Larry Hardesty Returns To WLIB

[DiamondJoe]

Those of you who listened to 1190/WLIB's old talk format may remember Larry Hardesty's old "Sports Box" program. Of course, he's moved on up to work at WEPN/1050 ESPN Radio as a part-time host, as well as a sideline reporter for Jets broadcasts.

AllAccess reports that starting today, Hardesty will co-host a new sports show on his old home at WLIB, alongside Bill Liederman, called "The Sporting Blues", from 1 to 3 PM. It is part of a weekend lineup retooling that GM Scott Elberg said "will enable us to make our flagship station more local and targeted to the New York City demographic and will also provide insightful content which will complement the Air America Radio profile." Among the other new Saturday shows being carried on WLIB is the syndicated "Satellite Sisters" program from 9 AM to 12 noon.

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[mwebster]

> ... "will enable us to make our flagship station more local
> and targeted to the New York City demographic and will also
> provide insightful content which will complement the Air
> America Radio profile." Among the other new Saturday shows
> being carried on WLIB is the syndicated "Satellite Sisters"
> program from 9 AM to 12 noon.
>

Jeez what radio double-talk! "New York City demographic?" "Air America Radio profile?" Did they hire this guy from the military?

ABC's "The Satellite Sisters" have been on WLIB (on Sundays) for some time now.

Weekend local sports talk is nice. Some real local news broadcasts (not out-sourced headlines), some real weather reports (not a few seconds tacked onto the traffic report) and some real local and LIVE traffic reports (not out of work, out of town DJ's reading a computer screen from Philadelphia) during the week would be better.