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Tucson radio THAT boring

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youngturk

OK, I'm trying to get the lack of activity on this Tucson radio board. Is Tucson radio THAT bad...
I read about Alan Michaels and Joan Lee being "laid-off" from CC Tucson...Bobby Rich from some Mix station and the Mountain exploding with the morning host...so, is everything voice tracked now that the real radio personalities are "on the beach"?
 
youngturk said:
I read about...being "laid-off"...Bobby Rich from some Mix station...
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I think you mean Brad Behan of what used to be Booby & Brad on Cloud 95,
although Brad's exit was some time ago.

AFAIK, Bobby's still there--and it would be a real SHOCKER! if he isn't.
 
Northwest Bobby said:
Actually a good buzz kill are old air checkx of "Bobby and Eggs" in the Morning.......
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Any Bobby Rich 'sidekick' would be infinitely better than the current "Mrs. Grant". Can't put my finger on what, exactly, makes the sound of this woman's voice so supremely annoying, but it is, it is....
 
Let's see...two nostalgia stations (KCEE 690 & KTUC 1400) that won't even spend the bucks for voicetracking, an oldies station (KOOL1450) who's fidelity gives AM a bad name, a news station (KNST) that is promoting HD and creating interference. The rest are doing Spanish music (at least with live talent) or some form of Sports/News/Talk. Not much excitement there!

An FM band where most of the leading stations are so consultant driven and same sounding even the remaining jocks must have a hard time staying awake. Not much interest there.

Remember when KIKX (580) had live country, KCEE (790) played interesting oldies with real talent and fidelity, KHOS (940) had some interesting jocks and music, KTKT was a good rocker, KGVY actually played big band music with local talent, KCUB (1290) played real country gold with live talent & KAIR (1490) had a nice mix of talent and pop music. And how about guessing what KHYT (1330) and KTUC (1400) were going to do next. That was when radio was interesting! Now it is an ipod attached to a transmitter!

Dave
 
The truth has been said. What "live" radio exists is very little and I am sure only during prime time. Most of the air personalities that would share this forum are now doing other things for employment, the die-hards are still around, but mostly off the air postions, probably Operations, or Production or whatever. The last station in town that was 24/7 went to part time voice-tracking, laying off one full timer, another leaving and being replaced by voice-tracking, and many part-timers hours reduced. I'm talking about KIIM-FM of course. All of the other Tucson stations are satellite or voice-tracked for practically all of their shifts. News-Talk stations are satellite fed the majority of the time with only live news in drive slots. So...what is there to talk about? Nothing! Radio died in Tucson a long time ago. Okay, I have to admit there may be some Spanish language stations full-time with live talent, and I've been reminded that KXCI is still live 24/7. That's great if you listen to KXCI, sorry, not knocking the station, but not my kind of radio.

HD Radio is becoming another failure in Tucson radio, some stations that transmitted in HD have stopped, most of the AMs can only transmit in HD during daylight hours, which of course is one of the failures of HD. There is a remote possibility that HD could have turned some AMs around, but that has obviously become a failure.

I've been in and out of Tucson radio since 1974 and still run into people I've worked with over the years that we'd love to hear back on the air. Alan Michaels I've heard through the rumor mill left Tucson, but I think it's only a rumor. Ed Alexander is still around.

A great forum would be to find out where are Tucson's past talent now. Barry Mishkind has a site called oldradio.com, he has a page called "Where Are They Now", unfortunately he hasn't updated it in years.

So you say Tucson Radio THAT boring, let's start a new board on "where are they now"? THAT would be interesting to hear from some of the jocks that have made Tucson their home and worked at various Tucson powerhouses.
 
I grew up in Tucson and left, the last time, in 1979. The only station I remember in all that time that could be considered a "powerhouse" (based on listeners) would have been KTKT during the late 50's and 60's. I seem to remember reading (maybe on the tribute site) that at one time they had more people listening than all other radio stations combined. And part of that time they were a daytimer (and we listened to KOMA at night). KAIR was a T40 rocker and KCNA a full-featured AM.
 
bobjlv said:
The truth has been said. What "live" radio exists is very little and I am sure only during prime time. Okay, I have to admit there may be some Spanish language stations full-time with live talent, and I've been reminded that KXCI is still live 24/7. That's great if you listen to KXCI, sorry, not knocking the station, but not my kind of radio.
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While not 24/7, as they are a daytimer, KGVY (1080AM) is still live and local. I give them props for that.
 
