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Al Keck Compares It To Entering The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Locker Room After A Stinging Loss : Not Something He Needed To Do, But Something He Had To Do.
Al Keck compares it to entering the Tampa Bay Pirates locker room after a stinging loss : not something he wanted to do, but something he had to do.
For Keck, once the top sports anchor at two local TV stations WFTS-Ch. Twenty-eight (ABC Action Reports) and WTSP-Ch. 10 (ten Stories) that is announcing something. When he walked into the Fox Jazz Caf in Tampa a couple of months ago, Keck wasn't reporting a tale. He was selling something.
Himself.
More precisely, he was selling The Al Keck Show, a radio broadcast concentrated on sports reports that he planned to host each Fri. on WTAN-AM (1340).
Shows on WTAN work a little bit differently from those on commercial radio, where a large corporation owns the radio stations, hires talent{ sells the adverts and makes almost all of the profit. WTAN offers what radio insiders call "brokered" radio programs, where any person can buy airtime for a flat fee, go sell advertising and create the show.
Whatever profit they make goes in their pockets, but the workload from gathering material to booking guests and, yes, selling commercial spots usually falls on whoever is cutting the check.
Years back, this kind of radio was the province of churches, Realtors and widget peddlers ; people with a little taste for showbiz who did not care promoting themselves directly to a small audience. But as large media outlets pare their staffs in challenging commercial times, large names like Keck have been forced to reinvent themselves in places such as WTAN.
"Quite truthfully, I didn't actually like it ; I'd rather have someone else out there selling Al Keck than me," announced the sportscaster, who turned to brokered radio about two years after WFTS failed to renew his contract. In spite of his terror, Keck left his meeting at the Fox Caf with a title funding that instantly put his fledgling show in the black.
"I'm finding folk will purchase in to a vision if they know you and trust you," he added . "I know I'm not on the biggest radio station on Earth, but I possess a known name and a voice that's pushing an excellent product. To a mean patron, you are no different" than a standard radio anchor.
Keck's show airs weekly on WTAN at 3 p.m. Fridays. 2 other names from the area's radio scene onetime SportsChix member Brenda Lee (a.k.a. B.L.) and previous Clear Channel Radio star Skip Mahaffey bracket him at two and 4 p.m.
Like Keck, B.L. And Mahaffey lost conventional media jobs awhile ago and are using brokered radio to capitalize on a private brand that still draws some fans.
"Will it work? Who knows? This is an one-man operation that I'm coughing up for out of my own pocket," claimed Mahaffey, who tried to find new work after Clear Channel took him off country music station WFUS-FM in 2009. He came back to Tampa in February after eight months in Oklahoma.
Now he has got a brokered show airing at 3 p.m. Weekdays (except Fridays) on WTAN and two other radio stations, reinventing himself as a decidedly nonpartisan talker.
Some pros say this is a trend that will only accelerate, as the big commercial radio stations keep cutting midcareer and entry-level talent to economize.
"Clear Channel owes something similar to $16 bln. I don't remember any person owing that much for anything," said Gabe Hobbs, a previous senior vice chairman in charge of talk reports and sports at the company, who was among 1,850 folk fired in 2009.
"These firms are panicking over debt and the economy ; they are a bit enslaved by that," said Hobbs, who now runs his own radio consulting firm. "They're forgetting what they used to drill into our heads when I started in this business : It's what happens between the records that counts. "
Radio 'ate itself '
After 30 years in the Tampa Bay area radio scene, WRBQ-FM morning character Mason Dixon sees radio's current issues simply.
Dixon related gigantic corporations like Clear Channel bought up the majority of the mom-and-pop radio stations in small and midlevel markets, using computerized audio systems to feature one staffer on shows at 3 or even more stations in a day. Concentrated programming eliminated lots of jobs.
Syndicated shows, for example American Idol host Ryan Seacrest's On Air, appeared to eat large pieces of morning and noon programming.
And new ratings calculated by information from the pager-sized devices worn by listeners have hurt DJs who talk too often during their songs, leading Cox Radio, CBS and others to make hit music-centered stations like Hot 101.5 and Play 98.7.
Once, Tampa Bay was a crucible for developing huge trends in radio, from the cheeky "morning zoo" concept started at WRBQ in the '80s to signature skills like Glenn Beck, Lionel and Scott Shannon.
Today, name performers like Mahaffey and onetime WMTX-FM star Nancy Alexander have been laid off while younger abilities struggle for new opportunities .
"The business ate itself," declared Dixon, who recently hosted a reunion of personalities from WRBQ's heyday on his morning show. "At one point in time, we had between seventy and eighty staff at Q105. There are presently 5 full time staff, not counting the sales staff, and 3 of them work on the morning show."
Longtime Tampa Bay area radio character Jack Harris makes a distinction between shows that mostly feature talk like his AM Tampa Bay program with Tedd Webb on WFLA-AM (970) and music shows starring personalities. The new ratings technology has forced more focus, he announced, as fans of music radio migrate to stations with a minimum of talk. He fears that radio will founder without the bond that local DJs provide.
"People don't say, 'I hear (WHPT-FM) the Bone' ; they assert, 'I listen to Bubba the Love Sponge or I hear MJ, '" Harris said. "But if the firms are disloyal to the personalities, listeners will be disloyal to (the stations) ."
Still, there's one radio star who doesn't see much difficulty with the prevailing transition : top-ranked WHPT morning character Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
"Big personalities will always have a spot. And your ratings control your destiny," said Clem, who was fired by Clear Channel in 2004 after earning record indecency fines and returned to Cox Radio's WHPT with a show more focused on talk about politics, sports and crime. "It's raised the stakes, but if you are good and classic and can hold an audience, you will be okay. " as reported tagza.com.