Mark Howell had written:

| In the pre-deregulation
| '70's a number of music stations figured out that they could game the
| system by running huge amounts of mostly rip'n' read, pre-recorded
| news in the overnight shift, thus clearing most of it out of the
| daytime hours where it was considered by PD's to be a tune-out factor.
| I worked in one of those, too. I remember one night in my wild youth,
| taping a 30 minute newscast that ran at 3 AM while quite obviously
| drunk. Nobody ever noticed.

When KWK came back on the air in St. Louis in 1978, it had one
newscaster, who did newscasts from about 2 am until 9 am.


--
Mark Roberts |"The same sort of moral cowardice that led him to support the
Oakland, Cal.| Vietnam war but decide it wasn't for him, run companies into the
NO HTML MAIL | ground and let others pay the bill, play gutter politics but run
for the hills when someone asks him to say it to their face,
those are the same qualities that led the president to
lie the country into war, fail to prepare for the aftermath
and then refuse to take responsibility for any of it when
the bill started to come due." -- Josh Marshall