Talk Radio in Kansas City may be what Hell is like.

Ugh... I'm not sure what talk radio is like in the rest of the country but in KC its awful. We have two big political talk radio stations.

The two biggies are:

http://www.710kcmo.com/ -

http://www.kmbz.com/ - Owned by Entercom Communications.

We also have a local ownership 1510am http://1510.com/ which features a local young freeper during drive time. Lol check out the 'Hot Talk Poll' if you had to vote today who would you vote for.. 67% Bush.

Thats pretty much the monopoly here. Drive time is either Hannity/Orielly or young freeper. Its amazing anyone votes the Democratic ticket here at all since we blasted with Republican talking points all day.

Maybe I will send out an email to the locally owned station to pick up AAR. There is a huge market for liberal talk here it just gets completely ignored.. amazing and extremely frustrating. Thank god I get to stream AAR at work and for the time being listen to My Life CDs in the car.

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Welcome :hi: ..

Is there any reason we need those links here, at a Democratic Forum?

Oh well, some like to bag repukes. Go get 'em.

Clear Channel owns over 1200 stations across this nation and with Michael Powell's new rules, can even buy more. It's owner in San Antonio is a big Bush contributor.

Or so I've heard.

It's the largest market with no CC radio presence. Gotta at least like that, right?

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That is a terrible market. Add to that our local from Topeka who carry Glen Beck and Limbaugh and I don't know who else and you have them all, all on multiple stations. I always enjoyed talk radio but not anymore and not for a long time. There is one semi bright spot on 710 and that is Mike Murphy, interesting guy but he is after drive time and only around for a couple more months.

Good luck, I have written to the stations but there is no changing them. KC is one area that could really use Air America.

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KXTR 1660 would be right for air america

710 KCMO- Dr. Laura, Sean Hannity, Tony Snow, Alan Colmes
980 KMBZ- Local wacko, Rush, O'Reilly, local wacko with occasional bouts of clarity, Michael Savage

I therefore only listen to FM now and am much happier, except when I have to work with the wingnuts.


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he's imported from Raleigh

I used to work in radio, and still keep up on it.

Looking at the ratings on AllAccess.com (free subscription required), I see that KCTE (1510) doesn't even show up in the ratings. Looks to be primarily a sports station, with Imus (sign of a very low-rated station), some ESPN hosts (Dan Patrick is pretty good, IMO) and some local hosts. But it's a daytime station, meaning it goes off the air at sunset and comes back on at dawn. These kind of stations rarely get any ratings action.

Here's a listing of local stations at this link:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=kansas+city&state=mo&sid=&x=0&y=0

Looking at it, I see:

WIBW (580) - Talk station out of Topeka (66 miles away, but it looks like the signal carries well into the KC market). Local hosts and second-tier syndicated talkers like Glenn Beck and Phil Hendrie.

KCSP (610) - All sports. This one seems to get pretty good ratings.

KFEQ (680) - St. Joseph station. RW talk and farm reports.

KCMO (710) - looks to be the big talk station in town. Decent ratings.

760, 1030, 1090, 1380, 1410 - Religious stations

WHB (810) - Sports. Gets great ratings. People must like sports in KC. Sister station to 1510.

KGGN (890), KPRT (1590) - Gospel. 890 is a daytime signal.

KMBZ (980) - This looks to be the dominant talk station in town.

KCXL (1140) - This looks like the weirdest talk station I've ever seen: http://www.kcxl.com

KPHN (1190) - Disney. These stations are always a waste. Nobody listens.

KKHK (1250), KCZZ (1480) - Spanish

KCKN (1340) - All-comedy radio? Very obscure. I'll bet this thing doesn't even draw flies.

KXTR (1660) - Classical on AM? I'm shocked it has listeners.

Here's some info about AAR and KC, from last April:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ZiBr-aRTDR4J:www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/8341054.htm%3F1c+KCKN-AM&hl=en

And, the big money question: Who's desperate enough to pick up AAR (usually seems to be the reason to flip any AM)? My money's on KCKN, which looks like it gets no ratings with comedy and minor league sports. According to the article, the guy seems to like AAR.

The big talk stations will never pick up AAR, so scratch off KMBZ, WHB and KCMO.

I'd say no on the out-of-towners as well. That's farm radio there.

Forget the religious, gospel and spanish stations. There's money in those formats.

And Disney doesn't care how much money they lose with Radio Disney. Just a complete waste of a signal.

KCXL is way out there. Looks like a bunch of conspiracy nuts and new agers. Alex Jones is on the schedule. 'Nuff said. I'll bet it's a somewhat interesting station to listen to.

Entercom owns a few of these AM signals, and just flipped their Rochester, NY station to AAR. They own the classical station at 1660, but I'm not sure how much money they make. Ratings aren't bad.

Surest bet would be the comedy station. This guy will get tired of losing money.

All-in-all, looks like a decent market. Lots of small owners, no Clear Channel, and only a few bigger players (Entercom and Susquehanna, with Infinity having a small presence here). And NO Clear Channel!

Used to be anyaway. Any Liberal talk radio in KC?

except for Blue Springs and Lee's Summit (mostly outside the fifth district)

In your car and in your home!