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America's Greatest Hits to End Syndicated Run at the end of December

BruceNYC said:
According to this article, the syndicator will offer Rewind with Gary Bryan as a substitute. Will WCBS-FM air Gary Bryan's show or offer local programming from 7 AM - 11 AM on Sundays?
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I imagine they will probably just run normal programming, but they could run Gary Bryan’s show (it would be a “return” to New York for him).
 
I see that the syndicator, United Stations, was recently bought by another group, and they've dropped a lot of programs that they used to carry. They seem to be reinventing the company as more of a digital and podcast company rather than as a syndication company for OTA radio.

Part of why this show in particular was dropped may have been because of Scott Shannon. As the article says, his True Oldies Channel is now syndicated by Local Radio Networks.
 
As Shannon's programming has been running on 101.1 HD3. it remains to be seen whether it continues on that channel, with the new syndicator.
 
BTW I looked at the current program offerings of United Stations, and I don't see the Gary Bryan show. However, I see a similar show hosted by Phoenix DJ Steve Goddard. There's also a classic rock show with Bill St. James.
 
Well, you might say this is ironic. Scott Shannon ended his morning show run on WCBS-FM in December of 2022, a week or so before Christmas. Co-host Patty Steele also left. While nobody ever gave an official reason, we can guess that Shannon and Steele were offered new contracts they both thought were less than they were seeking. Their show had been as high as #2 in NYC morning drive.

But as he was leaving, he reminded everyone that he could still be heard Sunday mornings on WCBS-FM on "America's Greatest Hits." Fast forward one year and that show will also be off the air.
 
TheBigA said:
There's also a classic rock show with Bill St. James.
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That show is Time Warp, which is essentially a continuation of his well known and long running Flashback show that is now hosted by Matt Pinfield. Time Warp still has a large station count and does well, but has been in reruns for many years now. I'm not sure if Bill is fully retired, but I also know he no longer voices anything for NBC Sports. If United Stations is making cuts, my guess is it's easier (and cheaper) to keep offering reruns of Time Warp and Nina Blackwood's Absolutely 80s.
 
Here's another article on the story:

www.insideradio.com

Scott Shannon’s Syndicated ‘Greatest Hits’ Show To Cease Production.

As it approaches its tenth year in syndication, “Scott Shannon Presents America’s Greatest Hits” will cease production at the end of the year. Shannon tells Inside Radio there are no
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“I loved doing the show and would have loved to continue with it but it doesn’t make financial sense at this point in the world of syndication,” Shannon said. “We did almost 10 years and I would like to thank all the great affiliates we had for sticking with it for so long.”
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Apparently the other Audacy stations stopped carrying the show at some point, and that loss of audience hurt the advertising base.

Music-based shows like Shannon’s work best in syndication when the flagship station is part of a large group or network of stations that can clear the show in top markets. “America’s Greatest Hits” hasn’t had that luxury for the past year.
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I remember when the conventional 60s/70s oldies stations in the late 90s/early 00s ran tons of syndicated programming on Sundays, many of them except for the afternoon shift. Dick Bartley, Machine Gun Kelly’s Hitlist, Rock Roll and Remember, etc.

Seems like by the time Premiere came out with AT40 reruns, most of these other shows were dropped in favor of the AT40 70s and or 80s versions. AT40 the 80s seems to be the primary syndicated show I still see on iHeart classic hits stations. I don’t see any listed on many of Audacy’s, not sure if they just don’t list anything like that or opt for automation / voicetracking instead.
 
101tm said:
I don’t see any listed on many of Audacy’s, not sure if they just don’t list anything like that or opt for automation / voicetracking instead.
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Here's how Audacy sees it: If they air a syndicated show, they split the advertising. The syndicator gets 6 spots, and they get 6 spots. If they VT their own music, they get all 12 spots. That's the choice. What would you do?
 
TheBigA said:
Here's how Audacy sees it: If they air a syndicated show, they split the advertising. The syndicator gets 6 spots, and they get 6 spots. If they VT their own music, they get all 12 spots. That's the choice. What would you do?
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It's fairly simple. If syndicated programs like AT40 will bring in higher listener levels, thus generating ratings, sales and revenues that exceed what they'd get with their own VT'ed programming, then you run the syndicated stuff. Your programming cost will be lower and your six spots will sell at higher rates than the local canned stuff could net.

OTOH, if it'll be a wash, just go your own way.
 
First Dick Bartley's Classic Hits, Saturday Night 70's, Saturday Night Block Party (2013-2016), BackTrax USA (2007-2011), Scott Shannon in the Morning (2014-2022) and now Scott Shannon's America's Greatest Hits (2014-2023).

Happy retirement Scott Shannon! Thank you for everything! We enjoy the America's Greatest Hits!

Until then Scott Shannon, stay gold... bang! (Referring to Toonami's final broadcast in 2008)
 
AceBiscuits said:
So Gary's replacing Scott in New York, again?
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I guess so. I saw that WOGL was running AGH at 4AM Saturday morning. Not a great time. I guess that's where Rewind will go.

From what I can see, Gary owns this show and self-syndicates it with his wife & son. I didn't see it on the schedule for KRTH.
 
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