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« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2012, 06:30:52 AM » |
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I guess the torch really has been passed... While doing an EAS break-in on the tornado watch early this morning, KTRH anchor Cassie Hart ended her report by saying, "The weather watch never stops...uuh, on 740 KTRH."  |
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« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2012, 01:14:50 PM » |
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That's a funny brain fart that happens to a lot of radio people. I was at KTRH back in the early 90s -- 15 years after I left KPRC Radio -- when I absent mindedly closed out a newscast one night with my old KPRC sign-off. oooooops
The News Director nearly had a stroke. She was new to the business, and didn't understand how things like that can happen.
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« Reply #42 on: January 25, 2012, 05:33:03 PM » |
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Probably good that it happened while most stations weren't on automation. You'd have multiple PDs reaching for the oxygen bottles.
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« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2012, 11:20:28 PM » |
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I guess the torch really has been passed... While doing an EAS break-in on the tornado watch early this morning, KTRH anchor Cassie Hart ended her report by saying, "The weather watch never stops...uuh, on 740 KTRH." Tuned in to KTRH via IHeartRadio on my Blackberry this afternoon during the storms and heard ... Rush. I was not shocked and had not anticipated hearing any local programming whatsoever. |
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« Reply #44 on: January 27, 2012, 03:26:51 PM » |
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« Reply #45 on: January 28, 2012, 09:45:43 AM » |
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This video clip is clearly one that was done for the "office reel", which every TV station has, but keeps locked away well hidden and only brings out for private parties.
That guy is my old buddy Thom Dickerson, who was a reporter at KTRK Eyewitness News for years. For a long time they let him do field reports about hunting and fishing, and he did a great job with them.
He left KTRK in the 1990s and now works in the TV and Film department at HISD.
Thom and I worked together at KPRC Radio back in the 70s. He's a great guy.
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« Reply #46 on: January 28, 2012, 02:50:53 PM » |
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I notice that the News92 billboard on the 59 onramp from Smith street has changed from "SMART PEOPLE LISTEN" (dumb) to "ALL NEWS ALL THE TIME" (smart).
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« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2012, 11:24:32 AM » |
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Another thought comes to mind regarding the torch being passed...
Name 1 person, just one credible newsperson in the news department at KTRH?
Do the same for KROI.
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« Reply #48 on: January 29, 2012, 03:38:52 PM » |
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I'm going to suggest we stop referring to "the torch being passed." I think a different metaphor is in order.
KTRH never passed the torch to anybody. They poured water on it, laid off all their good news people, and what was once the news voice of the southwest is dead dead dead.
All their feeble efforts to sound like what they used to be are just that: feeble efforts.
KTRH has no news credibility any more. None. I don't know why anybody bothers to listen. What are they hoping to hear?
KTRH's demise created a news vacuum KROI's owners decided to fill. They picked up that dead torch in the middle of the local radio road and they've fired it up again. The flame is bright and getting brighter all the time, while the crew at KTRH stumbles around in the dark pretending they're "doing news", and wondering what has happened to them.
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« Reply #49 on: January 29, 2012, 10:24:08 PM » |
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[NOTE-post removed for TOS violations]
No doubt... And this whole thread is a joke. As long as KTRH has Rush, it will outperform KROI in ratings and revenue - period. KROI may end up being a decent news station. Who knows. In Texas, it has about as much chance of beating KTRH as KRLD does of beating WBAP. The best KROI can hope for, the very best, is to finish closely behind KTRH. |
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