It's been a year since John Tesh's weeknight radio program debuted in the 518. WROW briefly tried a Sunday night recap version, but dropped it after a few weeks.
Tesh (ex-Entertainment Tonight) began his chat-fest as a weekend series in 1999. Four years later, it expanded into its current weeknight format, billed as Intelligence For Your Life. A few quick hits per hour, wrapped around an affiliate's playlist. There are no studio guests, just Tesh and his stepson, Gib Gerard.
Locally, the final segment airs around 11:40-11:45 (ET), and, after a commercial break, the affiliates take over for the rest of the night. Tesh is doing his part to help, with localized bumpers and ads.
Here's a short sample.
Rating: A.
We have John's radio show on locally in the Seattle area on KIXI AM; it's OK, although the KIXI format is kind of an odd station to have a show like John Tesh's on...
ReplyDeleteBasically, KIXI for the longest time was a Big Bands/Adult Standards type station(Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glen Miller, etc.)...
Then about maybe a decade ago(I could be slightly off as far as the timeframe), they modified the format musically to not only have those songs but a few modern standards artists(Brian Setzer Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., etc.), as well as Adult Contemporary hits from the 1960s through the 1980s(Bread, Air Supply, Julio Iglesias; actually it's closer to a Gold Adult Contemporary format, IMO), and Oldies songs(Elvis, the Beatles, Neil Diamond; heck, i've even heard Paul Revere and the Raiders on the station).
Overall, it's not a bad selection of music(again, IMO) and they do have the syndicated When Radio Was old-time radio show, plus Jim French's Imagination Theater a couple times a week; they stream online, and are on 106.9 FM's HD3 channel for those that have HD Radios)...
WROW, which carries the show here, has a slightly similar format, but in February of this year began phasing out the likes of Dean Martin, Perry Como (Music of Your Life types), only bringing them back for Christmas over the next month, and while "Magic 100.5" didn't have big bands, I'd say they have more of a hybrid of classic oldies (1960's-80's) and adult contemporary. Funny how they don't play any of Tesh's albums, though. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
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