`Breakfast with the Beatles' dropping off KLSX's menu

[I am the Paulrus]

`Breakfast with the Beatles' dropping off KLSX's menu

Monday, August 07, 2006

http://www.paulmccartney.name/Breakfast_with_the_Beatles_dropping_off_KLSXs_menu/1349.htm

Fans who tune in Sunday morning at 10 to KLSX-FM (97.1) will hear the same mix of Beatles songs, history and trivia they've gotten used to during the 23-year life of "Breakfast With the Beatles," radio's longest-running show dedicated to the Fab Four's music. But after that they'll only have three more chances to hear it.

Come Sept. 10, for the first time in a quarter-century, "BWTB" will go off the air. Officially, it will be "on hiatus," during football season, says KLSX program director Jack Silver. That's a shift from previous years when the show moved to an earlier, abbreviated slot to accommodate football broadcasts at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. each Sunday.

Host Chris Carter says the program faces an uncertain future, with some of the time it now occupies due to be taken over by paid programming.

Silver said a commitment to advertisers prompted the change and that "hopefully there will be a spot for it somewhere else in the fall schedule, and if not, we hope it will return on the first Sunday in January…. It's the only music feature we still have on the station. Chris is amazing, and fans of the station love it. I support it 100%."

Unless a new slot on KLSX materializes or another station picks up the show in the next few weeks, Carter's final Beatles show will be Sept. 3, the fifth anniversary of when he took over the program that started in 1983 on then-L.A. rock station KMET-FM and originally was hosted by Deirdre O'Donoghue, who died in 2001.

Carter said he hasn't given up hope of finding a new home for the show, which has been supported with call-ins from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's widow, Olivia.

"There are two words that describe the situation," Carter said. "Howard Stern. What's followed in the wake of Howard leaving is that a lot of things have changed, and the station has let go a lot of people. The guys at KLSX have been nothing but first-rate and cool. I'm in the big boys' club, and we all understand radio. But I enjoy doing the show so much it kills me to even think of it."

[VersusBatman]

Oh how awful. I love that show!

[I am the Paulrus]

to try and save the show:
http://www.savebreakfastwiththebeatles.com/

[franceska]

Please help all of us in Southern California keep our beloved Beatles show on the air. We fans have such a wonderful international community that we can all work together to make sure this wonderful program continues for another 23 years and beyond. To find out how you can help, please visit:

www.savebreakfastwiththebeatles.com

Thanks to all of you!!

Beatlette Frankie

[62hofner]

If this show leaves, that will give me yet another reason to leave L.A.! :scream2:

[beatlebangs1964]

Our oldies station folded on August 21, 2003. Now it's a talk radio and we don't have an oldies station anymore. Damn! Every Saturday night we had "Beatle Hour" and when I lived in another state, "Breakfast With the Beatles" was part of my Saturday routine.

Damn! I wish we had an oldies station with music from the LBJ Administration, cool oldies from the Ford Falcon era!

[instant karla]

http://dailynews.com/music/ci_4174954

Article Launched: 8/12/2006 11:59 PM
Chris Carter's fab faves
By Glenn Whipp, Staff Writer
U-Entertainment
A few of "Breakfast With the Beatles" host Chris Carter's favorite things:
Ten favorite Beatles songs (in the order Carter spontaneously reeled them off):

"Hey Bulldog"

"Sexy Sadie"

"I Me Mine"

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

"I'm Only Sleeping"

"Girl"

"Two of Us"

"I Am the Walrus"

"Norwegian Wood"

At this point, Carter, well aware the list only includes one McCartney song, pauses and pauses and pauses ... and then offers ...

"Wild Honey Pie" ("A goof, I know, but I love it," he says of the "White Album" song.)

Favorite Beatle personality: "George Harrison. John and Paul tried to be cool, but for George it came naturally. Watch him in ëA Hard Day's Night.' John had the wit, Paul the personality.

"But George always looked cool, dressed cool and acted cool."

