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Random walk hypothesis Behavioral
RWHB Radio WHB
WHB (810 AM) is a commercial sports radio station in Kansas City, Missouri.
While its five directional towers are located along Interstate 435 in the
Northland, its studios are located in the suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, also
the headquarters of its owner, Union Broadcasting.
WHB is the Kansas City market affiliate for Kansas State Wildcats and UMKC
Kangaroos athletics.
Early broadcasting years (1922-1954)
Established by Sam Adair and John T. Schilling, WHB debuted on April 10, 1922 at
the frequency 833 kHz, and remains Kansas City's second oldest radio station.
WHB formally gained its license on May 10. Originally owned by Sweeney
Automotive School, Cook's Paint and Varnish Company purchased the station in
1930. The station jumped between 730 kHz and 850 kHz before 1946, when the
Federal Communications Commission authorized the station to broadcast at its
desired position at 710 kHz.
The station published a quarterly magazine called Swing, keeping readers up to
date with the Kansas City music scene, which had waned in the wake of the
Pendergast Machine's downfall and World War II.
While owned by Cook, WHB expanded briefly into FM radio and television,
operating on the frequency 102.1 MHz (now KCKC-FM) and sharing Channel 9 with
KMBC-TV.
Todd Storz and "SEVENTY-ONEderful" (1954-1985)
Omaha entrepreneur Todd Storz and his Mid-Continent Broadcasting Company
purchased WHB from Cook on June 10, 1954. Upon the sale, WHB-TV was absorbed by
KMBC-TV, which Cook purchased the month before.
Building on his successful attempts at increasing listenership at KOWH in Omaha
(now KCRO) and WTIX-AM in New Orleans, Storz discontinued WHB's network
affiliation programming and introduced a Top 40 format. WHB became an instant
hit in Kansas City, becoming the most popular station by the end of the year.
With 10,000 watts in the daytime, WHB became one of the most powerful Top-40
stations in the country, attracting programming directors and station owners
from across the country to observe Storz's operations. One observer was Gordon
McLendon, who went back to Dallas and introduced his version of Top-40 radio at
KLIF-AM. Another personage, Rick Sklar, also heard WHB and adapted elements of
its format to build Top-40 formats in New York City, most notably, Musicradio 77
WABC, which became the most listened to radio station in North America during
the 1970s. There is another New York connection. Ruth Meyer worked at WHB in the
late 1950s, and went on to become the program director of WMCA, leading the
station to the position of #1 pop music station in New York between 1963 and
1966.
Storz cultivated listenership numbers by one of his treasure hunts. One day in
1955, WHB broadcast clues telling listeners where they might find a prize worth
$1000. After leading listeners throughout the metropolitan, the final clue
resulted in traffic tie-ups outside Loose Park as listeners tried to be the
first to find the station's logo painted on the back of a turtle. Although
listenership soared to as much as 50 percent, KCMO police chief Bernard Brannon
suggested in the June 4, 1956 issue of Time Magazine that Storz's treasure hunts
should be banned. Storz continued to operate daily, weekly, and monthly cash
promotions to maintain listenership.
WHB also pioneered the talk radio format with their late-night program "NiteBeat".
Using a multi-line system invented by WHB engineer Dale Moody, deejays and hosts
could field calls from across the Midwest as guests from all walks of life
visited the studio. WHB also kept their listeners informed with "News at 55" and
a world time check at the top of every hour, which the station claimed to be
accurate "to 1/20000 of a second."
"Yours truly, WHB"
WHB used the melodic and catchy PAMS jingles to keep listeners tuned to the
station, as well as limiting the number of commercials per hour and a tight
playlist limited to songs on the Top 40. Those jingles called WHB the "World's
Happiest Broadcasters."
WHB's popularity increased as songs on the Top 40 began to include rock and roll
hits by Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, and The Beatles. Months after the Beatles
landed in the United States, Todd Storz died of a stroke at age 39. Despite
Storz's death, WHB remained on top, as prolific deejays including Johnny Dolan
and Phil Jay commanded the WHB Air Force. As late as 1981, WHB's ratings
remained in the double digits.
Decline of AM
WHB, however, could not fend off the increasing competition from FM radio.
Starting in 1972 with KBEQ-FM, WHB's listenership declined as more Kansas
Citians listened to their favorite hits with less interference. While KBEQ and
KUDL transitioned from their AM to FM frequencies, WHB never acquired an FM
frequency, nor did any of their sister stations.
