There are several posts I’ve written about the peculiar station in Pittsburgh that I grew up not listening to. A station with a three letter “K” call sign in the Eastern United States is a hint right away that the original owners were radio pioneers. <\/p>\n
As AM music was dying, both Rush Limbaugh (“Jeff Christie”) and Jim Quinn (“Quinn & Rose”) did stints at KQV playing music. The station was sold to Richard Mellon Scaife, who supervises some of the Mellon fortune – and the man who had been managing the station. Scaife also runs the Pittsburgh Tribune, the newspaper that provoke Theresa Kerry-Heinz to lash out during the Presidential campaign of her husband.<\/p>\n
For a while now, the station has been running all news during the day, and reruns of old radio shows at night. It was one of the last affiliates to carry Bruce Williams.<\/p>\n
Scaife is selling his 70% interest for $200k, which is less than what he plowed into the station. Yet one more casualty of Rush Limbaugh destroying radio. I can’t imagine KQV will continue their all news format without his money and newspaper connections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are several posts I’ve written about the peculiar station in Pittsburgh that I grew up not listening to. A station with a three letter “K” call sign in the Eastern United States is a hint right away that the … Continue reading