Another sign the end is near... KVI junks 'cop talk radio'

Effective immediately- if you were listening last week, you heard the last show.

We speak sadly of KVI's Cop Talk Radio (Saturdays 6-7p), another victim of media hard times in general, and KVI's problems in particular.

After months of trying to drum up advertisers, the long running, public service-minded cop show has been cancelled by Fisher Communications.

Co-hosts Myrle Carner and Ron Conlin announced it today in an e-mail, thanking listeners for "supporting us the past seven (7) years [...]. To the best of our know ledge Cop Talk Radio (a Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound affiliate) was the longest running police radio show of its kind in U.S. history, airing not only stateside but also around the globe."

They'll be replaced with a half hour extolling NAC Vitamins and a half hour still waiting for another infomercial advertiser.

The local stations have been replacing weekend programming for years with brokered or otherwise financially self-sufficient content. Fisher dumped gardening guru Ed Hume from sister station KOMO last month to be replaced with no overhead, revenue generating, home improvement diva Tami Michaels.

But for an hour of Mouthing Off (Sundays, 6-7p) 3 hours of the wretched, syndicated Bill Cunningham (Sundays 7-10p) and overnights of Coast-to-Coast), weekend KVI is radio malpractice: quack-pot medicine, investment "advice," and religious and other shows bought and paid-for by the participants. Talkers KIROFM and KTTH are not much different; weekend radio is best practiced by public stations, who have also cut back on original programming.

Stay tuned: In this, the talk radio Autumn of Tears, there'll be more news of local cancellations, cut backs, lay-offs and firings in the local blabosphere.

Comments

[nevets]

Is this the 1st victim of the Glenn Beck boycott?

[Puddy]

The deadly quiet in this thread shows that maybe nobody listened to those old porcine duffers anyhoo. The show was just a safe place for Dave Reichert to come in, pass gas and have a donut. Death to Pigs, as we used to say in the '60's. Wonder what that vitamin show will have to offer?

[Grand Oligarh]

Puddy is correct steve. KVI isn’t acrid enough for you nut dingers and it’s not sensible enough for the rest of us. No one cares, but I do wonder what will become of this grand freq. Will it become the loudest of adult contemporary or country of the west?

[Dangerous Dan]

No revenue vs. revenue.

Hmmmm...

How *dare* KVI choose to pay their bills!

[KS]

The demise of KVI has been predicted for the last 3+ years. I'll start heeding this when heads start to roll there.

[V. Degraff]

KVI as any radio station has to pay its bills and that is understandable. At the same time however radio also has a responsibility to provide public service programs to give back to the community that supports it. Cop Talk was one of those shows KVI could boast it provided for that purpose. Its too bad the dollar sent the show packing. Hopefully it will show up again soon.

[Tommy008]

who needs Cop Talk when yo uhave 24/7 Sportsarooni KIRO710 ESPN, "Radio for Dumbasses"? Don't forget to yukyuk it up with Mike and Mike in the Modning come Monday morning, dere, pardner!!! Proof that incompetent boobs are regularly promoted to radio executives? The transcript of the meeting of newly minted KIRO Mormon suits after the buyout-"Duh, let's give the highest-educated, highest book buying/reading city in America a SECOND 24/7 sportsradio station. One is just not enough fer these folks. Proof that Bonneville/KIRO Mormon suits have contempt for your critical thinking skills? The fact that you now cant' hear Dave Ross through a clear, listenable/understandable signal, 100 yards form the Space Needle. Thanks for running KIRO inot the ground, jackasses.