Former Gov David Peterson gets Own Radio Show on WOR

[scott5]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol..._get_own_radio_show_on_wor.html#ixzz1WhvHAZvz

 

[raccoonradio]

Post said it would be morning drive. _WOR site and facebook_ say 4-6 pm and Steve Malzburg is due to make an announcement on his show of some sort

See NYC Radio Messageboard, http://www.710wor.com etc

 

[raccoonradio]

malzbergtalk.com has a message from him. Contract not renewed, not allowed to do final show.
End of his show on WOR, but not his show overall, wishes Patterson the best

 

[DToTheJ]

Here's Steve's message on the front page of http://www.malzbergtalk.com:

Hello my dear radio family. As you may know by now, WOR Radio has decided not to renew my contract which expires in October. They have also elected not to have me finish out my contract, so I am officially done with my on-air shows on WOR. I am extremely proud of the 4 years in PM-Drive there. I could not have imagined the great success, which came very quickly. (Not entirely true, I knew we would rock!) I wish my successor David Patterson all the best. Please understand that this is not the end of the Steve Malzberg Show, just a detour on the road to a better and bigger forum for all of us.

Deals involving TV, newspaper, internet broadcasting, speaking appearances, and of course over the air radio are all being worked on as we speak. www.malzbergtalk.com is the only site where you can keep updated on where and when you can hear, see and read me. You can also e-mail me directly at malzbergtalk at gmail.com. We will compile all the e-mails and continue to send out mass mailings regarding my latest moves.

So many of you have been a part of my family over my 30 years on the air (June 11, 2012 will be 30 years!). You have been with me through the events that have shaped our world and through my marriage, the birth of Robert, my divorce, the passing of my dad and my mom's battle with cancer, which she is wining [sic]. I have experienced such joy in sharing Robert with you via the airwaves. I believe his first appearance was on WABC when he was just 2 years old. He last appeared with me on my last WOR show on August 24. You'll be hearing more from him as well.

In the very near future I will be filling in on various shows around the country. I will let you know where and when and how you can listen. Please stay with me. I am diminished without you all. All my love.

Steve

 

[DToTheJ]

So it sounds like Malzberg and his syndicated show is going to have a deal similar to Mancow's current syndicated morning show: it can be heard everywhere but his home market. Or at least it sounds like it's going to continue to be syndicated. Isn't it syndicated by an entity called "WOR Radio Networks"? With the contract between Malzberg and WOR not renewed, who will pick up syndication of the show?

And - how much, if at all, will Sean Hannity's ratings experience a boost at the expense of Malzberg's WOR departure - or will folks finally discover what AM 970 The Apple has to offer in afternoon drive? Stay tuned.

 

[NewsVet]

So it sounds like Malzberg and his syndicated show is going to have a deal similar to Mancow's current syndicated morning show: it can be heard everywhere but his home market. Or at least it sounds like it's going to continue to be syndicated. d.

No, it doesn't "sound like" that at all. Malzberg says he'll be "filling in" on various stations...he says nothing about continuing to be heard on stations that have been carrying his syndicated show. And Mancow and Malzberg are hardly heard "everywhere" but their home markets. In fact, neither has been heard in most of the country.

 

[kevinsealy]

This is proof about the unstability of the broadcast industry. You can have successful ratings, but yet get dropped from the station you're working on. Malzerg had good ratings. In fact, he made it known that he beats Sean Hannity in most of the Arbitron books.

Former Governor David Patterson's success as a talk show host remains to be seen. Therefore, WOR could be taking a risk droppping Malzberg and putting Patterson up against Hannity.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

 

[scott5]

This is proof about the unstability of the broadcast industry. You can have successful ratings, but yet get dropped from the station you're working on. Malzerg had good ratings. In fact, he made it known that he beats Sean Hannity in most of the Arbitron books.

Former Governor David Patterson's success as a talk show host remains to be seen. Therefore, WOR could be taking a risk droppping Malzberg and putting Patterson up against Hannity.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

One would have imagined that they would drop the boring-no-chance-to-make-it-in-radio Lou Dobbs show, but no, they instead terminated a show who did well in the ratings.

 

[TheBigA]

This is proof about the unstability of the broadcast industry.

You mean INstability? It's not "proof" of anything, other than a poorly rated radio station chose to replace one expensive local talent with another. Cutting Dobbs won't pay Patterson's salary. Apparently Malzberg had negatives that go beyond his ratings.

 

[NewsVet]

Malzerg had good ratings. In fact, he made it known that he beats Sean Hannity in most of the Arbitron books.

Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

But he didn't. As someone with access to all the ratings said on another board, Malzberg never beat Hannity, with the exception of an occasional "odd" slice of the pie.

