If WHK ever got Hannity

[ajhenderson]

Their latest burst of idiocy shows he'd probably be fill from midnight-3, or he'd flip timeslots with Savage. KTIE/Inland Empire has just added Hannity to its lineup, moving Jerry Doyle fill-in/Salem snake-oil huckster Larry Marino to AMD 5-6am. Marino was formerly heard from noon-1, which gave the impression that Hannity would take his spot for a live noon-3 clearance, just like on KABC, whose marginal 5kW doesn't reach the IE like that of KFI.

Alas, a look at the KTIE schedule has Hannity listed at 8-11pm, clearing the way for a full live clearance of Michael Medved. I've made no secret that I'm no fan of Hannity, but he'd be the best thing for WHK from 3-6 considering that Salem refuses to spend a penny on local talent on most of its stations (hmmm... maybe Michael Luczak could host a show).

I realize most people don't care about WHK or any of Salem's ventures in Cleveland, but for those of us talk radio junkies who see a void created by WTAM, WHK is our only hope. But, we'll probably get the opposite. Anyone familiar with aforementioned KTIE realizes that it's a front for Salem's typically infomercial blocks, which, with WERE collapsing, might find their home on WHK rather than my previous predictions of WKNR or inventory-light WHKW. Although, Dave Ramsey, watch out... 2-5pm are expensive hours!

 

[HHH]

> I've made no secret that I'm no fan of
> Hannity, but he'd be the best thing for WHK from 3-6
> considering that Salem refuses to spend a penny on local
> talent on most of its stations (hmmm... maybe Michael Luczak
> could host a show).

Yes, he could pull some ratings. His listeners seem to think that--next to Rush--he is God's gift to political analysis. Actually, like Rush, he is not a real poltical analyst, just a smart radio performer who knows how to push the buttons of those individuals of one particular political bent.

>
> I realize most people don't care about WHK or any of Salem's
> ventures in Cleveland, but for those of us talk radio
> junkies who see a void created by WTAM, WHK is our only
> hope.

I don't know why you say that. The Salem network stuff is just hour after hour of quasi-religious right-wing talking points, with no real 360 degree view.
The Salem hosts, like Rush and Hannity, conduct shows that you really don't even have to hear to get their views. It's simple. Liberals are immoral non-Christian (unlike Jimmy Swagart, Jim and Tammy?) people bent on the destruction of America through dirty tricks (unlike Karl Rove? unlike Richard Nixon?) while conservatives (see brackets) always take the high road and have a sense of higher morality and patriotism.

Rush and Hannity are brilliant. Never will they discuss (or even admit to) the challenges of the war in Iraq in detail, except to consider the the only challenge that the USA faces is from those "traitors" who dare ask pointed questions (what is this? Nazi Germany?) However, let Wal-Mart try to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" and they are all over it, with the head-nodders and ditto-heads flooding the lines falling into lockstep complaining that this is further evidence that our great, Christian nation is under attack from (you guessed it) Liberals who hate this country, the Hollywood elite who hate this country and clueless journalists who hate this country.

Listen, I'm not fan of Air America either, who are the polar opposite of Salem, Rush, O'Reilly and Hannity. They use the same technique of dumbed-down generalizations and TV wrestling-style name-calling. But at least it is a counterbalance. Before Air America, spending a day dialing between Quinn and Rose, Laura Ingraham, Prager, Medved, Hewitt, Glenn Beck, Rush, O'Reilly and Hannity, I got the feeling that I lived in a country where it was illegal for a radio talk host to question the adminstration!