[Baynative]

WA Ping

"... the station dropped its long running Conservative Talk format amidst declining ratings to flip to Oldies"

The falling ratings (if you take that as a valid comment) were caused by dropping Rush Limbaugh and then bringing in Ken Schramm to supposedly perform some sort of point / counterpoint discussion with John Carlson who seemed to have trouble finding his own political footing from time to time. That sock puppet duo couldn't even get into the ring with Medved.

I used to have my radio on KVI almost all the time when I first moved here in '03. Their line up switches turned me to the internet full time. If they want to really try to reach local conservatives they are going to have a real tough time cracking local broadcasts on 770, 790 and 1590. I suggest they start with Lars Larson and maybe see if they can pick up some lesser syndicated personalities who have strong internet followings like Michael Berry from Houston, Inga Barks from Fresno or Jerry Doyle from Las Vegas. Let John Carlson read the traffic and weather ...not much more.

[Spunky]

Our local radio station 1340 dropped talk radio to run ESPN all sports all day long. I don’t know if their ratings are doing any better now as they lost me. I miss listening to Laura Ingraham, Neil Bortz was on there also. I don’t know who else as after Laura I switched to 870 to listen to Rush.

[SeaHawkFan]

I moved to the Houston area a few years ago; Michael Berry is fantastic.

The Shirley Q. Liquor character is a riot.

[llevrok]

Let John Carlson read the traffic and weather

With all the stammering, he's like listening to Porky Pig too.

I'd like a station that is going to hammer local politics, state leg and so forth (as Mike Seigel used to). In modern radio, I know that humans are expensive in place of a network feed. But it would also differentiate them from KTTH.

There are ample places to get the national broadcasters these days.

[Eva]

Is Baumgartner a Pauler? I am so sick of the Paulers that I could scream. I’m going to have to vote for him, but I won’t like it? I am really disappointed.

[rockrr]

We desperately need local commentators talking about local issues. I mean in addition to David Boze (love his show!).

I miss the heydays of listening to Kirby Wilbur, Mike Seigel,
Peter Weissbach, even John Carlson before he wussed out - those were some entertaining and informative times. Now all we get is an hour with Boze.