Thursday, May 25, 2006
Too Close: I got into a friend's car the other day and KNX was on. It was soothing for a moment to hear some of the old voices and programming, but still I turned it off for him. Even after three years, there is no forgiving new management's betrayal of the loyal listeners who patronized the station and their advertisers for decades.
Wow - The Arbitron rating listed for April show KNX now at 0.6 - this is compared to their 2.1 share a couple years ago. How could such a powerful signal be going unheard?
Hey David Hall - want your Arbitron ratings back up? Put the Drama Hour back into circulation and bring back the voices L.A. has loved so long. Change may be inevitable but your ideas haven't worked. Another good idea? Charter a fishing boat out on the Pacific, tie the anchor to your feet and dive in after that bobber you lost last year.
Wow - The Arbitron rating listed for April show KNX now at 0.6 - this is compared to their 2.1 share a couple years ago. How could such a powerful signal be going unheard?
Hey David Hall - want your Arbitron ratings back up? Put the Drama Hour back into circulation and bring back the voices L.A. has loved so long. Change may be inevitable but your ideas haven't worked. Another good idea? Charter a fishing boat out on the Pacific, tie the anchor to your feet and dive in after that bobber you lost last year.
Comments:
Ahhhhh
Here you are.
I wrote and called the station when the decision to quit airing the Drama Hour was made and was told the reason it was dropped was because the station felt it needed to better server the community by airing News Only.
This decision, I was told, was made as a result of the Fire Storms plaguing the LA Area at the time. Seems the station felt it betrayed its listeners by not updating them on where the fires were burning and no one (a couple dozen people, i suspect) knew to evacuate the area.
Seems the fires had downed several power poles and no communications to the affected people were available other than Radio so no one knew to evacuate ( i still suspect it only affected a couple dozen people).
Fine, I commented. Suspend the Drama Hour during times of emergency but bring it back when the coast is clear. In these times of turmoil the people need a little escape from all their worries. No comment from management.
Fine I commented. Did you know that there are millions of listeners from Tucumcari New Mexico all the way up to Idaho that can pick up your signal and listen in even tho they are not in your news coverage area. What about them that have loyally listened to the station for years. I bet even Mark Furham still listens. Again the management was silent.
Seems the PTB had made up their mind to kill off one of the main reasons I still tried to tune the station in during the Drama Hour all the way out here in Lawton, Oklahoma with a special antena and signal booster.
They really never knew the full range of their signal and the several million people that regularly tuned in from beyond 200 miles from the source.
t-Asarlai
Here you are.
I wrote and called the station when the decision to quit airing the Drama Hour was made and was told the reason it was dropped was because the station felt it needed to better server the community by airing News Only.
This decision, I was told, was made as a result of the Fire Storms plaguing the LA Area at the time. Seems the station felt it betrayed its listeners by not updating them on where the fires were burning and no one (a couple dozen people, i suspect) knew to evacuate the area.
Seems the fires had downed several power poles and no communications to the affected people were available other than Radio so no one knew to evacuate ( i still suspect it only affected a couple dozen people).
Fine, I commented. Suspend the Drama Hour during times of emergency but bring it back when the coast is clear. In these times of turmoil the people need a little escape from all their worries. No comment from management.
Fine I commented. Did you know that there are millions of listeners from Tucumcari New Mexico all the way up to Idaho that can pick up your signal and listen in even tho they are not in your news coverage area. What about them that have loyally listened to the station for years. I bet even Mark Furham still listens. Again the management was silent.
Seems the PTB had made up their mind to kill off one of the main reasons I still tried to tune the station in during the Drama Hour all the way out here in Lawton, Oklahoma with a special antena and signal booster.
They really never knew the full range of their signal and the several million people that regularly tuned in from beyond 200 miles from the source.
t-Asarlai
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: 6:04 PM
I applaud you for contacting the station and its management. Even after all these years it shows that the Drama Hour had a lasting impact. And your points are well-taken. I agree that KNX could simply have suspended the Drama Hour during a time of local emergency rather than off it all together. But I'm certain there was some other monetary reason for killing the program, or perhaps the management of the station (which, as you'll recall was undergoing a transformation at the time of the Drama Hour's demise) simply decided the programs were too dated for their new brilliant ideas.
I can certainly relate to why you'd be involved with radio out where you are. There's something very comforting about the static and fade of an AM station - personally it lulls me right to sleep. Nothing can really replace it.
I've done the next best thing though, and that's having discovered the TuneIn radio app. For a while after the Drama Hour's demise I turned to OTRNow.org, which definitely fed my habit. Now with TuneIn I can get OTR anywhere I go. And again, this leaves KNX's advertisers out of the loop; if I'm feeding off an app I have no idea if Larry has killed off Irwin yet with his Sit & Sleep bargains.
I love the texture and specific local feel of an AM station, and KNX always had a place in my heart. The thing is I've learned how to do without them now, since they don't feed me my drug of choice anymore. In fact, I'm more likely to tune in KSL 1160AM from Salt Lake City; their signal is strong even here in LA and on Saturday nights they play 'When Radio Was.'
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I can certainly relate to why you'd be involved with radio out where you are. There's something very comforting about the static and fade of an AM station - personally it lulls me right to sleep. Nothing can really replace it.
I've done the next best thing though, and that's having discovered the TuneIn radio app. For a while after the Drama Hour's demise I turned to OTRNow.org, which definitely fed my habit. Now with TuneIn I can get OTR anywhere I go. And again, this leaves KNX's advertisers out of the loop; if I'm feeding off an app I have no idea if Larry has killed off Irwin yet with his Sit & Sleep bargains.
I love the texture and specific local feel of an AM station, and KNX always had a place in my heart. The thing is I've learned how to do without them now, since they don't feed me my drug of choice anymore. In fact, I'm more likely to tune in KSL 1160AM from Salt Lake City; their signal is strong even here in LA and on Saturday nights they play 'When Radio Was.'
