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Dean Edell: Country Doctor

That link isn't working, DJ.

Given Dr. Edell's work on Channel 7..uh...excuse me...ABC7...for a couple of decades now, his long running syndicated radio show, his bestselling (at least locally) books, and marketing his own brand of reading glasses, how can he NOT be a multi-millionaire?
 
The link didn't work for me either, however, I did find an article in which Edell took some credit for helping Limbaugh put his show in syndication.
 
Lkeller said:
That link isn't working, DJ.

Given Dr. Edell's work on Channel 7..uh...excuse me...ABC7...for a couple of decades now, his long running syndicated radio show, his bestselling (at least locally) books, and marketing his own brand of reading glasses, how can he NOT be a multi-millionaire?
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Uh, lots of wives and children?

Anyhow, the URL works if you copy it directly and paste it into an address box. The lame Radio-Info software apparently wants to take the URL and pass it through some misconfigured server.

I'm not sure if this URL will pass through un-mangled by Radio-Info, but let's try it:
http://www.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_12002398?nclick_check=1

NOPE, it doesn't work. Select the URL line, copy it, and paste it into a URL box.

He is apparently concerned enough about his future that he had a huge auction some months back of lots of his art work. It was a huge lot, lots of rare anatomy drawings, Asian art, etc.

As for helping get Rush Limbaugh his start, Ed McLaughlin asked Dean to become a partner in his new syndication business which opened up when Owen Spann was dropped from the ABC Talk Radio network and there was gaping hole in the network schedule that ABC couldn't fill right away. That slot became Rush's slot.

The company, EFM Media Management, syndicated only Rush and Dean Edell. In 1997 McLaughlin sold it to Jacor, which in turn was absorbed into Premiere, which became part of Clear Channel.
 
Edell needs to get over himself someday.. ::) When Edell's syndicated daytime show launched, there were several other syndicated shows being delivered via satellite including notables like Bruce Williams, Dr. Laura, etc.

Any connection to Rush Limbaugh's syndicated show is only a three-degrees-of-separation concept, nothing of substance.
 
As for the link, it worked at one time. The other link that was posted also worked; I just tried it again, and it goes nowhere.

I tried searching on OaklandTribune.com, searched for and found the article ... and the link bottomed out.

Since the Trib, Merc, Argus, CoCoTimes, Daily Review, San Mateo Times, Marin I-J, Montclarion and (perhaps) a half-dozen other papers are all on the same webserver, I'll make a guess: they gots issues with their website(s).

Here's the CoCoTimes link to the article:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_12002398

As to who stood to profit from Rush Limbaugh, I remember hearing an interview with Mickey Luckoff about a year ago in which he mentioned that Ed McLaughlin had asked him early on if he wanted in on the ground floor of Mount Rushbo. Mr. Luckoff passed, and many more may have also said "thanks, but no."

McLaughlin may have had to shop Rush around a whole bunch before somebody finally decided to take a chance on him.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
As for the link, it worked at one time. The other link that was posted also worked; I just tried it again, and it goes nowhere.

As to who stood to profit from Rush Limbaugh, I remember hearing an interview with Mickey Luckoff about a year ago in which he mentioned that Ed McLaughlin had asked him early on if he wanted in on the ground floor of Mount Rushbo. Mr. Luckoff passed, and many more may have also said "thanks, but no."

McLaughlin may have had to shop Rush around a whole bunch before somebody finally decided to take a chance on him.
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My family and I have been driving I-5 to Redding to visit friends a few times a year for well over 25 years now. I clearly remember hearing Limbaugh on one of those trips when he was local there at KFBK. I remember thinking that he was unusual and entertaining - a real standout among talk hosts...politics aside.

I remembered Rush a couple of years later when KGO plugged in his show for a week or two when Ronn Owens was on vacation. I was not surprised that Rush was beginning to hit the big time. I believe that was in the early days of his syndication, and it must have obviously been before KNBR picked up his show.

There was a lot of buzz about it, and it seemed like kind of a try-out to me. I got the impression that KGO was considering picking up the show - but that Luckoff made the decision not to because he wanted KGO to remain all live-and-local. I don't think it had anything to do with Rush personally, or with his politics. After all, at that time (pre KSFO), Jim Eason espoused views that were just as conservative as Rush, in a much less polite manner.

Maybe just a few years later, Michael Savage made his first appearances (live and local) on KGO - again as a fill-in.
 
landtuna said:
The link didn't work for me either, however, I did find an article in which Edell took some credit for helping Limbaugh put his show in syndication.
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Or it might be the other way around. Mc Laughlin was an a#@hole who insisted that Limbaugh affiliates carry Edell or they couldn't have Rush. Believe me, I was a PD at a station that carried both but only wanted Rush. If anything Rush helped make Edell. Edell caused me a trillion headaches from listeners constantly complaining about his "sexually explicit segments." I could never get the connection between the two. I was glad when "EIB" was sold off. Mc Laughlin was no longer a factor.
 
TVradioguru said:
Edell needs to get over himself someday.. ::) When Edell's syndicated daytime show launched, there were several other syndicated shows being delivered via satellite including notables like Bruce Williams, Dr. Laura, etc.

