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Clear Channel schedule mandates

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dustintv

I've noticed in the Eastern and Central Time Zones many if not most CC stations have schedules that look like this:

Eastern Time:

5AM-9AM: Local morning news/host
9AM-12PM: Glenn Beck
12PM-3PM: Rush Limbaugh
3-6PM: Local host
6PM-9PM: Sean Hannity

5AM-8 or 9AM-Local morning news/host
8 or 9AM-11AM: Glenn Beck
11AM-2PM: Rush Limbaugh
2PM-5PM: Sean Hannity
5PM-8PM: Local host

Just an observation, although isn't a local show scheduled 5-8PM a little off?
 
WFLA Tampa has Local 6-9 AM, then Beck, Rush, Todd Schnitt, and Sean Hannity. All 3 hour increments.
WIOD Miami is 5 AM-5:45 Jim Bohannon, then local til 10, 10-12 is Glenn Beck, and then it follows the WFLA formula.
WGST Atlanta is all syndication with Smerconish, Beck, Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey, and Mark Levin.
WFLF Orlando follows the formula you suggested until afternoons, when Dave Ramsey takes 3 PM and Todd Schnitt follows.
WFLF-FM in Panama City goes local mornings, into Dennis Miller, then Rush, Schnitt, and then Rick and Bubba.
WTKS Savannah, GA also forgoes Sean Hannity for Dave Ramsey at 3:00, but mornings are what you specified, as is Rush.
WPGB Pittsburgh almost follows the formula, but their morning show Quinn and Rose based at the station is syndicated. The whole station's lineup is.
WERC Birmingham takes an odd route and is local from 6-11 AM. At 11 AM they go to Rush for four hours, then Glenn Beck delayed in afternoons from 3-6.

Sean Hannity is usually the roadblock for your schedule because he's often on a competing station. Many times he's just locked in for now, other times (like WSB Atlanta) it would hurt him to go to the Clear Channel station. If such is the case, many stations will take Dave Ramsey.

And except for WFLF-FM, all these stations play Coast to Coast overnight as well.
 
Delaware's two Clear Channel news/talk station schedules:

1450 WILM newsradio Wilmington DE:

1am-5am Jim Bohannan
5am-6am America in the Morning - Bohannan
6-9am Delaware This Morning (newsblock)
9-11:30am John Watson (local talk)
11:30- noon Mid day report (newsblock)
12noon-3pm Rush
3pm-6pm Hannity
6pm-7pm Evening Report (newsblock)
7pm-10pm Savage
10pm-1am Levin

1410 WDOV Dover DE

1-5am Coast to Coast - George Noory
5am-6am Wall Street Journal This Morning
6am-9am Delaware This Morning (newsblock - simulcast from WILM - with local Dover info from WDOV)
9am-12noon Beck
12noon-3pm Rush
3pm-6pm Hannity
6pm-7pm Dr. Dean Edell
7pm-10pm Dave Ramsey
10pm - 1am Dennis Miller
 
In New Orleans (Central Time) it's

WRNO-FM
5-9 Local (although from imported talent, not New Orleanians)
9-11 Beck
11-2 Rush
2-5 Hannity
5-8 Local (again, from someone brought in from another market)
8-10 Levin
10-12 Dennis Miller

In Baton Rouge it's

WJBO-AM
5:30-11 Local
11-2 Rush
2-5 Hannity
5-7 the morning host from WRNO/New Orleans (who's never lived in Baton Rouge and has lived in New Orleans for less than 2 years)
7-10 Ramsey
10-12 Levin

In Biloxi it's

WBUV-FM
5-8 Local
8-11 Beck
11-2 Rush
2-5 Hannity
5-8 Savage
8-12 Schnitt
 
KFBK Sacramento,CA
5-9 local news
9-12 Rush
12-3 local talk
3-7 local news
7-10 Hannity
10-5 c2c
KSTE 650 Sacramento,CA
6-10 local host
10-12 Clark Howard
12-3 Dr Laura
3-6 Savage
6-9 Clark Howard
3am-6am Don Imus
 
South Carolina

Charleston (WSCC 94.3)

5-6: Wall Street Journal This Morning
6-9: Charleston's Morning News
9-12: Glenn Beck (like most)
12-3: Rush
3-6: Schnitt
6-9: Dave Ramsey
9-Midnight: Michael Savage
12-5am: Coast to Coast AM

Columbia (WVOC 560)

5-6: Wall Street Journal This Morning
6-9: Columbia's Morning News
9-12: Glenn Beck
12-3: Rush
3-6: Keven Cohen (local talk host)
6-8: SportsTalk (statewide sportstalk)
8-11: Savage
11-Midnight: Rusty Humphries
12-5: Coast to Coast AM
 
Some of them are a bit different:

WHO 1040, Des Moines IA

5-9 Van and Bonnie (local)
9-11:30 Jan Mickelson (local)
11:30-1 The Big Show (farm, local)
1-4 Rush Limbaugh
4-7 Steve Deace (local)
7-9 Dr. Laura
9-12 Michael Medved
12-4 Coast to Coast
4-5 America In the Morning


KFAB 1110 Omaha

5-5:45 KFAB Morning News (local)
5:45-9 Gary Saddlemeyer (local)
9-11 Scott Verhees (local)
11-2 Rush Limbaugh
2-4 Glen Beck
4-7 Tom Becka (local)
7-9 Sports Nightly (state network)
9-12 Michael Savage
12-5 Coast to Coast
 
I suspect most of those CC outlets carry Fox News radio at the top of the hour as well.
 
jellyeggs said:
I suspect most of those CC outlets carry Fox News radio at the top of the hour as well.
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Yes. Clear Channel and Fox News Radio partnered up a few years ago. Premiere Radio distributes the network nationally.
 
