Local talk off the dial at GST as hosts are dropped (Kimmer and Denny gone)

[jefferson_dem]

I consider this to be great news. The hate radio spewfest on GST was one of the worst. Kim Peterson was utterly Neanderthalic...

Local talk off the dial at GST as hosts are dropped

By RODNEY HO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/22/06

News/talk station WGST-AM (640) dumped its entire local personality staff Tuesday, including veteran talk-show hosts Tom Hughes and Kim "The Kimmer" Peterson.

Starting Tuesday afternoon, the station began airing syndicated personalities from out of town, a much cheaper alternative for a station whose ratings and revenues have dropped precipitously in recent years.

Once a regular top 10 presence in the 1990s, WGST ranked 20th in the Atlanta market among listeners 25 to 54 over the summer, according to Arbitron.

Management is keeping only syndicated giant Rush Limbaugh in its daytime lineup. Limbaugh, the nation's biggest talk-show personality, has the only program pulling in passable ratings at WGST.

"We haven't been as successful as we have hoped to have been at GST," said Chuck Deskins, market manager for Clear Channel Atlanta. "We're making changes to try to better position ourselves in the marketplace."

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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2006/11/21/1122lvradio.html

[dxdem]

1. Good stuff.

I make regular Monday morning commutes from Atlanta to Augusta (~150 miles), and enjoy listening to 750, before I scan over to find NPR.

[BEZERKO]

2. Damn, you beat me to it!

What I love is the fact that he's the victim of the same right wing policies he's been schilling for fifteen years and the horrible FCC rules that are responsible for ten thousand right wing talk shows.

This made me very happy!

[RebelOne]

3. Glad to see Kimmer go. Just wish they would get rid

of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on WSB 750. I listen to Hannity on my way home from work. That way I focus my rage on the radio and not the other idiot drivers.

[Vexatious Ape]

4. I sometimes tune into Boortz or Savage just to get my

"hate on". Christ do I miss AAR.