Oldies (1985-1993)
Storz Broadcasting, then led by Todd's father Robert, sold WHB to Shamrock
Broadcasting, a group led by Roy Disney, in 1985. WHB discontinued Top-40 in
favor of an oldies format, capitalizing on the playlists they maintained in the
past. In 1989, KCMO-FM became Oldies 95 and quickly won over former WHB
listeners. Once commanding 50 percent of Kansas City's 1.1 million radio
listeners, WHB only attained a 1.2 rating in Winter 1990.
"The Farm" (1993-1999)
Shamrock leased WHB in 1993 to Apollo Communications, who upon buying the
station on September 24, sold the station to Kanza Communications of Carrollton,
Missouri. Kanza simulcasted their farm format already playing on FM stations in
Carrollton and Tarkio, Missouri. Competing with four other country stations in
Kansas City alone (including longtime rival WDAF, still at 610 kHz, and KBEQ,
who switched to country in February), WHB struggled to gain a sufficient
audience. A frequency swap with talk radio station KCMO-AM on October 3, 1998
gave WHB a larger daytime coverage area. However, the station could not remain
at 50,000 watts overnight, as KGO in San Francisco, California and WGY in
Schenectady, New York have clear channel dominance.
Today: "Sportsradio"
Union Broadcasting, led by banker Jerry Green, former Royals pitcher Jeff
Montgomery, broadcaster Kevin Kietzman and Chad Boeger, owner of the sports
station KCTE-AM in Independence, Missouri, purchased WHB from Kanza for an
unprecedented USD$8 million. Because KCTE could only broadcast in the daytime,
Union transferred the sports radio format, including news from ESPN Radio and
games from the Westwood One radio network, to WHB in October 1999. In response,
Entercom moved WDAF to FM in 2002 to make way for a rival sports station, KCSP-AM.
Jason Whitlock, Bill Maas, and Tim Grunhard were a part of the first years of
WHB programming. All three left for KCSP. Only Grunhard remains on the air at
KCSP. Soren Petro joined WHB after KMBZ ended sports talk and moved it to KCSP.
He started in January 2004.
WHB picked up broadcasting rights to Kansas City Royals baseball games in 2003,
allowing its Arbitron ratings share to peak in the spring at 4.0. In 2007, WHB
withdrew its bid to renew their rights and Entercom will broadcast games on KCSP
beginning in 2008. Even when the Royals are not playing, WHB still maintains a
sizably larger audience than KCSP, yet considers FM rock stations KQRC, KYYS,
and KCFX their primary rivals for listeners in the 18-49 male market. "Between
the Lines", hosted by Kevin Kietzman, former WDAF-TV sportscaster, from 2-5
p.m., ranks among the top-rated shows in the city. However, Petro consistently
obtains higher ratings than Kietzman in a less favorable time slot. Another WDAF
sportscaster Frank Boal also hosts a show. He sometimes is paired up with Metro
Sports and former KMBC's Dave Stewart or with Len Dawson or ex-Royals George
Brett or Joe Randa and announcer Kevin Harlan, among a list of rotating people
on that show. WHB is now one of the nation's largest all-sports radio stations,
with their signal reaching to Iowa, Nebraska, part of Oklahoma, and far western
Kansas except after 8:00 pm when the station must power down.
WHB and Union's programming options have broadened, airing Kansas City Brigade
arena football games since the team's inception in 2006. On January 4, 2007,
sister station KCXM became a full simulcast of ESPN Radio, allowing WHB to focus
more on local sports talk. Days later, Jerry Green, the majority shareholder in
Union Broadcasting, filed suit against Boeger and Union Broadcasting, for the
switch to sports talk on KCXM. Green, whose health had been declining,
eventually would remove his interest from Union Broadcasting and died on August
15, 2007, at the age of 77.
In 2007, host "Bulldog" Bob Fescoe left WHB for Saint Louis sports station KFNS.
