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Thoughts on news/talk stations in the region?

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dustintv

WHAM: Great station in my opinion! Lots of time allocated for local news, especially my favorite, the Five O'Clock Newshour. Great news anchors with Chet, Beth, and Joe Lomonaco. Not to mention it has a great signal. I was driving back from Jamestown once and it came in clear as a bell!

WYSL: Another great station. Again having local news is a big plus, and I welcome the simulcast of NBC 10 News as well. I like that Mr. Savage is an independent broadcaster, I think it bolds well in the era of corporate media. 1040's signal is great too, going out to Newark and beyond.

WROC: I do like Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz and I like how they have Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!, but outside of the Air America fare, there's not much. It would be interesting if they could a find a local host to due a morning show. I think I could live without the News 8 simulcast...

WBEN: Good station, they've stayed true to their call sign about being "Buffalo's Evening News" or "Buffalo's Early News". They also air Dr. Joy Browne, I think she's a lot better than Dr. Laura. Signal should be stronger in my opinion.

WWKB: This station really reeks. I am a fan of Air America and/or liberal/progressive talk, but it's a shame the station could be something more like an all news radio station serving the Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Niagara Penisula/Jamestown areas, as Sir Roxalot pointed it's owned by the same people who own WBEN and are cheap when it comes to local programming. So sad of what might be.
 
dustintv said:
WHAM: Great station in my opinion! Lots of time allocated for local news, especially my favorite, the Five O'Clock Newshour. Great news anchors with Chet, Beth, and Joe Lomonaco. Not to mention it has a great signal. I was driving back from Jamestown once and it came in clear as a bell!

WYSL: Another great station. Again having local news is a big plus, and I welcome the simulcast of NBC 10 News as well. I like that Mr. Savage is an independent broadcaster, I think it bolds well in the era of corporate media. 1040's signal is great too, going out to Newark and beyond.

WROC: I do like Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz and I like how they have Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!, but outside of the Air America fare, there's not much. It would be interesting if they could a find a local host to due a morning show. I think I could live without the News 8 simulcast...

WBEN: Good station, they've stayed true to their call sign about being "Buffalo's Evening News" or "Buffalo's Early News". They also air Dr. Joy Browne, I think she's a lot better than Dr. Laura. Signal should be stronger in my opinion.

WWKB: This station really reeks. I am a fan of Air America and/or liberal/progressive talk, but it's a shame the station could be something more like an all news radio station serving the Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Niagara Penisula/Jamestown areas, as Sir Roxalot pointed it's owned by the same people who own WBEN and are cheap when it comes to local programming. So sad of what might be.
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ah...WYSL does not air Savage, WHAM does
 
SFX, Drop-In, Emily Latella: "Never Mind..." ;)
 
WROC: I do like Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz and I like how they have Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!, but outside of the Air America fare, there's not much. It would be interesting if they could a find a local host to due a morning show. I think I could live without the News 8 simulcast...
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WWKB: This station really reeks. I am a fan of Air America and/or liberal/progressive talk, but it's a shame the station could be something more like an all news radio station serving the Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Niagara Penisula/Jamestown areas, as Sir Roxalot pointed it's owned by the same people who own WBEN and are cheap when it comes to local programming. So sad of what might be.
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I also am an avid listener of progressive talk radio and I listen regularly to the lineup on WROC here in Rochester. I especially like Stephanie, Ed and Randi Rhodes. Yes, they should have a local host in the morning. A friend told me recently that a former air personality and liberal activist in the Rochester market offered to purchase the morning block and they showed no interest(they must be content to run Bill Press off the bird).

And I also agree with you on KB. As much as I personally like prog talk radio it seems like another narrow interest niche format, much like so many other satellite delivered AM formats. It would have made more sense to run prog talk in Buffalo on WHLD, WBBF or maybe WJJL. After the demise of WECK's pop standards format, KB should have immediately started blending in pop standards with lighter pop Top 40 oldies and kept Danny and Tom in the morning. But that would have made sense.
 
dustintv said:
WROC: I do like Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz and I like how they have Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!, but outside of the Air America fare, there's not much. It would be interesting if they could a find a local host to due a morning show. I think I could live without the News 8 simulcast...
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Miller, Schultz, and Rhodes are their top talent, but it would be nice if they bothered to promote it. How about some 30 second spots on the other Entercom outlets in town? Wouldn't cost them a thing except maybe some inventory.

Democracy Now as a concept is fine. Amy Goodman's delivery, however, reminds me of the bad old days of Radio Tirana "Goodbye dear listener" Albania. There is monotone and then there is Amy Goodman. And speaking as a liberal Democrat myself, I've heard one too many Hugo Chavez speeches on that show. And even more odd, if you stream the English service of Radio Havana, their news borrows very heavily from Democracy Now, and even sounds similar. That's a little bit too far to the left for even me.
 
Phillip Dampier said:
Democracy Now as a concept is fine.  Amy Goodman's delivery, however, reminds me of the bad old days of Radio Tirana "Goodbye dear listener" Albania.  There is monotone and then there is Amy Goodman.  And speaking as a liberal Democrat myself, I've heard one too many Hugo Chavez speeches on that show.  And even more odd, if you stream the English service of Radio Havana, their news borrows very heavily from Democracy Now, and even sounds similar.  That's a little bit too far to the left for even me.
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That's actually pretty good description of Goodman. I give praise to her journalism and the principles she stands by, but there a few kinks she has, as you mentioned her drab persona(she appeared on the Colbert Report and was awful), along with showing some NY-centric views on the world and being somewhat of a representative of those zany middle-aged extremists that give us progressives a bad name.

She had Hugo Chavez appear on the program with Cindy Sheehan once, but after Chavez implemented his rule by degree, something she expressed concern about, she sort of distanced herself from despite having played many of his various speeches multiple times.
 
Thank you for the kind comments about WYSL. And: I happen to be the REAL Savage in radio these days. Michael "Savage" is a poseur (I think his real last name is Weinstein or something.)
 
Savage said:
Thank you for the kind comments about WYSL. And: I happen to be the REAL Savage in radio these days. Michael "Savage" is a poseur (I think his real last name is Weinstein or something.)
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It's actually Weiner, which works in either pronunciation.
 
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