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Mike McConnell's evolving schtick...Debunking idiot callers.
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brian65 said:
A few weeks ago, 930 WHON Centerville, IN (Richmond); a station that fancy’s itself as a local version of “The Big One” (they utilize the same imaging voice and much of the locker-room attitude), dropped Fox Sports at night and added McConnell... From 10P-1A on delay.
hipporadio said:
Thanks for that info. Its not easy to find out where the show is actually broadcast. For what its worth, this is a very recently updated Wikipedia reference to his new show.
"After consistently maintaining the #1 position of his time slot year after year, his WLW-based program began syndication on July 31, 2006. Current podcasts of this weekday radio show are available for download at ..... . Due to the crowded nature of the midmorning time slot and his desire to stab syndicated Glenn Beck, whom he has substituted for before, in the back, few stations have picked up McConnell's show."
...which could mean anything you want it to. Though it sounds to me that its not catching on so well. I don't blame Mike, I think its simply another example of the "Peter Principle", which he may be the posterboy thereof.
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Actually, I like Mike--the Mike from a few back when his mission was 9-noon on WLW... Do I need to "duck" for saying that? 'Hope not! My Dad liked him also... McC is from from Philly (as was Dad and Glen Beck) and he always talked about Upper Darby (where Dad and P.S.U's John Cappaletti grew up). WHON has NO "requirement" to carry Mike--other then their propensity to emulate WLW at home. Don't know what CC has on their mind here, but I never tried to understand the "CC psyche"... Did I miss out on something basic to Broadcast 101?
hipporadio said:
I think we all liked Mike, but that was when he jockeyed one local market and local callers; back when he actually listened to his callers and treated them generally as equals in that they choose his show over others to call and added 'interesting' input. Not so with a nationally syndicated program. The times I hear him now, he is either rehashing 'pet peeves' or 'stupid crimminals' or 'let me prove myself smarter than this half-wit'. After awhile, that just gets kind of tiresome. You can sometimes feel McConnell's disconnect with his listeners now. It's as if he is carrying on a converstion with himself.
I've noticed that once a show goes national or deals solely with topics of 'national interest' the quality of the callers diminishes to only those who are willing to wait for an hour to say something. That pretty much eliminates most people you'd actually enjoy listening to.
Sooner or later Clear Channel et al will realise that the quality of the host is still dependent upon the quality of the callers...and the interchange between them and the host. Listeners would much rather hear an exchange of ideas than someone who is always 'right' simply because the calls taken are hand picked and the host has control of who gets the last point in.
Rarely do I spend an hour with McConnell that I DON'T learn something. He has more facts at hand and comes up with more useful information than the rest combined. He takes more calls from people that disagree with him htan the rest, too. I'm so tired of hearing from the cheering section on most shows from either side and even though many are idiots, it's refreshing to hear an argument on Mike's show. When someone calls to make a point and they can back it up, Mike treats them with respect. When someone calls to spew and can't dispute cold, hard facts, he dismisses them and htat's what they've got coming.
brian65 said:
You're right...and what about those callers that "B C-ham" says have been stacked up waiting "in the thousands" for his entire show to get on and submit to being abused by him? Then they get dumped with not so much as a "sorry" when too many car commercials back up on the WLW program log...
In fairness, Mike Mc has always handled that with a lot more class. The usual talk show experience happens "out thar in raydeo land" every hour a talk show hits the transmitter, and the usual suspects respond. There's A LOT about talk radio we should hold with some logical rebuke...
But I (most-times) like it anyway, and Mike McC is OK!
I still like Mike, though I think the full-time syndication effort was too late. October 2001 may have been a much different story. I thought WKBV over in Richmond was carrying McConnell live for a short time. WHON carried Gary Burbank's syndicated show..which was pulled when WLW ratings dropped. I think if I was Darryl Parks I'd have made McC wait until he had some solid clearances before he gave the go-ahead.
I don't know much about how syndicated shows are marketed, but it strikes me as odd that McConnell has no website. If I were a station exec somewhere out there and heard about the show, I'm sure I'd look at Google, and the only thing I would find is a Premiere Networks page mentioning the weekend show but not the daily show.
I think I've heard that someone besides Premiere is syndicating the daily show, which would explain the absence form the Premiere page, but wouldn't give me a lot of confidence about whoever is syndicating the daily version.
I think I've heard that someone besides Premiere is syndicating the daily show, which would explain the absence form the Premiere page, but wouldn't give me a lot of confidence about whoever is syndicating the daily version.
I believe Clear Channel is syndicating McConnell's daily show directly out of WLW, with Clear Channel AM operations guru Darryl Parks as the contact.
That'd certainly explain him not being on the Premiere site for his M-F show. I don't know about the website for the show itself, tho. He doesn't have one for "The Weekend", IIRC.
That'd certainly explain him not being on the Premiere site for his M-F show. I don't know about the website for the show itself, tho. He doesn't have one for "The Weekend", IIRC.
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Me thinks he's going through Premiere. Listen to when he gives his e-mail address. It's through Premiere.
The transition from network to WLW is embarrassing. Either he needs his notes and thoughts written down before the break or just lose the "localism". It sounds worst than a high school radio station.
The transition from network to WLW is embarrassing. Either he needs his notes and thoughts written down before the break or just lose the "localism". It sounds worst than a high school radio station.
Listen to Premiere's Handel on the Law for a halfway decent job of keeping the localism (for KFI). Of course, with a week to chop it up for the network, you'd hope they would do a good job.
As to McConnell, he IS on Premiere's website, but I thought like OMW that he was syndicated by "Clear Channel syndication" (lowercase "s"), just as Jerry Springer is/was. Maybe Mike will be the next guy from CCs that stations drop their 9-noon show for for six weeks.
As to McConnell, he IS on Premiere's website, but I thought like OMW that he was syndicated by "Clear Channel syndication" (lowercase "s"), just as Jerry Springer is/was. Maybe Mike will be the next guy from CCs that stations drop their 9-noon show for for six weeks.
The Premiere Radio E-Mail address for Mike McConnell comes to him via "Weekend". He's had it for some time now.
The M-F show is, as reported when earlier, self-syndicated out of WLW. It's not on Premiere's roster.
Springer is technically now part of AAR Syndication. He was self-syndicated by Clear Channel at the start, and kept on those stations after CC came to a deal with AAR - where stations like WTAM here carried him outside the AAR umbrella.
I'm not sure if any of them are still doing so. Is he still on 1310 in Detroit? That might be the only one left, though they carry AAR programming as well (Franken, Rhodes, etc.). It may just be semantics whether 1310 picks him up off the AAR secondary satellite feed or not.
The M-F show is, as reported when earlier, self-syndicated out of WLW. It's not on Premiere's roster.
Springer is technically now part of AAR Syndication. He was self-syndicated by Clear Channel at the start, and kept on those stations after CC came to a deal with AAR - where stations like WTAM here carried him outside the AAR umbrella.
I'm not sure if any of them are still doing so. Is he still on 1310 in Detroit? That might be the only one left, though they carry AAR programming as well (Franken, Rhodes, etc.). It may just be semantics whether 1310 picks him up off the AAR secondary satellite feed or not.
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