What are the odds....

[1069_KIFR]

that if MOViN, or even KFRC do not improve their ratings that CBS will fire everyone and flip the station to the next "Exciting, New Format" that comes along. Something like a FRESH station? If so, what would be the timeline for such another upheaval?

Discuss....

 

[WordLife]

Gotta give the format at least 2 years right? Even Free-FM got that long sorta....

 

[HenryOchs]

Gotta give the format at least 2 years right? Even Free-FM got that long sorta....

Maybe KFRC should flip to the Jones Radio Network "Good Time Oldies" format. That would save CBS Radio a buck or two.....

 

[SFStatic]

Hanky, CBS will NEVER pick up Jones' format. A major player like CBS is not going to clear a syndicator's spots and give up their valuable inventory in market #4.

 

[DavidKaye]

Hanky, CBS will NEVER pick up Jones' format. A major player like CBS is not going to clear a syndicator's spots and give up their valuable inventory in market #4.

Happens all the time. KGO and KSFO run a number of shows from Premiere, a CCU company. CCU-owned stations run ABC talkshows and some of their music formats. In fact, CCU runs a Jones show, Ed Schultz, considered to be the Limbaugh of the left or something like that.

 

[SFStatic]

BIG difference between spoken word syndication and music format syndication in this sized market. Apples and oranges.

 

[DavidKaye]

BIG difference between spoken word syndication and music format syndication in this sized market. Apples and oranges.

This was your point:

A major player like CBS is not going to clear a syndicator's spots and give up their valuable inventory in market #4.

Your point is that one big radio company is not going to run spots for another major radio company. I'm saying that this is not the case at all.

Now, I don't know exactly who carries ABC's music formats, but I'd bet that there are stations owned by the likes of CCU, CBS, etc that carry some of them. This isn't the 50s when there were 3 big networks and each pretended the others didn't exist. This is the marketing-driven 00s where it's all about the buck.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

Happens all the time. KGO and KSFO run a number of shows from Premiere, a CCU company.

What shows does KGO run from Premiere?

 

[davideduardo]

Happens all the time. KGO and KSFO run a number of shows from Premiere, a CCU company.

What shows does KGO run from Premiere?

Dr. Dean Edell is from Premiere.

 

[SFStatic]

So is Rush on KSFO, but as above in this thread, re switching to Jones' Good Time Oldies format, that still seems to be a syndicated music format on FM, as opposed to posters' comparisons to AM talk syndication, and THAT IS apples and oranges! Sorry.

No slam on the Jones Good Time format, but a local programmer can tailor music/formatics/talent to a local market in a way that is impossible for a syndicator. Also, local talent, even in mornings- at least in this market- doesn't make close to the money the top tier syndicated talkers do. Any hosts in SF making 4 to 15 million a year? I don't know of any.

 

[airpab]

There's a huge hole in the market for KFRC. Tap in to Jay Coffey's long time experience at KRTH and flip to exactly what KRTH/LA and WCBS/NY are doing....both are doing very well ratings wise and both sound great......It's a slam dunk!

 

[SFStatic]

You are on to something, Air...now will the suits at CBS take your advice?

 

[DavidKaye]

What shows does KGO run from Premiere?

KGO runs Dr. Dean Edell. KSFO runs Laura Schlessinger and Coast to Coast AM (the George Noory and Art Bell programs). KGO and KSFO used to run Rush Limbaugh, also from Premiere.