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Glenn Beck Loses Another Flamethrower

OhioMediaWatch

OhioMediaWatch

The announcement that former WLAC/1510 Nashville host Steve Gill is returning to the station - after a long stint at WWTN-FM - means Glenn Beck is apparently losing another big 50,000 watt Clear Channel affiliate.

AllAccess reports that the new Steve Gill show starts Saturdays on 8/12, and weekdays on October 2nd.

The WLAC page on this lists his new time slot as "Monday-Saturday 8 AM-11 AM", which is currently filled Monday-Friday by...Glenn Beck.

http://www.wlac.com/cc-common/mainheadlines2.html?feed=119011&article=612160

http://www.wlac.com/pages/schedule.html

It would appear unless they tape delay Beck into nights or something (the station currently runs local host Mark Christopher at night), he's lost another clearance to a local host - at least starting in early October.

-OMW
 
This sounds like a repeat of WGST Atlanta, only WGST doesn't put out flames, it just puts out silent air pockets that no one notices are there.

I do hope that Glenn loses his biggest affiliate soon...CNN Headline News.
 
jal41 said:
This sounds like a repeat of WGST Atlanta, only WGST doesn't put out flames, it just puts out silent air pockets that no one notices are there.

I do hope that Glenn loses his biggest affiliate soon...CNN Headline News.
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Me too. As well as two other shows that follows him. This was a great all-news
service (Both on TV and Radio) when Ted Tuner launched it in 1982. Some things are better left unchanged
 
jal41 said:
This sounds like a repeat of WGST Atlanta, only WGST doesn't put out flames, it just puts out silent air pockets that no one notices are there.

I do hope that Glenn loses his biggest affiliate soon...CNN Headline News.
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I agree. Headline News is terrible now. Now it's just a bunch of stupid talking heads shows. Making it even worse is that they repeat old Beck shows throughout the weekend! :mad:

Here's hoping cable systems drop this obnoxious train wreck and start picking up ABC's much superior cable news channel. They actually have real news on it (imagine that!)

Hey, speaking of CNN Headline News, are there still radio stations out there carrying HN off the bird 24/7? If so, do they preempt that whiney loudmouth Beck and the missing white girl report that comes on afterward?
 
headline news should do what they do in Russia..... have sexy female newsreaders do a strip tease as they read the news

...beck is like a lot of alchoholics....too much of an ego idiot...
 
Yeah, Nancy Grace is annoying as hell, but I don't know of too many low-income urbanites (the people who despise Aruba-type coverage) watching HEADLINE NEWS. At least her KNEW show got canned... bad on the radio
 
I'd be surprised if they bumped the sports show instead of the late night local guy.

Then again, Nashville is a bit over saturated in sports talk radio these days...
 
Yeah, makes sense for WKJK, although I doubt any show would miss losing the 3 listeners gained from being on that brokered hole.

BTW, I still see Dr. Laura, Laura Ingraham, Jerry Doyle, Michael Savage, Mark Davis, et al. on Salem stations. What happened to the pay-or-take-a-hike attitude?
 
radioville said:
In Louisville we just dropped Glenn Beck for Dave Ramsey when he left Salem.
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didn't Glenn Beck get back ota in Cincy recently? OMW, you got the skinny?
 
Glenn Beck is part of the lineup at Cincy's new FM talker on 96.5. 2 FM talkers debuted in Southwest Ohio within a week, the other being an FM sinulcast of Dayton's WHIO.
 
The thing is, Glenn Becks program is, I believe, too inconsistent in theme and content to build good traction with an audience. I sometimes listen to him at work after Quinn in the Morning on 104.7 in Pittsburgh. Sometimes it seems like he's doing a political talk show, and sometimes it seems like he's doing a cleaned-up version of the Howard Stern show.

Don't get me wrong, "Moron Trivia" is a good bit for an AM Drive Time comedy team show. But as a placeholder between Quinn and Rush (or whatever morning show the station carrying Beck has as his lead-in), Becks' show doesn't strike me as a show that will hold an audience. It's just too inconsistent.
 
He does do a political talk show, but he realizes that when CNN/MSNBC/Fox News are running "breaking news alerts" of a guying getting shot in the leg at a Circle K, maybe there are better things to talk about than dredging up the same old tired "democrats will get us all killed" that the Hannitys of the world bore us with three hours a day.
 
