According to David Brauer, the Twin Cities’ Clear Channel stations are outsourcing their news.<\/p>\n
Not to Bangalore, Manila or Mumbai, funny as that would be.\u00a0 But almost as good:<\/a><\/p>\n Not that anyone listens to the local Clear Channel radio family<\/a> (KFAN, K102, KOOL 108, KDWB, Cities 97) for the newscasts, but amid budget-slashing<\/a>, the Denver Post reports<\/a> the Mile High City’s KOA-AM “will now provide news for four other markets: Colorado Springs\/Pueblo, Ft. Collins, Minneapolis and Ft. Smith, Arkansas.”<\/span><\/p>\n The biggest impact might be felt at conservative talk station KTLK, where host-newscaster chatter has at time produced some interesting<\/a> exchanges. I can’t wait to hear some Colorado drone get Little Rock, Red Rocks and Rocori<\/a> mixed up. Talk about your Rocky Mountain oy<\/em>-sters!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Har.<\/p>\n Well, good for Denver, anyway.\u00a0 KOA – the WCCO of Denver – has always had a commitment to doing commercial radio news; if they have a niche that’ll keep some jobs open, good for them. Expect more of this sort of thing.<\/p>\n More interesting, perhaps?\u00a0 Brauer calls KTLK “conservative”.\u00a0 Now, when KTLK-FM went on the air, it steered aggressively down the middle; it had drunk the post-’04 Koolaid that “conservative talk is dead”, so other than Limbaugh and Hannity the station steered well clear of the “conservative” label.<\/p>\n But with Chris Baker, Limbaugh, Hannity, Jason Lewis and Glenn Beck anchoring the station these days, it’d seem the consultants were wrong again. Which should shock nobody that’s ever worked in radio, but it’s nice to see the market put a bullet in that meme’s head once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to David Brauer, the Twin Cities’ Clear Channel stations are outsourcing their news. Not to Bangalore, Manila or Mumbai, funny as that would be.\u00a0 But almost as good: Not that anyone listens to the local Clear Channel radio family (KFAN, K102, KOOL 108, KDWB, Cities 97) for the newscasts, but amid budget-slashing, the Denver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}