The FM Talk Thread

[smedge2006]

Talk on FM = more listeners but also more controversy?

A lot of people on the left who might have been content to leave conservative talk radio alone when it was ghettoized on AM might view things differently now that it's moving onto Main Street -- especially if it killed a music format they liked.

 

[radiophiler]

Talk on FM = more controversy assumes the stations are going to be Beck-Limbaugh-Hannity stations.

In large markets, the all newsers are going over to FM.

Also, it seems sports talkers are appearing on FM more than conservative talk stations.

It's going to depend on the market size and the number of FMs in the given market.

You might find more of the "full service" AMs, with larger news departments, going over to FM. They might have Limbaugh and one more conservative talker at night, but that will be about it.

I'm not saying liberal talkers are more likely to go to FM. I'm saying any ideological talk is less likely on FM, period. Look for stations where the talk is local, where there is more news, or the sports talk station to go over to FM.

 

[RadioDaze]

Another talk station adding an FM translator--this time in the Raleigh-Durham market where left-wing talker WCHL/1360 in Chapel Hill has purchased an FM translator in Creedmoor, NC that they will move to Chapel Hill and to 97.9 FM, expected to be online by the spring of 2012.

 

[Holland Cooke]

ONLY ONE PERSON can accelerate this trend.

Announcing "The Palin-Pandora Jobs Plan" (for FM Talk radio):

http://open.salon.com/blog/holland_cooke/2011/10/03/the_palin-pandora_jobs_plan

 

[travisl5678]

3/15 KXL Portland
3/18 KFFN Tucson (via Translator)
3/24 KMBZ Kansas City
4/2 KEX Portland (via translator)
4/2 WIOD Miami (via translator)
4/4 WBEN Buffalo
4/15 KBWF San Francisco
4/19 WYPY Baton Rouge
4/25 WKIM Memphis
4/25 WPHR West Palm Beach
4/25 WDBO Orlando
7/1 KZZQ Salt Lake City
7/29 WWWN Chicago
8/1 WBBM Chicago
8/12 WEMP New York City
8/29 WKRK Cleveland
8/31 WUJM Biloxi
9/6 WYSP Phily
9/12 WEEI Boston
9/19 WMAL Washington DC
10/26 WVOC Columbia,North Carolina
11/1 KINS Eureka, California
11/4 KJR Seattle
11/7 KOGO San Diego
11/21 KROI Houston
11/22 KNZR Bakersfield,California
12/1 KFBK Sacramento

Updated list

 

[radioguy39nj]

More to come in 2012!

 

[vchimpanzee]

10/26 WVOC Columbia,North Carolina

No, Columbia, South Carolina.

Columbia, North Carolina isn't big enough to even have a radio station, though I think one is licensed to the city but broadcasts from a bigger city.

 

[Holland Cooke]

RE "More to come in 2012!"

Ya THINK?

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

12/26 WMAN Mansfield OH

(Formerly AM 1400 only, now simulcast on 100.1 in the northern part of the area, and 98.3 in the southern part)