Yeah, they do deserve kudos for at least keeping live talent. Sorry they dumped all the big band, but I guess that audience is pretty well evaporated.

Don't understand why stations like KTUC/KCEE/KOOL1450 don't realize one of their biggest draws was the personal touch that live announcers bring. Anyone can buy an MP3 player, people that would listen to the radio want more than just random music.

Also don't understand why nobody on the engineering staff at KOOL1450 doesn't wake up and realize how truly bad they sound.

Dave
 
Is Tom Lang no longer on KGVY? A Tucson source tells me his voice is
still on their sign-off announcement, but (per the KGVY website) he's
been replaced as PD and AM drive jock by Jim Bednarek.


drded said:
Also don't understand why nobody on the engineering staff at KOOL1450 doesn't wake up
and realize how truly bad they sound.
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The engineering staff at Cheap Channel/Tucson is probably one person
and KWFM--a puny one-gallon class IV at 1450 with puny ratings--is
way below the likes of Double-Q and even KNaSTy on the totem pole
for getting processing and transmitter work done. Wonder if they're
still using the old 1 kw rig from the KOPO days?
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Is Tom Lang no longer on KGVY? A Tucson source tells me his voice is
still on their sign-off announcement, but (per the KGVY website) he's
been replaced as PD and AM drive jock by Jim Bednarek.
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Lang was filling in for Bednarek this morning. So, he's still there, just not regularly on-air.
 
So, Joan Lee is on KOLD in the morning doing the traffic, someone told me they saw Alan Michaels at an event (still involved with charity work in Tucson),but not working in radio and that's too bad(talented and nice guy), good for Bednarik landing a job at the Green Valley station. It's no wonder people are listening to their IPOD'S or talk radio, I understand 104.1 Truth is doing well, glad Journal finally found something that works on that signal.
 
youngturk said:
So, Joan Lee is on KOLD in the morning doing the traffic, someone told me they saw Alan Michaels at an event (still involved with charity work in Tucson),but not working in radio and that's too bad(talented and nice guy), good for Bednarik landing a job at the Green Valley station. It's no wonder people are listening to their IPOD'S or talk radio, I understand 104.1 Truth is doing well, glad Journal finally found something that works on that signal.
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104.1 might be doing well, but it's a very hate driven format with announcers that make terrible and derogatory statements

It's just plain garbage
 
FMRADIOMIX said:
104.1 might be doing well, but it's a very hate driven format with announcers that make terrible and derogatory statements

It's just plain garbage
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...try untreated sewage. At least garbage is easily enough carted away...
 
It is a damn shame that radio has come to what it is. I remember years ago someone said that in the future radio would be totally automated....well looks like the future is here and has been for quite some time. I keep hoping that maybe some future owners will have the sense to finally bring a station back with live talent in more than just the morning show.

I am currently voice tracking a weekend show on a Phoenix station and its sad that nothing is live outside of morning drive. I really believe its a dis-service to the listener.

Nostalgically, I have fond memories of being full time at KHOS and KCUB radio in Tucson in 1976 and 77. It was live baby, live ! Like most stations of that era we had 3 turntables crankin' out the hits ! Most of the spots were on cart....but also remember reading "live" commercial copy from time to time !

Dare I say, that was back when radio was "FUN"
 
bobjlv said:
HD Radio is becoming another failure in Tucson radio, some stations that transmitted in HD have stopped, most of the AMs can only transmit in HD during daylight hours, which of course is one of the failures of HD. There is a remote possibility that HD could have turned some AMs around, but that has obviously become a failure.
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You can blame the car makers for HD's failure. With a few exceptions they build every conceivable electronic gadget into a car except HD radio which leaves the impression they are "in bed" with XM/Sirius.
 
RadioBill said:
bobjlv said:
HD Radio is becoming another failure in Tucson radio, some stations that transmitted in HD have stopped, most of the AMs can only transmit in HD during daylight hours, which of course is one of the failures of HD. There is a remote possibility that HD could have turned some AMs around, but that has obviously become a failure.
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You can blame the car makers for HD's failure. With a few exceptions they build every conceivable electronic gadget into a car except HD radio which leaves the impression they are "in bed" with XM/Sirius.
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My new truck, has XM in it... so I'll agree... but it also has HD.
 
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