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How close is Triv to retirement?

skiwest said:
I liked Lanigan until his last few years when he turned into a grumpy old man.
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He co-hosted The Spew almost out of obligation; it always surprised me that he didn't quit that much earlier.

As for Drennan, he's been at 1100 three times... as morning sportscaster from 1983-85 under WWWE's tail end of Gannett ownership... from 1988-90 when he took over for Pete Franklin and was so polarizing that Geoff Sindelar replaced him... and from 1995-2000 when he hosted Sportsline for a second time, but got dumped after his contract ran out (and tried to burn every bridge while at WKNR, which makes this turn today rather interesting). His combativeness fits the talk format, but his age is a liability. Wills and Snyder are in their 60s and Geraldo Rivera is 78, D-Man is in his 50s and is basically a spring chicken.
 
And Brinda and Munch are in their mid-60s. It will be interesting to see how many are still there at year end.
 
They are simply having a number of veteran air personalities fill in afternoon drive on TAM while they search for a permanent replacement. Not an easy position to fill.
 
For perspective, it took 3WE seven months to find a replacement for Pete Franklin, and his departure for WFAN came with enough ample warning (Pete’s heart attack days after his announcement was entirely unplanned).

It may take 6–12 months for a replacement host to be found for Triv. If they can find one.
 
Bloomdaddy?

Wouldn't have made more sense to bring in someone in the area with ties to Triv? What about those in-house at WTAM?

This is definitely a surprise hire.

It will be interesting to see how he does after signing on.
 
Given how much of WTAM’s on-air talent is really getting up there age-wise, it’s actually not that bad a move. Bloomdaddy has been good enough a talent at WWVA to merit regional syndication, even to WHLO/Akron.
 
Dennis Maniloff is probably the youngest of the main on-air talent at WTAM, but I don't think he would have been well-suited in drive time with the constant interruptions for new, traffic, weather and commercials.

Interesting tidbit. WWVA filed an application to move to Stow, OH about 20 years ago, but the plan was abandoned due to local opposition in West Virginia.
 
MediaLover said:
Bloomdaddy?

Wouldn't have made more sense to bring in someone in the area with ties to Triv? What about those in-house at WTAM?

This is definitely a surprise hire.

It will be interesting to see how he does after signing on.
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Since this is a local Cleveland show, and assuming Carmen and Seth stay on as sidekicks, Bloomdaddy should be OK.

Bloomdaddy was helped by having some time pass after Triv's death to let things settle down.

Now if he came in right away, he'd be in trouble, especially since Triv passed away so suddenly.

This is a smaller scale version of what happened with Rush Limbaugh - Clay Travis and Buck Sexton would have been toast if they came in right away after Rush's death (even though everyone knew it was coming), but after a few months of "Best of" shows, people were ready for new blood.

Same thing here.
 
skiwest said:
Dennis Maniloff is probably the youngest of the main on-air talent at WTAM, but I don't think he would have been well-suited in drive time with the constant interruptions for new, traffic, weather and commercials.
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Bloomdaddy ensures the show will be heavily political in tone (he was a former sportscaster in Wheeling before jumping to talk radio) and D-Man wouldn’t be equipped for that.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bloomdaddy be regionally syndicated out of WTAM.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Bloomdaddy ensures the show will be heavily political in tone (he was a former sportscaster in Wheeling before jumping to talk radio) and D-Man wouldn’t be equipped for that.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bloomdaddy be regionally syndicated out of WTAM.
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Zzzzzzzz. Imho.
 
MarioMania said:
Who?

What station does he work at?
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He comes from the iHeart owned WWVA 1170 in Wheeling, where he was the morning host. He had also been regionally syndicated to other nearby iHeart talk stations such as WVHU 800 Huntington WV, WJAS 1320 Pittsburgh, WKBN 570 Youngstown, and just down the road in Akron on WHLO 640.

On WTAM, it will be a local show, and not syndicated (at least to start).
 
MarioMania said:
Oh ok, What show does he do on WTAM?
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He's taking over the afternoon drive timeslot held for a quarter of a century by Mike Trivisonno until he died last October.

Triv sidekicks Carmen Angelo and Seth Williams held down the fort for 3 months in the interim, and now Bloomdaddy (with Carmen as his co-host...basically being the Synder to BD's Wills) is going to be the full time replacement.

I noticed in the press release there was no mention of Seth...I take it then he's likely out.
 
Bloomdaddy appeared on WKYC earlier at 6 and will be back on at 11 to talk about his new Cleveland gig. His stance is that he's not replacing Triv as nobody can replace him, but he hopes listeners will give him a chance.

As for the listeners, there are those not happy with the news over at WTAM's Facebook page.
 
MediaLover said:
Bloomdaddy appeared on WKYC earlier at 6 and will be back on at 11 to talk about his new Cleveland gig. His stance is that he's not replacing Triv as nobody can replace him, but he hopes listeners will give him a chance.

As for the listeners, there are those not happy with the news over at WTAM's Facebook page.
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Alan Cox replaced Maxwell rather abruptly, but listeners gave him a chance and it worked.
 
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