I've written here before of my reaction when, upon moving to the Bay Area, hearing KGO and wondering, "why would anyone listen to this? It's for older people who complain about stuff all day." This was in 1999.
KQED and KCBS are different animals. KQED is public radio and has significant long-form programming, most of it national. KCBS is oriented to spot news and is mostly originated locally. They both are successful in their respective categories.
WPHT carries CBS News on-the-hour at night during syndicated shows. During the day, a local newscaster does a quick 90 second update instead. WPHT uses most of that time at the top of the hour to run more commercials.
If you remember ba.broadcast you know how intolerant some participants were. I was, at the time, programming the HBC stations in the market and doing on-site visits and research about 4 times a year, yet that was of no value!
CKO's AM frequency in Montreal was 1470. 980 was CKGM with Top 40 for most of the time CKO existed (except the last few years.
Yes, I should have remember CKO took over English Top 40 station CFOX at 1470, not the other English Top 40 station in Montreal, 980 CKGM.
Radio Isla did not exist when NotiUno moved from 1320 to 630. That was La Super Kadena Noticiosa, hence the WSKN calls.
Same thing, different name. I was involved in the negotiation to make the frequency move / swap.
It was only temporary as the move from 1320 to 630 and the addition of 760 and 910 occurred.
There was an almost three year period when KGO was running an all-news, some-of-the-time format. Ronn Owens' newstalk show continued in its long-time 9-Noon slot, and they ran some syndicated dreck in the late evenings and overnight, but the rest of the day was all-news. But then even the CBS all-newsers started out as "all-news-sometimes, other stuff the rest of the day", if you go back to their beginnings.
I think the period of reference is "before PPM".
That doesn't surprise me. I also don't think Luckoff did what Bob Hyland did in St. Louis, which was to insinuate himself into the local political and business establishment. San Francisco could be just as provincial as St. Louis (having lived both places, I should know). Relationships matter in that kind of environment. KMOX was sliding when Hyland died, but he was still perceived as having gone out more or less on top. Of course, that was during the 1990s, too, so the times were a little different, with AM's decline in evidence but with enough successful operations to avoid the doom loop that later developed. When the fall came for KGO, it was rapid. A lot of the negativity was aimed at Citadel and, later, Cumulus, but despite the repeated wishes of very vocal KGO groupies, Luckoff didn't make a comeback. It pays to make friends and build relationships.
I have a personal story. In the latter aughts, I'd joined the board of my alumni association, which was an incorporated Not-For-Profit. One of the other new directors was fairly high up at ABC, and she got me an introduction to KGO/KSFO's engineering chief. He invited me down to the stations for a tour, then out to the transmitter plant to look that over. In thanking him for the hospitality, I asked if there was anything I could do to reciprocate, and he asked what I had in mind. I actually didn't have any specific, but I offered up the idea of providing holiday relief for staffers so someone might be able to spend a holiday like Christmas with their families. (I used to do that at Master Control when I worked at a Cable TV organization years earlier.)
Woah I never thought of this one in the link about New York City proper as a "News Desert". Everytime I hear the phrase "News Desert" it's usually suburban, small towns and rural areas most affected by the lack of journalism. But if we are looking at context here it's how New York's major newspapers are more focused on national issues and not city issues based on the quote.
Isn't CFTR still all-news?
