{"id":536,"date":"2007-03-07T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/flip-things-over-see-what-happens\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T16:16:41","slug":"flip-things-over-see-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Flip Things Over, See What Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities broadcast legend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/459\/story\/1038014.html\">John Hines is moving to KTLK<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>John Hines<\/strong>, for the past 16 years a morning mainstay at country music station KEEY (FM 102.1) is moving down the dial to conservative talker KTLK (100.3 FM) where he will fill the 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. morning slot recently vacated by Andrew Colton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, good riddance to the arid, dull Colton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Caulfield-Rybak is playing to hype, calling KTLK a &#8220;Conservative&#8221; station.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it&#8217;s moved to the right since it&#8217;s original incarnation, which was spawned during the big craze two years ago that claimed conservative talk was dead; the station&#8217;s original lineup included only Limbaugh as a genuine conservative show, and\u00a0was larded with the somnolent Colton and Guest, the mismatched Pat Kessler, the misconceived Janecek and Lambert, and the capable but not-really-aligned Dan Conry.\u00a0 As the original lineup melted down (only the Limbaugh time slot beat AM1280 the Patriot, a station with 1\/20 KTLK&#8217;s power), they added more, proven, conservative hosts (Sean Hannity, Jason Lewis), but have studiously avoided (in my opinion) being identified as &#8220;conservative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 My guess &#8211; to try to validate some very expensive consultants&#8217; highly-paid opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Because Hines is certainly a high-profile attempt to salvage the &#8220;conservative talk is dead&#8221; strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anselmo acknowledged that Hines [like his predecessor Colton] would be a distinctly apolitical voice on a station populated by conservative hosts. &#8220;What he&#8217;ll bring is great morning radio, with personality, entertainment and local focus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hines is one of the best in town.\u00a0 But can he save a concept &#8211; &#8220;conservative talk radio is dead!&#8221; &#8211; that the market nationwide shows is a dud?<\/p>\n<p>I give him a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities broadcast legend John Hines is moving to KTLK: John Hines, for the past 16 years a morning mainstay at country music station KEEY (FM 102.1) is moving down the dial to conservative talker KTLK (100.3 FM) where he will fill the 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. morning slot recently vacated by Andrew Colton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}