A lot of to do was made of the big shake-up on the Carolla show that happened after the .7 in LA in the fall trend. I haven't heard anything about how the show did in LA in the final fall numbers though. Does anyone know how the show finished with the old cast? Carolla said that the show had gotten a 3.3 in LA in the previous period - I'm not in radio, so I don't understand how a show can go from a 3.3 to a .7 - which is why I'm interested in finding out how the show did in the final fall ratings.
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How did Carolla do in the final fall numbers?
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As you note, KLSX Program Director Jack Silver replaced several cast members of the Adam Carolla Show with Danny Bonaduce last December, based on a .7 trend on the heels of a 3.3 the previous month.
It would now appear he may have acted prematurely, as the final LA book shows significant progress, specifically with M18-34 (2.3) and M25-54 (2.0). The show's final ranking in the LA market (among English-speaking morning programs) was 8th, up from the winter '06 book's rank of 19th.
Phoenix's KZON reported significant growth as well - A18-34 - 2.2-4.4; A25-54 - 2.2-3.8; M18+: 2.3-4.0
In addition, on San Francisco's KIFR, the show doubled shares in M25-54, M18+, and M18-49, and the show reached the top 10 English speaking in M18-34 & M18-49.
The state of the 2007 version of the Adam Carolla Show is summed up by LA Times reporter Meghan Daum in a recent op/ed piece, shown below:
Adam Carolla's genius -- spoiled
His radio show was wonderful. Then along came Danny Bonaduce.
January 13, 2007
THE TIME HAS COME to talk about Adam Carolla. Because you're reading the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times, there's a good chance you're only vaguely aware of him as a host of cable shows you don't like or radio programs you don't tune in to. Maybe you've seen the bus ads for KLSX radio's "The Adam Carolla Show," which bill him as an "American Genius." You probably thought this was idiotic hyperbole. I'm here to tell you it's not. I'm also here to tell you not to listen to his show. Not now.
Carolla, a 42-year-old comedian and former carpenter/carpet cleaner/boxing instructor from North Hollywood, replaced Howard Stern in several West Coast markets just over a year ago, when Stern went to satellite radio. I've always appreciated Stern's insouciance and defiance of radio conventions, but if the self-proclaimed "King of All Media" is in a class by himself, I'd say that his terrestrial radio replacement is in a far more advanced class. For 10 years, Carolla delivered some of the most sophisticated comedy monologues I've ever heard on "Loveline," a late-night call-in sex advice show for teens that he co-hosted with Dr. Drew Pinsky.
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http://www.meghandaum.com/latimes_column_2007.htm
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It would now appear he may have acted prematurely, as the final LA book shows significant progress, specifically with M18-34 (2.3) and M25-54 (2.0). The show's final ranking in the LA market (among English-speaking morning programs) was 8th, up from the winter '06 book's rank of 19th.
Phoenix's KZON reported significant growth as well - A18-34 - 2.2-4.4; A25-54 - 2.2-3.8; M18+: 2.3-4.0
In addition, on San Francisco's KIFR, the show doubled shares in M25-54, M18+, and M18-49, and the show reached the top 10 English speaking in M18-34 & M18-49.
The state of the 2007 version of the Adam Carolla Show is summed up by LA Times reporter Meghan Daum in a recent op/ed piece, shown below:
Adam Carolla's genius -- spoiled
His radio show was wonderful. Then along came Danny Bonaduce.
January 13, 2007
THE TIME HAS COME to talk about Adam Carolla. Because you're reading the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times, there's a good chance you're only vaguely aware of him as a host of cable shows you don't like or radio programs you don't tune in to. Maybe you've seen the bus ads for KLSX radio's "The Adam Carolla Show," which bill him as an "American Genius." You probably thought this was idiotic hyperbole. I'm here to tell you it's not. I'm also here to tell you not to listen to his show. Not now.
Carolla, a 42-year-old comedian and former carpenter/carpet cleaner/boxing instructor from North Hollywood, replaced Howard Stern in several West Coast markets just over a year ago, when Stern went to satellite radio. I've always appreciated Stern's insouciance and defiance of radio conventions, but if the self-proclaimed "King of All Media" is in a class by himself, I'd say that his terrestrial radio replacement is in a far more advanced class. For 10 years, Carolla delivered some of the most sophisticated comedy monologues I've ever heard on "Loveline," a late-night call-in sex advice show for teens that he co-hosted with Dr. Drew Pinsky.
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http://www.meghandaum.com/latimes_column_2007.htm
[EDIT-post truncated because originating material is copyprotected. Unauthorized use of copyrighted content is in violation of Radio-Info's TOS. Future use of anything copyprotected must follow Radio-Info's TOS and contain the URL(s) where the cited material can be found.]
Sounds like Donny is backing off a bit lately.
The show might just work. If you think about it, syndication is usually successful with a bit of a whacko element.
Look at Stern, Leykis, Rush, Savage ............ Bonaduce actually might be adding that whacko element to the Carolla show to make it successful.
The show might just work. If you think about it, syndication is usually successful with a bit of a whacko element.
Look at Stern, Leykis, Rush, Savage ............ Bonaduce actually might be adding that whacko element to the Carolla show to make it successful.
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Have to agree with the L.A. Times piece in it's entirety. I've never been a Loveline fan, but Carolla's show sounded great out of the gate to my ears, as though the gang had already been working together for several years. No surprise, really, since Adam and Dameshek HAD been working together for several years, and once the newsgirl position was ironed out the show was on a tear. Great bits, including Dave's sports and The Jerk Report, both of which I enjoyed in the context of the show. Now it's just two alpha males with no radically different personality type for the yin and yang, and what we get is KLSX hoping everyone is going to stick around for the expected personality train wreck and meltdown every morning, while Bonaduce's real role is simply to dumb the show down. The complaints about Big Tad and Brusca and Deaf Frat Guy's hilarious bits seemed to serve the dumbing down purpose well in limited doses, but oh well, another good idea squandered. How depressing, pulling out the rug from a very clever, very funny show which sounded great and was only going to get bigger.
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