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KC PD: Dr. Laura, Rush Have Gone Stale

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Dr. Laura update

Time soon may tell where or if radio shrink Dr. Laura lands locally. After more than a decade, 710 KCMO replaced the good doc with financial wizard Dave Ramsey.

KCMO is heading in a new direction and isn’t saying much about Dr. Laura’s departure other than thanks and good luck.

Former Entercom chief Bob Zuroweste’s take on why she may have been cut loose?

When Zuroweste hosted Dr. Laura on KCMO in ’97, she was the station’s proverbial 300-pound gorilla. That changed as time went on.

“The days that I managed Dr. Laura, that show (on KCMO) was declining, and it was very difficult to sell,” he says. “She’s somewhat controversial, and she’s syndicated, and people like more to (advertise) in local shows. I just think she lost (a lot of) her listenership.”

Another problem area may have been the show itself, Zuroweste ventures.

“It’s the same-old, same-old,” he says. “It’s like Rush Limbaugh. He’s the same-old, same-old, but at least he has new material. I mean, how many problems can people have? Marital, depression, suicidal tendencies, boyfriend and girlfriend problems, somebody’s a jerk.”
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Hmmm. I wonder what Dr. Laura would say to a 55 year old male caller who says he got hooked on pain killers, got in trouble with the law, his wife divorced him, he had a brief affair which ended, then he headed down to Central America with Viagra and he wonders why his life has gotten so messed up.
 
fred flintstone said:
Hmmm. I wonder what Dr. Laura would say to a 55 year old male caller who says he got hooked on pain killers, got in trouble with the law, his wife divorced him, he had a brief affair which ended, then he headed down to Central America with Viagra and he wonders why his life has gotten so messed up.
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Damn, I did it again. I keep meaning to go to "News/Talk" to see what's going on in News/Talk programming and keep wandering into "Off The Air" by mistake!
 
fred flintstone said:
Hmmm. I wonder what Dr. Laura would say to a 55 year old male caller who says he got hooked on pain killers, got in trouble with the law, his wife divorced him, he had a brief affair which ended, then he headed down to Central America with Viagra and he wonders why his life has gotten so messed up.
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Barney Rubble,

How the hell can you make this about Rush Limbaugh's drug problems. Do you think he stays up at night thinking of you?
 
DaleGriffin said:
How the hell can you make this about Rush Limbaugh's drug problems. Do you think he stays up at night thinking of you?
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If Rush stayed up, we wouldn't be having this conversation. ::)
 
fred flintstone said:
Former Entercom chief Bob Zuroweste’s take on why she may have been cut loose?

When Zuroweste hosted Dr. Laura on KCMO in ’97, she was the station’s proverbial 300-pound gorilla. That changed as time went on.

“The days that I managed Dr. Laura, that show (on KCMO) was declining, and it was very difficult to sell,” he says. “She’s somewhat controversial, and she’s syndicated, and people like more to (advertise) in local shows. I just think she lost (a lot of) her listenership.”

Another problem area may have been the show itself, Zuroweste ventures.

“It’s the same-old, same-old,” he says. “It’s like Rush Limbaugh. He’s the same-old, same-old, but at least he has new material. I mean, how many problems can people have? Marital, depression, suicidal tendencies, boyfriend and girlfriend problems, somebody’s a jerk.”
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Zuroweste is an interesting guy to use an an expert source by Kansas City Star. He was canned by Entercom Kansas City a few years ago.
 
Another stupid post by Fred because just can't stand anyone that isn't a liberal.

Yawn.
 
Legend City said:
Another stupid post by Fred because just can't stand anyone that isn't a liberal.

Yawn.
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Yawn? Maybe you should wake up and talk to the people on this board who keep wanting to link me with O'Reilly and Maloney. ::)
 
"she's syndicated, and people want more local shows"

Yeah, Dr. Laura is syndicated... we should replace her... with a syndicated host
 
Answer to Fred's question....she would do what's she's good at, which is...First yell at the caller and tell him he has no right to leave his wife and that marriage is a sanctity and should be well preserved, and that he has no business getting divorced. Then she'll have an affair herself and pose nude for pictures for a married man (who isn't her husband).

Then she'll probably take a call from a scared girl who got pregnant and truly doesn't know what to do. And she'll yet at the fragile girl and tell her she better have that baby.
 
Dr. Laura, hasn't been on Wilmington radio in about three years (no great loss). From what you described, it sounds like her show hasn't changed one bit. I think maybe she just runs the the same show on tape day after day. She is her kid's mom, he was the sperm donor, she shacked up with him, etc, etc.

The thing that always amazed me about her show was you'd get a woman calling in who'd preface her remarks by saying, I've read all your books and have been a loyal listener to your show for the past unteen years, and then she goes and tells Dr. Laura that she has a dilema. Now if this woman has listened to Dr. Laura for more than one show, she's got to know that when she tell's the good Dr. that she shacked up with a guy who became the sperm donor of her now pregnant self, and the sperm donor is no where to be seen, etc, etc, that Dr. Laura is going to yell at her and humilliate her in front of 15 million people coast to coast. My question is, why would someone put themselves throught that abuse? It amazes me that Dr. Laura still gets folks to call in to her show.
 
Some people (that famous one percent of the cume who ever call talk radio) will do almost anything to get on the air (radio or TV):
Take abuse.
Humiliate themselves.
Kiss *ss.
Pay money.
Sleep with somebody.

Even "Dr." Laura used at least two of these to get started.

Watch the reality shows. Or game shows (people dress up as a chicken, jump up and down and scream "pick me, Monty").

And then there are things people to do to work in radio. Take abuse. Humiliate themselves. Kiss *ss. Accept terrible pay. Sleep with somebody (or give somebody the idea there's a chance).
 
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