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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

1560 The Game: KGOW's first day review

I emailed Ken Hoffman after his first day on the air at 1560 The Game KGOW and in classic Hoffman form he replied with this:

"I think the owners of Earplugs Inc. owe me a finder's fee for what I
did on radio today."

His was the only show I listened to Monday. He did a good job. I hear it was rougher for the Houston Chronicle's Richard Justice though. People told me he was on fire during the Bud Selig interview, but by himself you got a lot of "uhhs" and pauses. Chalk it up to first day jitters I guess.

Justice's Chron colleague David Barron reported on Justice's problems and more on his blog. According to Barron, the station's transmitter isn't doing so well, so much of Houston probably couldn't receive the signal. I picked it up pretty well.

Over here you can spy on what people who work in Houston radio and radio geeks are saying about 1560 The Game.

I guess the 1560 KILE days are finally over and we can just concentrate on 1560 The Game KGOW.

HouStoned has noticed that most of the Houston Chronicle's sports columnist have radio shows or appear on the radio now. According to the Press' blog, Jeff Cohen, the Houston Chronicle's editor, is getting mad about some of his writers pimping products on the air. I always wondered about this when Deborah Duncan had a show on KTRH and read commercials, but KHOU must have not cared. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here