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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

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GeorgeKramer

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Bauerle just made reference to someone who I assume used to work at WBEN/Entercom when he said they should be playing the song "Another One Bites The Dust" as they go in and out of the top-of-the-hour newscasts.

Anyone have any inside info on who Tom is referring to?

Maybe it's not even in house but instead a competitor.

May just be a sales rep or some behind the scenes person, but it piqued my interest.
 
Rumors of Rachel Kingston leaving 'BEN..I'm purely speculating but could that be the referance?
 
Kingston already left and Bauerle acknowledged that on the air on her last day of work at WBEN.

Tom was obviously speaking of O'Loughlin leaving the WECK airwaves.

Brad better DESTROY all of those promos of Bill's show when he mocked Bauerle.

Tom wins the war of Bauerle vs. O'Loughlin. Now who does Riter put up against him in that time slot?

Tom will have a VERY relaxing weekend while Brad will likely be stressed to the max trying to figure out what to do.
 
VoiceGuyJack said:
Bauerle is a tough act to program against...I would go with Dennis Miller 9AM - Noon.
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Bauerle's a tough act to program against?
Really?

I think Bauerle is VERY overrated and only has the numbers he has because there's not been real competition for him in many years.

Guarantee you a significant portion of his audience only listens due to a lack of options. That's the only reason I listen. I don't find him the least bit relateable or natural on air. The attitude, the extreme rhetoric, the overpronunciation, etc. Seriously WECK, put somebody on with even moderate talent and even with your crappy signal, you'll put a dent in Bauerle's by-default audience share.
 
Brad is currently reading articles out of The Buffalo News, actually proudly proclaiming "I'm just reading the newspaper on the radio."

Is he trying to prove a point to Dick Greene, is he just mailing it in as we head into a three-day weekend, or is today's paper really that chock-full of good material?

Something is going on here and it may have something to do with Bill O's resignation/termination.

I agree with programming against Bauerle. Tom OWNS that time slot. Run Miller's show until you can come up with something really good that is live and local and provides legit competition to Bauerle, the king of daytime talk in Buffalo.
 
Dick Greene doesn't have the bucks to bring in a "seasoned" talk guy to go head to head against Bauerle.

With the departure of O'Laughlin, Dick has to be thinking if he made the right decision to try to go after WBEN in the first place.

I think before the summer is done there will be a full scale purge at WECK and it will be another music orientated station. Then this forum will be filled with posts (again) suggesting a format...
...of course, I could be wrong.
 
jas2525 said:
VoiceGuyJack said:
Bauerle is a tough act to program against...I would go with Dennis Miller 9AM - Noon.
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Bauerle's a tough act to program against?
Really?
I think Bauerle is VERY overrated and only has the numbers he has because there's not been real competition for him in many years.
Guarantee you a significant portion of his audience only listens due to a lack of options. That's the only reason I listen. I don't find him the least bit relateable or natural on air. The attitude, the extreme rhetoric, the overpronunciation, etc. Seriously WECK, put somebody on with even moderate talent and even with your crappy signal, you'll put a dent in Bauerle's by-default audience share.
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Game. Set. Match.
 
Bauerle has to be loving that O'Loughlin is out of the game, whether it was because of termination or resignation. He has a huge ego and guys feed off of "news" like this that is negative for the competition. Brad had to scrap all of the anti-Bauerle promos and now apparently is going to run Dennis Miller on tape delay from the day before (or is Miller live from 9 am to noon?) and on nights like tonight when the Yanks either play late or aren't on at all, we get Miller's show TWICE!

I'm sure Brad wasn't prepared for this. Who could be? O'Loughlin begged and pleaded for three hours, finally gets it, and then jumps ship/gets booted not shortly after. Headache city for Mr. Riter and, more importantly, Mr. Greene.
 
