> When a syndicated show is contracted for local use, does the
> syndicator have any control over the timeslot in which it's
> played? Could this be a result of contract negotiation with
> local talent? Leykis is a hot commodity locally, but does
> his show really fit in afternoon drive on what is primarily
> a rock station...even one that is re-imagining itself as
> "personality driven"?
Fact is, Mens Room can add personality and keep the music. KISW can't control Leykis' format to insert the music they want. All this blah blah blah from the haters, yet they've yet to read an Arbitron. The bottom line is that rock and talk get merged, Leykis doesn't fit, and he's accomodated in the wee hours. That's better than anyone else would get. I think Leykis' performance deserves PMD clearance, but if there's nothing else to support a station he fits on, what are you going to do?
Go ahead and bash him as "not being the hot commodity he thought he was", but I somehow don't think the Entercom programming staff had simply forgotten he was on for the last eleven years. "Damn it!, if we would have only known he was still on our station, we would have told Dennis Green to cancel him long ago!"
