How Much Talent if Any Will WRKO scoop from WTKK?

[Retro]

And will another AM or FM talker emerge as a result. I personally would like to see both Jim and Margery land somewhere.

 

[raccoonradio]

Not sure if someone else will take the plunge into talk, or who; it depends on how much money can be made. Efforts by the likes of Salem and Clear Channel (1150, 1200) didn't quite work out.
As for the hosts, Graham and Eagan/Braude may wind up at WRKO but do they have room for them?
Kuhner may be doing OK in morning drive but supposedly they coveted E&B before. Would they put them in morning drive and Jeff only gets the 11 am hour, or vice versa? The brokered fiscal
stuff probably won't go away. Neither will Rush or Howie. And I don'[t know the details of Jeff's
contract but they'd only get an hour out of it, and take on added salary for others?

They prob have a contract to run Levin for awhile and would local work at 7 pm? Would they get rid of Doyle at 10 to put Graham or E&B on? Overnights they may stick with Coast 2 Coast. Weekends maybe they could find a home, though maybe their brokered time won't change. Would they risk it?

Smerconish--don't know if RKO would find a home for him (delayed at 10 pm?) Meehan of course
is now in Phoenix TV.Wall St Journal Wrap, Batchelor, Overnight America...where would they go?
Prob not to RKO.

So who else tries talk on AM or FM? Salem has 590, 950, and 1150. Not the best signals and they
have other programming commitments. Would they spend the money? Salem tried talk with 1150
but now it's Spanish religion I believe. WBZ? Where and when? Other stations on the AM dial?
As for FM, who would try it? What if Evolution 101.7 flops? They would try it for awhile at least
and I don't know if CC would try it, and on that signal. It's tough, unless J&M or Graham try their
luck somewhere else nearby--but who would want them in Prov, Worc, NH etc?

 

[DGinnetty]

If WRKO picked up John Batchelor's show 10pm - 1am and found a 3 hour weekend block for the Andelman's, I could remove 96.9 from my presets and NEVER miss a beat.

 

[raccoonradio]

Could happen but I don't know contract situation with WRKO and TRN. At this point this is their
only TRN show (they used to have Savage, Ingraham) and I wonder if they had to carry Doyle
to be able to run Savage...who is IN that late evening slot nationwide now. But could happen.
Batchelor is from Cumulus I believe who also do Levin.

 

[tvradiogeek]

a lot of these shows going away especially the ones on the weekends are no big loss,because before all these shows were on 96.9 who had them in town?? the pds pay for the time for there respective shows so i guess the question is who's got the money to host these shows in there studios?? Now the money show should goto wrko on weekends and displace what ever junk they have on there, Graham can go back to sc,eagen and braude can go away happily there nobody's.

 

[newhampshiredude]

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/69001/wrko-renews-with-trn-for-savage-doyle

Pretty sure WRKO is going to drop Doyle and pick up the new Savage show once the 3-year deal with TRN is over. I wonder if that's why they haven't picked up the new Savage show yet.

My predictions for a new WRKO lineup after WTKK's demise:

5am-6am WSJ This Morning
6am-9am Jeff Kuhner
9am-12pm Michael Graham (WRKO drops financial show to attract more listeners during these hours)
12pm-3pm Rush Limbaugh
3pm-7pm Howie Carr
7pm-9pm or 10pm Mark Levin
9pm or 10pm-1am Michael Savage
1am-5am Coast to Coast AM

I really don't think WRKO is going to get rid of Kuhner so soon to make way for Eagan and Braude, but it seems like Michael Graham would transition into the WRKO lineup easily.

 

[raccoonradio]

Good catch, maybe! Savage is on 9-mid. our time though maybe one hour is rerun stuff.
Would they drop the $ gotten from B. Armstrong and put Graham on? Time will tell. Your lineup
seems likely