Klbj-Am 590

I find myself changing the channel more and more when listening to the Jeff Ward show. The recently withJeff Ward/​Ed Clements show or recently on the Todd & Don show spots are terrible and KLBJ plays the same ones for months, over and over and over. Why not just play more of the live show. I find that I listen less and less these days. Is KLBJ on auto pilot or something. Please stop repeating the same spots over and over. I bet during the whole Jeff Ward show, his live broadcast is less total time than the «recently with» spots. If we are listening to his show why do you need to advertise it to us?

I’ve been a listener for years. I REALLY miss the morning show with Mark, Ed & Sgt Sam. The Todd & Don show took over the morning slot — I’ve always been a fan, and they’re a close match to the former AM show. Their heated conversations will perk you up on the way to work and their dynamic keeps you entertained.
Jeff & Ed in the afternoon I absolutely love, love, love! Love them together! Jeff was great on his own, but adding Ed (love Ed! He’s hilarious) was a phenomenal choice, and makes it the best show on the station! (sorry Todd & Don, you’re a close runner-​up) They are funny, intelligent, and make my drive home on the parking lot known as 183 somewhat bearable. I don’t get to listen to Mark much anymore, unfortunately, for a couple of reasons (none to do with him, but the time slot & new co-​host) but he’s superb as well, a great moderator.
And I can’t forget the lady who always saves the day with the traffic reports, Melinda ~ thank you for having a personality & always being detailed with the updates, unlike most others in your field.
I don’t listen to any other shows on this station, they’re not for me — this rating is for the morning show, Jeff & Ed, & Melinda.
I don’t always agree with a lot the guys have to say, but that is what makes it interesting —perspectives, people!!! It’d be mind numbing to always listen to someone with the same arguements as your own.
It would be nice to have a female host on here, it’s sad that there’s not. But it is a conservative station, so not really surprised. It might broaden your audience a little, and lessen the sexist reputation… Just sayin’

I will change this review when you fix your I Heart Radio feed. Listening to 8 minutes of «Recently on Jeff Ward» every time you log on is ridiculous. I travel and want to keep up with local Austin news via the app, but every time I receive a phone call or make a request for directions, once again, I have another 8 minutes to listen to.

A radio station by and for bigots. They air Rush Limbaugh, the drug addict bigot who has been race baiting the country for decades. And they have their own morning show bigot, Sargent Sam.

Overall I like the station but the shows range from downright awful to great.
The morning show is painful to listen to. The constant quarreling between Sgt. Sam and Ed Clements is like listening to children argue politics. They are both uninformed and neither can make an intelligent argument. Ed Clements would be okay if he only talked about football. Mark Caesar has a good radio voice, and does a great job at staying on topic and corralling the other two.
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The Todd and Don show is my favorite. I think Todd is hilarious and has the best delivery in the biz. The banter between these two is great and usually gets a laugh out of me. I also love a well timed sound effect. My favorite is either Sgt. Sams dumbfounded «huh?», the XFiles theme, or the patriotic country music.
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Rush Limbaugh is my 3^rd favorite show on this station. He’s great at covering the days news stories from a conservative perspective. I also find his Obama impressions funny even though they sound nothing like him.
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Glen Beck I don’t care for, mostly because I can’t stand the way he responds to himself as someone else. If you’ve ever heard him tell a story that involves a discussion you know what I mean. It sounds immature and is just plain confusing. Also the constant «uh’s» are really annoying.
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Jeff Ward is okay, but he has this terrible habit of sighing loudly before responding to every question or call. It’s like he’s pouting over having to respond to people. It’s something you often hear from teenage girls not grown men.
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Ground Zero. Clyde Lewis’ show is stoner fodder, no more. The first thing you will notice is the seemingly endless annoying intro music/​sound effects before every segment. It’s completely unnecessary and serves no purpose other than to annoy you and waste as much time as possible. When he has guests on, he blindly accepts their bizarre ideas without asking any sensible (reality based) questions. He has a tendency to berate his callers with questions if they disagree with him and then hang up on them before they can respond. My biggest pet peeve about Lewis is how he strings together these long winded monologues of conspiracy theory vagaries and buzz words that make no sense by the time he’s done. You will OFTEN find yourself asking, «What the hell is this man talking about?»
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Coast to Coast is my 2^nd favorite show on this station. This is the show you want for paranormal discussions. Noori is easy to understand and he asks sensible questions. Keeps it simple.
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I listen to KLBJ whenever I’m home. Used to be able to listen to it over here in Afghanistan but they blocked it on our computers.
Mark, Ed, and Sam crack me up but they tell it like it is. Todd and Jeff, eh, listen to them but Todd has made some comments about the military that mad me mad.
Jeff Ward is great! My friend and I love listening to him. My friend even got me an autographed picture of him (even though he’s a Longhorn.)
I always enjoyed listening to Cactus Pryor. I’d sit in my car when I got to work and listen to his morning comments. it was sad when he passed.
I’d give 5 stars but some of the shows make me mad sometimes, as well as some of the hosts.
And to the guy who said «Cactus» was a redneck name, his real name was Richard, Cactus was his nickname. His father owned the Cactus theater downtown where he worked and took the name from that. So it’s not redneck. And Cactus was an actor, having starred in John Wayne movies, as well as an author.

