Byline: Erika D. Smith
Oct. 9--If Emmis Communications Corp. wanted talk radio to be the talk of Indianapolis on Monday, it certainly succeeded.
The broadcaster is having trouble generating revenue from WNOU-FM (93.1). So Emmis banished the pop and hip-hop station to a mostly desolate high-definition tier, laid off all of WNOU's on-air personalities and started subjecting listeners to 93 days of Christmas music. Well, OK, it's 92 days now.
Emmis also said it soon would shift the long-running news-talk shows of WIBC-AM (1070) to the FM dial and flip the format of that AM station to sports talk as the city's only ESPN affiliate.
Some listeners criticized Emmis ...