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Changes to WTVN?

This is an email Pat Pagano sent to all of his loyal WTVN listeners that emailed him. He said on the air last Tuesday morning that he had over 50 emails from WTVN listeners that expressed displeasure with him being removed from the B.C. morning show in favor of the local WBNS-TV weather forecasters.

Here is the email he sent out:

December 26, 2006

To all my listeners, the best in the Nation:

I decided to write a form letter since trying to answer each e mail would take me until next year.

First of all, thank you all for your support, your e mails. It is so nice to feel so important but it only makes it harder to say goodbye.

When I first found out – a month ago – that WTVN was cancelling me and my service I tried to salvage the contract by giving them a couple of options. They were:
Keep me with BC for a.m. drive – and I’ll cut the contract fee in half.
Reason for this…they claim that the rest of my staff were not “Pat Pagano”. They said “NO”.

Or

I will do both morning and afternoon drive time….and not increase the contract….so they could have Pat Pagano all day……they said “no”.

Obviously, they made a decision and nothing will change it. They want local weather…and they told me that I should not take this personally. I thought I provided local weather for 27 years…and even though they don’t think so, there is NO ONE in Central Ohio that has ever lasted 27 years on radio or tv.

As of now…there are no bites with other stations. Weatherbee is very much loved by his management…so no go there. BNS is out since their company is the company that is co-partners with WTVN. I’ll keep looking and hopefully find something.

In any event, words cannot express how much I am thankful to all of you, my listeners, my fans, my radio family, because if it weren’t for each and every one of you, I would never have lasted 27 years.

I will always remember Central Ohio as the “best” in my life.

Thank you again.

Weather or not….

Always your weatherman, Pat Pagano.
 
This may be a stretch, but after reading the note sent by Pagano to his fans, I wonder if TVN didn't become an affiliate with ONN or some variation thereof.

I at one time worked for a small station and one of the perks of ONN was we got channel 10 talent voiced weather as part of the deal. These were down the line feeds and not customized, but non-the-less, it was 10tv talent.

Someone pointed out after the storms of last summer, TVN was trumpeting in promos the fact that they had Pagano's weather talent covering the storms while the tv stations were trying to hunt their talent down. Local doesn't always mean best. Yeah, some of the talent that Pagano had was a little on the young side and out of place with an audience starting to look at Geritol as the beverage of choice, but Pat did have a great connection with the Columbus audience.

There is some sort of financial advantage for this deal to happen.
 
lifeuw19 said:
Many complain on here about syndicated shows.... well, WTVN just got more local.
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Not really. An extra hour a day. And to do it, you replaced a good syndicated show with a bad one that ABC forced you to take. If you want to get of Beck, fine, but replace it with something decent. It's basically Beck for Levin, and 'TVN is less local. Anybody can be local during the day; it takes a great station to be local at night at well. 610 was a great station with local content not two years ago - so what if it was syndicated during middays? Aren't people supposed to be working from 9-3, preventing them from calling a local show?
 
Actually, Happy Trails Broadcasting reunited Spooker, John Fraime, and Wes Hopkins in the '90's who tried to make a go of it with "AC". At the time, the company was too focused on the battle between 92X and WNCI to give 'COL the attention it needed. I'm not saying they were wrong. That's that's just the way it was.
 
NotMe said:
Actually, Happy Trails Broadcasting reunited Spooker, John Fraime, and Wes Hopkins in the '90's who tried to make a go of it with "AC". At the time, the company was too focused on the battle between 92X and WNCI to give 'COL the attention it needed. I'm not saying they were wrong. That's that's just the way it was.
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Actually that was Great Trails, and i dont believe Wes Hopkins had anything to do with them, the station did ok if i remember, and had a pretty good run till spook and John Fraime retired

If i remember right they tried talk for a while after that, some network shows like Michael Jackson out of LA, and local, Mark the shark was on in the evening, and seems they had something local in the afternoon that was in the late 80's i think
 
Wes Hopkins was the morning man on Great Trails' Top 40 COL-AM for many years, lasting at least until the beginning of the 70's. I can't speak to the apparent disagreement about whether he was on the AC version of 1230...just don't recall.

Does anyone know what ever became of John Fraim? Is he still with us? I know that for awhile after leaving TVN, and then 1230 AM, he was known for being the first to live in the LeVeque tower, near the top. He also wrote the Finale column for Columbus Monthly for several years, I believe after he was gone from local radio entirely.
 
Great Trails brought Beckman, Fraim and Hopkins together in the early/mid 80's with the Music of Your Life (or as friend called, the music that could take a life). Also in the lineup was Joe Cunningham from WBNS. Fraim did mornings, Cunningham middays, Beckman pm drive and Wes did evenings. I think the format after that was the ABC talk network that someone else mentioned. Beckman and later Cunningham ended up at WMNI. Wes retired and I believe has passed on. I lost track of Fraim, but knew at one time he had purchased a radio station near Athens/Nelsonville. I think he sold it or it went dark. I understood he was living in that area at the time. I've lost track of him. Both Beckman and Cunningham sadly are no longer with us either.
 
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Beck attempts to save his slot on 610 WTVN
Meanwhile, Air Americans fight back
January 4, 2007

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Bumped for Gerald Ford? Beck fans say his rant against WTVN was cut short in Columbus
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The management at 610 WTVN probably made Mike Coleman happy when it decided to dump Glenn Beck’s syndicated show from its morning lineup.

But unlike Mayor Coleman, who famously defended his manhood in an on-air dust-up with Beck in 2005, most Columbus listeners don’t have a disagreeable personal history with Beck. And some of them—like Beck himself—feel grievously wronged by his pending disappearance from 610’s airwaves
 
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