Being a fan of talk radio (mainly sports), when I moved to Austin last year I scanned the dial and found this station. I have been an on-​and-​off listener since my move and am really suprised that this is the best Austin can do in this genre as far as locally originated programming is concerned.
The morning show of Mark, Ed, and Sgt. Sam is a multi-​hour long bitch session for three tired, old white dudes (makes me embaressed to be white). The negativity and ill-​informed statements that fill the show are tiresome and not something you really want to start your morning with. Just three not very bright guys sitting around complaining and not offering solutions. I can hear this stuff at work without commercials.
Next up, Todd and Don. Belabored humor and just pointless. A throwaway filler hour before Rush comes on.
Later in the day, Jeff Ward. Sometimes interesting. Most of the time tedious, lots of dead air, and more complaining.

This radio station is the worst garbage I have ever heard.
Don and Todd were caught saying «wetba*k» over 30 times on air. Great going Don you really showed «them colored folks» huh? YEE HAW !(pure hick trash in my opinion)
They never fired that ignorant slime bag Don. Because his daddy is «cactus» …are you kidding me «cactus» LOL that is some real hillbilly inbred stuff right there in my opinion.
Is it any wonder this piece of trash Don had to say «wetbac* «30 times.
Inbred genes would be my guess. KLBJ supported Don in saying this because they never fired the racist trash… oh well I guess this reflects on Austin as a whole their minds never grew past 1950.
When you hear «keep Austin weird» what it means is keep Austin in the 1950’s before «all them different non white folks moved here».keep it local Y’all.keep it in the family Y’All!

These four stars go to Dr. Dean Edell (Sunday afternoons), Todd and Don (weekdays, 10−11am), and of course Jeff Ward (weekdays, 3−7pm). I’ve actually had an email or two read on-​air by Mr. Ward, which is very rare indeed. Listen to his show on Fridays to hear film critic, Gary Cogill talk movies with Jeff and the callers.
I used to stomach the morning show often, but alas, my heathen ears are weary of Sgt. Sam’s holy-​rollin, «kids-​these-​days» rants. The Sgt. makes broad generalizations and grand assumptions about different groups of people, which, upon hearing, one can only smack one’s forehead. Always certain, and never right.

I love KLBJ AM! It’s great to have some conservative folks to listen to around here, when all of the patchouli starts making my head spin.
It’s interesting (and endlessly entertaining) that everyone rates this station so low, yet keeps on listening to it. Hrrrm! Boortz wrote some words about that in one of his books. Gotta love that man!
Sgt Sam is a good guy. He has morals and I love hearing him in the morning. Ed Clements is not too bright, but that makes him funny.
Jeff Ward is okay for a little while, but I get sick of the sports talk. I could do without Rush, but I dig when Mark Steyn steps in for him.
Good job, KLBJ! Thanks for the fun!

