Bob Bruno retires from WOR-710

[chuckydoll]

Joined the station as PD in 1978 and became VP/GM in 1988. Will become a consultant to WOR in 2008.

Merits: Helped keep WOR afloat given the decline of AM radio. Landed Rutgers football and men's basketball (Go Scarlet Knights!).

Demerits: Dropping New Jersey Nets basketball to add Michael Savage. Lurching toward the ultra-right to mimic WABC. Losing John R. Gambling to WABC and Ed Walsh to WBZ.

 

[Clayton Douglas]

Who's PD of WOR now? The station should have some guts and bring in someone to go against Imus. Or- just move Joey-- a true radio legend-- to am-drive!

 

[DToTheJ]

I think the current PD's name is Mike Tunick.

Bruno has to get given props given the station hasn't been able to sniff upwards of a 2 share in the last several years - yet it still bills like a 'mother! So they must be doing something right. Whether this system will continue next year will remain to be seen. Maybe Glenn Beck can finally get cleared in New York!

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

It's Maurice Tunick, and he left WOR back in 2005. His job was taken by APD Scott Lakefield.

http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4473745-1.html

I sincerely doubt that tossing Rambling With Gambling was Bruno's decision. I remember reading that it was a decion made by Rick Buckley himself.

 

[chuckydoll]

Even before the GM announced his retirement WOR should have been developing shows aimed at New York. Starting next week WABC will be satellite/syndicated except for 1 3/4 hours in late morning and 2 hours at night.

Maybe Glenn Beck can finally get cleared in New York!

When hell freezes over. Beck is syndicated by a division of Clear Channel -- and Buckley does not do business with Clear Channel.

It just so happens that WOR's decision to carry Michael Savage has boomeranged. The Daily News had that development today but buried it at the bottom of a news roundup.

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

It just so happens that WOR's decision to carry Michael Savage has boomeranged. The Daily News had that development today but buried it at the bottom of a news roundup.

Big deal. Big corporation advertisers routinely ask that their spots not be placed on "controversial" programming. Savage, like him or not, fits that bill.

Besides, as long as WOR can still sell local avails on the Michael Savage show, what happens nationally doesn't concern them.

Or even better, maybe Savage's syndicator pays WOR for the carriage? Just like O'Reilly's syndicator does. If that turns out to be the case, as long as the check from syndicator to station clears, WOR couldn't care less whether the show is losing advertisers.