Shot In The Dark: Clarification

September 14, 2005

Clarification

A few weeks ago, I wrote a pieceabout KSTP-AM and their imminent loss of Rush Limbaugh, Phil Hendrie and Sean Hannity.

A commenter left a note:

I listened to Yates back in the 80's and I remember him vilifying a guy named Mike Dorwart quite a bit and I don't have any sources inside the station to confirm it, but I don't think Bob was referencing Ginny Morris or Kenny Soulman Olson as a sexual harrasser so it might be old Mike Dorwart

I lost track of this thread after a day or two (as I often do), so I missed this until my old colleague Mike Dorwart wrote to call it to my attention.

Nope.

The general manager at the time - the worst boss I ever worked for in any industry, ever - left KSTP after, sources in the late eighties said, a number of sexual harassment allegations. I know at least two of the sources personally.

Mike Dorwart - who was the station's production and/or operations manager (I think) when I was there - was never associated with any such activity. As a lower-level manager working with some of the most inept middle-management I've ever worked with, he was the butt of many of Bob Yates' jibes, and a sexual harassment trial may have actually been more fun than his daily job was - but no. Nobody's ever associated Dorwart and sexual harassment.

That is all.

Posted by Mitch at September 14, 2005 06:21 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Say...is someone losing their right wing talk station?
Ratings down?
What a shame.

Posted by: slumpyb at September 14, 2005 09:24 PM

KSTP hasn't been a right wing station since Lewis left.

Posted by: mitch at September 14, 2005 09:44 PM

Most people noted a correlation between the ratings drop and the move away from conservative talk too. Every one except management. It will be interesting to see what the return of Steve Konrad does to the station. Was he a programming genius, or like many PD's in the 90's, was he just the right guy in the right place at the right time (my guess is its the later)

I don't look at KSTP losing rush as we will gain another talk station that will have conservatives on it. Its better than a AA spin off

Posted by: Producer X at September 14, 2005 09:52 PM

I don't look at KSTP losing rush as a loss, since we will gain another talk station that will have conservatives on it. Its better than a AA spin off

Posted by: Producer X at September 14, 2005 09:53 PM

"Was he a programming genius, or like many PD's in the 90's, was he just the right guy in the right place at the right time (my guess is its the later)"

You'd be correct. A little bird told me Konrad was originally hired (in '91) because KSTP's consultant at the time thought there was no future in political talk. Konrad's background was producing the KDWB morning show. Events more or less made him look like a genius, but he really had little to do with it, or so the story goes.

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