Sorry I missed being invoked earlier (it's always fun :))...

But yes, Glenn Beck is being cleared for two hours on Cumulus' new FM talk outlet in Cincinnati, WPRV/96.5 "SuperTalk FM". 10-noon, after Mancow and before Bill O'Reilly.

What's all the more interesting about that is that Clear Channel/Cincy dumped him off of WKRC/550 long ago. So long ago, I can't remember when they dumped him. (Beck is, of course, syndicated by CC's Premiere.) The time slot on that station is currently occupied by TRN's Laura Ingraham, who took over after FOX News Radio host (and local native) Tony Snow got a much higher profile job.

It'll be interesting to see if Cumulus gets any traction with Beck.

One factor in any programming on WKRC - how it plays against sister station WLW, the "Big One" in both nickname and dominance in both the cluster and the entire local radio market. There are some who have the thought that CC is protecting Mike McConnell on WLW with whatever it programs "against" him from 9-noon.

Well, OK, but as a whole, Beck isn't strong enough of a show to give McConnell any indigestion in his home market. And if you believe that line of thought, they'd have to "protect" the entire WLW lineup...which wouldn't make sense with the presence of Rush noon-3 and Hannity 3-6 on WKRC. What, McConnell gets "protected" by 'KRC slotting a weaker show and Willie Cunningham and Gary Burbank don't?

-OMW
 
I would say Beck and Ingraham and perfectly "strong" candidates. If the former was a nobody, the aforementioned McConnell wouldn't constantly have filled in for him. Tony Snow, OTOH, is and was a bore, even when he filled in for Rush. Mike is an excellent local host but should have gotten his ducks in a row long ago if he wanted to cash in on syndication, particularly if he wanted to keep his 9-noon gig on WLW, the busiest daypart in syndication.

However, as to the question, Snow was unveiled just after Christmas this year IIRC.

Supertalk, however, is a joke, and nobody will get any numbers. While comparisons to Supertalk in Houston (which was market #7 for the duration of the station, not #6) are silly, 96.5 looks more like Simmons's Salt Lake City move-in that folded recently. Mancow to O'Reilly to local hot talker Tom Barberi to JERRY DOYLE?! (thank God he's not in in Cincy as he is in Cumulus' KY FM talker The Planet) to Savage... how does anybody know what to expect next? And when they figure out Rusty Humphries in next, theye say ??? then :mad:
 
Oh, to be sure, Beck and Ingraham are probably the only two 9-noon national hosts worth mentioning on the right side of the talk radio aisle. The rest are, well, basically also-rans.

But again, you're putting whoever up against McConnell, who owns the time slot and is the most popular talk host in the market. (That's talking about his local presence on WLW, not the syndicated part...a realm in which he is one of the aforementioned also-rans at this point.)

Beck apparently didn't gain enough traction against McConnell, i.e. taking a strong second or third to him. That's just a guess.

I haven't heard the new "SuperTalk" in Cincy yet, since I haven't been down there, but our listeners in the market say calling it awful would be kind. It's eminently forgettable third-tier syndicated talk radio, judging from the lineup alone.

If they do manage to pick up Andy Furman, that could be a game changer...at least for part of the day, at any rate.
 
No doubt, Supertalk sounds horrible, and I haven't been within 2000 miles of Cincinnati in months. For all the crap CC gets, when in comes to spoken-word formats, which is basically my only focus, they are hands down the best operator. They own AM in Cincinnati by virtue of owning the best sticks, but even on the hipper FM, no one will be able to compete. Cumulus is only showing how horribly they run their talk stations by not even putting up a fight. I mean, Rusty Humphries... just to save a few bucks on Mancow? Is it worth it? The advantage to FM is a consistent day/night signal (obviously a problem for AM unless your name is WLW, WKRC, or WCKY) and having greater nighttime listenership... they have a great opportunity and blow it with this guy. Ugh.

As to McConnell, the way I see it, he is always going to win. That's a good thing for local radio. Well, used to be. To my ears, Beck is a better counterprogram because its less preachy and less overtly political to the red meat on 'LW and now WSAI. But I understand that KRC's audience is more of an all-politics-all-the-time bunch, and if Ingraham works better they should have her.
 
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