Not sure which ratings books the dog trainer is referencing, but KFI is doing better than most stations in terms of the coveted younger demo. Tim Conway Jr's evening show gets phenomenal ratings for an evening talk show, and I'm not just saying that because I appeared in his latest promo video ( http://vimeo.com/80439786). The aforementioned Jon and Ken (whom I cannot stand, going back to the days of the OJ trial when they stole material from me) also do well in ratings. I agree that in general (meaning including old people), the station's numbers aren't what they were, but advertisers don't care about young people. Losing Rush will be the best thing to happen to KFI. The station is not PC by any stretch, but it is finally shaking free of the fundamentalist right wing.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > Starting early next year, Clear Channel will move comedian Rush Limbaugh > off of his current homes in Los Angeles ("More *Stimulating* Talk Radio" > KFI, which is not as dominant in the ratings as it used to be) and San > Francisco (KKSF, where he recently moved from his long time home at > Cumulus' KSFO) to stations currently doing mostly progressive talk (KTLK > and KNEW, respectively, although the latter does have Premiere/CC's > Lonesome Rhodes Beck and Dave Ramsay)--the stations will be rebranded as > "The Patriot" and Limbaugh will be paired with Beck on both stations and > fellow Premiere/CC host Sean Hannity in LA (from Cumulus' KABC, which is > stinking up in the ratings even worse than KFI), while both KFI and KKSF > will have local programming replacing Limbaugh (something you don't often > hear at the Evil Empire): > > > http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-rush-limbaugh-kfi-ktlk-20131204,0,3611081.story#axzz2mcx8xRxs > > In New York, it's already been planned to have Limbaugh move to > recently-acquired by CC WOR from Cumulus' WABC next month, although Hannity > is staying at WABC. Meanwhile, along with the rapidly aging demos that are > making traditional right-wing talk radio less attractive to advertisers, > KFI has been receiving criticism from some of its hardcores that it's > become too PC after it briefly suspended afternoon drivers John and Ken > last year after Whitney Houston's death for them calling her a "crack > whore." And CC's probably prepared for an avalanche of criticism for > dropping progressive talk in both markets, but the conventional wisdom is > that most left-of-centers prefer the measured tones of NPR to the > rabble-rousing of both left and right commercial talk radio (and the > radicals prefer Amy Goodman and music to either commercial talk radio or > NPR). > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