Favorite Beatle, musically: "John's clearly my favorite songwriter in the Beatles years, and a lot of the credit for that goes to Paul. He made John's songs better. With George Martin and Paul McCartney, you wouldn't have songs like 'Hey Bulldog,' 'Strawberry Fields' and 'I Am the Walrus.' "

Who he'd host "Breakfast" with, if not the Beatles: David Bowie.

"For my money, Bowie was the Beatles of the '70s, maybe without the Beatlemania, but he influenced in the same huge way, especially in the U.K. He made six perfect — or nearly perfect — long-players in a 10-year span, just like the Beatles did in the 1960s."

Those "perfect — or nearly perfect" — LPs? For the Beatles: "A Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul," "Revolver," "Sgt. Pepper," "The White Album," "Abbey Road." For Bowie: "Hunky Dory," "Ziggy Stardust," "Aladdin Sane," "Diamond Dogs," "Station to Station," "Low/Heroes" (grouping those two albums together, given that both contain one side of songs and one side of Bowie/Brian Eno soundscapes).

[Magill]

If this show leaves, that will give me yet another reason to leave L.A.! :scream2:
What? You need more reasons? :laugh5:

I'm sorry to hear about this. I enjoyed his show and would flick it on when I'd remember it was on. Or, when I wasn't sleeping in. :laugh5: This show is an L.A. tradition and a mainstay for so many years. What a dirty, rotten shame it's going to end. Stupid corporate morons! Grrr! :angry1:

[See_How_They_Run]

Is this like Beatle Brunch? it sounds the same

[instant karla]

http://www.dailybreeze.com/rave/articles/3542782.html

Infomercials to replace long-running Beatles show

Sunday morning stalwart on KLSX radio will, like the group itself, become part of our history.
By Richard Wagoner

Growing up, my sister Susan used to listen to records by Barbra Streisand and the Beatles. A lot. So much so that I developed a deep hatred for anything from "Funny Girl," "Funny Lady" and the drug era of the Fab Four.

As for the pre-drug-era Beatles, listening to repetitive KRTH (101.1 FM) over the years contributed to that.

I am probably the only one in the world who feels this way, but I will admit it: I hate the Beatles. I thought I was over it when I bought the "One" CD a few years ago, but trying to listen was painful. I keep it in a closet now, away from a CD player.

That being said, I was taken by surprise when the news came out recently that the last segment of the long-running "Breakfast With the Beatles," Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon on KLSX (97.1 FM), would air Sept. 3.

Seems the tanking ratings brought on in part by Howard Stern's move to satellite radio has affected the bottom line of former affiliates such as KLSX, so general managers are scrambling to make money through paid programming. Infomercials.

That's right: "Breakfast With the Beatles" is being bumped off the schedule for programs that will hock products.

"Breakfast" began as a program hosted by the late Deirdre O'Donoghue in 1983 on KMET (now KTWV, 94.7 FM). When KMET changed formats to The Wave in 1986, KNX-FM (now KCBS-FM, 93.1) picked up the program for a couple of years.

In 1988, the show went to KLSX where it has stayed, surviving as the only music program on the station since it became all talk.

The program features popular and lesser-known songs from the Beatles as a group, as well as by the band members solo, along with interviews and features that have made it the longest-running and one of the most popular "Beatles" programs in the country.

Current host Chris Carter took over after O'Donoghue's death five years ago. Carter says he hopes fans will help save the program by writing to KLSX, encouraging management to find a spot.

Perhaps a better bet would be to convince KLOS (95.5 FM) programmer Rita Wilde that it would be a perfect addition to her classic rock station.

If the best a major market high-power FM station can do is run infomercials to help the bottom line, it is obvious that creativity is lacking.

[lennonluvr9]

Ew, that's sucky. I'm sorry for those of you who are losing that. We dont even have that on our oldies station. They have an Elvis show on Sunday mornings called Elvis Only.

[Miss Wendy Winters]

This is such a drag..I'm such a big fan of the show!! :nono2: Since I was a little girl I always looked forward to Sunday morning because I knew Breakfast with the Beatles was going to be on!! I'm heartbroken..I hope it gets saved!