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ABC throwing Mark Davis under the bus?

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ajhenderson

With Mark levin's recent ABCRN syndie deal, I wonder why the network decided to sign up WBAP talker Mark Davis to his SECOND syndication run with the company. Mark Levin, who would be doing overnights in Kansas City were he not spending weekends BBQing tequila lime chicken and frankfurters at Sean Hannity's house, was added to WBAP a few months ago (1 hr delay) and recently live on WMAL and for late nights on WJR. Hmmm... all stations Hannity is on. Amazing.

Anyway, while we've discussed the addition of Levin to these heritage lineups and ABC's plan to erradicate as much local programming as possible, I have to wonder what Mark Davis is saying now that Levin is getting two hours on ABC O&Os, considering that ABC is supposed to be selling HIS show to any station that will take it, including syndcator-owned stations, theoretically the easiest sells of all. Mark Levin had been on WABC when Davis signed on; my contention is that ABC should have enough faith in Davis to put him on their talk stations like they do with Hannity, et al (even Larry Elder is on O&O WLS overnights for the "just add Chicago to the sales sheet" effect) or they should have signed Levin for syndication. Either way, both dayparts are relatively competitive, with Levin up against Rush, O'Reilly, and in a separate division, ABC's new Satellite Sisters show, while Levin goes up against Savage and Lars Larson (who?).
 
> Mark Levin, who
> would be doing overnights in Kansas City were he not
> spending weekends BBQing tequila lime chicken and
> frankfurters at Sean Hannity's house,

Actually, were he not on WABC, he'd probably not be on radio at all. He'd be devoting fulltime to his law practice.

I, however, can multitask. Why won't someone hire me?
 
> > Mark Levin, who
> > would be doing overnights in Kansas City were he not
> > spending weekends BBQing tequila lime chicken and
> > frankfurters at Sean Hannity's house,
>
> Actually, were he not on WABC, he'd probably not be on radio
> at all. He'd be devoting fulltime to his law practice.

Understood, but were he not friends with Sean, he wouldn't be on WABC.
 
> > > Mark Levin, who
> > > would be doing overnights in Kansas City were he not
> > > spending weekends BBQing tequila lime chicken and
> > > frankfurters at Sean Hannity's house,
> >
> > Actually, were he not on WABC, he'd probably not be on
> radio
> > at all. He'd be devoting fulltime to his law practice.
>
> Understood, but were he not friends with Sean, he wouldn't
> be on WABC.
>

Mark Levin will soon be pushed on all Hannity stations and when Hannity pushes he will get his people to push when they push he will get Levin on big stations then other stations. It really is a neo-con shell game.
 
> Mark Levin will soon be pushed on all Hannity stations and
> when Hannity pushes he will get his people to push when they
> push he will get Levin on big stations then other stations.
> It really is a neo-con shell game.

Well, you could say the whole network thing is a shell game, pushing other shows on current affiliates. But to have Hannity influencing talent decisions... nonsense. Phil Boyce has said that Hannity is like a second PD at WABC, working with talent, newsstaff, etc. For God's sake, he's a mediocre, whiny-voiced C-grade radio host. Who is he to develop talent? He's a guy who got lucky.
 
There is something weird about Hannity and Levin. Hannity
acts like he's got a man-crush on this schmuck. The whole
set up, the constant calls to the show, and the payoff.
Chances are they are viewing Brokeback Mountain about now.
Seriously, Levin won't play in the rest of the country.
You want to hear a clever NY style personality that would
be Lionel. Funny dude.


> > Mark Levin will soon be pushed on all Hannity stations and
>
> > when Hannity pushes he will get his people to push when
> they
> > push he will get Levin on big stations then other
> stations.
> > It really is a neo-con shell game.
>
> Well, you could say the whole network thing is a shell game,
> pushing other shows on current affiliates. But to have
> Hannity influencing talent decisions... nonsense. Phil Boyce
> has said that Hannity is like a second PD at WABC, working
> with talent, newsstaff, etc. For God's sake, he's a
> mediocre, whiny-voiced C-grade radio host. Who is he to
> develop talent? He's a guy who got lucky.
>
 
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