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Michael DelGiorno Goes National

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TheBigA

The Michael DelGiorno Show has been airing on a number of iHeart talk stations. Starting next month, the show will get wider distribution from iHeart-owned Premiere Networks:

www.insideradio.com

Michael DelGiorno Show To Be Distributed By Premiere Networks.

“Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno” joins Premiere Networks’ nationally syndicated radio lineup. Currently heard on 25 affiliates, the three-hour morning program will be available through the network on Monday,
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The pickings in for talk shows in syndication were extremely slim before 9am eastern, so this will give talk programmers a new choice. Premiere previously did not have anything between the end of Coast 2 Coast and the start of Glenn Beck.
 
TheBigA said:
The Michael DelGiorno Show has been airing on a number of iHeart talk stations. Starting next month, the show will get wider distribution from iHeart-owned Premiere Networks:

www.insideradio.com

Michael DelGiorno Show To Be Distributed By Premiere Networks.

“Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno” joins Premiere Networks’ nationally syndicated radio lineup. Currently heard on 25 affiliates, the three-hour morning program will be available through the network on Monday,
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com
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The preimere website page for this show says this show is currently on 25 stations already..... which ones are those?
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
The pickings in for talk shows in syndication were extremely slim before 9am eastern, so this will give talk programmers a new choice. Premiere previously did not have anything between the end of Coast 2 Coast and the start of Glenn Beck.
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Is this show more of a news based show similar to this morning with Gordon Deal? Or is it a talk caller centered format?
 
Syfy said:
The preimere website page for this show says this show is currently on 25 stations already..... which ones are those?
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He originally was the local morning host at WLAC Nashville before Premiere Networks decided to syndicate him. A number of iHeart talk stations are now running DelGiorrno. Most are in medium markets where having a local wake-up host would be too costly. Others are in the West, where this show runs in the early morning hours after Coast to Coast AM but before dawn. Previously these stations simply ran George Noory over again.

KTOK Oklahoma City, KAKC Tulsa have him in morning drive. KSTE Sacramento and KENI Anchorage run him after C2C.
 
Syfy said:
Is this show more of a news based show similar to this morning with Gordon Deal? Or is it a talk caller centered format?
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If it’s anything like the shows he's done the last 20 or so years, it’s probably going to be mostly him spouting off right wing talking points.

I mentioned on another thread that I interned at a station where he was PD in the early 90’s. I didn’t interact much with him. I was usually with the news department and the FM down the hall. The handful of interactions I had with him were pleasant, and he never caused me any problems. He did, however, have a reputation. I got the impression the news department didn’t care much for him, but it wasn’t much of a fan of anyone on the programming side. I don’t remember his politics being anywhere near as radical as they became about 10 years later either. He probably didn’t have to change much, though, as he was definitely never a liberal.
 
Kent said:
If it’s anything like the shows he's done the last 20 or so years, it’s probably going to be mostly him spouting off right wing talking points.

I mentioned on another thread that I interned at a station where he was PD in the early 90’s. I didn’t interact much with him. I was usually with the news department and the FM down the hall. The handful of interactions I had with him were pleasant, and he never caused me any problems. He did, however, have a reputation. I got the impression the news department didn’t care much for him, but it wasn’t much of a fan of anyone on the programming side. I don’t remember his politics being anywhere near as radical as they became about 10 years later either. He probably didn’t have to change much, though, as he was definitely never a liberal.
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I get the impression from you he’d give the political opinion on air of whoever is paying him the most…. Was the station you interned at a right wing talk station or? Would that have been krmg Tulsa?
 
Just as we were discussing DelGiorno, he gets a new affiliate in Market #4. An iHeart station had been leased to Bloomberg Radio for the last 10 years, 960 KNEW. That lease ends Monday. So KNEW will air Fox Sports in the daytime and Premiere Networks shows during the night. That means Jesse Kelly at 7 p.m., Coast to Coast AM with George Noory at 10 p.m. And at 3 a.m. (which is 6 in the East), KNEW will carry Michael DelGiorno.
 
Gregg. said:
He originally was the local morning host at WLAC Nashville before Premiere Networks decided to syndicate him. A number of iHeart talk stations are now running DelGiorrno. Most are in medium markets where having a local wake-up host would be too costly. Others are in the West, where this show runs in the early morning hours after Coast to Coast AM but before dawn. Previously these stations simply ran George Noory over again.

KTOK Oklahoma City, KAKC Tulsa have him in morning drive. KSTE Sacramento and KENI Anchorage run him after C2C.
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He was at WWTN before he went to WLAC.
 
Syfy said:
I get the impression from you he’d give the political opinion on air of whoever is paying him the most…. Was the station you interned at a right wing talk station or? Would that have been krmg Tulsa?
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It was KRMG and KWEN. KRMG was mostly right wing talk, though John Ehrling could adopt progressive views once-in-awhile, especially when discussing local issues.

Before he worked for KRMG, DelGiorno was at KNTL 104.9 during its FM talk experiment, which didn’t last long. KNTL was owned by Pat Robertson, who bought the station from Jimmy Swaggart when it was KJIL (King Jesus Is Lord). I can’t pretend to know what his actual political views are, but I can’t imagine anyone who tilted left working for Pat Robertson. I do remember being surprised at how far right he was when he went to KFAQ 1170 some 10 years later. I wasn’t surprised that he was conservative as he expanded Rush's show on KRMG and pushed out Ann Williams, who had been the afternoon host. There was some dispute as to what ultimately went down there, but it’s hard for me to believe Williams left totally voluntarily. He ultimately took over afternoons after Ann left, but his show was mostly news focused. I know talk radio is entertainment, and, while Rush often said he was an entertainer first and foremost, he came by his firebrand personality on air honestly. DelGiorno seems very much the same to me. He might not believe everything he says on-air, but don’t think it doesn’t come from a similar place. He's not faking it. He knows the schtick because he grew up with it and believes much of it.
 
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