GeorgeKramer said:
Bauerle has to be loving that O'Loughlin is out of the game, whether it was because of termination or resignation. He has a huge ego and guys feed off of "news" like this that is negative for the competition.
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Oh, I don't know about that, GK. Yes, I agree with you that Bauerle has a huge ego. But I can't imagine that he gave O'Loughlin a second thought. Why would he? WECK is languishing in the ratings with a miniscule share while WBEN remains a ratings powerhouse. You give WECK too much credit. The real alternatives to Bauerle are the NPR shows on the two public radio stations in Buffalo. Granted, they're national rather than local. But the topics are always much more compelling and interesting than what Bauerle offers. And I even got my "local fix" on Friday's "On Point" when they discussed the 26th congressional race, featuring two calls from Buffalo area listeners. One thing's for sure. WECK running day-old Dennis Miller broadcasts is not the answer. Riter and Greene need to fix that soon.
 
Philip_Airtime said:
Oh, I don't know about that, GK. Yes, I agree with you that Bauerle has a huge ego. But I can't imagine that he gave O'Loughlin a second thought. Why would he? WECK is languishing in the ratings with a miniscule share while WBEN remains a ratings powerhouse. You give WECK too much credit. The real alternatives to Bauerle are the NPR shows on the two public radio stations in Buffalo. Granted, they're national rather than local. But the topics are always much more compelling and interesting than what Bauerle offers. And I even got my "local fix" on Friday's "On Point" when they discussed the 26th congressional race, featuring two calls from Buffalo area listeners. One thing's for sure. WECK running day-old Dennis Miller broadcasts is not the answer. Riter and Greene need to fix that soon.
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I wouldn't hold your breath. Greene is trying to compete in a market way above his head.

Small market operators aren't in the habit of investing the required capital needed to sustain a legit fight. This fight was over before it started.
 
Of course Bauerle has an ego...but doesn't every talent at every station ? You wouldn't be in this business if you didn't have a big one (ego that is). It's just that he isn't afraid to shamlessly put his out for all to see....or is that schtick??? Bauerle is no fool...it's all part of the act.
 
I'm not in radio and never have been. (Maybe the only one on the board here in that situation). So, I don't know anything about Dick Green. How old is he? I just always had this impression (maybe because WECK wants you to have it), that he is more like Terry Pegula, not looking to make money off this thing, but trying to do something good for the community.

Do I have the totally wrong impression? If I'm somewhat right, then all the people looking for him to change to a music format, it would seem are not going to get that.

I'm just a big fan of Brad's and the Yankees, and really want to see the station continue and hopefully thrive in this format.
 
You have the totally wrong impression. Dick Greene's in it for the money. If Colon Blow looks like a better financial investment than the current programming, WECK will become king of the infomercials. I'm not saying that's going to happen. I'm saying it could. It looks to me like he way overpaid for WECK, and has to do something to at least get it to break even.
 
SirRoxalot said:
If Colon Blow looks like a better financial investment than the current programming, WECK will become king of the infomercials. I'm not saying that's going to happen. I'm saying it could. It looks to me like he way overpaid for WECK, and has to do something to at least get it to break even.
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"Tom & Loraine in the morning, colon blow all day." Helluva positioning liner, don't you think? Might even get better ratings. It surely would help Sir Richard pay down that note for WECK.

Or how about taking a page from the Bob Savage Playbook: Quinn & Rose in the Morning with Tom Donahue doing local news. Quinn was a player in the mid 70s at KB, so he may have some name recognition in the market and he's familiar with Buffalo. Then have O'Donnell on from 9 til noon.

Then again, Greene could take a page out of the Bob1370 Playbook: Habla español? Flip to Hispanic with brokered programming. WJJL seems to be keeping the lights on with Hispanic programming in middays. And 1120 WBBF seems to be doing okay. Unlike WJJL and WBBF, WECK doesn't have to power down at night to refrigerator lightbulb power and might make some money with a nighttime Hispanic music or talk show.

AM radio, aside from WBEN and WGR, is really a sad state of affairs, isn't it.
 
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