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LTRN replaces Bruce Williams with Lou Dobbs

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livingfruitvirus

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Lifestyle Talk Radio Ousts Williams, Inks Dobbs Show

Veteran talk host Bruce Williams is out at Lifestyle Talk Radio Network after the network cancelled his 7-10pm show with plans to replace him with Lou Dobbs (pictured). Today LTRN announced a deal with United Stations Radio Networks to carry rebroadcast Dobbs from 7-10pm, effective June 16. In addition, a "Best of Lou Dobbs" will air Saturday nights from 7-10.
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Lifestyle's website has quickly Stalin-ized itself from any mention of Bruce.

http://www.lifestyletalkradio.com


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How many years was Bruce Williams on the air? Seems like a long time.
 


what an outrage! Shame on the LTRN !

Lou Dobbs is no radio guy .

Dobbs has a choppy, almost preachy delivery (like Savage,Air America and NOVA-M), whereas the great Bruce Williams has a natural conversational style, like if you're talking to him in a restaurant

i've never heard Louis Dobbs talk about himself, whereas Bruce frequently talks about what he had for dinner, his travels, his family, etc

Bruce is the King of personal financial advice. Reminds me of when TALKNET went away, that was a sad time for American talk radio.

talk radio can't be all agenda driven all the time.

when and where will Bruce Williams come back?




 
Just saw Mr. Williams at the Talkers convention last weekend. He was on the "legends of radio" panel.

This, quite frankly, is no way to treat a legend.
 
ponderosaAZ said:


what an outrage! Shame on the LTRN !

Lou Dobbs is no radio guy .

Dobbs has a choppy, almost preachy delivery (like Savage,Air America and NOVA-M), whereas the great Bruce Williams has a natural conversational style, like if you're talking to him in a restaurant

i've never heard Louis Dobbs talk about himself, whereas Bruce frequently talks about what he had for dinner, his travels, his family, etc

Bruce is the King of personal financial advice. Reminds me of when TALKNET went away, that was a sad time for American talk radio.

talk radio can't be all agenda driven all the time.

when and where will Bruce Williams come back?
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Bruce is one great host, and Talk Net was one great network, as was the ABC Talk Radio network, which marketed itself poorly.

Those kind of programs - along with great local talk at full-service powerhouses such as KOA, Denver, KCMO, Kansas City, and KLIF, Dallas - are what brought me to the format during the mid- to late-1980s.

Too bad today's radio masters only want to program one-sided drivel, wall to wall, all the time.
 
ponderosaAZ said:


what an outrage! Shame on the LTRN !

Lou Dobbs is no radio guy .

Dobbs has a choppy, almost preachy delivery (like Savage,Air America and NOVA-M), whereas the great Bruce Williams has a natural conversational style, like if you're talking to him in a restaurant

i've never heard Louis Dobbs talk about himself, whereas Bruce frequently talks about what he had for dinner, his travels, his family, etc

Bruce is the King of personal financial advice. Reminds me of when TALKNET went away, that was a sad time for American talk radio.

talk radio can't be all agenda driven all the time.

when and where will Bruce Williams come back?
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This should give everyone a pretty good ideas of the industry's mindset these days. Doesn't exactly bode well...
 
All Access is saying Bruce's show will be syndicated by Rocky Mountain Radio and distributed by Global American beginning this Monday. I didn't think the guy could find any more obscure of a network to be on, but it looks like he has.

Hopefully their network is put together with more care than Lifestyle's. Despite their network clocks with assigned breaks, very rarely do affiliates re-join on time. The show is supposed to begin at 0:06:00, but often a commercial is still running and it won't begin until a random time like 0:06:08. Tones will fire late (or early), and hardly ever is the local->satellite seamless.
 
I'm familiar with Rocky Mountain, They are at about 89% with the tones but still they have been telling the locals on occasion who have complained to them it might be best if they had a live op after Bruce's programming starts for the first 2 weeks.

Why don't sat/syndication programming flagships hire someone (a board op/producer) who is capable of firing those tones on time every time, and fires the right ones.

Sorry about the rant, this issue is a pet peeve of mine.
 
Don't worry about the rant - you are dead-on accurate. There is no excuse for the network tones to be off time on hard breaks.

Williams was one of the first talk hosts I can remember listening to, back in the day of talk shows on the old NBC network. Personable, easy to listen to, he acted like he was enjoying what he was doing and liked the callers.

The idea that all talk radio has to be political is wrong. Normal people get tired of the same issue driven shows day in and day out. Unlike Hanity, Rush knows to mix in sports, movies, his pet cat, and some almost dirty humor. Its called entertainment, which the second and third string political talk hosts rarely understand.
 
He sounds like a cartoon character, like "deputy Dog" or something, boring voice tone.
 
WTUX said:
Williams was one of the first talk hosts I can remember listening to, back in the day of talk shows on the old NBC network. Personable, easy to listen to, he acted like he was enjoying what he was doing and liked the callers.
The idea that all talk radio has to be political is wrong. Normal people get tired of the same issue driven shows day in and day out. Unlike Hanity, Rush knows to mix in sports, movies, his pet cat, and some almost dirty humor. Its called entertainment, which the second and third string political talk hosts rarely understand.
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good point, from the liberal side of the equation the equivalent show to Rush is Ed Schultz - talking about his fishing expeditions, North Dakota weather, and so forth...compare that to certain "Air America" hosts who are too political and don't talk about their personal lives...

 
I used to work under Ed in Fargo, when he was still focused in sports and really getting into talk before he flipped to the other side of politics. Good guy, has a little baggage, but still knows his stuff.

You can't fault Ed for doing his show from a midwestern prospective. Some day he'll get those 400 stations that he really wants so bad. If the listeners in Fargo don't tie him up to a tree first hoping a tornado blows him away. That would take some doing from Ed considering he "Owns" that time slot in Fargo.
 
The Beave said:
Some day he'll get those 400 stations that he really wants so bad.
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Ed just got L.A. and San Diego today just the first hour although he was on weekends previously on both stns (KGIL/XESURF)
 
The Beave said:
Some day he'll get those 400 stations that he really wants so bad.
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Ed just got L.A. and San Diego today just the first hour although he was on weekends previously on both stns (KGIL/XESURF)
 
What would you expect from a paytoilet like LTRN?

I was at a station on Friday that had a Bruce Williams contract come through on the fax. I think Blue Jay Productions is his company?
 
I remember when Bruce Williams used to come on in our market he said all his companies (and he seemed to have many) were named after birds.
 
I think it was a real dirty move on the part of LTRN to throw the Lou Dobbs 7 PM advertisements on THE NETWORK, basically advertising to all Bruce affiliates that Dobbs would be airing on LTRN beginning Monday at 7 PM. It's almost like they're telling the listeners they won't hear Bruce anymore regardless of him going elsewhere. They might have turned the station off Monday.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
I think it was a real dirty move on the part of LTRN to throw the Lou Dobbs 7 PM advertisements on THE NETWORK, basically advertising to all Bruce affiliates that Dobbs would be airing on LTRN beginning Monday at 7 PM. It's almost like they're telling the listeners they won't hear Bruce anymore regardless of him going elsewhere. They might have turned the station off Monday.
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Dobbs should go back to TV and stay there. is dobbs' show getting any ratings, with constant whining against both parties and his critical anti-immigration stance?

Bruce should be resurrected on hundreds of stations by his new network - bruce has the most conversational and professional style of any financial advice program, just above clark howard and bob brinker


 
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