They used up that money paying down debt.
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Dennis Prager Hurt in Fall
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There has been mixed messages about Dennis Prager's return. On Bob Frantz' Live and Local show, he announced that beginning March 31st, Charlie Kirk would be on from noon until 2:00 pm. I recall him even saying the Kirk's show is a 2-hour long affair. I was surprised about that. Bob said that the 2-3pm hour would be hosted by (name?) I was driving at the time, and can't remember who he said it was, but it was a guy whose name I am unfamiliar with.
The next day, I heard a spot on WHK announcing that "The Charlie Kirk Show" would be on for the full 3 hours (Noon - 3pm) ... actually 12:06 pm until 3:00 p.m. ... beginning March 31st.
The next day, I heard a spot on WHK announcing that "The Charlie Kirk Show" would be on for the full 3 hours (Noon - 3pm) ... actually 12:06 pm until 3:00 p.m. ... beginning March 31st.
This has to be the most schizophrenic shuffle of lineups of any radio station I've ever heard. How is the audience expected to connect with their favorite shows when they're constantly being changed around?
I FOUND A FELLOW PRAGER FAN. I had a few stops to make. The employee who helped me at one noticed my PragerU cap I was wearing that I bought from the Prager Store. We got into a little conversation about Dennis in which she said that he's going to be back on-the-air in June. She also told me that she donates regularly to PragerU (which is more than I do as I've donated a few times). Both of us agree that Dennis Prager is, by far, our favorite talk show host and that his takes on issues are unique and helpful. I shared with her that, some years ago, I was at an event and I was talking to an acquaintance there about some current event issue. Soon, someone slipped me a note saying that what I was sharing was impactful and powerful and that she'd like to keep in touch with me. Almost everything I was sharing came from Dennis Prager. I grabbed a pen and paper and suggested that she listen to "The Dennis Prager Show", and gave her the station, WHK, its frequency and the hours he was on-the-air.
To be fair, Mr. Prager is in a sad, and unique situation. So, disruptions are to be expected. Any person or organization can only do the best that they can do under the circumstances.
Dennis Prager is supposedly worth $20 million. I would never give anyone worth millions of dollars money for any reason.
While that is a comfortable amount of money, it hardly qualifies anyone to be called "rich" today.
Oh trust me. If I had $20 MILLION US dollars in cash, I can easily manage to not have to work for the rest of my life. š
No argument at all. But outside of his timeslot, the entire lineup is screwy. Between the time shifted shows and "split shifts" in between the paid programming like the stock show and the ACLJ hour.
The time shifting of shows or portions of shows is very annoying. Especially when the first hour of a show airs at a later time, which is the case with Hugh Hewitt and Larry Elder. Quite often, during the live portion (hours 2 and 3), they refer to a topic that was covered the first hour, but we haven't heard the first hour yet.
The Seculow infomercial is delayed 6 hours. The first half hour airs live at noon on sister station 1220 (not sure why they can't air the second half hour). So their "breaking news" is old news by the time it airs at 6 pm on WHK.
And poor Mike Gallagher doesn't air until 11 pm due to Bob Frantz show airing locally on WHK from 9 - noon.
The Seculow infomercial is delayed 6 hours. The first half hour airs live at noon on sister station 1220 (not sure why they can't air the second half hour). So their "breaking news" is old news by the time it airs at 6 pm on WHK.
And poor Mike Gallagher doesn't air until 11 pm due to Bob Frantz show airing locally on WHK from 9 - noon.
Yeah, I heard the same. Very confusing. I wonder if it is just WHK that is planning to air that unknown person at 2 pm instead of the 3rd hour of Charlie Kirk?
If they need more money, they should sell 1220, a 50 kW station that hardly anyone is listening to.
How much do you think they would get for it?
If they were to sell it, it would be going for several times their cash flow, and I can't see how they aren't making good money off the preachers and ministries buying air time.
Given it's a highly directional AM signal degraded over the decades and hasn't programmed to a general audience in nearly 25 years, the chance 1220 ever goes back to a non-religion format is imperceptible.
More than they are getting for airing the stock infomercial.
Who could they sell it to that would gain more listeners and make $$$?
I believe each of the teachers and preach programs aired are pay for play. About the best way to make money on a station like that.
And with relatively few expenses to boot.
I've never really listened at length to any Salem, K-Love, Moody station so really wouldn't know if they did or didn't do ads. Think the longest I may have listened was to two songs on a K-Love station years ago.
Reconstitute Nationwide Communications. Have them buy it back, get the old WGAR call letters back, wheel Lanigan out from whatever nursing home he's in and put him back on, bring back their old format, redo the Antenna system so it sounds decent and maybe get a few FM translators around town to make up for any signal degradation from all the newfangled BS that spews out spurious RF signals that interfere with the AM band and have at it. [Yeah, I know. Wishful thinking.]
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