Yes...and one time I noted the Dennis Miller show's "Boston" station was WTPL in Hillsboro NH
(nr Concord).
The big news is Rush is apparently being dropped by WPHT Phila. (CBS decided not to renew
and Premiere I guess is eager to have Rush, Hannity, and Beck on a new FM station owned
by Merlin). WPHT takes the opportunity to carry Smerconish's national show (heard here
on WTKK, whose Grace Blazer helped get Smerc into radio at 'PHT) in the Rush time slot.
No date has been announced; Merlin is in the process of building new studios for WKDN 106.9
(buying it from Harold "It's The End of The World As I Know It" Camping's Family Stations)
In some ways it's too bad that we couldn't somehow combine WTKK and WXKS, or WRKO
and WTKK, or some kind of combo--to have a blend of national and local hosts on, say, 96.9.
Unlikely to happen unless GM gets the urge to sell 96.9 to Clear Channel, perhaps. Of course
CC has 94.5 and 107.9 in town but doesn't want to dump the music formats for talk. But you could imagine a station that might have local hosts (E&B, Katz, Severin, Graham) and
the national folks like Rush, Hannity, Smerc, or whatever. Picture Rush on "96.9 FM Talk".
Yeah, might not happen...though perhaps if CC were to pull the plug on 1200 maybe he
could wind up there.
If anything CC would prefer, for now, having its shows being cleared on XKS (low ratings
but they get to run ads, say the shows are heard in Boston). In some places like Philly
they can't get clearance for Beck and Hannity--that may well change as the new
Merlin operation may pick them up as well as Rush--plus a local host in the morning.
Anyway in a yr or two we wonder if talk would still be on 680, 96.9, and/or 1200.
