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Wow! This has gotten ridiculous!

J

jimmysharpe

I really don't spend a lot of time here, but between KTAR going FM and KDKB's stunting, I've found myself lurking...some observations:

1) Dr. Akbar and Zumahans have to learn to love each other. A quick, but meaningful, embrace would be sufficent for me.

2) This is a growing, (almost) major market that still rarely acts like it. When I left Phoenix it was market #23. When I came back after working in top-ten markets, it was in the mid-teens. It has advanced in so many ways, but not always in the ways that count.

3) FM, AM, XM, Sirius, Internet. It doesn't matter where you broadcast (that actually is becoming less and less important). What matter's is what is coming out of the speakers. Is it relevant? Is it (for God's sake) good? That's what it's all about. People have been talking about the death of AM for years. It hasn't happened. And not only has it not happened, the number one station in many a market is an AM station. I don't argue this because I work on an AM...I have worked for many FM's through the years too. There are certain things that only work on FM (such as music for 12-54's), but a speaking voice combined with stagers is not something that is only going to be succesful on FM. KTAR moving will make things interesting, though...

4) Ned Foster looks like Wolf Blitzer. Only wrinkled.

5) Joe Adams looks like Ron Burgundy. Only bald.

6) Pat McMahon and Barry Young are approximately the same height.

7) I have put down one too many bullet points.

-Jim
 
Good on you, Jimmy!! How sick are we of KDKB's stunting??? And KTAR going FM??
Enough already, people!!

The ONLY thing that both KDKB & KTAR accomplished were posts on this board.
PERIOD...NOBODY ELSE CARES.

KDKB will continue to be kinda modern rock, kinda classic rock, in the eyes of the average listener.
KTAR will gain some listeners; KTAR will lose some listeners.
KFYI will gain some listeners; KFYI will lose some listeners.

And so it goes...

I believe that Dr. Akbar & zumahans would rather hang out with each other for 8 hours in the back of the Gremlin than spend a minute debating D.Eduardo on the population of El Valle anyday!!

And, Jimmy, if you ever say that Joe Adams looks like Ron Burgundy again, I will punch you in the ovary. A straight shot, right to the babymaker.

Now get back to work!!
 
1) Dr. Akbar and Zumahans have to learn to love each other. A quick, but meaningful, embrace would be sufficent for me.

The Nurse and I dig the Z'ster, even though he thinks KSL is on 12~Sixty; it's a 1,000 hike between Phoenix and TMISU's hq; and there are more Phoenix listeners in Yavapai county than San Diego! We're willing to share a hookah or two with him at the Buckeye Media Hut and work this out. So whaddya say? Let's lock lips and celebrate diversity! :eek:
 
Dr. Akbar said:
1) Dr. Akbar and Zumahans have to learn to love each other. A quick, but meaningful, embrace would be sufficent for me.

The Nurse and I dig the Z'ster, even though he thinks KSL is on 12~Sixty; it's a 1,000 hike between Phoenix and TMISU's hq; and there are more Phoenix listeners in Yavapai county than San Diego! We're willing to share a hookah or two with him at the Buckeye Media Hut and work this out. So whaddya say? Let's lock lips and celebrate diversity! :eek:
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Love in bloom. I am so happy.

There was a time when Phoenix FM stations actually paid or otherwise gave props to translator operators in Yavapai and Coconino counties. Don't discount those extra diary hits.
 
No, it was ridiculous several days ago. It's waaaaay past that now.

Don't bother me, I'm digging thru NPR and Fox ratings. Seriously, this is no small research project.

I promise to swear off the Matt Groenig jokes, but only if Akbar acknowledges: 1) I said I haven't listened to KSL in 20 years, and could care less about its freq or content, so whether it is on 1160 or 1260 is irrelevent to me, and I got it right the first time, and will this be on the test?

2) I said KSL was a thousand miles from ME. I am not in Phoenix, but I go to AZ a lot on business. I just checked and my humble Zuma Beach guava-packing shed is 800 miles from SLC, not 1,000 miles. BFD-2.

Xo Xo to the media hut.

PS I hear Buckeye will pass Tucson in population in 10 years. Sounds like you should subdivide the media hut. Or franchise it.
 
jimmysharpe said:
KTAR moving will make things interesting, though...
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Right on Jimmy.

