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The Savage Nation on 1520 WWKB???

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newhampshiredude

Although I am a conservative, I do like to hear the other side, so I tune into 1520 WWKB at night in New Hampshire. It comes in pretty clearly. I sometimes listen to Alan Colmes, but I turned to 1520 earlier a couple nights ago, and I heard Michael Savage just before 10 PM. I then listened after 10PM to see if Alan Colmes was still on, thinking that WWKB changed to conservo talk, but then I heard Alan Colmes like usual.

WWKB's website makes no mention of Michael Savage being added. has anyone else heard anything regarding this?
 
I know I heard Stephanie Miller at night on KB last week, so unless the change was made on Monday.....
I have never heard Alan Colmes on KB either but I am not listening that late at night. You sure you're listening to WWKB? Try Savage on 1180 WHAM. That should come in where you are even better than KB.
 
I know I heard Stephanie Miller at night on KB last week, so unless the change was made on Monday.....
I have never heard Alan Colmes on KB either but I am not listening that late at night. You sure you're listening to WWKB? Try Savage on 1180 WHAM. That should come in where you are even better than KB.
 
therealjm12 said:
I know I heard Stephanie Miller at night on KB last week, so unless the change was made on Monday.....
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You did hear Stephanie Miller last week.........but as of Monday a change was made.
Back is that loathsome Leslie Marshall. She's like a bad penny, you can't get rid of her. I'm not sure why she keeps landing here. She was awful the first time she was on the air here, she was awful the second time and .......she continues to be awful.

But I mean that in a good way!
 
WWKB tied with WXRL for 18th place with a .7 wow! The station should be put out of it's misery.

I still think it should become WNED 1520.
 
Heard Ms. Marshall amplified tonight on the once mighty KB. 50 thousand Watts of shrill kvetching. Like an empty oil drum, there's little content but lots of noise. She's become the cockroach of Buffalo talk radio. The post by "alw" just about says it all.

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The problem is not her opinions, it's her extremely poor style and presentation. For starters, she uses every tired crutch and cliche in the book. "Hey Buffalo!" All over a 50 KW CC. It really makes me want to wretch. She's just plain bad. Bad form, bad style, bad technique. Let's not forget a big dose of annoying and unlistenability...and now you've got the picture!

My favorite part of the show is when she starts berating the audience for not calling in. Way to play it cool!

Is the female talent pool that shallow that LM has even one affiliate?
 
About 1520, I see there's no multicultural station in Buffalo. Is there any demand for a formatted station that isn't maintaining the english language?

Can it bring in more than the current .7 share?

If not, I guess everything else has been done, and this was the best, most economical solution for a struggling AM station in Buffalo.
(that, or they deliberately let 1520 rot so it wont take too much attention away from other sister stations...)
 
WBBF Multi-cultural?

I believe that WBBF-AM (1120) is doing mostly Spanish language programming now. They're a kilowatt daytimer that also carries Pacifica Radio programming.
 
Is there a point where it becomes economically more feasible to just turn the SOB off? Can station billing even cover the cost of maintaining and powering the transmitter?
 
Steven21 said:
Is there a point where it becomes economically more feasible to just turn the SOB off? Can station billing even cover the cost of maintaining and powering the transmitter?
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If you turn the "SOB" off, doesn't that make way for the competition to grab hold of the licence and air something that takes away from sister stations?

Tax write off indeed...just to protect sister stations.
 
DO you realize how difficult a task it would be to make ANY format successful on 1520 at this point? Do you really think any cmpetitor would have ANY chance of drumming up business as a Newstalk or sports station? People in WNY have long since stopped checking out that end of the dial and I don't see them suddenly venturing down to that end of the dial just out of the blue.

Unless you're talking about a very expensive ad campaign to alert the masses to the "fantastic new format at 1520". For evey $100 dollars you spent in advertising to get new listeners, you'd probably see a return of $10 in billing after the ratings show, once again, times have changed and people are just out of the habit of tuning in that frequency.

