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Post by crutnacker on Sept 21, 2009 6:14:43 GMT -5
I remember when I was in grade school (graduated in 1989) the message from the school was always "listen to WHAS for school closings". It seems as though for a generation or more of us, we have fond memories of waking up and turning on WHAS for that information. I would imagine that this also planted the seed in our head that WHAS was where you turned when you needed news, weather, traffic, and other information.
I think of that when I'm stuck in traffic and I reflexively turn on WHAS only to reflexively cuss at the fact that what used to be informative traffic reports have been replaced by some guy reading a list pulled from a tip line and/or police reports. No information about alternate routes or even which lane is blocked. And the arrangement of the information and speed with which it is read almost guarantees you will have to wait 10 minutes for it to be read again.
And forget it if something important happens during Rush Limbaugh. Can't interrupt 3 hours of disinformation to actually provide you news.
The few hours of local programming left are mostly a tough listen anymore. The morning show seems to kill formerly likable people like Tony Cruise and John Sokoler. I'm not a huge fan of Francene, Terry Meiners is still doing the same material he did 20 years ago, and Lachlan McLean's tone and demeanor during his show make him sound less like a sports fan and more like the guy you move away from at the sports bar.
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Post by adam on Sept 27, 2009 22:17:53 GMT -5
I've had this gripe for a while for the better part. They fired Mark Travis who was like the Dick Gilbert of this generation. Tony, I liked better in the sports talk slot..Lachlan can sound a bit.."nuts" Jane Norris was welcome much more than Francene. I dunno, i could go on and on. Due to the format evolving, Terry's show can't be as funny as it was, I'm sure his getting a little older and that change has made less time for some more of his edgy funny stuff. And most of all I'm dissappointed in anything from 9pm to 5am. I want to hang one of those banners in Louisville somewhere that has a picture of Joe Donovan, "Joes Louisville"
most terribly underrated show/host of all time.
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Post by chad on Sept 30, 2009 9:02:21 GMT -5
Same here. I graduated high school in 1989. One of my fondest memories was Liz Curtis coming to our high school in 1987 and speaking to our media class. She was great and I miss hearing her on the air. WHAS used to have live helicopter traffic reports every 10 minutes along with the weather. If something breaks out on the weekend you are up **** creek since nobody is there. What a joke.
I tuned WHAS in the other night when we had a Tornado Warning for Clark County and never heard a thing until 3 minutes after I already heard the EAS tone over my weather radio. Also no more beep every 3 seconds like they used to have when a Tornado Warning was issued for the local area (Floyd, Clark, Harrison counties in Indiana or Jefferson county Kentucky).
700 WLW in Cincinnati is still pretty good with live local news every hour and half hour even on the weekends and overnights as well as traffic and weather every 10 minutes in the morning and afternoon. I wonder why they still do this and WHAS does not? Both are owned by Cheap Channel.
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Post by badmisterkitty on Jan 30, 2010 14:48:52 GMT -5
No kidding.
Clear Channel should sell 'HAS to CBS Radio or Citadel (owners of the ABC radio network).
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Post by adam on May 2, 2010 11:48:34 GMT -5
WHAS is the flagship but look at the ratings: www.radio-info.com/site/markets/grid/louisville?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=431de32695-TRI_04-29-2010&utm_medium=emailthat pretty much tells you everything, why add on local programming when in fact you cane make just as much money or more, cutting it out and running a tape? Also when you own several other stations in town you can have a better chance at ratings and such. Cox has poor programming from a listener standpoint, Mainline does too. This is my opinion. WHy should CC step up when there is no reason? I spoke with Doug McElvein on Facebook about CBS buying WHAS about a year ago. I liked how CBS runs KMOX, He told me it's not likely, due to the fact CBS searches for Top 25 markets, Louisville isn't in that field. If anything, CC has been have financial issues in ways I cannot explain here but it may be a few years before somethign could happen but they may have to size thereselves down. Personally, I'd like to see a local company buy WHAS that understands what it's all about. I'm conservative, but theres a part of me that thinks regulation of radio stations was a good thing. For quality and for jobs. Look how many people lost their jobs at WHAS from time of de-regulation to the moment Joe Elliot was let go full-time. But things have changed, and it's all about the bottom dollar.
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