MikefromDelaware said:
1450 WILM newsradio Wilmington DE:

1am-5am Jim Bohannan
5am-6am America in the Morning - Bohannan
6-9am Delaware This Morning (newsblock)
9-11:30am John Watson (local talk)
11:30- noon Mid day report (newsblock)
12noon-3pm Rush
3pm-6pm Hannity
6pm-7pm Evening Report (newsblock)
7pm-10pm Savage
10pm-1am Levin
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Just curious about this. Wouldn't Levin do better in a live slot? I thought Savage wasn't doing so well these days.
 
Louisville, KY 840 AM WHAS:

12am-5am: Coast to Coast
5am-9am: Local
9am-12pm: Local
12pm-3pm: Pig Limbaugh
3pm-7pm: Local
7pm-9pm: Local Sports talk (U of L, UK and nothing else)
9pm-12am: Screaming Levin

Cincinnati, OH 700 WLW:
12am-5am: Overnight Trucking Show
5am-6pm: Local
6pm-9pm: Local Sports Talk
9pm-12am: Local
All Cincinnati Reds games are carried as well as pre and post game programming.
 
I had worked part time at WILM about 4-5 years ago. At that time Savage pulled in a decent audience for WILM. Can't comment about today as I don't have access to the numbers. WILM picked up Levin and Hannity back when our cross town rival, WDEL dropped Hannity rather than allow ABC radio to force them to take Levin or lose Hannity (WDEL also dropped Rush and went all live and local during the day parts). WILM exercised their option to pick up Hannity along with the side kick show, Mark Levin (as well as Rush). WILM was already airing Savage at 7pm and bumped back Bohannan's show to after Levin rather than airing his show live at 10pm as WILM had been doing since Larry King did the show on Mutual some 30 years ago. WILM had been one of the original affiliates airing the late night talk of Larry King and then Jim Bohannan.

Frankly, if I'd been programming WILM I'd have kept Savage where he is at 7pm and Bohannan live at his 10pm slot and aired Levin at 1am, but as I wasn't involved with the negotiations with ABC radio I have no way of knowing if that option would have accepted.
 
Would it be fair to say that the CC News/Talk stations that feature a lineup of political talk shows (Rush, Hannity, etc) outnumber the stations that feature advice type shows (Dave Ramsey, Dr Laura, etc) by at least 3 to 1?
 
MikefromDelaware said:
Frankly, if I'd been programming WILM I'd have kept Savage where he is at 7pm and Bohannan live at his 10pm slot and aired Levin at 1am, but as I wasn't involved with the negotiations with ABC radio I have no way of knowing if that option would have accepted.
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I can't imagine Bohannan doing good numbers these days. Be interested to see how he's doing now.
 
WHJJ 920 Providence:

5-7 am: Wall Street Journal Report (Repeated at 6-7 am)
7-10am: Helen Glover (local host)
10am-12pm: Glenn Beck
12pm-3pm: Rush Limbaugh
3pm-6pm: Sean Hannity
6pm-8pm: Mark Levin
8pm-10pm: Fred Thompson
10pm-1am: Jim Bohannon
1am-5am: Sean Hannity (replay of the 3-6 show, 4am-5am is a repeat of the first hour)
 
storrs19 said:
Cincinnati, OH 700 WLW:
12am-5am: Overnight Trucking Show
5am-6pm: Local
6pm-9pm: Local Sports Talk
9pm-12am: Local
All Cincinnati Reds games are carried as well as pre and post game programming.
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Likewise, sister station 55 WKRC is:
5-9 am Local morning show
9 am-12 noon Beck
12 noon-3 pm Rush
3-6 pm Hannity
6-7 pm "Simply Money" (local show?)
7-10 pm Savage
10 pm-12 midnight Levin
12 midnight-5 am Noory
 
DToTheJ said:
storrs19 said:
Cincinnati, OH 700 WLW:
12am-5am: Overnight Trucking Show
5am-6pm: Local
6pm-9pm: Local Sports Talk
9pm-12am: Local
All Cincinnati Reds games are carried as well as pre and post game programming.
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Likewise, sister station 55 WKRC is:
5-9 am Local morning show
9 am-12 noon Beck
12 noon-3 pm Rush
3-6 pm Hannity
6-7 pm "Simply Money" (local show?)
7-10 pm Savage
10 pm-12 midnight Levin
12 midnight-5 am Noory
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I don't know of any other markets where Clear Channel owns two news/talk AM stations that have also been the two highest rated stations.
 
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