The patient was allowed to slip into a coma, and now it's brain-dead. The only difference between KB and a comatose patient, is if you keep a person on life support, you don't get as big a tax write-off.
 
I just returned from a week out of town, and saw this series of posts. Yet, with all these posts, I have no idea what KB is doing. Did they drop progressive talk? If they did, what's the schedule? When is Leslie Marshall on? Is Savage really on KB? That just doesn't make sense for a progressive station -- the most conservative, hard-core right wing fanatic in talk radio appearing on a station that proclaims it's left of center. Is there someone in the know able to clarify things here? You're right, KB's web site is of no help. And despite the number of posts here, neither is this thread. I suppose I could just listen Monday. But make it easy for, please. As Paul Harvey woud say, tell me the rest of the story!
 
Steven21 said:
DO you realize how difficult a task it would be to make ANY format successful on 1520 at this point?...
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Depends on the *true* signal strength of KB.
I gather you can honestly say there isn't someone else down the dial that would *love* to have KB instead of their current signal strength?

Also, why is AM 740 getting *any* kind of rating in Buffalo? This should *never* be the case.
It's not like the good classic folk in Buffalo are going to go all the way out to Oakville Ontario to shop! (That's right...it's not even a true Toronto station...)
If regent won't go back to standards, 1520 should.

(and run the station properly, the way AM 740 runs their station)
 
1520 is what it is, because Entercom doesn't want any station in the market to pose a serious threat to its two principal (and very lucrative) AM properties, news/talk WBEN and sports talk WGR. Oldies actually was getting some traction, and the fact that large numbers of people are now going out of their way to hear it on an out-of-market, out-of-country station shows it could have built further in time. But that alternative's probably gone forever.

If Entercom sells KB, God only knows what Regent or Citadel would do with it--most likely take on WBEN with a mix of local and satellite programming, which would be their worst nightmare. Something they might do now that the rules apparently allow it, is move it to Rochester (studio in High Falls, transmitter moved to some place like North Greece, running 50 kW DA-1 or DA-N with a looser night pattern) and take on WHAM, a station which is clearly coasting and therefore vulnerable. At this stage KB as it stands now, wouldn't be much missed in Buffalo because the station it once was, is now long gone. :(
 
Moving KB

KB is what it is because Entercom chooses to run it as a break-even or tax write-off, and use it as a flanker for its other AMs.

Rochester has plenty of AM signals that can take on WHAM in the metro area if somebody is willing to put up the cash to compete.

Moving KB isn't going to change its fortunes. The problem is overconsolidation of radio. If Entercom - and others - were forced to divest stations because of reduced ownership limits, there would be more competition and better service to listeners.
 
Those sadistic enough to stomach Leslie Marshall for any length of time know she does a Right Wing Nut of The Day bit, where she plays (too long) cuts of Hannity, Rush, Savage, etc. This is obviously what someone heard.

My contacts in the Entercom universe tell me, by the way, that KB as is makes considerably more money than the oldies KB that (according to this board) was "gaining traction" before the flip to progressive talk. That's what low overhead does for any business, sad though that may be. I would be flabbergasted if it switched format, studio location, or any of the other scenarios discussed here. But then again, stranger things have happened...
 
Just my opinion on this but......
I would really like to see Entercom move 1520 closer to Rochester. I think it would be a plus for Entercom Rochester & the Rochester listening audience. It would get what WROC programs now into the office buildings and the suburbs- something that 950 can't do.
It would certainly give WHAM more competition and it seems that Rochester accepts Stephanie Miller & company much more on WROC's tiny signal than Buffalo does on 50,000 watts. I don't see any other Rochester AM signal even coming close to WHAM's. As someone else pointed out, 1520's western pattern could still be loosened up to cover Buffalo. Then you could turn 950 into ethnic or just turn it off.
Also just my opinion but I believe, a left leaning station, in Rochester,with a serious local news dept. and of equal power , would give WHAM's right wing programing a serious run for their money.
 
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