After the most recent few weeks of absence, listeners began speculating on Darrell Ankarlo’s whereabouts or whether or not he is still with the station. It’s official, and it is now true.
The late morning talk show host has split ways with News/Talk 92.3 KTAR-FM. The news came from Ankarlo’s Facebook account, which is ran by his wife, Laurie Ankarlo.
“To answer everyone’s questions… KTAR and Darrell sadly parted ways today,” Laurie wrote Tuesday evening. “You have been awesome thank you for all your love and support!”
It was over a year since the car accident which left Darrell with a traumatic brain injury and off-the-air for several months. He had attempted to return to his show too soon, in which he had a case of the hiccups– a respiratory reflex brought on by serious injury to the brain. He was sent home by Bonneville to take time to recover. It took about five months, but Bonneville, the company that owns KTAR, stayed by his side to await his full-recovery.
No news is known as to who will be permanently placed in KTAR-FM’s 9am to noon slot.
The latest comes from Darrell Ankarlo’s wife, who runs Darrell’s Facebook account:
“As soon as we know you will know! Darrell misses talking to you all! The news is driving him crazy! Ben and I are thinking about not paying our cable bill so he can’t watch! Much love and appreciation, Laurie”
KTAR AM and FM came together for an on-air fundraising campaign yesterday. Together they raised $407,616 for the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center.
The “call to public service remains,” and so former Representative turned talk show host, J.D. Hayworth, says goodbye to his listeners today on Clear Channel’s news/talk 550 KFYI.
The brand-new programming schedule is not yet released. There is speculation on whether Mike Broomhead will get J.D.’s afternoon shift, or if the Nearly Famous Barry Young gets the earlier shift.
Hayworth is scheduled to appear on Darrell Ankarlo’s show at 10am on News/Talk 92.3 KTAR.
Posted on 11 December 2009 by PhoenixAirchecks.com
KTAR-AM and FM sister station, 98.7 The Peak (KPKX) has made the successful move to their palatial new building at 16th St. and Northern Ave. Now it was time to complete the move move this weekend, with KTAR following suit.
All throughout Friday, December 11, KTAR hosts mentioned it being the last day they would be broadcasting from their Central Avenue location of 13 years, and the move was happening– as they spoke. The shows still went on, just about unhitched, despite much behind-the-scenes packing and preparation going on.
Joe Crummey’s show, though hosted from Los Angeles, is fed back into the Central Ave. studio making it officially the last live, locally-oriented radio show to broadcast from the old building. The night was complete with occasional technical errors with soundbytes, audio processing, and once, a “testing” from a studio mic.
Posted on 08 December 2009 by PhoenixAirchecks.com
Tuesday morning power outages in the Valley have not only left an estimated 18,000 people without electricity, according to APS spokeswoman Jenna Henry, but also briefly knocked out several major Phoenix FM radio stations.
Several– if not a majority– of the FM stations went to static around 10:27am. The static lasted for a minute or two before broadcasts returned on-air. A few others, like KOOL-FM, went from static to silence for a few moments more.
A second occurrence reportedly occurred just minutes shy of 11am, that affected Bonneville’s KPKX and KTAR-FM. Since both stations returned just before the noon hour, we presume the hour was used for transmitter work. Both are located on South Mountain, which supports a majority of Phoenix FM radio station transmitters.
Posted on 02 December 2009 by PhoenixAirchecks.com
Fybush.com’s “Tower Site Calendar 2010″ is hot off the press and ready for the many radio engineers, broadcasters, and enthusiasts alike to adorn their wall with. And many do, as a tradition. The 2010 calendar will make it the ninth year of its existence.
Included in the 2010 calendar will be a nice color photo of the KTAR-AM tower site at — you know, one of the few tower sites to be located in a great big parking lot– aptly named Tower Plaza. We won’t ruin the excitement by reporting what month KTAR-AM’s tower site is designated to, but it will be there.
It will be just one among many other tower sites taken by Scott Fybush in his travels around the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The calendar proves radio towers to be unique, and not only for its surroundings whether they are in an urban area or in beautiful mountains.
Posted on 10 November 2009 by PhoenixAirchecks.com
Former Valley talker Charles Goyette appeared last night as a guest on nationally syndicated radio show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.
Goyette, who has been a talk show host on such stations as KFYI, KTAR, KXXT, and most recent, KFNX, spoke about his views on a looming financial crisis yet to come for America and viable investments to deal with it– topics all of which are included in his new book, The Dollar Meltdown.
Since the guest appearance, The Dollar Meltdown spent its first day in Amazon.com’s top 100 Bestsellers at 18th place.
Goyette is now set to hold a discussion and book signing in Scottsdale Thursday. It begins at 7pm at the Barnes & Noble on 90th St. south of Shea.
After the most recent few weeks of absence, listeners began speculating on Darrell Ankarlo’s whereabouts or whether or not he is still with the station. It’s official, and it is now true.