 

[TTalkradio1]

Malzerg had good ratings. In fact, he made it known that he beats Sean Hannity in most of the Arbitron books.

Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

But he didn't. As someone with access to all the ratings said on another board, Malzberg never beat Hannity, with the exception of an occasional "odd" slice of the pie.

That's not true. Malzberg beat Hannity in all the demos in more than one book, and often beat him with men 25-54.

 

[TTalkradio1]

This was a stupid move by WOR. The morons on the NYRMB board are going back and fourth. It's the same 10 idiots every time when they discuss talk radio. Paterson isn't going to last a year on WOR.

 

[TheBigA]

Paterson isn't going to last a year on WOR.

It depends...he can be pretty glib and that can work. Ed Koch was pretty good on the radio. But I don't see a lot of people falling over themselves to hire Elliot Spitzer. And at one time he was a hot commodity. As for Patterson, what else is he going to do? He could be the next Jerry Springer. WOR isn't the most dynamic operation in town. They are living proof that a body at rest tends to stay at rest.

 

[NewsVet]

That's not true. Malzberg beat Hannity in all the demos in more than one book, and often beat him with men 25-54.

In an interview Malzberg admitted that his recent ratings were not good, but that he had hoped they would improve as the political scene heated up.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowl...aced-by-former-governor-david-paterson_b42159

“The ratings, naturally, in the summer months go down…Across the board, except for [John] Gambling, the station ratings had gone down.”

Malzberg, though, was convinced his show would be rejuvenated in the fall.

“I had no doubt [the ratings] were going to pick up, heading into an election year, come September when everybody gets back into it,” Malzberg says.

 

[scott5]

That's not true. Malzberg beat Hannity in all the demos in more than one book, and often beat him with men 25-54.

In an interview Malzberg admitted that his recent ratings were not good, but that he had hoped they would improve as the political scene heated up.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowl...aced-by-former-governor-david-paterson_b42159

“The ratings, naturally, in the summer months go down…Across the board, except for [John] Gambling, the station ratings had gone down.”

Malzberg, though, was convinced his show would be rejuvenated in the fall.

“I had no doubt [the ratings] were going to pick up, heading into an election year, come September when everybody gets back into it,” Malzberg says.

Hannity's ratings were not better! Its the summer months and WABC declined more than WOR did. Look on the overall ratings.

 

[TheBigA]

I'm pretty convinced the decision wasn't strictly about ratings. As someone much smarter than me once said, it's always about money.

 

[TTalkradio1]

That's not true. Malzberg beat Hannity in all the demos in more than one book, and often beat him with men 25-54.

In an interview Malzberg admitted that his recent ratings were not good, but that he had hoped they would improve as the political scene heated up.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowl...aced-by-former-governor-david-paterson_b42159

“The ratings, naturally, in the summer months go down…Across the board, except for [John] Gambling, the station ratings had gone down.”

Malzberg, though, was convinced his show would be rejuvenated in the fall.

“I had no doubt [the ratings] were going to pick up, heading into an election year, come September when everybody gets back into it,” Malzberg says.

Hannity's ratings were not better! Its the summer months and WABC declined more than WOR did. Look on the overall ratings.

Right, and were not only talking about last summer's ratings.

 

[TTalkradio1]

Paterson isn't going to last a year on WOR.

It depends...he can be pretty glib and that can work. Ed Koch was pretty good on the radio. But I don't see a lot of people falling over themselves to hire Elliot Spitzer. And at one time he was a hot commodity. As for Patterson, what else is he going to do? He could be the next Jerry Springer. WOR isn't the most dynamic operation in town. They are living proof that a body at rest tends to stay at rest.

Ed Koch was mayor for eight years, and was more famous than Paterson when Koch started his radio show.

 

[WNTIRadio]

I've always thought this but have never brought it up before, out of respect for another broadcaster... but Steve sometimes had the worst stammer, especially when going off the cuff on a phone interview. It got to the point where even if I found the guest interesting, the hesitations and stammering drove me away.

I'm amazed a PD never airchecked him and brought that up for him to work on it. It was sometimes like his first day jitters never went away.

Of course, this is the same station that has Joan Hamburg talk about where she ate the night before, what off off off Broadway show she saw and how the gefilte fish is going through her system the next morning. That has to be the worst program on radio, hands down. Perhaps it was compelling in 1972...

 

[NewsVet]

I'm pretty convinced the decision wasn't strictly about ratings. As someone much smarter than me once said, it's always about money.

Right. WOR isn't in business to "beat Hannity." It's in business to make money by selling advertising in competition with several dozen other radio stations in the NY area. Both WABC and WOR were having ratings and billings problems in afternoon drive as they divided the dwindling audience for right-wing talk, so WOR has decided to try a host who's not a right-winger. Makes sense to me.