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Glenn Beck and Radio City

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ajhenderson

Glenn said this morning he believes his is the first daily show to eminate from Radio City, because the FCC did not want a whole cluster of stations broadcasting from one building during World War II. Is this so?

And does his move to NYC and new TV show make for some kind of soon-to-be-seen arrangement to replace some shuffled lineup of a post-Grant, post-Rocco WOR? Of course, I think we'd all be better if CC bought the thing and put him on it, saving a once great station in the process, but that's for another discussion.
 
Re: Glenn Beck and WOR

> And does his move to NYC and new TV show make for some kind
> of soon-to-be-seen arrangement to replace some shuffled
> lineup of a post-Grant, post-Rocco WOR? Of course, I think
> we'd all be better if CC bought the thing and put him on it,
> saving a once great station in the process, but that's for
> another discussion.

Exactly the point I've been trying to drive home on this board for months. Even if CC purchased the time on WOR for Beck, kinda like what Disney did with Dan Patrick's show on WEVD 1050, right before they went full-blown ESPN...

Glenn's show doesn't start until April. Logically, I'd assume there are negotiations, but WOR as we know it is a rudderless ship. A rudderless ship that prints money, but a rudderless ship, nonetheless...<P ID="signature">______________


New York City Radio and TV</P>
 
Re: Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck has already relocated himself and his radio program to New York from Philadelphia. The show originates from Premiere Radio in midtown (near Rockefeller Center).

WOR currently is a hodge-podge of advice programming (much of which they syndicate themselves)and political talk. With Bob Grant gone there is a hole in the line-up. Apparently they were going to fill it with a cooking show (which suggests they were leaning toward more advice talk). But they do not appear averse to clearing shows when somebody pays them - like WW1 for O'Reilly and TRN for Savage.

Maybe Clear Channel would pay WOR to carry Beck. Maybe WOR could get Rush as part of the deal (which would put a big hole in WABC's schedule). Maybe WOR could be more profitable with more syndicated programming (saving the cost of producing some of their local shows, while paying another station to take Dr. Joy and still coming out ahead).

Which raises the point, could some of the brokered-ethnic-foreign language-religious stations do better with some of the syndicated talk not getting cleared in New York. Not just Glenn Beck and now Mike Malloy. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. Mike Gallagher and Neil Boortz (among others).

>
> Exactly the point I've been trying to drive home on this
> board for months. Even if CC purchased the time on WOR for
> Beck, kinda like what Disney did with Dan Patrick's show on
> WEVD 1050, right before they went full-blown ESPN...
>
> Glenn's show doesn't start until April. Logically, I'd
> assume there are negotiations, but WOR as we know it is a
> rudderless ship. A rudderless ship that prints money, but a
> rudderless ship, nonetheless...
>
 
Re: Glenn Beck

> Which raises the point, could some of the
> brokered-ethnic-foreign language-religious stations do
> better with some of the syndicated talk not getting cleared
> in New York. Not just Glenn Beck and now Mike Malloy.
> Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. Mike
> Gallagher and Neil Boortz (among others).

No way Rush is going anywhere, but you raise an interesting point. Don't think this will happen either, but I like the thought of having some 5kW ethnic station become a paytoilet dumping ground for syndicators with second- and third-tier (or even lower) shows who need New York clearances to look important. Granted, everyone in the business would know that WXXX was just a (BLEEP) for whatever syndicator paid, but agencies really don't care, even if the audience if minimal. It really can't cost that much to run a fully syndicated station, pick up some mediocre satnews (maybe they could pay, too) like USA or even Fox (are they cleared in NYC?). Just enough to cover expenses and make a decent profit; they could then sell local spots to increase profits.

Neal Boortz claims a NY clearance somewhere way out in Connecticut, and isn't heard in the city, nor is Glenn Beck*, Mike Gallagher, Jim Bohannon*, Clark Howard*, Jerry Doyle*, Michael Medved, Dave Ramsey*, Bill Bennett, Ed Schultz, Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy*, Tony Snow*, Phil Hendrie, Rusty Humphries*, and Steph Miller. Asterisk indicates no top-3 market clearance.

Sounds like something Salem would do, though...
 
Re: Glenn Beck

>Glenn Beck*<

Glenn Beck is cleared on 960 WELI-New Haven, which can be heard in Hartford. Unless something has suddenly changed, the Hartford market is in the top 3 for Connecticut.

> It really can't cost that much to run a fully syndicated
> station, pick up some mediocre satnews (maybe they could
> pay, too) like USA or even Fox (are they cleared in NYC?).
> Just enough to cover expenses and make a decent profit; they
> could then sell local spots to increase profits.

What local business in their right mind is going to pay to advertise on a fully brokered station? Or did you mean truly syndicated programs? True sydicated programming, i.e. most of the ones you mentioned, cost money. The cost would outweigh the benefits by a considerable margin. The cost of running even a 1KW graveyarder probably exceeds my salary and yours combined.

-A


> > Which raises the point, could some of the
> > brokered-ethnic-foreign language-religious stations do
> > better with some of the syndicated talk not getting
> cleared
> > in New York. Not just Glenn Beck and now Mike Malloy.
> > Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. Mike
> > Gallagher and Neil Boortz (among others).
>
> No way Rush is going anywhere, but you raise an interesting
> point. Don't think this will happen either, but I like the
> thought of having some 5kW ethnic station become a paytoilet
> dumping ground for syndicators with second- and third-tier
> (or even lower) shows who need New York clearances to look
> important. Granted, everyone in the business would know that
> WXXX was just a (BLEEP) for whatever syndicator paid, but
> agencies really don't care, even if the audience if minimal.
> It really can't cost that much to run a fully syndicated
> station, pick up some mediocre satnews (maybe they could
> pay, too) like USA or even Fox (are they cleared in NYC?).
> Just enough to cover expenses and make a decent profit; they
> could then sell local spots to increase profits.
>
> Neal Boortz claims a NY clearance somewhere way out in
> Connecticut, and isn't heard in the city, nor is Glenn
> Beck*, Mike Gallagher, Jim Bohannon*, Clark Howard*, Jerry
> Doyle*, Michael Medved, Dave Ramsey*, Bill Bennett, Ed
> Schultz, Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy*, Tony Snow*, Phil
> Hendrie, Rusty Humphries*, and Steph Miller. Asterisk
> indicates no top-3 market clearance.
>
> Sounds like something Salem would do, though...
>
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