This sounds like Deja Vu all over again.
Remember WMEX in 2000? Claprood,Jerry Williams, Glick, and Upton Bell?
Although I'm convinced that the over the hill gang( WRKO has beens) would have worked as it evolved, and if Bleidt hadn't barged in, this is not a news flash, nor is it accurate.
In my humble opinion Langer should add Claprood and Whitley if Whitley can break his contract with Entercom, ( and wants to) Langer should also consider putting Bloomberg overnight and also as a news feed, local news on the hour and half hour, with ticker on the tens, and traffic and weather together.
Talk without the information would be no change at all from how it sounds now
BREAKING NEWS...(WBIX)'s Alex Langer is going to compete
> > head-on with WRKO.
> > Langer is about to get back his old station and has
> > committed to spending lots of money to compete with WRKO.
> He
> > is planning a big advertising campaign to promote the New
> > station and will bring back different call letters.
> >
> > Langer has been negotiating with some big name local talk
> > hosts and is putting together a local talk format which
> will
> > take down some more audience from RKO.
> >
> > Langer is reported to have some other surprises in store
> for
> > his new venture.
> >
> > (EYE think this time Langer has hooked the Big One)
> >
> The only thing consistent about Alex's stewardship of 1060
> since he was drawn back into the management of the station
> by the court-appointed receiver, David Vicinanzo, has been
> his inconsistency. First he announced the end of the
> business format. He was quoted as saying that the station
> would fetch a much higher price from a buyer if it had a
> format with broader appeal. Only a few weeks later, however,
> business (a combination of bartered and brokered) was back
> coupled with the third-rate product of the networks that
> Langer owns or controls. Quite possibly, the brokered
> "business" format was breaking even. Langer's ability to
> show prospective advertisers on his networks that a "major
> station" in Market #5 was carrying not only the network
> spots but also the network programming undoubtedly helped to
> limit the amount Langer had to shell out of his own pocket
> to keep the station on the air. Now, it appears he is going
> back to his original plan. Dress the station up for a sale
> by bringing in some well-known talent.
>
> My guess would be Burns, Clapprood, and maybe Whitley. Maybe
> if our friend with all the screen names who used to produce
> Jerry Williams' show has a large enough library of tapes,
> Langer can also bring back The Dean. Getting Williams to do
> a show "live" more than a year after his death would be a
> great surprise, wouldn't it? If he can do that with
> Williams, maybe he could also do it Brudnoy.
>
> The more I think about Whitley and 1060, the more likely the
> idea sounds. Remember that Whitley LMAed the station from
> John Garabedian not long after its big (and ultimately
> failed) power increase CA 1982 or 1983. Whitley might be
> tempted to try to prove that if the technical problems had
> been worked out a quarter of a century ago (as they have
> been now), he could have made the station successful back
> then. I think he may be just enough of an egotost to feel
> that he still has something to prove. Could the new calls be
> the ones that Whitley used back then--WTTP? (Stood for
> "touch... talk... people.") That would not make the folks at
> Salem (WTTT) very happy, but under today's FCC rules, I
> don't think they get to vote.
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Norm Rosen
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