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XM to play old Larry King WIOD segments as part of tribute

livingfruitvirus said:
XM is celebrating Larry King's 50 years in broadcasting with a 5-day channel called Larry! on XM channel 130.

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/xm-launching-special-channel-for-larry-king.html

Amongst a collection of audio recordings of Larry King's past broadcasts will be some of his clips and interviews from his days at WIOD.
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My, how differnt WIOD is these days than in its glory days.
Mostly wall-to-wall syndication, I'd venture to say a REAL full-service AM in Fargo, N.D., does a better job serving its listeners than cheap-o shows on IOD.
 
[size=10pt]Don62 said - My, how differnt WIOD is these days than in its glory days.
Mostly wall-to-wall syndication, I'd venture to say a REAL full-service AM in Fargo, N.D., does a better job serving its listeners than cheap-o shows on IOD.[/size]


Oh, Don, you bitter old man. Ask the tens of thousands who depended on IOD after Wilma - when it blew out a week of those syndicated shows for live and local coverage. No one had power for TV's, and certainly no other radio station had the people or resources of a news staff 24/7. That not enough, what about Katrina, Frances, Jeanne, when they were wall to wall for days while other statons were back to crap. And no, I don't think a Fargo station does do a better job. As for those cheap-o shows, as you refer to them, alot of people like them. I know this will come as a shock to you but it's 2007, not 1962.
Are they perfect, nope. Do they try long after alot of other stations have stopped?
 
Faraway said:
Oh, Don, you bitter old man. Ask the tens of thousands who depended on IOD after Wilma - when it blew out a week of those syndicated shows for live and local coverage. No one had power for TV's, and certainly no other radio station had the people or resources of a news staff 24/7. That not enough, what about Katrina, Frances, Jeanne, when they were wall to wall for days while other statons were back to crap. And no, I don't think a Fargo station does do a better job. As for those cheap-o shows, as you refer to them, alot of people like them. I know this will come as a shock to you but it's 2007, not 1962.
Are they perfect, nope. Do they try long after alot of other stations have stopped?
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I did hear post-Wilma coverage. It was commendable, especially with WFTL-850.
For a brief time, it sounded like real talk radio.

Why can't the cheapo-s running radio do more local shows?

Too hard to sell time? Too much effort to make a program work compared to dialing in a program?

I know many people who work in radio would prefer my version of things as opposed to running syndidated shows for 90% of the station's daypart (as IOD does). I know many of them used to work in radio and were kicked off the dial in favor of blowhards like Hannity.

How presumptive of you to claim to know my age. I am not anywhere near the age you presume.

I look at how talk radio used to sound - before it was taken over by corporate raiders who only want the $$$ - fire the staff or pay them next to nothing- but give us managers limos and lavish perks.
They then choke up the programming with only one local show, while the rest of the day comes cheap from the satellite.
Though this is the way the owners of radio are running the joint these days, that is not radio.

Someone trying to do radio like Larry King did when he was at IOD- with personality and interest - wouldn't get past most station's front doors. They will only program something if it comes off of satellite and is conservative, for the most part. Or the same 300 songs if it's oldies.

Your bitterness shows.
 
Don, you are right, the age shot was not a good one, although continuing to use Larry King's old radio show as an example of how things should be, gives me pause. Thats not a shot at him, because his OVN show for Mutual is an all-time award winning hall of fame example of great radio. But that was then.

I take the position that just because something is local doesn't mean it's better. In South Florida, WIOD, with all if its "cheap-o" syndicated programming, soundly defeats live and local programming. Even El Rushbo has beaten Uncle Neil head-to-head in some of the recent books - and in the important demos. Secondly, let me correct a misplaced assumption you and many have. Syndicated programming is not necessarily cheap. Some of the top line syndicated shows require a sizable cash payment in ADDITION to the local inventory a station must give up. Add the two together, combined with the fact a station misses out on an opportunity to sell commercial reads by a live and local host, it is NOT cheaper to run syndicated programming.

Ask any sales manager and GM and they'll tell you they hate giving up local inventory to networks. Selling a local show is almost always easier, but if that show's commercials don't move product, don't get the sponsor phones to ring, it won't be around for very long. Again, it's not whether it's local or not, it's all about what works. And if it doesn't serve the listeners, it wont be of any use to the advertisers.

Doesn't make any difference what people in the business (or formerly were in the busiess) think or prefer. What matters is what creates good salable inventory that works for the clients. For those of us on the programming side, our job is to create compelling programming that gets people to listen to our commercials. And I know where you're going, yes, if people are listening you ARE serving! None of this is new. That's not a product of consolidation, that's been what the BUSINESS of radio has always been about.
 
I cited King because he was the topic of this thread. The station sounds a shell of itself.

Even its daytime news "department," with its 1-minute briefs, sounds as if it's outsourced.

How many on-air people work there now compared to 10-15 years ago? 1 in the morning?
Wow. That's real talk radio.

This station sounds like any other station in any other city. And if Fargo has a full-service station with a ton of more local programming, then yes, it is serving its listeners better and is doing real broadcasting, not satelllite.

A station like IOD shouldn't garner any more respect than a satellite-fed music station in the smaller towns. Yet what stations are looked at with disdain?

IOD isn't any better.

What gets me is that IOD was one of the pioneering and legacy talk stations, the longtime Miami talk leader.

Most stations run Rush, and have the show surrounded by local programming. No one has a problem with stations running some syndicated shows. But 9 out of 10 shows off the satellite?

Why did the station fire its local hosts?

I thought broadcasting was to be local. Hence why the FCC, when it was a regulator - not a "captured" agency that cheers for the industry it's supposed to regulate - didn't allow mega-powerful TV or FM stations, I read, preferring localism.
 
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