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Air America's New Schedule Is Official

OhioMediaWatch

OhioMediaWatch

Here, read about it in the only place I believe you can find it right now, our very own Mighty Blog of Fun(tm):

http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2006/09/air-americas-new-lineup.html

The upshot - almost everything is as rumored. (All times ET.)

Young Turks go 6-9 AM, Seder takes over for Springer 9-noon, but Springer continues via AAR Syndication. Randi gets clipped to 3 hours for the new Rachel Maddow 6-8 PM show. Politically Direct and EcoTalk round out the old Majority Report slot, and then then Detroit's Peter Werbe fills in during the old Mike Malloy slot starting a week from today.

The information I have says that fill-in is scheduled, for now, through September 29th, and that they will name a permanent host at some point.

The other thing - Werbe will only be doing 10 PM-midnight, as they're moving the Franken repeat to a full three hours starting at midnight.

-OMW
 
Good News or Bad News?

Bottom line, the AAR line-up is weaker. No Malloy. At least Springer had some name recognition. And two weekend shows filling time on weeknights.

I bet Lionel and Steph are happy about this; good news for both of them (and for their distributors). I suspect we will see both pick up some stations short-term.

How about long term? First, see this thread on the Business board. The brief version: AAR is shaking up management. Unloading of stations may be next. Most likely to be unloaded: Small market clusters. This would include some progressive talk stations.

Clear Channel remains the biggest operator of progressive talk stations. However, they have not flipped any stations to progressive talk in a while. With 1200 stations, Clear Channel could spare some stations to experiment with a new format. Results have been mixed: Some are stuck with fractional shares; some with one-and-change shares. But we haven't seen across-the-board breakout success that will get stations operators looking at the format seriously. If progressive talk is relegated to being a turnkey format, then bad news for Jones, WOR and even AAR Syndication long-term.
 
I've heard that the permanent replacement for Malloy will be Laura Flanders, who currently hosts Radio Nation on the weekends for Air America.

Any clues as to what the deal with the Young Turks is? Are they leaving Sirius altogether?
 
Re: Good News or Bad News?

fred flintstone said:
Bottom line, the AAR line-up is weaker. No Malloy. At least Springer had some name recognition. And two weekend shows filling time on weeknights.

I bet Lionel and Steph are happy about this; good news for both of them (and for their distributors). I suspect we will see both pick up some stations short-term.

How about long term? First, see this thread on the Business board. The brief version: AAR is shaking up management. Unloading of stations may be next. Most likely to be unloaded: Small market clusters. This would include some progressive talk stations.

Clear Channel remains the biggest operator of progressive talk stations. However, they have not flipped any stations to progressive talk in a while. With 1200 stations, Clear Channel could spare some stations to experiment with a new format. Results have been mixed: Some are stuck with fractional shares; some with one-and-change shares. But we haven't seen across-the-board breakout success that will get stations operators looking at the format seriously. If progressive talk is relegated to being a turnkey format, then bad news for Jones, WOR and even AAR Syndication long-term.
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CC already flipped in quite a few of their big markets. What else is left? Not sure if they're gonna bring it to their cluster in Bumfunk, Egypt or wherever. The latest affiliate is KXIC in Iowa City, which recently added Randi Rhodes and just last week Thom Hartmann. PD sounds open to expanding this programming.

almaniac27 said:
I've heard that the permanent replacement for Malloy will be Laura Flanders, who currently hosts Radio Nation on the weekends for Air America.

Any clues as to what the deal with the Young Turks is? Are they leaving Sirius altogether?
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Flanders' producer has claimed that they know nothing about moving to weeknights, and are content with their weekend shows.

No idea about the Turks, but I congratulate their move to the bigger stage. I think they're ready. And I'll agree more with this if this means more pictures of Jill Pike. ;D
 
Panago said:
What do you mean by "official"?
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Official as in released to affiliates by the network today, so they can prepare for next week. And we're fortunate to have a lot of sources at liberal talk outlets both here and outside the state...so, here we are.

-OMW
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Panago said:
What do you mean by "official"?
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Official as in released to affiliates by the network today, so they can prepare for next week. And we're fortunate to have a lot of sources at liberal talk outlets both here and outside the state...so, here we are.

-OMW
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Great scoop, OMW! Thanks for sharing. I cited you on my own blog:

http://ltradio.blogspot.com

country24 said:
Isn't shuffling the talk shows on AAR about the same thing as shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic?
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If you wingnut trolls want to piss all over AAR threads just for the sake of pissing on them, at least come up with some new material. That same lame 'joke' was posted here last week.
 
And thank YOU, FI, for some information I didn't know...the dumping of all talk by WSRQ in Sarasota (including Mr. Springer) for an FM music simulcast of a Tampa station.

It looks like Springer's affiliate list may fit on a postage stamp as of next Monday...if it does not already.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
And thank YOU, FI, for some information I didn't know...the dumping of all talk by WSRQ in Sarasota (including Mr. Springer) for an FM music simulcast of a Tampa station.

It looks like Springer's affiliate list may fit on a postage stamp as of next Monday...if it does not already.
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And Radio and Records and AllAccess have the new schedule up as well.
 
I'm pretty sure they were aware of it before I was, but it didn't get up till today for whatever reason.

The actual details have been rumored here and elsewhere for weeks! Not to mention Mr. Seder tipping off the Boston Globe a couple of weeks ago.

By the way, where did you hear about WSRQ? Is there an article somewhere?
 
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