And that's exactly what those of us following KT'R and KFYI for the last four years have been waiting for. For far too long KT'R has made this competition anything but interesting. That has changed.

The truth is none of us know, not even the owners of KT'R or TMISoiledU, what impact KT'R on FM will have. Something like this hasn't been done and I'm just excited a radio company is finally doing something different, trying something risky, and finally giving some life to what used to a monster rated station.
 
zuma: you have nothing to worry as long as your shirt is tucked in. the doctor has never said anything about women's underclothing but he's shown a fasination with boxers and briefs. wear a belt and stop worrying about whether you should have used mapquest.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
.... there are more Phoenix listeners in Yavapai county than San Diego!
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Brilliant! I can hear it now!

"Newsradio 92.3 KTAR, Glendale-Cashion, and translator K209TR, Mission Beach."

I love it!

[tucking in shirt immediately]
 
It's been said on these boards before... KTAR is showing they have balls. I like balls.

Bottom line is this: KTAR has the staff and resources to provide much greater news coverage than KFYI, we can all agree on that. What's hurt them for years is the listener tuning in for news and getting a Diamondbacks game. That has never been a problem at KFYI, and they have taken advantage of that in their promos. Once the split goes through, KTAR goes from a good news station with a couple of huge drawbacks to a news station with a pile of positives... A clearer signal that can be heard under bridges, in tunnels, near power lines; News blocks in AM and PM no matter what; The recognition and marketing opportunities that come with being the flagship of a sports team (i.e. billboards in the ballpark, etc.) without the drawbacks of having to carry the games.

For the NEWS listener, what does KFYI bring that KTAR-FM can't beat? And every talk listener is a news listener at times. 550 listener wants local breaking story, instead of a min or two here and there during a national show, turns to 92.3 and gets it. Turns back to 550. How many times does this happen before he decides to stick with the local one on FM that he can actually hear?
 
Yay, Jim Sharpe!! FINALLY, someone who speaks the truth on these damn boards. People will gravitate to great programming, PERIOD. It doesn't matter if it's on AM, FM, XM, the internet, or your momma's butt. There are still too many people in this market who just don't understand that.

PS - I miss working with you, Jim
 
Which explains why all that great music-based programming on AM radio did oh so well in the 1980s and 90s, when they withered and died, one by one.
 
Great music-based programming on AM....Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
KSL 12~Sixty...Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
1,000 miles from Phoenix to MISUHQ...Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
Congress, AZ matters....Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
Sports Parking Lot 6~Twenty...Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
 
What In The Wide World of Sports .... yawn.

Buckeye media Hut .... been there.

Nurse Jeff ... so 1980s.

Toaster Talk .... funny the first time, back IN THE LAST MILLENIUM.

'76 Gremlin ... older cultural reference than the average median age in Sun City.

Yawn, Doren, you really gotta get a new identity. OLD GRINGO is already taken, how about KFYI WATERBOY?

Maybe AM GHETTO IS NOT SO BAD?

Even The Man In Soiled Underwear is getting overused.
 
Back on topic. YES, this has gotten ridiculous! Anyone care to start a new thread on which is better: KAHN or Motorola AM Stereo?
 
The whole Akbar and Jeff thing was mildly amusing at first. But it reminds me of a 4 year old with an imaginary friend. Cute. But when he's 15 and still talking about his imaginary friend, it's just LAME.

Change your name to "dry-voiced morris hall and kinghorn / air america guy" and get it over with. You, my friend are lame.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
Back on topic. YES, this has gotten ridiculous! Anyone care to start a new thread on which is better: KAHN or Motorola AM Stereo?
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I think IBOCRocks and SayNoToIBOC are duking this one out over in the HD Radio board already.
 
So I'm now getting these strange emails asking me if I'm Dr Akbar (WTF?) on the Phx Radio-info boards.

No, I am NOT.

Nor am I anybody else. Trust me on THAT one. I live on just this side of irrelavancy. The Air America stuff is fun, though.

By the way, RockJock, I agree- Word From The Wild would make a good morning show. I can hear it now- Morris, Hall, and Kinghorn EVERY STOPSET!!!

Today, KTAR mornings. Tomorrow, the WORLD! ;)

Doren
 
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