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FWIW, job posting for Clr Channel WXKS-AM; "exp. in News-Talk a plus"

Wonder if this means that Clear Channel is finally ready to pull the trigger on doing something different with 1200......1430......or possibly both?

Perhaps doing an entirely syndicated talk lineup on 1430?, leaving 1200 Rumba to do its thing?

Or....doing the talk format on 1200, with Rumba moving to 1430?

I guess we'll just have to stay tuned to find out, won't we?... ;)
 
Mentioned this on boston-radio-interest and Donna Halper said there have been rumors for awhile that CC
wanted to dump the Spanish from one of their stations and talk was ONE possibility. I don't know if CC would
remove Rush from WRKO if this does come to pass, but take note that Premiere's Beck and Hannity don't have local clearances (some stations in areas like Worc., NH, and RI do have them, and supposedly WRKO has had a best of Beck on weekends, or do they?)

On the prog talk side Premiere syndies Randi Rhodes (can't remember if WWZN has her yet or not). Jeff Santos'
lease on WWZN expires in Apr or May; not sure if maybe he's aiming to move the progtalk to 1430 (a deal
with CC?), or both 1430 and 1510?

The ad incorrectly listed WXKS as being on 1200; but is it right freq, wrong calls? I think 1430 may be the
one to flip; low cost, syndie shows. I stress again this may mean nothing but when an ad brings up
poss. of news-talk, well...
 
True re: Rush; who knows, they could try Beck on 1430 even though it is inferior--I think he's on WGIR Manchester, WTAG Worc., and WHJJ Prov (all owned by CC, IIRC) and putting him on 1430 would at least
give him some coverage in Boston but you could be right. As for Hannity he had aired on WRKO tape delayed,
then WTKK also tape delayed (exc. when Severin was on vacation and he ran live) then I think he was on
the inferior 890 and 1150 signals--but at that time I believe he was syndicated by ABC radio. Now Hannity
is syndicated by Premiere (perhaps in some capacity by Citadel as well, not sure)

Speaking of syndie talk WNSH went back to it yesterday; for some reason they must have been having
trouble with the feed for TRN's Ingraham and were airing a delayed version of Steve Malzberg show (WOR
network?) with Washington Times' Jeff Kunher filling in. Kunher, who is trying to market himself as the
newest version of Michael Savage, is a Montreal native who for some reason adds a k sound after the
final g in certain words: "goingk"..."runningk"...odd. Almost like he's trying to make sure the final g
comes out and yet it adds a k sound. Kunher had filled in for Savage recently. Anyway, WNSH did get
to Ingraham, etc. Last night they had Roger Hedgecock on, a familiar voice to some due to his Rush
fill ins, but if you weren't a few miles away from their Beverly transmitter ("Endicott college...Discover
the experience") you couldn't get it.

http://theconservativemonster.com/2...s-to-be-nationally-syndicated--exclusive.aspx

(Kunher took pride in knocking Ed Schulz off DC's WTNT)
 
BostonRadio tweets that who knows, maybe they'd be moving the WXKS calls to 1200 w/ poss talk format
(again, conjecture at this point)

From the ad: >> Identify opportunities to put the advertising and promotional power of WXKS - AM 1200 AM (sic; also, department of redundancy department...) to work for local businesses
 
We'll have more speculation about the CC AM in Boston situation (flip to talk?) until we hear something concrete, but you have to wonder would it be progtalk or conservative? Bostonradio tweeted: "Premiere syndicates the Big Three - Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity. Beck and Hannity don't have Boston market clearance.It'll change." So while indeed it could be prog talk (perhaps with Santos involved) it also could
be conservative talk. (Or would they dare do a bit of both?)

Admittedly a mostly/all-syndicated conservatalk lineup didn't do well on 1150 or 890 but who knows if
CC would want to take the plunge and get their shows on a Boston station. It's ad money involved here;
even if Beck and Hannity are on in markets to the west, south, and north, they may covet Boston listeners
(that is, getting their ads on a station that would run stuff like this). Even if they kept Rush on WRKO they
could have Beck at 9 am, maybe someone like Dennis Miller at noon, then Hannity, then perhaps someone like
Mark Levin (thought WTKK was doing best ofs on weekend; ditto Miller via WRKO, best ofs on weekends) but who knows. If they feel it could bring in more ad dollars than Spanish is...

So it could be conservative talk, prog talk, business talk (?--already on 1060) but that job listing means
we can speculate. (...OK, perhaps an all-talk station in Spanish?.... who knows!)
 
raccoonradio said:
I don't know if CC would remove Rush from WRKO
Click to expand...

There is precedence for CC doing exactly that with Rush. Just look at Providence, where CC yanked Rush from 630 WPRO to move him over to CC owned 920 WHJJ.

If CC were to start up a mostly or all syndicated AM talker in Boston......wouldn't they want thier very strongest lineup in order to give it the best chance for success? My guess is that CC would consider Rush strong enough that his audience would follow him somewhere else...so long as the signal is reasonably similar. This might take 1430 out of the picture, but still leave 1200 as a highly viable option.

Also...my take is that WRKO needs Rush a whole lot more than CC needs WRKO.

In any event......time will tell.
 
There's an old expression: "If you're going to kill the king......THEN KILL HIM!".

For years, 96.9 has tried to 'kill the king'.....yet somehow, WRKO is still limping around....wounded perhaps, but certainly not dead.

