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Huckabee is done in December
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Dennis Miller's time slot is moving from 10a-1p E to noon-3pm E. Cumulus is trying to acquire Miller's syndicator, Westwood One. I think we have our answer.
The announcement was officially made on Facebook that the talk show will end in a couple of weeks--although the daily feature (The Huckabee Report) will continue.
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2728873&spid=24698
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/124719/mike-huckabee-to-end-radio-show
That's the big question right now.
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2728873&spid=24698
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/124719/mike-huckabee-to-end-radio-show
What's Cumulus plugging into the Geraldo spot for affiliates that are losing him?
That's the big question right now.
This is a different show. I'm happy to say the show that replaced Paul Harvey's will continue.I think Huck's radio show got a push after the death of Paul Harvey. A couple of stations I know of that had broadcast Paul for decades picked up the Huckabee show and aired it in the same slot.
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Mario500
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^What is the name of the other program and which of Paul Harvey's programs was replaced by this other program ("Paul Harvey News and Comment" or "The Rest of the Story")?
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FredLeonard
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Neither Huckabee or Fred Thompson are anywhere close to Paul Harvey. Of all the regular subs for Ol' Paul, the only one who came close was Paul, Jr. Anyone know why he didn't take over the show? I always guessed he was happy to finally get out of the old man's shadow and do what he wanted with his life but I never heard or read anything about it, or what Paul, Jr. is doing these days. Did he go back to being a pianist or what?
^What is the name of the other program and which of Paul Harvey's programs was replaced by this other program ("Paul Harvey News and Comment" or "The Rest of the Story")?
As mentioned above, The Huckabee Report is the daily feature (actually offered thrice per day). Officially, though, Paul Harvey's replacements were Gil Gross and Doug Limerick; The Huckabee Report ended up getting thrown into the mix (with each person, IIRC, being offered once per day)--and then became the only one that survived.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Huckabee resurfaces soon at Clear Channel-owned Premiere Networks as the company's new national morning-drive host, displacing dozens of local morning shows at CC-owned talk stations around the country.
Besides, CC's newest acquisition, WOR-710 New York, needs a morning host. By hiring Huckabee, he could be based at WOR and also be syndicated to all of CC's other talk stations.
It would be logical for CC, they would get a "name" around whom they could build a national morning show, and substantially cut costs since dozens of CC employees working on local morning talk shows would be let go.
Besides the local hosts, producers, etc. who would lose their jobs because of a syndicated morning-drive Huckabee show, there is one other significant downside: Were Huckabee to become the morning show for all CC-owned talk stations, most of those stations would lose their only local weekday show (since most CC talk stations that now have local afternoon-drive shows will likely cancel such shows in the next few weeks to make way for live clearances of Sean Hannity).
In fact, I wonder if the recent departure of the regionally-syndicated "Quinn and Rose" show from some CC talk stations was a step towards the company eventually launching a national morning-drive talk show, whether or not Mike Huckabee hosts it.
Besides, CC's newest acquisition, WOR-710 New York, needs a morning host. By hiring Huckabee, he could be based at WOR and also be syndicated to all of CC's other talk stations.
It would be logical for CC, they would get a "name" around whom they could build a national morning show, and substantially cut costs since dozens of CC employees working on local morning talk shows would be let go.
Besides the local hosts, producers, etc. who would lose their jobs because of a syndicated morning-drive Huckabee show, there is one other significant downside: Were Huckabee to become the morning show for all CC-owned talk stations, most of those stations would lose their only local weekday show (since most CC talk stations that now have local afternoon-drive shows will likely cancel such shows in the next few weeks to make way for live clearances of Sean Hannity).
In fact, I wonder if the recent departure of the regionally-syndicated "Quinn and Rose" show from some CC talk stations was a step towards the company eventually launching a national morning-drive talk show, whether or not Mike Huckabee hosts it.
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FredLeonard
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I listened to Huckabee's show - once. He just wasn't very good. It's not enough to be a "name." A good number of names have tried to do talk radio and fallen flat. And he may tell the great right-wing unwashed what it wants to hear. Don't they all? Giving the devil his due, Rush is - or was - a radio and he knows how to do radio. And that is the key ingredient. I don't doubt the bean counters at Bain Channel would like to get rid of all their morning hosts and have one national show. I doubt they'd care if they destroy the last vestige or local radio on their blow-torch talkers. They should care that they'd destroy the last reason people in the audience have to care about the station. Besides, many of those local hosts will get jobs cross-town and take their audiences with them.
0/10 Wrong as always.I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Huckabee resurfaces soon at Clear Channel-owned Premiere Networks as the company's new national morning-drive host, displacing dozens of local morning shows at CC-owned talk stations around the country.
Besides, CC's newest acquisition, WOR-710 New York, needs a morning host. By hiring Huckabee, he could be based at WOR and also be syndicated to all of CC's other talk stations.
It would be logical for CC, they would get a "name" around whom they could build a national morning show, and substantially cut costs since dozens of CC employees working on local morning talk shows would be let go.
Besides the local hosts, producers, etc. who would lose their jobs because of a syndicated morning-drive Huckabee show, there is one other significant downside: Were Huckabee to become the morning show for all CC-owned talk stations, most of those stations would lose their only local weekday show (since most CC talk stations that now have local afternoon-drive shows will likely cancel such shows in the next few weeks to make way for live clearances of Sean Hannity).
In fact, I wonder if the recent departure of the regionally-syndicated "Quinn and Rose" show from some CC talk stations was a step towards the company eventually launching a national morning-drive talk show, whether or not Mike Huckabee hosts it.
You all suck at this.
In markets where Cumulus doesn't clear Rush, they seem to be filling that gap with local shows. KSFO is an example. They now have the 'KSFO Talk Show' in Huckabee's former slot. It's clear that Cumulus was positioning Huckabee to take Rush's place and when they re-signed to carry him, had no need for another national host for that timeslot. I wish they would pick up Miller for these slots as it would give a place to pick up his show when Rush has a guest host.
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Mario500
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WCOA-FM in Pensacola, Florida replaced Mike Huckabee's former program with a local program called "IN Your Head Radio".
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Huckabee resurfaces soon at Clear Channel-owned Premiere Networks as the company's new national morning-drive host, displacing dozens of local morning shows at CC-owned talk stations around the country.
Besides, CC's newest acquisition, WOR-710 New York, needs a morning host. By hiring Huckabee, he could be based at WOR and also be syndicated to all of CC's other talk stations.
It would be logical for CC, they would get a "name" around whom they could build a national morning show, and substantially cut costs since dozens of CC employees working on local morning talk shows would be let go.
Besides the local hosts, producers, etc. who would lose their jobs because of a syndicated morning-drive Huckabee show, there is one other significant downside: Were Huckabee to become the morning show for all CC-owned talk stations, most of those stations would lose their only local weekday show (since most CC talk stations that now have local afternoon-drive shows will likely cancel such shows in the next few weeks to make way for live clearances of Sean Hannity).
In fact, I wonder if the recent departure of the regionally-syndicated "Quinn and Rose" show from some CC talk stations was a step towards the company eventually launching a national morning-drive talk show, whether or not Mike Huckabee hosts it.
I cannot think of a less compelling figure to put on mornings in NYC than Mike Huckabee.
You cannot be serious.
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