{"id":400,"date":"2021-08-30T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/609495b192.nxcli.io\/?p=400"},"modified":"2021-08-31T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:07:50","slug":"the-first-conservatalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiopoop.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were Four:  KFTK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>97.1 KFTK is the original conservative talk station in the STL.\u00a0 \u00a0It went through several music formats since it&#8217;s start in the 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 It switched to a &#8220;Female Talk&#8221; format (hence the K-FTK call letters)\u00a0 in 2000 which bombed.\u00a0 Then it went conservative just as Fox News along with hosts Glenn Back, Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Sean Hannity started to gain traction.\u00a0 \u00a0Here&#8217;s where it stands today according to the Grand Poopah&#8217;s P and C&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>PROS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The original conservatalker with a 20+ year track record<\/li>\n<li>Strong local talkers with Marc Cox, Annie Frey and Mark Reardon<\/li>\n<li>Good signal west of the Mississippi.\u00a0 (100,000 watts with the transmitter located in the heart of Conservativille in O&#8217;Fallon MO).\u00a0 Not so great in Pritzkerville.<\/li>\n<li>Good network talk programs with Brian Kilmeade, George Noory and now Dana Loesch (back where she started).<\/li>\n<li>Fox News which is still the best radio network news.<\/li>\n<li>Access to national ad revenue through Audacy (NOTE: This is a huge positive factor for KFTK and a tremendous challenge for The Refugees and The Newbees).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CONS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent changes in programming including loss of Sean Hannity, Dave Glover moving to KMOX, and maternity leave for Annie Frey.<\/li>\n<li>Recent loss to 101.9 Refugee Radio of several supporting talkers (Tony &#8220;I&#8217;m retiring just like Mark Klose&#8221; Colombo, Tim Jones, Dr. Tobler, Katie Bailey, et al.)<\/li>\n<li>Lost some of it&#8217;s competitive talker edge now that it&#8217;s co-owned with KMOX by Audacy (which, according to industry buzz, is not a big fan of conservative talk).<\/li>\n<li>Located in downtown Liberalville in the center of the homeless zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even thought 97.1 now has three direct competitors the Grand Poopah doesn&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going anywhere soon.\u00a0 \u00a0That is, as long as ad revenue continues to flow their way.\u00a0 But they do have a major\u00a0 problem on the horizon.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s another story for another time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Poopah does his analysis of the FOUR Conservatalkers that are on the air. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>And Then There Were Four: KFTK - radiopoop.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Grand Poopah does his analysis of the FOUR Conservatalkers that are on the air. 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