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The Great AM Tape Delay

K

KMGX

Sometimes I wonder if we live in market #215 as opposed to 15. Now that daylight saving time has returned, many of the syndicated shows on the major AMs are back to being tape delayed, not a single program director has apparently figured out the mystery as to how to correct this issue either. Some are more egregious than others:

At the risk of sounding as though I'm piling on the Vacant Sports Parking Lot 620, I must say that this is the most outrageous of them all. "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd is tape delayed one hour now... what? Why? I don't care for the show myself, but why not just run the last hour of the show live and then all three hours of Dan Patrick live--both shows aren't very good so why not at least try to be competitive and run them live as opposed to the one hour canned broadcast? Or better yet, cut Doug and Wolf down to 5-8am (I've seen the ratings, no one will notice), this way you still have two hours of Colin Cowherd. Instead, listeners are treated to four hours of canned programming, with up to the minute sports news--well up to the minute from an hour ago anyway.

Xtra Sports 910 is equally guilty with Jim Rome being tape delayed an hour with the return of DST. Again, why not cut Bickley and MJ short to 9am during the nearly eight months of DST or AT LEAST run the last two hours of "The Jungle" live? Nothing like getting interactive with a show that's an hour in the can.

KFYI has six solid tape delayed hours--but at least they have the ratings to support doing this, still it's a real shame that the number one news-talk station in Phoenix can't somehow figure out how to manipulate the clock to at least get SOME live programming in the midday day-parts. I guess it's an even bigger indictment as to how bad Snooze 92.3 KT'R-FM really is if they can't even compete with tape delayed programming. (Again, I've seen the ratings, they can't).

How ironic is it that the worst sports station in Phoenix, Gumpdusky's own AM-1060 The Fan-Deus gets it--of course they only have one local show worth a damn so programming conflict really isn't much of an issue.

I have no problem with syndicated programming, but tape-delayed syndicated programming has always been a real pet-peeve of mine.
 
I also especially like the way the PD really pays attention to the sports reports on KGME. When the guys are too lazy to do a new report, they just run the report from an earlier hour...it doesn't matter if the listeners are currently tuned into The Jungle, and Babinski or Joe Mac say, "You're listening to Bickley & MJ."
(Way to go, guys!! I know that no one's really listening...but come on...your job isn't exactly digging ditches in the 120 degree heat!!)

But, at least they finally stopped saying, "You're listening to Gambo & Ash" during Rome. That took until the end of January for Dude Boss to wake up & realize it.
 
No KMGX

You haven't seen "THE" ratings, and you won't until we see a differentiation between AM and FM.

I absolutely love the brilliant programming minds that can make comparisons between a station still identifying itself and directing listeners to a new frequency on a new band, and a station that's had the same address forever.

I'm afraid you're way jumping he gun on any "I've seen the ratings" infosharing.


J
 
jayaz said:
No KMGX

You haven't seen "THE" ratings, and you won't until we see a differentiation between AM and FM.

I absolutely love the brilliant programming minds that can make comparisons between a station still identifying itself and directing listeners to a new frequency on a new band, and a station that's had the same address forever.

I'm afraid you're way jumping he gun on any "I've seen the ratings" infosharing.


J
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Jay, I have seen the ratings, I have them right here in front of me... I think it's pretty lame to combine ratings for a book, but based upon the numbers here--there's a big slide in progress and when we see the real numbers in May, June, Uly, August, etc--you will likely have no choice but to acknowledge the failure, or you will say nothing which is what most people do when proven wrong.

If you'd care to make a non-monetary wager--something legal but interesting, I'd gladly take that challenge.
 
At least 55/FYI now--since DST started--carries all three hours of Drudge
(7-10pm Sundays).

They've figured out that the prior local talk show gives up 7-8 during DST
and gets it back in the winter. Simple, no?

Then why can't Dudeboss figure out how to carry the third hour of Drudge
in the winter? That would be running it 8-11 of course. But nooooooo,
he replaces the third hour with a week-old rerun of Art Bell (nothing against
Art--or George--but the live C2CUFO show doesn't start until 11 in the winter).
 
The worst part of the herd on delay the first day was they played his last hour in the 9am hour and then his first hour in the 10am hour.

Rome was run in order that day.

I like checking in on the first day of DST to figure out if they remember and figure it out. This is one of the first times they remembered about Rome in a long time.
 
KMGX

Let's see, my checkbook against yours, whoops I just dropped mine, whooooaaa there it goes maybe I'llcatch it on the next bounce

J
 
jayaz said:
KMGX

Let's see, my checkbook against yours, whoops I just dropped mine, whooooaaa there it goes maybe I'llcatch it on the next bounce

J
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Haha, that's why I said non-monetary, I'd be willing to bet neither of us are exactly living the life of luxury. Like I said Jay, you're a good guy and I understand defending the company that feeds you--that's why I'm here to be the voice of objectivity, if KTAR does something good I will compliment them, example: they have the BEST play-by-play voice with Al McCoy in all of sports. I think they have a very solid weekend host on KTAR-FM ... what's his name again? Jay something, he's good :) Seriously, I have axe to grind, but I think this market should demand quality, hard hitting, impactful news-talk, not fluff or survey radio.
 
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