Hannity never did well in afternoons. His shtick is wearing thin. Limbaugh at least is creative with some of his stuff, whether you agree or disagree with him. So why, pray tell, should the station put Hannity's show back in drive-time when the truth is that they really didn't want him back in the first place? A live, local show is preferable in a market this size.
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Hannity never did well in afternoons. His shtick is wearing thin. Limbaugh at least is creative with some of his stuff, whether you agree or disagree with him. So why, pray tell, should the station put Hannity's show back in drive-time when the truth is that they really didn't want him back in the first place? A live, local show is preferable in a market this size.
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Jul
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In that case, 1210 shouldn't have brought back Limbaugh, if they couldn't air hannity live. Running a tape delayed show at night on a 50,000 watt clear channel station, doesn't make sense.
It is possible that many have also not forgotten that he was a Clinton advisor in the White House?
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Of course not. Nobody gets ratings with syndicated fare in the afternoon, even though most of it is of better quality than local offerings. Especially not in a Top 10 market. Oh, wait a minute. Yes they do get better ratings. And better billings.BigA said:
All these radio solons who said 1210 would never go for Limbaugh and what would Premiere do... and Premiere set a condition that they didn't even have last contract. You can bet 1210 wanted Limbaugh back. Hannity will, likely as not, move to his live slot when Morris's contract expires. PHT could do worse in PM Drive - and has, with everything they've tried since they didn't renew Hannity a few years back.
"Buzz" Bissinger, anyone?
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Jul
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1210 will get so many complaints about airing Hannity on a delay, that they will have to make a change and air him live soon. 1210's signal is wasted at night by airing Hannity. I'm standing by what I'm saying.
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I'm betting the number of complaints will be virtually nil. We know there will be one (however, multiple correspondences by one person doesn't count as "many" complaints). Beyond that, does anyone really think there will be mass concern?
It's not as if this is the first time the station aired a tape delayed show in the late evenings, and they weathered that just fine. Moreover, in the whole Morris vs. Hannity debate, there hasn't been any proof offered either way that shows the net results with a local host are somehow worse for the bottom line than with Hannity. Reasonable speculation can be made that a local host, virtually any local host, is better for said bottom line.
It's not as if this is the first time the station aired a tape delayed show in the late evenings, and they weathered that just fine. Moreover, in the whole Morris vs. Hannity debate, there hasn't been any proof offered either way that shows the net results with a local host are somehow worse for the bottom line than with Hannity. Reasonable speculation can be made that a local host, virtually any local host, is better for said bottom line.
I never understood what Hannity brings to the table by himself. There is nothing different or special about him.
At least Dick Morris is a local Philly show, local spots are actual money for WPHT.
Can't agree with you Julius, WPHT took Hannity to get Rush, but Hannity didn't get great ratings before so why put him back in PM drive time. If you want to hear Hannity from 3pm to 6pm so badly, he's on 1450 WILM. Depending on where in Philly you live or work you might be able to get him there. Doesn't WABC out of NYC air him live too? So you probably can get 770 on your radio.
Frankly I wouldn't have brought either Hannity or Rush back to 1210. Philly should be able to support a live and local Talk station, if Wilmington and Baltimore can do it, surly Philly can.
Can't agree with you Julius, WPHT took Hannity to get Rush, but Hannity didn't get great ratings before so why put him back in PM drive time. If you want to hear Hannity from 3pm to 6pm so badly, he's on 1450 WILM. Depending on where in Philly you live or work you might be able to get him there. Doesn't WABC out of NYC air him live too? So you probably can get 770 on your radio.
Frankly I wouldn't have brought either Hannity or Rush back to 1210. Philly should be able to support a live and local Talk station, if Wilmington and Baltimore can do it, surly Philly can.
Can't get WILM in West Chester, Malvern, or Paoli. He's not going to get it in Philly. You can stream WILM on iheartradio. WABC does come in as long as you say out from under power lines. Sean's moving to WOR in the new year up in the Big Apple. Comes in a little better than WABC. And they're both on iheartradio also.
But just checking, Hannity's show itself is also on iheartradio.
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Jul
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in that case, 1210 should have stayed live and local, all day. They don't know how to run a talk station. This like what happened during the last year of WCAU-AM when they made a bunch of changes that didn't work.
His radio show is just a rehash of his TV show.
Speaking of WCAU, what does "CAU" actually mean? Some grandfathered thing with no meaning like WIP or KYW?
Yup. Sequential from the very earliest days of four-letter calls. The first batch of sequential calls to come from the Commerce Department all had "A" as the third letter. WBAP in Fort Worth, WBAY in New York (later WEAF, still later WNBC/WFAN), WJAR and WEAN in Providence, WNAC in Boston all came from that same sequential run.
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The call letters were historic (even with what the station has become). CBS was stupid to let the call letters go with channel 10 where they are not used for branding and have no practical value. It just shows what little regard management had to the station. Of course, at the time, 1210 was aptly named "the Gimp."
I read somewhere that it was "Where Cheer Awaits U (you)"
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Jul
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I made the difficult decision that as of midnight last Tuesday, I’ve stopped listening to 1210 WPHT. I have removed it from my presets. The reasons are the following:
I don’t like the way that the station is currently being run overall and the people that are currently running it.
Its run by the cheap and for a top 10 market, to me is unacceptable. its been like this for years. Yeah I know they have to survive but I don’t like the way its being done.
Hiring Dick Morris.
Airing Sean Hannity on a tape delay instead of airing it live
Airing too much paid programming on the weekends
not airing coast to coast AM for all hours, 7 nights a week
running their brokered paid programming shows in their entirety after games, causing general talk shows to be skipped or shortened
not being a general talk station like WCAU. WPHT is political talk, all the time
and a bunch of other reasons I can’t think of. Check out my posts on this board if you want more about WPHT. 1210 has been a huge part of my life and I hate to end my relationship with the station. the only shows I will listen on 1210 from now on is remember when from 11 PM-1 AM on Saturdays the weekend talk shows and sports programming, that’s it.
I don’t like the way that the station is currently being run overall and the people that are currently running it.
Its run by the cheap and for a top 10 market, to me is unacceptable. its been like this for years. Yeah I know they have to survive but I don’t like the way its being done.
Hiring Dick Morris.
Airing Sean Hannity on a tape delay instead of airing it live
Airing too much paid programming on the weekends
not airing coast to coast AM for all hours, 7 nights a week
running their brokered paid programming shows in their entirety after games, causing general talk shows to be skipped or shortened
not being a general talk station like WCAU. WPHT is political talk, all the time
and a bunch of other reasons I can’t think of. Check out my posts on this board if you want more about WPHT. 1210 has been a huge part of my life and I hate to end my relationship with the station. the only shows I will listen on 1210 from now on is remember when from 11 PM-1 AM on Saturdays the weekend talk shows and sports programming, that’s it.
The main problem I have with them is Coast to Coast AM, they air it 5 nights, sometimes preempty it for random infomercials and west coast Phillies games. Last night John B Wells had a great show on Kennedy and I had to struggle to pull in WILM from Wilmington because WWVA, WBT and a few others I usually catch were non existent. This is a disgrace the way WPHT replaces it with those damn informercials. I contacted George Noory and told him about what is going on here, maybe he can have another local signal pick them up due to WPHT's non carry procedures, they must not know what is going on, I am sure they want their programs on 7 nights. I did contact WPHT with no response.
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