CC yanking Rush away from WRKO would be a very sure way to inflict MAJOR damage to 680......perhaps damage it could not recover from??
 
The Boston Prog Talk yahoo group has been talking about this and some wouldn't be too crazy about
Clr Chnl trying it again; some also label right wing radio "hate radio" but given the success of Rush,
Beck, Hannity, Ingraham, etc,. with high salaries and good ratings I guess a lot of people love ..."hate radio" :)

>>So if right wing hate radio fails it will lead to
> these stations going off the air before they
> try progressive talk. That is how allergic
> Clear Channel and these other owners are to
> progressive talk.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Boston_Progressive_Talk/message/20

Another contributor says he prefer prog talk on RKO or TKK instead of Clr Chnl trying it again...
 
When is the lease up on 1510? IIRC it is in April sometime when his year is up.

Maybe CC knows something we don't, like the current operators of 1510 are not going to renew?
 
If either 1430 or 1200 change to talk, it will be dominant conservative talk. And Rush will likely be on 1200. CC did not spend all that money upgrading 1200 to keep its present format reaching further. But Spanish is likely to remain on 1430 for a long long time. Keep in mind also, that the FCC has rules about simulcasting.... while 1200 and 1430 could legally simulcast before 1200's upgrade, it can't now. --because 1200's 5.0mv/m signal now overlaps the entirety or near-entirety of 1430's 5.0mv/m signal. It didn't, before the 1200 upgrade.
 
>>Besides you don't need 2 Prog Talk stations in a market. 1510 is enough.

Not to mention WGBH :) Rooney and Crossley shows debut 1/11.

Acc. to http://www.bostonradiowatch.com's yr in review:

>>May...Progressive talk line-up dubbed ”Revolution Radio” debuts on WWZN AM 1510 as format's producer Jeff Santos inks a 1-year lease with the Quincy-based station.
(so perhaps at end of Apr or early May?)

My own post on the Boston Radio blog said that Santos expanded to more than just his show on
May 4, 2009 (he started a few months before that just on his own)
http://bostonradio.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

>>Maybe CC knows something we don't, like the current operators of 1510 are not going to renew?

Santos brokered time from a CC station?
But yes it could well be conservatalk.

>>while 1200 and 1430 could legally simulcast before 1200's upgrade, it can't now

So that could be why 1430 switched to Mia.
 
No I don't think Santos would be able to buy time from 1430, unless Bain, Lee, et al are hard up for the money.

I was wondering aloud if CC thought Santos would be done at the end of the year, and was making plans to jump in and fill the void IF Santos couldn't renew by his choice or 1510's.
 
MRBIboredop said:
I was wondering aloud if CC thought Santos would be done at the end of the year, and was making plans to jump in and fill the void IF Santos couldn't renew by his choice or 1510's.
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Anything is possible, I guess. CCU still has two Progressive talk AMs that I know of--KTLK in LA and KKGN in SF. And I think they still have an FM in Madison WI that runs Progressive talk. Of these three stations, the only one that I haven't heard, at one time or another, was going to lose the Progressive format is KKGN. Of course, I could have missed the rumors about KKGN. Besides WKOX/WXKS, CCU has deep-sixed Progressive talk at a large number of stations, including Columbus OH and Miami FL. Other than those, I couldn't hope to provide a list--but I know it is a long one.
 
CC sold 1260 in Washington DC to Dan Snyder (along with talker WTNT 570 and Sports WTEM 980). Dan Snyder flipped 1260 back to Business Talk (which CC was running on 1260 before they went Progressive). Air America has since began LMAing 1050 in DC from Bonneville, which was previously Federal News Radio WFED, which moved up to 1500 after their failed Washington Post Radio and 3WT Talk Radio expierements.

CC also replaced progressive talk on WAVZ in New Haven, CT with ESPN Radio.
 
The gimmick around election time was to dub the stations McCain 570 and Obama 1260 but shortly after the election the latter became Money 1260. 570 became Freedom 570 whose lineup starts with "America's
Morning News" which WNSH just began running I believe, then Ingraham, Jeff Kuhner, Doyle, Savage,
Hendrie, etc. Kuhner has been heard doing fill ins for conservative hosts nationally; some on the Right say they agree with what he's saying but don't necessarily like his speaking style (for some reason the Montreal native tries to pronounce every "last g" in certain words but they sound like "gk"-- "I am goingk"; "what he is
doingk", etc.) He's a Washington Times writer--certainly among the many newspaper columnists who have gotten shows (here you have Carr, Eagan, McPhee, etc.--and you will remember Barnicle...)

As for replacing progtalkwith ESPN (New Haven) their theory may be that more people are interested in sports (in terms of pitching the station to ad buyers); ESPN is a national name and, they feel, a good demo

Bonneville has indeed had various formats on 1500 in D.C.; they attempted a "left, right, and whatever we
want" talk format for awhile. It can be picked up at night here (were running Washington Nationals baseball,
Wash. Capitals hockey, etc. for awhile)

Meanwhile the parent company of WRKO, Entercom, has had a fairly successful/long-running prog talker in
Buffalo, WWKB 1520 http://www.kb1520.com/ (Their slogan "a new voice, a new choice" is running up
in Maine at Stephen King's new FM prog talker) Entercom also had progtalk on 680 in Memphis but changed that to sports (ESPN 680 also // on 92.9; when I was in Memphis in August I was able to get both stations which were doing the Red Sox on ESPN Sun night baseball)
 
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