One less RW voice on DFW radio:

[Liberal In Texas]

Kevin McCarthy gone!

McCarthy signs off at KFCD

01:02 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 3, 2005

The Dallas Morning News

Longtime Dallas radio personality Kevin McCarthy resigned Monday from talk station KFCD-AM (990) "Texas Talk Radio," ...

Mr. McCarthy was on KFCD (formerly KMSR) weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon. A Fox sports radio show ran in his normal slot on Monday. He'll continue co-hosting The CarGuy Show on Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. on WBAP-AM (820).

I'm sorry he (probably) got axed, becuase he used to be a pretty OK guy, but he's really been drinking the kool aid more and more in recent years.

Anyway, RW hate radio must have finally gotten oversaturated in the DFW market. Let's hope so.

[efhmc]

1. That guy has been there for AGES. Isn't it the most common thing to

be rw. Surely that is not what got him axed?

[ComplimentarySwine]

2. Maybe oversaturated. Maybe not...?

Another option may be that he couldn't compete with perhaps more extreme right-wing shows that are on opposite him, such as Glenn Beck on 570.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Poor ratings got him.

He wasn't the most extreme, and I often wondered last year if his schtick was being Mr. Republican because he thought that would sell better. That the bigger a GOP water-carrier he could be, the better his show would do.

You're probably right. The real extreme RW shows probably outdrew him as the freeper-ites would gravitate more to that.

If he'd been smart, he would of stuck to doing a more entertainment oriented show like he successfully did for many years in the 90's at KLIF. It would have been a welcome alternative to the RW crap you get on almost every other part of the AM spectrum.

It probably didn't help him that the stations signal was marginal. And now that AAR has joined the frey, it should be interesting to see how they do considering their somewhat weak signal.

It would be nice to think that AAR delivered the final punch that knocked him out of keeping any kind of ratings, but I don't think they've been on the air long enough to have had that kind of impact.

[Wright Patman]

4. Kevin McCarthy

began as a Top 40 deejay at the legendary Gordon McClendon's KLIF, the Mighty 1190. I was barely old enough to tune the dial.

KLIF switched to the frequency 570 fairly recently. I notice the station on 1190 has resurrected the "Mighty 1190" slogan and is playing Beatles music 24/7 until they figure out what to do next.

McCarthy was never all that political in his first years as a talk host in the 1970s for WFAA, IIRC. Neither was the other main host named Ed Busch. Both were more just personalities who schmoozed with their audiences and interviewed guests, who were sometimes politicians but usually astrologers, psychics, celebrity watchers, guys with free energy gizmos, etc.

He was socially liberal as would be expected of a guy still in his 20s who had just come out of being a rock music deejay. Other than that, who knew what his politics were ... whatever the Dallas "in crowd" wanted them to be, I would guess. Then he converted to Judaism at some point. That was pretty weird. He's an Irishman from Kentucky.

I saw a picture of him last year when 990 went on the air and was shocked at how old he looked. He talked about some kind of health scare he had had, too. He is still only about 55, even though he seems like he's been around forever.