Personalities then and now
1922-1954
* Sam Adair
* Bob Arbogast
* Emory Sweeney
* John T. Schilling
* Hobie Shep
1954-1993
* Don Armstrong
* Jay Walter Beethoven
* Walt Bodine
* Dan Diamond
* Johnny Dolan
* Richard Ward Fatherly
* Phil Jay
* Don Laughnane
* Dan O'Shea
* Wayne Stitt
* Jeff Roberts
* Wayne Combs
* Charles Gray
* Annie Austin
* Dan Donovan
* Pam Whiting
* Chickenman
Current Sportsradio
* Dave Armstrong
* Frank Boal
* Nate Bukaty
* Danny Clinkscale
* Kevin Harlan
* Todd Leabo
* Kevin Kietzman
* Soren Petro
* Steven St. John
* Kurtis Seaboldt
* Dave Stewart
* Doug Stewart
Random walk hypothesis Behavioral
The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory stating that stock market
prices evolve according to a random walk and thus the prices of the stock market
cannot be predicted. It has been described as 'jibing' with the efficient market
hypothesis. Investors, economists, and other financial behaviorists have
historically accepted the random walk hypothesis. They have run several tests
and continue to believe that stock prices are completely random because of the
efficiency of the market.
The term was popularized by the 1973 book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by
Burton Malkiel, currently a Professor of Economics and Finance at Princeton
University.
Testing the hypothesis
Burton G. Malkiel, an economist professor at Princeton University and writer of
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, performed a test where his students were given a
hypothetical stock that was initially worth fifty dollars. The closing stock
price for each day was determined by a coin flip. If the result was heads, the
price would close a half point higher, but if the result was tails, it would
close a half point lower. Thus, each time, the price had a fifty-fifty chance of
closing higher or lower than the previous day. Cycles or trends were determined
from the tests. Malkiel then took the results in a chart and graph form to a
chartist (a person who “seeks to predict future movements by seeking to
interpret past patterns on the assumption that ‘history tends to repeat
itself’”) (Keane 11). The chartist told Malkiel that they needed to immediately
buy the stock. When Malkiel told him it was based purely on flipping a coin, the
chartist was very unhappy. This indicates that the market and stocks could be
just as random as flipping a coin.
The random walk hypothesis was also applied to NBA basketball. Psychologists
made a detailed study of every shot the Philadelphia 76ers made over one and
one-half seasons of basketball. The psychologists found no positive correlation
between the previous shots and the outcomes of the shots afterwards. Economists
and believers in the random walk hypothesis apply this to the stock market. The
actual lack of correlation of past and present can be easily seen. If a stock
goes up one day, no stock market participant can accurately predict that it will
rise again the next. Just as a basketball player with the “hot hand” can miss
his or her next shot, the stock that seems to be on the rise can fall at any
time, making it completely random.
A non-random walk hypothesis
There are other economists, professors, and investors who believe that the
market is predictable to some degree. The people believe that there are trends
and incremental changes in the prices and when looking at them, one can
determine whether the stock is on the rise or fall. There have been key studies
done by economists and a book has been written by two professors of economics
that try to prove the random walk hypothesis wrong.
Martin Weber, a leading researcher in behavioral finance, has done many tests
and studies on finding trends in the stock market. In one of his key studies, he
observed the stock market for ten years. Over those ten years, he looked at the
market prices and looked for any kind of trends. He found that stocks with high
price increases in the first five years tended to become under-performers in the
following five years. Weber and other believers in the non-random walk
hypothesis cite this as a key contributor and contradictor to the random walk
hypothesis.
Another test that Weber ran that contradicts the random walk hypothesis was
finding stocks that have had an upward revision for earnings outperform other
stocks in the forthcoming six months. With this knowledge, investors can have an
edge in predicting what stocks to pull out of the market and which stocks — the
stocks with the upward revision — to leave in. Martin Weber’s studies detract
from the random walk hypothesis, because according to Weber there are trends and
other tips to predicting the stock market.
Professors Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay, professors of Finance at the MIT
Sloan School of Management and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively,
have also tried to prove the random walk theory wrong. They wrote the book A
Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, which goes through a number of tests and
studies that try to prove there are trends in the stock market and that they are
somewhat predictable. They try to prove it with what is called the simple
volatility-based specification test, which is an equation that states:
X_t = \mu + X_{t-1} + \epsilon_t\,
where
Xt is the price of the stock at time t
μ is an arbitrary drift parameter
εt is a random disturbance term.
With this equation, they have been able to put in stock prices over the last
number of years, and figure out the trends that have unfolded (Non-Random 19).
They have found small incremental changes in the stocks throughout the years.
Through these changes, Lo and MacKinlay believe that the stock market is
predictable, thus contradicting the random walk hypothesis.
