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FM News 101.9 Adds Lionel

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

FM News 101.9, after baiting 1010 WINS insisting they're not the "only all-news station" in New York, is now airing daily commentaries by former WOR host Lionel.

So I guess this move really does make WINS "New York's only all-news station" after all.

Thoughts?
 
Is this a 60-second commentary, or a full show?
 
The irony of Lionel doing commentaries on 101.9 FM as he is also doing commentaries for WPIX/11 at the same time? Both Channel 11 and 101.9 FM were co-owned for many years back in the day. (Hat tip to a poster on another board for that little factoid.)
 
Nothing unusual about commentaries on an all-news station. Perfectly normal and acceptable. Now if it were a full show, then they'd have no right to say they're an "all news" station. KYW in Philly has 60 second commentaries from local news analyst Larry Kane.
 
Why would commentaries on a news station make it not a news station. It seems to me that most newspapers have this thing called the editorial page. Having said that, though, I'd rather listen to WINS.
 
Of course, WCBS has had Osgood commentaries, and still does to this day... The station that WEMP has its sights set on, however, is WINS - which, AFAIK, doesn't have commentaries... hence rendering their "please stop saying you're the only all-news station, WINS" jive useless, with all due respect to Lionel.
 
The Lionel commentaries will likely be a nice contrast to the usual mushy, cutesy stuff for which 101.9 is infamous, but will it draw listeners? I doubt it. It would be like bringing a harpist into a sports bar -- it's the wrong environment!
 
wadio said:
The Lionel commentaries will likely be a nice contrast to the usual mushy, cutesy stuff for which 101.9 is infamous, but will it draw listeners? I doubt it. It would be like bringing a harpist into a sports bar -- it's the wrong environment!
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and yet if you believe the commercials, 101.9 is anything BUT cutesy and mushy - they want to TAKE OVER!!
 
not being from the area, i thought you were talking about trains!! maybe trains sounds during there awful news!!
 
Would you prefer a Fisher-Price typewriter behind 101.9's news? Wait, CBS might complain, scratch that...
 
DToTheJ said:
Of course, WCBS has had Osgood commentaries, and still does to this day... The station that WEMP has its sights set on, however, is WINS - which, AFAIK, doesn't have commentaries... hence rendering their "please stop saying you're the only all-news station, WINS" jive useless, with all due respect to Lionel.
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On the weekends, WINS has religious commentary from Rabbi Joseph Potasnik.
 
SonoSational18 said:
Why would commentaries on a news station make it not a news station. It seems to me that most newspapers have this thing called the editorial page. Having said that, though, I'd rather listen to WINS.
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Go back 70 years or so to the era of 15-minute nightly news-and-commentary programs by the likes of Lowell Thomas, Gabriel Heatter, and H.V. Kaltenborn. If memory serves, these programs, which were carried on the four major national radio networks, contained not only five-minute or so commentaries that were labeled as commentaries but also short statement's of the commentator's opinion on various other subjects, which were seemlessly intermingled with hard news. AFAIK, each 15-minute program, though it consisted of at least 50% commentary, was labeled as news. People listened to get both the news and the commentator's opinions.
 
"More New Yorkers get their commentary from people named after model trains from 101.9 than any other news station...

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