WKAQ a yellow press radio station

[PITIRRE]

From monday thru friday all we can hear from WKAQ radio station is a sort of yellow press news were you can hear the newscaster saying only one part of the news and only news related to murders, political gossip are the prime news.

 

[davideduardo]

From monday thru friday all we can hear from WKAQ radio station is a sort of yellow press news were you can hear the newscaster saying only one part of the news and only news related to murders, political gossip are the prime news.

WKAQ is a talk station, not a news station. There are comentators, not newscasters.

 

[thathoustonradiogeek]

From monday thru friday all we can hear from WKAQ radio station is a sort of yellow press news were you can hear the newscaster saying only one part of the news and only news related to murders, political gossip are the prime news.

WKAQ is a talk station, not a news station. There are comentators, not newscasters.

Ah.. but WKAQ USED to be a news station once. And a great one at that.

Now, it's a Noti-Uno clone

 

[davideduardo]

Ah.. but WKAQ USED to be a news station once. And a great one at that.

Now, it's a Noti-Uno clone

But it has not been all news for more than a decade... last remaining newscast was 6-9 AM, which got bad ratings.

KQ is not a clone of NotiUno. NotiUno, when it went talk, was set up to be New Progressive Party leaning, as WKAQ had a 50 or 60 year lean towards the Popular Democratic Party. So the two are nearly total opposites.... and since I created NotiUno right down to the name, I am pretty sure of the facts.

 

[thathoustonradiogeek]

Ah.. but WKAQ USED to be a news station once. And a great one at that.

Now, it's a Noti-Uno clone

But it has not been all news for more than a decade... last remaining newscast was 6-9 AM, which got bad ratings.

KQ is not a clone of NotiUno. NotiUno, when it went talk, was set up to be New Progressive Party leaning, as WKAQ had a 50 or 60 year lean towards the Popular Democratic Party. So the two are nearly total opposites.... and since I created NotiUno right down to the name, I am pretty sure of the facts.

I wouldn't dare doubt you, Señor Gleason. The thing is I miss the down-to-earth (not sure if that's the correct term) delivery of news that WKAQ (and KTRH here in Houston) used to have. I guess I am a misfit radio listener. 8)

To balance things out I'll admit that I also miss Noti Uno's AMAZING orchestral sounder that they used at the TOH when they were still at 1320 KHz. The pop jingle they use now doesn't jive with me, but, like Popeye would say "I Yam Whatta Yam".

By the way, I have a cassette with an aircheck I made of WKAQ back in 1997 from my home in Ponce, which goes to show the reach of 580 at night. If only I could find it....

 

[quickenmywalk]

I always thought it was "Yellow Press". Radio is a member/part of; The "Press".
The term came into use during the Spanish American War when the Hearst newspapers started "stepping over the line" with a new brand of "sensational" newswriting.

 

[davideduardo]

I always thought it was "Yellow Press". Radio is a member/part of; The "Press".
The term came into use during the Spanish American War when the Hearst newspapers started "stepping over the line" with a new brand of "sensational" newswriting.

I thought it was because the sensationalist press, such as Pulitzer and Hearst produced, were on cheap, yellow-tinged newsprint.. and the New York Press coined the term to describe what both owners did with the NY World and the NY Journal.