I don't think that's true. They have quite a few big AM news/talkers around the country, and most are doing extremely well. I often mention WLW, WTAM, KFI, WRNO, and KOA.
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Josh Binswanger Gone from WBZ
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I don't think that's true. They have quite a few big AM news/talkers around the country, and most are doing extremely well. I often mention WLW, WTAM, KFI, WRNO, and KOA.
Say what?
They have quite a few....
https://www.iheartmedia.com/iheartmedia/stations?genre=News+&+Talk
Whoops, yes you're right, that's FM. Sorry.
I believe the stations you mentioned are primarily talk. E.g., WTAM is mostly talk and even carries Cleveland Indians games. KFI is a huge LA talker, but not a news station, as is KNX. While these stations do carry more local talk than iHeart's Premier lineup, again, they are heavy on talk. I don't know of any iHeart station that is in the category of a WCBS, WINS, KYW, WBBM, KCBS, KNX, or a WBZ.
In point of fact, even WBZ is not in the category of the other stations you list, in that it runs talk programming at night, and none of the others do.
Several of the stations I list run solid news blocks in morning and afternoon drive. That is mainly how the format is done outside of the handful of stations you list. KDKA is also a hybrid news/talk station, as is KMOX.
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JoePyne
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Dear Wimmex,
Ok,
Here goes,...
I apologize.
There I said it.
I ever dreamed 8pm-12am Monday thru Friday could get any worse with it's pathetic softball questioning of all wretched pols guests and obnoxious glad-handing of cretins like Jrffrery Epstien's pal "Dersh".
Now add to the the mix the "Benedict Arnold" of HLC Nation, the zaftig "Nancy".
Truly horrifying.
The cackling is unbearable, the Facebook live truly "unphotpgeniclly" appealing.
No Grace there!
Even more wretched than "Babba Booey" Jr. who he was paired with previously.
Never thought I say it but I'd rather listen to Clapprood coughing up a lung on air.
Go ahead, complain away!
Ciao
J
JoePyne
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Maybe Cabot Rd. could finagle the rights to the old Gus Saunders show to replace Rea,....
"one cup of nutmeg",....... "ONE CUP OF NUTMEG!"
Yeah, we get it, you don’t like Dan Rea. Would you rather Jeff Kuhner had that timeslot? They both use the very same studio, I hear.
True, but WBZ is still closer to its former CBS O&O sisters than to a WLW or a KFI.
But WBZ is not a 24/7 news station. It's also closer to other news/talk hybrids.
The point is: your characterization of iHeart as mainly a music radio company is wrong.
No complaints...I just don't understand anything you are trying to say.
Some kinda cryptic writing that you think is witty?
Wimmmex, as near as I can decipher:
"Dersh" is Alan Dershowitz.
"Nancy" is Nancy (Sandy) Shack from The Howie Carr Show (Howie's opener used to introduce him as "Howard Lawrence Carr). Obviously, Mr Pyne does not hold Nancy in any high regard.
"Grace" is Howie's on-air assistant.
I have no idea who Jeffery Epstein or "Babba Booey Jr" are.
Marjorie Clapprood is a former MA politician who hosted a morning show with Pat Whitley on WRKO a couple or more decades ago.
I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree. There are numerous iHeart ads on both WBZ and WRKO for each and every iHeart music festival.
uMMM....So?
There are also ads on the iHeart music stations for their festivals and concerts that are out of the musical format of the station they're airing on.
You'd prefer infomercials for ED?
Epstein-- see "other civil lawsuits"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein.
Also USA Today last month (Alan denies the charge and said the woman committed perjury);
" Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz is escalating his attacks on the credibility of a woman who alleges he had sex with her when she was an underage girl trafficked for sexual abuse by millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein.
Also USA Today last month (Alan denies the charge and said the woman committed perjury);
" Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz is escalating his attacks on the credibility of a woman who alleges he had sex with her when she was an underage girl trafficked for sexual abuse by millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein."
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Well, the ads for their podcasts are tolerable, but their music-oriented ads somehow offend my sensibilities. The WBZ of the venerable Westinghouse/CBS era was more to my liking, and I'm making no bones about it.
And that company got out of radio. Not just news radio, but ALL of radio. If what they did was working, they wouldn't have sold the whole radio division. Maybe they're not as venerable as you think.
Entercom didn't have to sell WBZ. They could have kept it and sold one of the FM music stations. They didn't, and iHeart was very happy and proud to trade some very profitable music stations in other markets to get WBZ & WRKO. WBZ was treated badly by that venerable company. WBZ was a station neither CBS nor Entercom wanted. iHeart was willing to offer a spurned child a home.
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