I listen to this idiot every day (Alex Jones) and he is right about many things and our country is in trouble for sure. He is not authentic he doesn’t REALLY care about the people or this country. Don’t buy a thing from this guy or you are being ripped pretty good. As an example go to
and see what you can truly buy gold and silver for. Scroll down to british sovereigns to the buy and sell prices every day. This guy would be great at snake oil sales or the shell game in times gone by. It’s unfortunate because there is no one authentically trying to save this place, possibly it lends more credibility to Revelations and it’s not to be avoided. Alex should move into Jimmy Swaggarts footsteps. «You too can be saved for $ 29.95!» PS the Panasonic DVD recorder allows you to skip ahead a minute at a time that is how I don’t even listen to a millisecond of yo yo brains commercials. Best to all; hope we pull out of this tailspin which in my opinion Jones is a part of. I got an Idea, lets send in an arsonist to put out the fire.

This station is TERRIBLE but I listen to it anyway. Sergeant Sam — God that man pisses me off, he’s such a blowhard even if I agree with him sometimes. The last thing I want to hear from somebody that talks into a microphone as their employment is that anyone else is lazy. I can just taste the irony when he goes off about single mothers or illegal aliens abusing the welfare system. Dude — I know you used to be a cop in like 1963 but in the here and now — you have no right to judge.
Other than that, I like catching Alex Jones on Sundays because he gets so riled up it cracks me up and also Coast to Coast AM with the chupacabra /​UFO /​ghost sightings. It’s nice to know that there are still people out there who BELIEVE and that they have a platform to stand on. Quality entertainment, even if it does make me angry about half the time.

Start with Two Stars, for being a local institution, and being one of the only talk/​news stations in town.
–1 Star — for Sgt Sam — who once said it would be ok for police to have x-​ray vision so they could look in your house to see what you were doing. — Seriously he said that. He is a 5 star moron. When he talks, I change the channel.
+1 Star — for Ed Clements — who somehow puts up with Sam, and is a guy you can sit down and have a cold one with.
–1 Star — for Joel Sebastian — who reads the news like Ben Stein taught Economics in Ferris Bueller. When he talks I change the channel.
+1 Star for hourly news and constant weather and traffic. When I’m the car on the hour, I change to channel to 590 KLBJ.
–1 Star for Rush, does anyone realize it is an act yet? I hate even accidentally hearing him. I only listen during weeks when I know I will see my father, because he will be talking about whatever Rush talked about.
–1 Star for Neal Boortz — who would think there could be yet another reason for Aggies to look stupid?
+1 Stars for Jeff Ward — even though he can be annoying a couple rants and a couple callers a week make the show worth it. Some of the people call in everyday trying to be funny. They are not funny. Movie review Fridays are great. So are most of the people that sit in for Jeff.
+1 Stars for Clark Howard — that’s good stuff there generally. A little dry, but good financial advice.
+1 Star for Coast to Coast AM — I love those Kookaburras.

Sure, KLBJ-​AM might be a home for right-​wing blowhards Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz to spout their rabidly conservative, jingoistic, xenophobic views, but it’s always good to «know thine enemy». Plus, it’s the only Austin radio station that gives local news every half hour and traffic every 10 minutes during rush hour. They should ditch the Fox News network newscasts at the top of the hour during the morning and afternoon drives and let their local anchors fill us in. Save the network crap for overnights.
Their afternoon drive guy, Jeff Ward, overindulges in pregnant pauses while speaking (I’m convinced that about 20 percent of his show is silence.), but at least he’s to the left of Attila the Hun (unlike Limbaugh and Boortz). Overnight they air Coast to Coast with George Noory, like almost every other news/​talk AM station in North America.
The weekend programming schedule is less political and has some interesting shows including one about local restaurants and another informative and entertaining national health show hosted by Dr. Dean Adell. There’s also the Kim Komando Show, a program that’s supposed to help baby boomers understand their computers. Mostly Kim just tells them what kind of software to buy.
Overall, they could probably do more with their news resources, but I’m still generally entertained by their talk show hosts, even if – as in the case of Limbaugh — I’m only listening to hear what outrageously bigoted thing they’ll say next.