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Bill O'Reilly Is Leaving WROW Coming 2009

This was OReilly's decision. I think it's great to have one less cocky know it all on the radio. There's enough right wing clones already. This is a marvelous oppotunity for WROW to add a middle of the road or liberal talk show host and better serve the Albany area which is more progressive. I wonder if Dr.Joe Parisi from Saturday afternoons could fill this slot. He used to do drive time.
 
Yes, because Air America did such a stellar job of getting ratings and making money LOL! Even better, let's put on an old guy.

On the other hand, that just might work. Radio is rapidly becoming an old person ghetto, the young ones are not coming back to either radio or Albany no matter what you do. That puts the burden for actual evolution not on the programing side but on the sales side. Sales has to figure out how to monetize the tailings left behind.

The oldsters left are the ones who are too poor to leave so they are not exactly a deep pool of revenue and being poor are by definition poltically liberal (parasites living off of money taken from those lucky enough to leave and make a living). Gather enough of them in one place and you can make money... just ask PV, he has had a corner on that market for 30 years!

Jimmy MOErel is already moving in that direction. Sponsorships and block programing are being sold to funeral homes, estate planners, adult diaper kinds of businesses, etc... Dr. Joe fits right in with that, in fact he might even be a little young for some of the new WROW P-1's but would do okay if he did shows along the lines of how to keep kids off your lawn, trading stories about walking to school with an onion on his belt, why the grandkids never call and like that.

A new cooking show could feature Dr. Joe with cat food recipes for those really on the skids, or maybe a vet show on how to care for 200-300 dogs, cats, rabbits and assorted horaded animals simultaneously.
 
Word from Johnson Road: O'Reilly's time slot may "initially be filled with paid programming" of the ilk of those phony "radio call-in talk shows" that are really all about selling vitamins and other stuff.

I heard one such show last week in chicago that sounded like a REAL talkshow - it had ME fooled for 20 minutes, 'til I realized....... you know the rest!
 
i say bring ed martin back on the airwaves. he got a raw deal at wgy. he knows state politics well.
 
20 minutes huh.

taht IS lame.

With testimonies like yours, it's no wonder it's #1!
 
Johnny_45 said:
Word from Johnson Road: O'Reilly's time slot may "initially be filled with paid programming" of the ilk of those phony "radio call-in talk shows" that are really all about selling vitamins and other stuff.
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I love that phrase "MAY be INITALLY filled with paid programming" LOL! No doubt. Johnny, we have GOT to stop confusing people and treating WROW like a mainstream talk radio station, it is anything but. Jimmy MOE-rel has been pushing for total infomercials right along, it is his radio station to destroy and he will get his way.

Look a the PD Jimmy hired, it took him what, like 6 weeks to show himself a sales 'ho and start hosting infomercials himself. I would wager that he probably took the job with the understanding that he would be pitchman (for those not clued in, one of the most important parts of a PD's job is refusing to allow such things on the air, much less do them himself). A stand up comic in the morning and a tiny market carnival schiester in the afternoon and news read driectly off the Times Union Web Site. That is not a talk radio station.
 
Of course almost anything is possible in these strange economic times, but I'm of the belief that terrestrial radio can and will make a comeback, but you have to offer something interesting, and "shrill" in any political language is still shrill.

The way I see it, a younger demo is tuning in to see what's happening. It started with the election, and it can continue to spread as young listeners wake up and understand that they need to pay attention to what's going on, or get paved over by lunatics at the wheel of government, finance, and business.

In any case, did anybody here see the recent Arbitron numbers? I hear rumors that Albany seems to love "a tiny market carnival schiester." Maybe tmcs's are the new cool?

Love,
Mr. G
 
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