Evidently, Catsimatides is still doing his show on am970, which the station is promoting.
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One has to look at this from the standpoint of New York City & State politics.
The character who recently bought that facility has long been angling to enhance his position within the (near-moribund) State GOP.
Even with a tiny and dying audience, a 50K signal does that, to a degree.
Putting retreads like Bannon and Giuliani on does that as well.
Look, Mr. Supermarket is in his seventies, he has a new ego toy.
For WABC, this is just a delay before the preachers and then scrapper.
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The character who recently bought that facility has long been angling to enhance his position within the (near-moribund) State GOP.
Even with a tiny and dying audience, a 50K signal does that, to a degree.
Putting retreads like Bannon and Giuliani on does that as well.
Look, Mr. Supermarket is in his seventies, he has a new ego toy.
For WABC, this is just a delay before the preachers and then scrapper.
LT
People on the dentist’s message board are looking to Catsamatides as WABC’s knight in shining armour—“He’s a radio guy!”—who will rescue the station and return its glory. How is he a “radio guy” other than doing a dreary show once a week on am970, which has few listeners? And, judging from the depressing condition of his Gristedes grocery stores, I don’t envision him injecting a lot of money into revamping WABC. I think he sees the station as a billionaire’s hobby.
Sure, Shapiro's Podcast has a younger fan base but did he give WABC any kind of a meaningful bump? I don't know but I doubt it. You need to cater to the audience you can attract, not the one you wish you could attract.
Updating the website is neither costly nor something that can't easily and quickly be done from home.
My point is that stations routinely ignore outdated station information on websites. You'd think program changes would be important enough to warrant some attention. The news feeds, etc. are updated automatically so that the sites appear to be properly maintained.
Similarly, a station that carries Buck Sexton is still running promos for "America Now with Buck Sexton." The show became, "The Buck Sexton Show," months, if not years ago.
People who run radio stations these days are just plain sloppy and Red Apple Media is likely no different.
Yep.
You need to be more specific. In the case of Cumulus, they had a specific person assigned to the website, and from what I understand, that person is paid based on the success of the site. AFAIK, he/she was not retained by Red Apple.
I don't log every time I find outdated station information on a website but I can tell you it's often.
Arthur Aidala, a local lawyer (representing Harvey Weinstein), is a frequent guest on the Bernie and Sid show, but, I never saw his appeal as a guest. A host? Bill O’Reilly is a fresh, new personality? Wasn’t he fired from Fox News for allegations of sexual misconduct? How’s that going to attract female listeners?
The radioinsight article also notes: "The station is describing the moves as special programming for this week for now."
There's a graphic in the article that shows the lineup and appears to be from WABC's website. The graphic is linked to https://www.wabcradio.com/ but when you click on it and go there the lineup is nowhere to be found.
There's a graphic in the article that shows the lineup and appears to be from WABC's website. The graphic is linked to https://www.wabcradio.com/ but when you click on it and go there the lineup is nowhere to be found.
1210 WPHT in Philly had Republican political consultant Dick Morris doing the afternoon show a few years ago. Even with radio pro Gary R'Nel co-hosting, it was a disaster. He only lasted a year. Political figures don't necessarily make good radio hosts.
Cheap programming. Arthur Aidala is a lawyer with little radio hosting experience, except filling in for Joe Piscopo which wasn’t stellar. Bill O’Reilly’s star has faded and his reputation is tarnished.
Still no mention of the 3 to 6 PM programming on http://wabcradio.com, but at least they've removed Shapiro from the Program Schedule listings (nothing listed from 3 to 6PM). Didn't I read somewhere that Cumulus is servicing WABC's website for several months after the sale closing? Both Cumulus and WABC use InterTech Media to provide web services.
John Batchelor puts his nightly interview schedule (and on-demand links) on his Twitter feed.
Since Red Apple took over, there have been issues during Batchelor's program as spots having been interrupting programming on the stream during hard breaks at the top and bottom of the hour, and some program segments have been missing on WABC's webstream while present on other syndication affiliate streams.
Apparently, virus-related programming arrangements resulted in the Batchelor program being available on-demand only last Friday, and resulted in several elements going out over the air simultaneously on Monday for almost a half hour. This affected WABC and at least one Batchelor Westwood One affiliate stream (WGDJ Albany NY).
John Batchelor puts his nightly interview schedule (and on-demand links) on his Twitter feed.
Since Red Apple took over, there have been issues during Batchelor's program as spots having been interrupting programming on the stream during hard breaks at the top and bottom of the hour, and some program segments have been missing on WABC's webstream while present on other syndication affiliate streams.
Apparently, virus-related programming arrangements resulted in the Batchelor program being available on-demand only last Friday, and resulted in several elements going out over the air simultaneously on Monday for almost a half hour. This affected WABC and at least one Batchelor Westwood One affiliate stream (WGDJ Albany NY).
I don't think that's true. Cumulus has its own internal web services department in Atlanta. Red Apple is using Inter-tech.
JBraddock is not crazy; I had to do an extensive search, but found the actual terms of the agreement in a small blurb on Inside Radio's "Deal Digest" web page:
http://www.insideradio.com/free/dea...cle_b1e50f3a-5ec5-11ea-8ae8-c30920d4c2b0.html
The phrase that pays (a promotion on 99X New York circa 1974-1975):
"Under a transition agreement, Cumulus will continue to provide several services to WABC for a four-month period including handling such functions as payroll, billing, and website hosting for a monthly fee of $25,000."
http://www.insideradio.com/free/dea...cle_b1e50f3a-5ec5-11ea-8ae8-c30920d4c2b0.html
The phrase that pays (a promotion on 99X New York circa 1974-1975):
"Under a transition agreement, Cumulus will continue to provide several services to WABC for a four-month period including handling such functions as payroll, billing, and website hosting for a monthly fee of $25,000."
That part is true. But not where he says Cumulus uses Inter-Tech. They have no need to use Inter-Tech. They have a deal with Frankly Media.
This remark is in reply to The BigA and his comments about WABC not making money with weekend music:
How does WMID in Atlantic City make money ? They’ve been doing it for the last 15 or so years . They’ve had Music of Your Life, then switched to oldies ( some of which were really obscure) . I dunno. They get them off a computer, it sounds terrible .
BTW , last Labor Day they did rewind for about 8 hours. I’m not sure I want to hear that stuff again .
How does WMID in Atlantic City make money ? They’ve been doing it for the last 15 or so years . They’ve had Music of Your Life, then switched to oldies ( some of which were really obscure) . I dunno. They get them off a computer, it sounds terrible .
BTW , last Labor Day they did rewind for about 8 hours. I’m not sure I want to hear that stuff again .
It ain't easy. First, it costs less money to operate in Atlantic City than New York City. The station is part of an 8-station group. Some make money, some don't.
Catsimatides’ Sunday show is promoted on both WABC and am970–Is his show broadcast on both stations?
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