Eric Hogue to stay in Sacramento

“Where your opinion counts!”

Thanks, in part to all of the listener support and to some forward thinking folks on Salem’s management team, it looks like Eric Hogue will be staying on the air. However, it will not be in his usual morning spot on 1380AM.

That’s the motto at Salem radio station KTKZ. And it appears to be the motto of the network’s management as well.

That's wonderful!

Does that mean no more &#^@$@&#(#& baseball and basketball preempting what most listeners tune in for?

One last thing. If KTKZ would just find a few extra watts; 1/2 way to Stockton, both AM and FM signals go to the Black Hole...

Come on guys, get real.

Anyone who thinks that KFIA is going to do anything with the fourth rate programming they have, in spite of Hogue moving over, has another think coming. Christian programming like KFIA's is several notches lower than NPR, which is pretty bad.

KTKZ with Hogue has no ratings whatsoever (trailing Air America, for Heaven's Sake), and KFIA has an even teenier presence. Joe Perch (Pursh, whatever) is weak, even for a Christian broadcaster, and as long as KFIA runs their current mish-mash church programming throughout the day, it will go nowhere.

There was a day (the early 80's), when KFBK was the weak sister to KGNR (formerly KCRA radio), it showed exactly how to take on the stronger news station, and beat them so badly, they ran KGNR off the air.

KTKZ didn't even try. Running a loud, opinion oriented morning show with weak news, stealing stuff from the BEE, simply doesn't cut it.

BTW, KGMS, with an outdated format had many more listeners than KFIA will ever have in its current format.

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