KQV 1972
Posted on 12/15/2017 12:54:23 PM PST by raccoonradio
KQV radio, the historic local “all news/all the time” AM station that has been broadcasting for nearly a century, intends to go off the air at the end of the night Dec. 31.
Station general manager and owner Robert W. Dickey Jr. said he delivered the news Friday morning to his staff of about 20 in the KQV office at Centre City Tower, Downtown.
“Candidly, I think it’s a sad day for broadcasting,” Mr. Dickey told the Post-Gazette afterward. “It’s fair to say we’ve been trying to provide a community service. The bottom line is I just can’t sustain the business model. We’re an independent, labor-intensive format, and we were happy to take it on as long as we could financially do it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
My radio station folded, too.
Our format was “All Mime All The Time!”
“And now he’s pretending to pull a rope! And now he’s pretending to be in a box!”
The only guy who would advertise with us was Dave’s White Makeup Store.
Ahh, Jeff Christie.
He did not consider a sale or format change at the station, he said, because of his family’s longtime focus on delivering news as a mission.
“We perceived the world of reporting on the news as a sacred one,” he said. “There’s got to be commitment to the product, and that attitude kept the station on air for as many years as it has.”
With as much news as there is - both real and fake - and with all of the resources available today to get information instantly from anywhere in the world, these should be the best of times.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
The Public Forum
Pittsburgh Profiles
The Lars Larson Show
No wonder, the only AM that can survive is Conservative Talk with a little news and sports, barely.
Lars is a joke, Rush with one other and they would be safe.
I first heard Rush on KQV in the late 1980’s.
It now says:
—The station made no immediate on-air announcement and doesn’t plan any until Dec. 31, Mr. Dickey said. He calls the plan a “suspension” of broadcasting, allowing for the possibility some investor or buyer may come along in the interim, though he’s made no active efforts to sell KQV.
So sad. I spent my teen years rocking to “Groovy QV”. Remember recording on a little reel to reel.
Jeff Christie oughta buy it. A news station that he owns could be something interesting.
Oh no! Not “Audio 14 Colorful KQV”!!!
In tribute, the great KQV SonoWaltz, ffrom PAMS Series 18:
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/audio/Aud14sng.mp3
And because I always loved how he could gargle-sing, the famous Diving Board jingle:
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/audio/Diving.mp3
A sad ending for “The Pulse of Pittsburg”:
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/audio/pulseof.mp3
It is the best of times and the worst of times for news broadcasting. Lots of news to report, but also lots of competition. So much so that people get burned out on it 24/7. Plus the garbage MSM news broadcasts put a stink on everything.
Trib Live:
>> The station hopes to sell land in Ross Township where its transmitters sit and the license. Dickey hopes someone buys the license, revives the station and makes it another 100 years.
Amphi-car. As a car, it’s a wonderful boat. As a boat, it’s a wonderful floating log. There’s a company at downtown Disney that is selling tours of the lagoon there in amphi-cars.
CC
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