VA dropped it early on.

Is that The Hog? They were a big Czabe affiliate. They probably weren't happy with the change.

 

[Media VIP]

Cincinnati picked up the SAS show & is doing really well with it.

 

[Evil Monkey99]

Doing well?? Was it not shifted to a lesser power AM signal from where he had started??

Would love to have some proof so we can have at least one positive story to tell...

 

[stod]

SAS Show started out on 1530 Homer(not sure of the call letters). 1530 switched to ESPN Radio last month. FSR was moved to another signal in Cincinnati.

 

[Rusty Muck]

SAS Show started out on 1530 Homer(not sure of the call letters). 1530 switched to ESPN Radio last month. FSR was moved to another signal in Cincinnati.

That's okay. Both of those stations have had a tempestuous history of call letter and format swaps between each other.

1360-AM is WSAI, which is the "new" FSR affil as "Fox Sports 1360." 5,000 watts full-time.
1530-AM is WCKY, which is the "new" ESPN affil as "ESPN 1530." 50,000 watts full-time.

*1990: 1360 first became a sports/talker as "SportsRadio WSAI," which lasted until 1994 or so.
*1994: Jacor acquired the intellectual property of WSAI, moving it (and a newly installed standards format) onto 1530 (which saw their heritage WCKY calls and format moved onto the former WKRC/550 at the same time).
*1997: Jacor then takes over 1360, by then WAZU, switching it over to sports at "1360 Homer," an ESPN Radio affil.
*1999: The 550-AM frequency regains their original WKRC calls, whereby the WCKY calls were parked on 1360.
*2000: 1360 drops ESPN Radio to become a charter FSR affiliate.
*2003: 1530 switches from standards to oldies, still with the WSAI calls.

From there, things start to get really freaky...

* January 2005: 1360 and 1530 swapped call letters:
** 1360 regains the WSAI calls and retains the "Homer" sports format and FSR affil.
** 1530 regains the WCKY calls and relaunches as a lib talker as "1530 WCKY."

* July 2006: both stations swapped formats:
** 1360 took the lib talk format as "1360 WSAI."
** 1530 took the sports format as "1530 Homer" with the FSR affil.

* December 2006: 1360 flips from lib talk to advice-driven talk.

* June 2007: 1360 became a 24/7 turnkey ESPN affil.

* April 2009: 1530 drops all but one local show (in afternoons) due to the nationwide CC downsizing effort, clearing Czabe and Dan Patrick live.

* March 2010: 1360 and 1530 traded affiliations once again:
** 1360 takes the FSR lineup on a 24/7 basis as "Fox Sports 1360."
** 1530 takes the ESPN lineup as "ESPN 1530" (retiring the "Homer" name on-air for good).

The former "1530 Homer" DID clear SAS, but never promoted it at all (station IDs still referenced Czabe as one of their star personalities on TOH IDs until this most recent move... MONTHS after the fact).

Sorry for the long spiel, but it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out why the AM band is dying... :

 

[livingfruitvirus]

WCKY is a far far better signal than WSAI, and still Clear Channel decided to pass on their own product for the competition: ESPN Radio. Maybe they need the extra inventory slots.

 

[Rusty Muck]

WCKY is a far far better signal than WSAI, and still Clear Channel decided to pass on their own product for the competition: ESPN Radio. Maybe they need the extra inventory slots.

True, but WCKY still sells out their overnight hours to phony preachers like Ralph Gordon Stair and their ilk (a holdover from the ORIGINAL WCKY/1530 back in the 70s) so they can't carry All Night with Jason Smith and The V Show... at least, until those preachers either go bankrupt or die off in a few years.

It probably doesn't matter much to ESPN Radio, as their top weekday shows - Mike & Mike, Cowherd and Van Pelt - have almost full clearances on the bigger signal in town.

 

[rapking]

You can't handle the truth !! Stephen A. Smith RULES !!!

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

WCKY is a far far better signal than WSAI, and still Clear Channel decided to pass on their own product for the competition: ESPN Radio. Maybe they need the extra inventory slots.

True, but WCKY still sells out their overnight hours to phony preachers like Ralph Gordon Stair and their ilk (a holdover from the ORIGINAL WCKY/1530 back in the 70s) so they can't carry All Night with Jason Smith and The V Show... at least, until those preachers either go bankrupt or die off in a few years.

It probably doesn't matter much to ESPN Radio, as their top weekday shows - Mike & Mike, Cowherd and Van Pelt - have almost full clearances on the bigger signal in town.

the 1530 on its Stream since at least dumping the oldies format for Lib talk carried what ever was on Air america. then when it was with Fox SPorts carried the FSR overnight programing. so im sure now that they are carrying ESPN Radio on 1530 the stream overnight is carrying the Overnight ESPN Programming. i guess they cant carry the Preachers on the stream. i think CC carried adult standards and Oldies on the stream at night as well but i cant recall that much