The Year in Review- Phoenix Radio 2007

[john david clover]

The Year in Review- Phoenix Radio 2007

The Good:

KTAR-The Return of Phil Hendrie and the blossoming talents of Larry Gados.
KFYI- CC Has managed to hang onto Barry for another year.
KOOL- PD Kris Abrams brings back the fun.
Radio Free Phoenix- More recognition and awards for Andy Olson and Co.
KCDX- Continues to rock the East Valley, commercial free.


The Bad:

KNIX-CC loses heritage morning show Tim and Willy.
KNIX- Gwen Foster crosses street to KMLE.
KDKB- Stunting leads to nothing more exciting than underwear modeling and the departure of yet another PD.
XTRA Sports- Bruce Jacobs, sports guy, you're missed.
KTAR- Pat McMahon exits. The end of an era....
KSLX- Did Steve Trella get moved?

Happy New Year!
JD Clover

 

[DrAkbar]

The Good:

KTAR-The Return of Phil Hendrie and the blossoming talents of Larry Gados.
Toaster Talk on the way out with the second "retirement" of Pat McBland
KFYI- CC Has managed to hang onto Barry for another year.
KOOL- PD Kris Abrams brings back the fun.
Radio Free Phoenix- More recognition and awards for Andy Olson and Co.
KCDX- Continues to rock the East Valley, commercial free.


The Bad:

KNIX-CC loses heritage morning show Tim and Willy.
KNIX- Gwen Foster crosses street to KMLE.
KDKB- Stunting leads to nothing more exciting than underwear modeling and the departure of yet another PD.
XTRA Sports- Bruce Jacobs, sports guy, you're missed.
KTAR- Pat McMahon exits. The end of an era....
- Larry Gaydos sucks for another year and why does everyone think Hendrie is funny? His old show was better.
KSLX - did Steve Trella get moved?
KFYI - J.D. Windbag replaces Joe Crummey and ratings go up.

 

[Legend City]

Hendrie's old show was better, but I still laugh at the new one.

You forgot...tune in to Ankarlo, Watson, Broomhead and Gilberg and you will have a 92% chance of hearing "immigration talk"

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[KOHS]

Gaydos is actually much improved this year. I can stand more of Gaydos than Mac 'n' Cheese or Ann Karlo. Now that is an accomplishment worth noting!!

 

[azenergyfan]

BAD - The downfall of Free FM - If only CBS could have pumped more local stuff into the phoneix market. Pretty much a direct LA feed dosen't work for this market. Heres hoping the new buyers of Energy bring some HOT talk back to the fm dial.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Here's a New Year's resolution for two AMs who have
been noted previously as "illegal power aliens" and one
with the "ID-less lamp timer"...

Now that it's January, the monthly sunrise/sunset
(or power up/power down, if you will) times are
7:30am/5:45pm (I checked the FCC AM Query for
all three of you and it's the same).

Unless you have some PSA and/or PSSA that is of
yet undiscovered by the rest of us (and if you do,
publicize the darn thing so we get off of your a**),
5:45pm does not mean 6:07pm...or whenever you
feel like it during the evening, and 7:30am does not
mean 6:00am.

And ID your station at sign-on and sign-off.

How are our perps fairing on the first day of 2008?

I can't speak for this morning, but as to the 5:45pm
benchmark:

Lumberyard 1440 was off at 5:46, but I didn't hear
when the lamp timer shut it down nor if they IDed.

At 5:58, both 1100 and 1510 are quite audible in
the 'Tuke, so I'll go out on a limb and say they're
still on day power. :

 

[Ford]

BAD - The downfall of Free FM -

No, the downfall of Free FM was GOOD. Cookie-cutter programming (Jack, Movin', and Mix-fill-in-the-blank) generally sucks, and applying the same approach to talk is no different. The idea of "local talent" was always an afterthought at the Free FM stations, and Phoenix was a painfully obvious example of this with the only "local talent" hailing from the Washington DC area.

Thankfully, CBS has resolved this problem by flipping the station to a hip-hop format with most of the talent hailing from San Francisco.