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Levin starts 1/15 on WILM 10p to midnight

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That info from the Mark Levin fan site.

Looks like Jim Bohannon will start two hours later at midnight and Savage will get to keep 7-10pm.

WILM's Web site has contradictory information regarding the station's 6-7pm hour: in an item about the arrival of Hannity, it says Hannity runs 3-7pm. The grid below still shows an hour of local news from 6-7pm.
 
Wayne Aikens is still doing the 6pm-7pm newscast, yes Hannity is from 3pm-6pm.
 
WABC Program Director - and Levin producer - Phil Boyce has replied to the Hannity-WDEL thread on news-talk to put in his spin.

An overlooked tidbit:
ABC is the biggest affiliate group for Rush.
Clear Channel is the biggest affiliate group for Hannity.
One hand washes the other.
WDEL's consultant is saying that ABC tried to bully WDEL into taking Levin to keep Hannity.
Meanwhile, a station manager in Madison, WI told the local newspaper that Clear Channel changed formats on one of their stations in town and then used their "clout" as the biggest potential buyer of syndication programs to get Jones Radio to pull shows off a locally-owned competitor.

Delmarva has two talkers and eight other stations.
Clear Channel after downsizing is still expected to have over 800.
When push comes to shove in a cut-throat business, locally-owned stations like WDEL (and the station in Madison) get screwed.

Interestingly enough, WTDY, Madison also has gone with an all local-live talk schedule and the GM says after his recent experience he does not want to deal with syndicators or take syndicated shows (to build them up and promote them, only to see them taken away).

And maybe it's now ABC Radio that's the bully here. Maybe ABC knuckled under to Clear Channel, who wanted Hannity in Wilmington.
 
ABC Comments on Hannity-WDEL

Here is what WABC Program Director Phil Boyce has posted on Take It Outside:

OK let's talk about WDEL. We offered them a chance to keep Hannity and asked them if they would take Levin. We would have accepted 10pm for Levin. We had an offer from a crosstown station but we always prefer to go back to the affiliate and give them a chance. We could have just canceled them.
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Translation:
Clear Channel made a play to get Hannity on WILM.
ABC went back to Delmarva and made keeping the show on WDEL conditional on taking Levin.
Delmarva said no.
 
I was just told that WILM will now start their broadcast of the Mark Levin Show on Feb 12 because their new studio is not ready. :'(

Did anyone know they were getting a new studio? ???
 
Yes.

WILM currently operates from a former auto repair garage and adjoining row house on French Street one block from "downtown Rodney Square." The place reportedly is infested with mold, fungii, asbestos and sports an open sewer pipe. Employees often complain of headaches, coughs and sniffles but have been afraid to call the Environmental Agency.

The equipment is antiquated, mostly from the 50s and 60s, and constantly breaking down. A back room is filled with junked equipment from which parts can be cannibalized.

Long time users of this board will recall the story of a breakdown in the bathroom plumbing and how the staff had to use water bottles.

The station has been scheduled to move for some time (with no definite date) to a combined Clear Channel facility behind the News-Journal. The facility will have modern, computerized, automation-capable equipment.

Now WILM requires warm, just-over-minimum-wage bodies to keep the station on the air. After the move, a computer will be able to run things. Watch for the shift to syndicated programming to be completed and for the warm bodies to disappear.
 
They just ran an ad for employment with their station. Probably for sales & marketing positions, though.
 
Scott in DE said:
They just ran an ad for employment with their station. Probably for sales & marketing positions, though.
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Could be. Although the station is represented by a combined Clear Channel stations sales team. The front office functions, including sales and marketing, moved to Clear Channel's current Philadelphia Pike building in Claymont when CC bought the station. That included WILM's one sales rep.

If the ad you heard does not say what the job is, possibly the ad is only being run to comply with EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) requirements. Stations are required to show all the different ways they have solicited applications and to document how many responses and actual hires resulted from each. As a result, a lot of ads are run without a real job opening. And often, a station knows whom it wants to hire but runs ads anyway for the benefit of the EEOC (and when job hunters still had to mail tapes and resumes, for the benefit of the post office).
 
This is January 19th at 10:45pm Eastern, and WILM has Jim Bohannan on not Mark Levin. Someone's info apparently is not correct. WILM's website shows Bohannan's show on for streaming on line. Their program guide which has been updated within the past two week's still shows' Bohannan 10pm-5am and Sean Hannity from 3pm-6pm, but no mention anywhere about Mark Levin. Maybe WILM decided it didn't want to air Levin after all. Or maybe they'll decide to air Levin after Bohannan's show in the middle of the night rather than running a rerun of Bohannan. WILM has had Bohannan and before Larry King in that time spot since the old Mutual days and my guess is WILM has a loyal audience that tunes in for Bohannan, so why lose those folks, rather put Levin on after Bohannan's show. I see that as a win/win. ABC gets to put another pin in the map to be able to say that Levin is cleared in Wilmington Delaware and WILM gets to keep Bohannan's show on at it's usual time.
 
Mike,

You need to read a post on page 1 that informs us that Levin will not start until Feb 12th.

That helps explain why he was not on 1/19!
 
Somehow I missed that one line posting that mentioned Feb 12th. Thanks.

I wonder why being in their new studio would make a difference in when they start taking Levin vs Bohannan at 10pm other than when their contract with Bohannan ends and they are allowed to make the switch. Apparently they will be in their new studio on Feb 12th. The only other difference I can think of is that once they get moved they will then have the ability to be automated. Even so, I don't see why they'd wait as they do have someone there now pushing the buttons to bring in Bohannan so why not Levin? This isn't rocket science, even with their antiquated equipment. I used to work there so it truly does not take a genus to switch the satellite feed settings from WW1 for Bohannan to ABC for Levin.

Another thought is when do the Arbitron books get collected for the Feb '07 fall ratings? Maybe they want to wait until after that before stirring the pot again.
 
Is Levin on the same sat. channel as Hannity? If not, maybe they do not have the proper reveiver at this time and will use a new one in the new studios. That's about the only reason I can think of for waiting.
 
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