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BREAKING NEWS: Michael Smerconish might be leaving WPHT?

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From Drudge: FLASH: Philly's WPHT am drive host Michael Smerconish to get IMUS slot tryout on MSNBC... Developing...
 
His God-Awful Philly accent will prevent him from going national. He sounds like a cat meowing when he says "hour."
 
If he got the morning slot on MSNBC, why wouldn't they just keep the same format as they've been using? Let Smerconish stay on the radio and then televise his radio show?

I wonder if he could get the slot on WFAN and WW1 too. Then, he wouldn't need to leave WPHT. Though, they'd have no local programming from 6a-6p anymore.
 
While I don't see him on WFAN or WW1, I think it will continue to be a radio show on TV, until after a few weeks it is safe for WW1, CBS and MSNBC to bring Imus back.
 
If Donald Trump were in charge, he would have held a press conference and said, "Imus will be given another chance."
 
Julius May said:
From Drudge: FLASH: Philly's WPHT am drive host Michael Smerconish to get IMUS slot tryout on MSNBC... Developing...
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If anyone ever wanted to know how unfounded, totally inaccurate rumors get started, the answer lies in the title of this post. No one, least of all Smerconish, has said anything about his leaving WPHT.

MSNBC is likely fishing around to find a replacement to Imus and Michael Smerconish has been a frequent contributor there.

Remember: often it's not what you know, it's WHO you know.
 
A rumor is breaking news??? According to Webster's:

Pronunciation: 'nüz, 'nyüz
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
Usage: often attributive
1 a : a report of recent events b : previously unknown information <I've got news for you> c : something having a specified influence or effect <the rain was good news for lawns and gardens -- Garrison Keillor> <the virus was bad news>
2 a : material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b : matter that is newsworthy

Is the fact that he will be on MSNBC news? Yeah. Is the rumor that he MIGHT be leaving WPHT (although no one has said anything to that effect, other than on this board) news? No
 
Isn't Smerconish already doing a syndicated show in the afternoons. I heard him the other afternoon on WOR. It wasn't his morning show from Philly, but sounded like a different show. He did refer to his morning show from Philly though once in what he was saying.

I believe Smerchonish has just as good chance of winning that MSNBC timeslot as anyone. Sure maybe CBS radio will pick it up for their morning time slot too.
 
Having Smerconish filling in the Imus Show time period from 6-9AM is bit ironic and and insulting given the fact that WPHT dropped the Imus in the Morning Radio Show several years ago in favor of local talker Smerconish. Smerconish is the wrong person to fill this MSNBC morning slot. There are much better talk show hosts who would better suit this need.
 
There are much better talk show hosts who would better suit this need.
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I couldn't agree with you more. The only problem is that Smerconish knows how to balance entertainment with information when he wants to do so. So he might me able to fool them initially. If that scenario were to happen though and he were hired, he'd be back to his whiny self within a day or two, but this time on a national level. God help us.
 
Accents and affectations are certainly valid concerns as to the long-term viability of Smirconish being the long-range MSNBC replacement. Then again, the nearly incomprehensible mumbling of one Imus seemed not to be a problem for years. That said though, one thing I, personally, would count in the "plus column" is that he doesn't (a) spout nothing but the official talking points and (b) bully those who disagree with him. He seems, as best I can tell, to welcome honest debate in most cases, something sorely lacking on many other shows. Moreover, while those on the right deride him as a social "liberal," I would suggest he is not a liberal in the "spend money" definition; he's more of a libertarian, generally taking positions that the government should not be meddling in people's bedrooms and doctors' offices. I would welcome that point of view on a more national forum, accent and all.
 
Imus did mumble. But he was popular, and if one wanted to listen, he was understandable.

But Smerconish is just annoying to me. His voice goes through odd inflections many times when he gets on a point that he can't let go. I've tried to listen to him, but I equate his voice with someone crying and whining, and I can't take it for long. And actually I've heard him "assume" that a caller is making a certain point, even if that caller doesn't mean to make his point the way Smerconish understands it, and he will cut the caller off without allowing him to elaborate further.

I haven't listened for a while, but it seemed to me like he couldn't make up his mind on the war. He was for the war, but he also supported a timetable for withdrawl. He took heat from both sides for that one.

I don't know if I would call him a libertarian. Maybe. I always understood him to be a moderate conservative. (There are similarities, but there are also differences)

I know you would welcome a libertarian on the radio, but I don't think Smerconish is your man. A morning show tends to be lighter than other parts of the day, but his show lots of times is fluff.

Irv Homer was a libertarian. (Maybe he should try out)
 
If he does. It won't be to MSNBC. His simulcast was pitiful. He can't even look into the camera when addressing the audience.
 
Agreed! This man does not "pack the gear" and his sidekick (with permanently flared
nostrils) sitting 20 feet away brings nothing to the mix.
 
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