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Dennis Prager Hurt in Fall
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I don't know if this is who you are trying to recall, but in 1984, KFRC's (San Francisco) morning drive jock, Dr. Don Rose (Donald Rosenburg), had to have the lower part of one leg amputated*. KFRC built a makeshift radio studio in his hospital room, and later moved it to his home, where Rose broadcast his daily show from for about six months until he was healthy enough to return to the station.
* (From Wikipedia: "Despite his cheerful persona, Rose suffered over three decades of debilitating pain from assorted medical problems. In 1972, he underwent a botched heart surgery, which caused chronic knee infections that required 11 more operations and led to his losing his kneecap. He broadcast his daily radio show flat on his back from his home hospital bed for months. In 1984, after a fall made the knee problems worse, he had the damaged leg amputated.")
Not many know this...but he was also not a real doctor!
Next you'll be telling me Dr. Demento isn't a doctor.
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For the most part [at least in my case] the "usual mature demeanor" goes out the window with a back injury and you can turn cranky as Mr Wilson from Dennis the Menace in no time at all. They stuck me on heavy duty pain pills for a while and, at least from my view, I don't see how anyone can get addicted to them. They may have eased my pain but they also made me physically barf and constipated to the point it feels like you're giving birth to a 10 pound chunk of titanium. I elected not to take them unless the pain was so bad that I couldn't sleep.
That sucks. I told my doctor never to prescribe me pain medicine because it isn’t worth the chance of getting addicted.
I figure they don't want to put the Prager BRAND on hiatus, even while the marquee personality is out of commission. There might be revenue sharing agreements in place or something only network people would be privy to?
When Prager re-upped, he gave up the Noon ET/9:00a PT hour. His show is live from 1 to 3 ET/10 to Noon PT.
Okay, fanboy.
On the contrary, I find Prager to be sleep-inducing, humourless, and drier than the Sahara Desert. He has as much personality as a door knob. In spite of his ability to speak on nearly any topic and express his viewpoints clearly and concisely, Prager is also very condescending and in some cases, downright mean towards those whom he disagrees with.
And about his "school", PragerU: It is nothing more than an repository of alternative facts. All PragerU does is regurgitate talking points from conservative think tanks, which isn't very original. But it's all slickly produced and perfectly moulded to fit Prager's narrative that "the left" and its various tentacles are telling Americans what to think and believe, when it is he and his online "university" that seeks to indoctrinate in the same manner.
The packaging of PragerU's videos do very little to hide its lack of real substance. From an ideological standpoint, he wants to see the USA go into the timewarp and return to a post-WW2, pre-Civil Rights Era society. No progress for anyone in favor of what he and other conservatives call "common sense". I personally don't wish to live in a world like that.
But respectfully, someone such as yourself wouldn't see any of those things because you're in ideological lockstep with him.
Maybe this will spur that decision sooner rather than later. But the truth is, Salem needs Prager more than the Prager brand needs Salem. And with Sebastian Gorka apparently headed back to the White House, Salem would need Prager back sooner than later, if only to maintain some level of stability in their schedule.
My guess is the older segment of Prager's audience isn't fully sold yet on Charlie Kirk ("Ben Shapiro Lite" as I call him). He's also not as eloquent verbally as Prager, and a lot more snarky. Between them, Prager is the better radio personality in my opinion.
See my earlier rebuttal.
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Salem "Answer" stations actually have ratings in some of their other markets, mainly in the South and West. LA comes to mind, and New York/Newark. In those cities, they also have more local programming with well-known area hosts.
(Fun Fact: Some of the "hosts" on those ubiquitous Purity Products infomercials are hosts on the LA Salem stations.)
I think the audience in the Cleveland/Akron market just prefers local shows and stations, like WTAM and WNIR. Maybe because we were once such a dynamic and vibrant radio scene, older listeners still gravitate toward what they consider "theirs". And Salem does almost nothing to promote the stations here, and that's likely expense vs. return, with the return in a market this size not justifying the expense.
(Fun Fact: Some of the "hosts" on those ubiquitous Purity Products infomercials are hosts on the LA Salem stations.)
I think the audience in the Cleveland/Akron market just prefers local shows and stations, like WTAM and WNIR. Maybe because we were once such a dynamic and vibrant radio scene, older listeners still gravitate toward what they consider "theirs". And Salem does almost nothing to promote the stations here, and that's likely expense vs. return, with the return in a market this size not justifying the expense.
WRONG. Salem has no ratings in New York because they don't subscribe to Nielsen Audio there. Salem only subscribes in markets where they operate a CCM "Fish"-formatted station, like in Los Angeles and Atlanta.
Speaking of which, in the recently-released diary numbers for October, in the meaningless 6+...
- In LA, KFSH (CCM) was 32nd, while KRLA (N/T) was 33rd.
- and in the ATL, WFSH-FM (CCM) ranked at No. 7. WGKA (N/T) finished at 32nd.
**Doing research is so important.
Not to imply they are ratings leaders, but the point is even a bottom tier share in a market the size of LA can mean more ears tuned in than in a market the size of Cleveland which can justify the expense of more local programming.
Nielsen still collects data for non-subscribing stations. While they no longer release non-subscriber data to the public and even limit the use of that data for Nielsen clients, for example in agency buyer algorithms, depending on the level of the Nielsen service one has the listener respondent data for non-subscribing stations can be accessed. Essentially, while it cannot be used by non-subscribing stations, Nielsen non-subscribing stations do have ratings.
Nielsen still collects data for non-subscribing stations. While they no longer release non-subscriber data to the public and even limit the use of that data for Nielsen clients, for example in agency buyer algorithms, depending on the level of the Nielsen service one has the listener respondent data for non-subscribing stations can be accessed. Essentially, while it cannot be used by non-subscribing stations, Nielsen non-subscribing stations do have ratings.
This is not possible; I heard a fill-in host explain this to a caller last week. Apparently his show, as with all their shows, is invested by contract for a certain time slot. If Salem were to put his show on hiatus and insert an entirely different show into Dennis's time slot, the Show would breach and therefore cease to exist and ALL of those employees who work on producing The Dennis Prager Show, would forthwith lose their jobs. Therefore, it is best to simply schedule fill-ins from KRLA's bench of Salem hosts.
But... when Dennis Prager's show ran 3 hours (12:06- 3pm M-F), WHK changed things up and put the first hour of "The Charlie Kirk Show" into the 12:06 to 1:00 pm timeslot. Dennis Prager's first hour, then, aired in the 10:00 pm hour on the same day.
Here's my thoughts: Dennis Prager (Live) Noon - 2pm, "Best Stocks Now" 2:06pm-3:00pm, Charlie Kirk, (hopefully live) 3:06 pm-6:00pm.
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"The Dennis Prager Show (Live), Noon-2pm, "The Charlie Kirk Show" 2:06pm-5:00pm, "Best Stocks Now 5:06pm-6:00pm.
Both ideas here will still give the paid-for stocks show a good quality timeslot.
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"The Dennis Prager Show (Live), Noon-2pm, "The Charlie Kirk Show" 2:06pm-5:00pm, "Best Stocks Now 5:06pm-6:00pm.
Both ideas here will still give the paid-for stocks show a good quality timeslot.
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