Posted on 06/01/2009 5:31:18 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The San Antonio/Austin Board at Radio-Info.com was rumoring “talk” as early at 10:30 last Thursday morning, and by early Thursday afternoon it pretty much had the schedule of syndicated personalities pegged. Here’s what I think the starting lineup will be at Cox-owned KPWT (106.7) – TRN’s Mancow Muller, early morning. Neal Boortz, syndicated from Cox Radio’s WSB, Atlanta, 8-11am. (Boortz had been on Border Media Partners’ KTSA/550 from 7-9pm, clearing on delay.) Then Talk Radio Network’s Laura Ingraham, 11am-2pm. Clark Howard, also syndicated out of WSB, for 2-5pm. (Clark had been heard locally for just one hour, 9-10pm on KTSA.) Then TRN’s Michael Savage, who’d been clearing on Salem’s KLUP at 930. Followed by TRN’s Rusty Humphries and Phil Hendrie. Sounds like TRN’s Phil Boyce has been doing heavy missionary work at Cox Radio. So was Santa Claus – Cox is stunting as all-Christmas “Santa 106.7” until 5pm today. One more posting from the San Antonio/Austin board – “Lodown01” says “I was in town to drop off a sponsorship package for a concert event my company is hosting, and found out that Power was flipping to talk radio, after I got up to the 6th floor…it was sad to see employees, with their belongings, walking out…”
WHEN IS TALK RADIO GOING TO COME TO FM???
I CANNOT STAND HAVING TO SEARCH FOR AM STATIONS WHEN TRAVELING AND DRIVING
Time to get satellite.
FM talk is in several cities like where I am (Boston: WTKK
has Imus, Curtis Sliwa, Phil Hendrie and local hosts like
Michael Graham, Jay Severin, and Michele McPhee). Pittsburgh
has it at 104.7...97.1 in St. Louis...100.1 in Akron OH
And some AM stations are now simulcasting their talk on
FM. Providence RI’s WPRO 630 is now on 99.7 as well.
I looked up this station and found it has 100,000 watts
(some stations do while in most cases 50k is the limit).
I guess the “urban” (hip-hop) wasn’t working for them.
It’s cheaper to run (all/most) syndicated talk. At least this
is conservative, not Air Scamerica.
I have satellite too (XM) though in my area there are some good AM talkers like WRKO (Howie Carr, Rush, Ingraham)
and WBZ (talk at night: Dan Rea)
FM talk is in Mpls./St. Paul as well at 100.3 KTLK. Our lineup is Chris Baker, Glenn Beck, Rush, Hannity and Jason Lewis. Love it!
Ah yes—I think Jason’s filled in for Rush and there was some talk of him being syndicated (maybe he is by now). While some music fans do complain about an FM station moving to talk, if you have a nice clear signal on FM you can have talk with
“no static, no static at all” as Steely Dan once sang.
Love the Steely Dan reference, though I now have the song running through my head. LOL Yes, Jason is now syndicated though I don’t know how many markets broadcast his show. Lucky us, he’s been here for years, except for the couple of years he moved to North Carolina.
This will be Exhibit A at the Congressional hearings on "Localism."
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