Any connection to Rush Limbaugh's syndicated show is only a three-degrees-of-separation concept, nothing of substance.
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The timelines are very close. NBC's Talknet debuted November 2, 1981. ABC's "Super Radio" 24/7 programming, which included ABC Talk Radio, was announced in the NY Times in March 1982. When Owen Spann retired from the ABC Talk Radio network, two hours were available which Ed McLaughlin filled with Rush Limbaugh, so this would have been after 1982. However, Rush said in an interview that Ed McLaughlin was already syndicating Dr Dean Edell at the time he began syndicating Rush. Here's a URL to Rush's interview on the matter:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080108/content/01125122.guest.html

Now, Talknet had some MDs, but they were quite lame and didn't do medical advice. They had Dr. David Reuben who fancied himself as a sexologist, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, also a sexologist.

From the Talknet Wikipedia page:
"Tunick: "I came up with the name 'Talknet' and created and developed the 'Dear Abby' format for Sally Jessy Raphael which I tested earlier that year on NBC's WRC in Washington D.C. Prior to Talknet the only radio advice shows were hosted by clinical psychologists."

So, I'd say that Dean Edell's claim as to having the first syndicated medical advice talkshow might have merit.
 
We seem to be mixing network talk shows with syndicated. They're not quite the same thing. But if you're lumping them together - I remember that Larry King's national radio show was carried by the Mutual Radio Network in the mid 1970s. A friend of mine listened nightly. I don't remember what Bay Area station carried the program.

My memory is that King took over the show from somebody who had passed away - I want to say Long John Neville, but I may be off on that. So this would go back quite a few years before Dr. Dean was syndicated.
 
TalkNet was distributed by NBC Radio. Mutual was Larry King's network. I cut my radio teeth board operating TalkNet in the 80's. Boy was I glad when "real" syndicated talk began, but you know, I sometimes wouldn't mind listening to Sally Jesse Raphael or Leah Mirabal again. Kind of soothing. Puts you to sleep.
 
elchupacabras said:
TalkNet was distributed by NBC Radio. Mutual was Larry King's network. I cut my radio teeth board operating TalkNet in the 80's. Boy was I glad when "real" syndicated talk began, but you know, I sometimes wouldn't mind listening to Sally Jesse Raphael or Leah Mirabal again. Kind of soothing. Puts you to sleep.
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LOL ;D
 
Lkeller said:
We seem to be mixing network talk shows with syndicated. They're not quite the same thing.
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Why are they not identical? This is exemplified by the fact that the 2 hours ABC Talk Radio turned loose were scooped by Ed McLaughlin for his EFM network (which Rush calls EIB). As far as I can remember both EFM and Talk Radio were distributed on the very same ABC network topography (it was still 5kHz lines at that time).

But if you're lumping them together - I remember that Larry King's national radio show was carried by the Mutual Radio Network in the mid 1970s. A friend of mine listened nightly. I don't remember what Bay Area station carried the program.
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Nobody has said that Dean Edell had the first syndicated radio show! His claim was that he was the first to do a medical advice talkshow on a national network. I'm coming to think that this is correct.

PS: Prior to Larry King, Mutual carried Herb Jepko from KSL, one of the very worst talkshows in the history of talkradio, but also one that bagged Jepko a bunch of money because he sold everything from life insurance to burial plots to his audience. From the sound of the spots as I remember, it sounded like they were all PIs he was getting a cut from.

In fact I'll go further back into my little kid's brain and remember that Jepko first syndicated the "Nightcap" program to KIIS 1150 in Los Angeles! But because KIIS didn't have a network affiliation as KSL did, Jepko actually did an hourly newscast using the AP wire available to him in Salt Lake City. This meant that he offered a generic newscast with some vague LA references in it. The weather was the oddest thing because Jepko at that time didn't think of phoning the LA weather forecast recording and thus used only the vague AP national weather forecasts that he tried to fit to make it sound like he was doing an LA newscast.
 
DavidKaye said:
.... were scooped by Ed McLaughlin for his EFM network (which Rush calls EIB). As far as I can remember both EFM and Talk Radio were distributed on the very same ABC network topography (it was still 5kHz lines at that time).

EFM, that's the name I was looking for. Couldn't remember it.

PS: Prior to Larry King, Mutual carried Herb Jepko from KSL, one of the very worst talkshows in the history of talkradio, but also one that bagged Jepko a bunch of money because he sold everything from life insurance to burial plots to his audience. From the sound of the spots as I remember, it sounded like they were all PIs he was getting a cut from.

In fact I'll go further back into my little kid's brain and remember that Jepko first syndicated the "Nightcap" program to KIIS 1150 in Los Angeles! But because KIIS didn't have a network affiliation as KSL did, Jepko actually did an hourly newscast using the AP wire available to him in Salt Lake City. This meant that he offered a generic newscast with some vague LA references in it. The weather was the oddest thing because Jepko at that time didn't think of phoning the LA weather forecast recording and thus used only the vague AP national weather forecasts that he tried to fit to make it sound like he was doing an LA newscast.
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You have to understand those were different times.Herb was a hero to the upper demos. I used to stay up and listen to him on KSL as a kid, until he was later replaced by Gaylen Rowan. At one point, before the FCC started to emasculate 50kw clear channel stations, the program was heard on only 2 affiliates: KSL and WHAS!
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