Cold Treatment for Kuby

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Phil Boyce brought Curtis and Kuby together. He mediated a truce when Kuby's testimony was going to split them up. So why the cold treatment for Kuby in the shadow of Imus?? Curtis and Kuby provided the only informed show of the day. Certainly there could have been a Saturday morning slot for them..
Mr Boyce, why the change of heart??

 

[LinoNYC]

Phil Boyce brought Curtis and Kuby together. He mediated a truce when Kuby's testimony was going to split them up. So why the cold treatment for Kuby in the shadow of Imus?? Curtis and Kuby provided the only informed show of the day. Certainly there could have been a Saturday morning slot for them..
Mr Boyce, why the change of heart??

First off, liberals have never fared well on that station. Lynn Samuels, Alan Colmes, I guess you could count Jay Diamond although he was conservative while there, and now, Ron Kuby.

Liberals, for that matter any thinkers get the back-of-the-hand in that place.

Then look at the realities. The station has the oldest listeners in the market, revenues have been stagnant for years (around 23-24M) given the age factor you are already hearing tons of "colon blow" info-mercials on weekends and the weekday spots (from what I have heard) are trending towards the "get rich working from home" and various sexual dysfunction and baldness "cures".

Add to that, a new owner who needs to show some growth, somehow to an industry in decline and voila!-an opening for Imus.

A shortterm bring in a buck move.

Realisticly, WABC as it is today has only 5-7 years left..the audience is just getting too old.

Lino

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

Lino, that could be a whole new thread by itself.

What do we see WABC doing 7 years from now? I really hope something better. The only show I listen on that thing is Coast to Coast AM. When it's not pre-empted by colon-blow infomercials.

 

[LIradiofan226]

Sliwa went too melodramatic in todays Daily News spouting how traumatized he is by what happened to Ron. It's unfortunate he lost his partner but it's nothing personal and while disappointing Sliwa has survived worse. I'm sorry but if I had been shot multiple times by the mob and left for dead anything after that would pale in comparison. Yes he lost a partner but Kuby still has his law career and a loving wife and daughter. He'll survive and so will Sliwa who still has his job and most importantly his life.

 

[chuckydoll]

Ron Kuby fired from WABC

Kuby was interviewed on WNYC yesterday and said he was told by WABC not to come in anymore.

The top honchos at 77 are likely carrying out orders from Citadel corporate. After all it was Citadel that decided to rehabilitate Imus.

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

Sliwa went too melodramatic

That's Sliwa's trademark. New York's own Drama Queens in the Morning. :

 

[LinoNYC]

Re: Ron Kuby fired from WABC

Kuby was interviewed on WNYC yesterday and said he was told by WABC not to come in anymore.

The top honchos at 77 are likely carrying out orders from Citadel corporate. After all it was Citadel that decided to rehabilitate Imus.

Then why fire Kuby a full month before the show actually ends.

Petty. Vindictive..typical conservative stoneheads.

They'll have something to really rail about in, oh, just over a year. The electorate is going to flush the toilet of the last eight years.

Lino, that could be a whole new thread by itself.
What do we see WABC doing 7 years from now? I really hope something better.

Answer: pay for play. What WOR is already doing with part of it's daytime hours. Stuff such as limbaugh, hannity etc will still sell in some parts of the country and syndicators will probably want the prestige of a New York clearance so, they'll pay for airtime.

The fact is that in New York the Repubican party is teetering on extinction, almost all the moderates have been outsted, the leadership is ancient. Even the likes of hicktown's Joe Bruno have decried that the state will soon become a "one Party state".

So it's (pay for play) really the only way the con-talk format survives after the current listeners die or move to retirement areas.

Ofcourse iboc might take-off and open the possibility for a music format.

Lino

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

Re: Ron Kuby fired from WABC

So it's (pay for play) really the only way the con-talk format survives after the current listeners die or move to retirement areas.

It's a shame that political beliefs are trumping quality radio programming. I have no problem with conservatives on the radio, but compare Mainelli's WABC (1991-93) to today's WABC. Which would you rather listen to? Which sounded like it had more fire in its belly? Which had a more balanced point of view (albeit tilted slightly to the right) with an eye towards compelling radio?

But what do I know about the programming end of things? I'm just a screwdriver jockey. :-\

 

[blueclaws1210]

So it's (pay for play) really the only way the con-talk format survives after the current listeners die or move to retirement areas.

It's a shame that political beliefs are trumping quality radio programming. I have no problem with conservatives on the radio, but compare Mainelli's WABC (1991-93) to today's WABC. Which would you rather listen to? Which sounded like it had more fire in its belly? Which had a more balanced point of view (albeit tilted slightly to the right) with an eye towards compelling radio?

But what do I know about the programming end of things? I'm just a screwdriver jockey. :-\

what was wabc 93 lineup ?

it might be 50/50 on the two winding up on wor

 

[Julius Leonard Marx]

Phil Noyce gives his rationale for going all conservative, all the time over on the news-talk board. I'm not sure I buy it. It sounds like his response to declining cume is to preach longer and longer sermons to a smaller and smaller choir. Time will tell if he knows what he's doing. Regardless, Ron Kuby was not fired "for cause" (as Imus was, or Bob Grant). He did what Noyce asked of him and did it well. Ron deserved a better exit. At the very least, he should at least have been given a chance to say "good bye."

I saw a blog article pointing out that WABC under-performs in sales revenue. Imus may not have gotten numbers as good as Curtis and Kuby but he did draw advertisers.