🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:54:37 PM UTC-7, Travis James wrote:
> On 6/13/2013 12:42 PM, Patty Winter wrote:
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> > Are those their only two stations? If so, then I wouldn't ding KKSF
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> > too much for calling them "local"; 100 miles away isn't so far. IMO,
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> > it would be a different situation if they were broadcasting from LA.
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> > Then I'd consider them interlopers, not locals. :-)
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> > Do they talk about the Bay Area much? I mean, other than comments
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> > like, "Those crazy liberals in the Bay Area"? Do they address Bay
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> > Area issues? If not, that would tip the balance more towards "not
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> > local" for me.
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> I'll answer. I actually listen to the show (via podcast format, but that 
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> doesn't really matter).
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> They are trying to build themselves out as a California show. For the 
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> past few years their core stations have been KSTE and KKSF (KNEW when 
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> they started on 910). For a long time, they were 6-10a on both. But when 
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> Rush consolidated a bunch of affiliates to Clear Channel properties, 
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> they lost 9-10 on KKSF. Somewhere during that time they were also on 2 
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> stations in Stockton and Salinas. I'm not sure of the call signs. They 
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> would bounce between stations and sometimes would be in separate 
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> studios. You could tell just by the sound and then one of them would 
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> talk about traffic getting into or out of SF.
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> The show has always been a blend of Northern California, state politics, 
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> national politics and current news and pop culture. They don't cover a 
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> local shooting or election unless it's of broad appeal. That's where 
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> they differ from John and Ken in L.A. J&K can be broad but will get 
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> very, very local into Southern California topics like the killing of a 
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> homeless guy in Fullerton, for example.
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> Last year, they were hinting that they were trying to expand. A&G 
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> dragged it out quite awhile. It seemed that they were going to be on 
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> either Fresno or Bakersfield. In the end, it was a surprise that their 
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> next live (not delayed) station would be KFMB in San Diego. They said 
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> they were trying to be a California show (plus whatever is topical, in 
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> general), but the appeal clearly has to cross many locales. They say 
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> they're still working on getting into Fresno.
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> With regard to the "After Show," it's a spinoff show that was an 
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> experiment as a podcast that the two producers and the board op did for 
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> a few months. It caught on and they gave them a 10-11 live daily slot on 
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> KSTE with "best of" from 11-12. It seems it was worth the risk to the 
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> station boot Clark Howard off 10-12, at least temporarily.

Clark Howard has to be the least likely voice I ever heard to be on radio. And I used to listen to Bernie all the time, so I am tolerant of voices not announcer grade. ;-) You can boot Clark Howard permanently.

I haven't heard A&G in a long time, but my recollection was they were just conservative, but not bat shit tea bagger crazy. I can handle conservative thinking, even of course though I know it is wrong thinking, but not the tea bagger crazy talk. 

John and Ken aren't exactly tea baggers, but there is a nastiness in the show I just don't care to hear. 

Oh, if we could only bring Buckley back from the dead.....