Random walk hypothesis vs. market trends
The hypothesis does have its detractors. Research in behavioral finance has
shown that some phenomena, for example market trends, might in some cases
contradict that hypothesis.
Profs. Andrew W. Lo of MIT and A. Craig MacKinlay set about to prove the theory
wrong with their paper and synonymous book, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall St.,
published in 1999 by the Princeton University Press. They argue that the random
walk does not exist and that even the casual observer can look at the many stock
and index charts generated over the years and see the trends. If the market were
random, it is argued, there would never be the many long rises and declines so
clearly evident in those charts. Subscribers to the random walk hypothesis
counter-argue that past performance cannot be indicative of future performance
in a semi-strong market economy.
Prediction Company, started by chaos physicists Norman Packard and Doyne Farmer,
has been attempting to predict the stock market since 1991. So far, they have
proved moderately successful.
Rain Water harvesting Building
Traditionally, rainwater harvesting has been practiced in arid and semi-arid
areas, and has provided drinking water, domestic water, water for livestock,
water for small irrigation and a way to replenish ground water levels. This
method may have been used extensively by the Indus Valley Civilization.
Currently in China and Brazil, rooftop rainwater harvesting is being practiced
for use for all the above purposes. Gansu province in China and semi-arid north
east Brazil have the largest rooftop rainwater harvesting projects ongoing.
Rainwater harvesting in urban areas can have manifold reasons. To provide
supplemental water for the city's requirement, to increase soil moisture levels
for urban greenery, to increase the ground water table through artificial
recharge, to mitigate urban flooding and to improve the quality of groundwater
are some of the reasons why rainwater harvesting can be adopted in cities. In
urban areas of the developed world, at a household level, harvested rainwater
can be used for flushing toilets and washing laundry. Indeed in hard water areas
it is superior to mains water for this. It can also be used for showering or
bathing. It may require treatment prior to use for drinking.
Two residences in the city of Toronto, Canada, use treated harvested rainwater
for drinking water, and reuse water (i.e. treated wastewater) for all other
household water applications including toilet flushing, bathing, showers,
laundry, and garden irrigation (Toronto Healthy House).
In New Zealand, many houses away from the larger towns and cities routinely rely
on rainwater collected from roofs as the only source of water for all household
activities. This is almost inevitably the case for many holiday homes.
Systems
There are many types of systems to harvest rainwater. The type used depends on
physical and human considerations.
A mechanism can be used to send the initial water flow to waste, usually the
first few liters. These are commonly known as 'first-flush' diverters, and are
used to increase the chance that the large-particle residue that might
accumulate on your collection surface is washed away from (and not into) your
storage tank. Such a system also compensates for the fact that the initial
minutes of a rainfall can include airborne pollutants being washed from the sky
, and likewise minimizes contamination of your captured supply. Simple but
regular inspection and maintenance of such a device is usually necessary.
Not all catchment systems use such a feature. For example, rainwater in rural
areas of Australia is traditionally used without such a system, and without
treatment, but this may be unwise in different environments.
In India, reservoirs called tankas were used to store water; typically they were
shallow with mud walls. Ancient tankas still exist in some places.
Rainwater may also be used for groundwater recharge, where the runoff on the
ground is collected and allowed to be absorbed, adding to the groundwater. In
US, rooftop rainwater is collected and stored in sump. In India this includes
Bawdis and johads, or ponds which collect the run-off from small streams in wide
area.
Quality
As rainwater may be contaminated, it is often not considered suitable for
drinking without treatment. However, there are many examples of rainwater being
used for all purposes — including drinking — following suitable treatment.
Rainwater harvested from roofs can contain animal and bird feces, mosses and
lichens, windblown dust, particulates from urban pollution, pesticides, and
inorganic ions from the sea (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cl, SO4), and dissolved gases (CO2,
NOx, SOx). High levels of pesticide have been found in rainwater in Europe the
highest concentrations occurring in the first rain immediately after a dry
spell; the concentration of these and other contaminants are reduced
significantly by diverting the initial flow of water to waste, as described
above. The water may need to be analysed properly, and used in a way appropriate
to its safety. In Gansu province, for example, harvested rainwater is boiled in
parabolic solar cookers before being used for drinking. In Brazil alum and
chlorine is added to disinfect water before consumption. Appropriate technology
methods such as solar water disinfection, provide low-cost disinfection options
for treatment of stored rainwater for drinking.
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