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Asland's WNCO Defers Questions of Firings to Vacationing Management

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Cornflake the Destroyer

Syndication's savings might lead Clear Channel to dump local talent for the new news talker...

http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/4606502

"Beginning Monday, WNCO-AM will ditch its "Timeless Classics" music format and become "Mid-Ohio's Talk Station" featuring a series of syndicated talk shows...No one at the local station would comment about what the changes would mean for local programming or staffing at the local studios on U.S. 42. Several personnel in both the Ashland and Mansfield offices contacted by the Times-Gazette referred questions to the general manager and the market manager, who both were said to be on vacation"


KristenBlogs@10
 
Actually, Gary...many of those hosts are already on co-owned WMAN/1400 Mansfield.

Hannity does get a clearance on WNCO, as WMAN doesn't carry him. It's a pretty standard "second-tier" conservative talk lineup.

http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/ashland-am-to-get-talking.html

Let's see, why don't I quote...uh...myself from Friday:

While WMAN carries shows like Premiere's Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Coast to Coast AM, "Mid-Ohio's Talk Station" will carry Pittsburgh-based "Quinn and Rose", Cox/Dial Global's Neal Boortz, self-syndicated financial advice guru Dave Ramsey, Premiere/Citadel afternoon driver Sean Hannity and Citadel early evening host Mark Levin.
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So I don't get deleted, I give myself permission to quote my own writing.

:D

No local talk programming is on the schedule.

In a comment on that item, CC's Keith Kennedy notes that mid-morning host Gene Davis will continue as 1340's PD, and with his on-air duties over on WNCO-FM 101.3.
 
Oh, and Mr. Davis will continue to produce "Anything Goes", but not as a full half-hour show...it'll air in segments (presumably a minute or two during commercial breaks in the syndicated programming).
 
KristenNews@10 said:
Syndication's savings might lead Clear Channel to dump local talent for the new news talker...
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If the writer actually checked, ::) they would have noticed that Gene Davis was - and still is - the only local personality on the station with his "Anything Goes." Which, again, is staying. They never had any local jocks on WNCO-AM otherwise, in considerable contrast with their FM sister. And WNCO-AM ran the "Timeless" channel from ABC Radio/Citadel Media for how long? I presume nearly 20 years. If not longer.

Note, that in the article, it says that WNCO's "Ashland news department" was closed seven years ago... but that was because the Ashland and Mansfield stations were all moved into the WMAN/WYHT tx site. WMAN still has a news anchor or two... last I checked.

And there was one time a few years back when the Mansfield/Ashland/Mt. Vernon cluster actually had THREE stations running the SAME "Timeless" channel! They were WNCO, WGLN/102.3 (now WFXN and part of the "Fox" classic rock trimulcast) and WMVO/1300 (now under BAS ownership but still with the format after 2pm weekdays).

WNCO did switch from ABC Directional network (fed with "Timeless") over to the ABC Information Network. It's also imaged similarly to WHLO/640. And they will still be the flagship for Ashland University Eagles football and Ashland Arrows high school football.
 
Ohio radio man said:
Why not just symalcast WMAN?
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I'm guessing one reason they don't simulcast - the move allows Clear Channel to clear more of its programs in the region.

For whatever reason, WMAN has never carried Sean Hannity in afternoon drrve, and he's now on WNCO...along with shows like WPGB/Pittsburgh morning drivers "Quinn and Rose", another in-house product. (Remember, Hannity is now being distributed by CC's Premiere...Citadel Media only handles his internal-within-Citadel distribution as of December.)
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Ohio radio man said:
Why not just symalcast WMAN?
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I'm guessing one reason they don't simulcast - the move allows Clear Channel to clear more of its programs in the region.

For whatever reason, WMAN has never carried Sean Hannity in afternoon drrve, and he's now on WNCO...along with shows like WPGB/Pittsburgh morning drivers "Quinn and Rose", another in-house product. (Remember, Hannity is now being distributed by CC's Premiere...Citadel Media only handles his internal-within-Citadel distribution as of December.)
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I've thought the same way about swapping formats with WMAN. But 1400's obviously the heritage signal in the cluster, so I doubt that it would be successful.

And WMAN's always had an evening news hour block at 5:00PM forever. It would interfere with a show like Hannity, so they air Glenn Beck instead from 3p-5p and 6p-Indians pregame. And WMAN still has local programming from 6:00AM to 12:00PM every day.
 
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