Starter of this subject: Jay Ogletree
Last post in this subject: 4/19/2000
Messages in this subject: 1
| Jay Ogletree | 4/19/2000 1 replies |
| Does anyone know of any current radio stations (not the kind that broadcast on the web only) that specialize in comedy? Any information would be much appreciated. |
| Jim Hilliker | 4/30/2000 0 replies |
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I don't believe there are any, but I could be wrong...Having a radio station play nothing but comedy programming all day was a fad in the mid-1980s! There were maybe a half-dozen AM stations in the U.S. that tried this format. Most of them failed within a year or so and switched back to music or other formats.
The only station that was successful for any period of time was outside Los Angeles, little 500-watt KMDY (Comedy Radio) at 850 on the AM dial in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County...But their signal was heard quite well in the populous San Fernando Valley, partly in Los Angeles city limits...KMDY stayed with the all comedy format from 1984 until around 1991. KMDY featured all sorts of comedy 24 hours a day, mainly from a large library of stand-up comedy albums that were popular in the 1960s and '70s from Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart, Totie Fields, Phyllis Diller, Shelly Berman, etc., etc... They also played some of the comedy radio shows...It was different, at a time when AM stations were losing audience share to FM for music, so AMs experimented with various ideas for programming. Again, I'm not aware of any commercial or non-commercial sta |