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local vs syndication?

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I spotted this story on the homepage and, to be truthful, was a bit surprised:

>>Delilah out of WLIT Chicago
For the second time in as many weeks, Clear Channel AC WLIT has opted to go local, replacing a syndicated show. As reported in this morning's TRI, this time, it's Delilah's national night program which gets axed, and is replaced by Chicago veteran John Syman's show "Love Notes." In late October, WLIT dropped the syndicated Whoopi Goldberg Show, and brought back local talent Melissa Forman for mornings. Syman previously was heard on rival AC WILV for 8 years, and before that, on WNND. "Love Notes" will debut on Thursday, Nov. 8. This is the second major market that Delilah has lost in the past two months. Her show was dropped in Los Angeles when KBIG flipped formats to "My FM" in September. <<

Could we (eventually) witness the return of local radio? A turn of events? An emerging trend?

Naaaahhhhhhhh....
 
NOw that is a novel trend that more stations need to employ. I am ready to go back to the good old days where corporate radio did not rule the air waves and we had local companies running the local stations with live announcers all the time. I for one am sick and tired of either syndication all of the time like what CC likes to run with their assorted shows or stations that feel that they have to track their formats more than having a live announcer. I am happy to see many low power stations that are locally run to be doing as well as they are and frankly stations like WXRY here in Columbia are a breath of fresh air.
 
I've got Delilah a couple times in other markets. The first time I heard her, I thought I was listening to a small market jock with little experience beacuse the listener phone calls ramlbled and rambled on with no point. I guess Chicagoans really still do love quality radio.
 
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