Miller, Schultz and Hartman off WWZN?

[raccoonradio]

He isn't technically the prog dir of the station--he buys time from WWZN's owners, but he is in charge of the time he buys. They do have other programming including Red Sox in Spanish. Santos hosted a show on WXKS and WKOX when they were "Boston's Progressive Talk" under Clear
Channel (Sun. afternoons, not daily).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWZN

Dan has a good point about signal strengths on radio-locator maps

>>0.5 mV/m is OK if you have a good radio and there is not too much interference (lamp dimmers etc) but it's not a signal you would discover accidentally on most radios. You'd have to be looking for it. Most listeners in urban areas will not bother with 2.5 mV/m....In this day and age, with all of the interference on AM, 0.15 mV/m is just marginally better than no signal at all.

 

[vmorrison]

With all due respect Mr. Strassberg you don't know what you are talking about. The Dial Global programs leaving 1510 have nothing to do with money. I can not go into detail but it has to do with Rebuild America competing in the same markets as the Dial Global Programs.

Santos is not behind on his bills. He is meeting his payroll every week and his employees are paid a very nice wage. Santos is expanding his Network and is currently on a promotion tour to all his affiliates cities.

His backers are very happy with how the Revolution Radio Network is running and your speculation that "the house of cards is crumbling as no basis in truth or fact."

 

[mgpt6]

Why did Santos put DEmocracy Now at 12 noon on 1510 the SAME time it is broadcast on WZBC 90.3 FM?

 

[reelyreal]

With all due respect Mr. Strassberg you don't know what you are talking about. The Dial Global programs leaving 1510 have nothing to do with money. I can not go into detail but it has to do with Rebuild America competing in the same markets as the Dial Global Programs.

Santos is not behind on his bills. He is meeting his payroll every week and his employees are paid a very nice wage. Santos is expanding his Network and is currently on a promotion tour to all his affiliates cities.

His backers are very happy with how the Revolution Radio Network is running and your speculation that "the house of cards is crumbling as no basis in truth or fact."

If one wanted to find out where to listen to Rebuild America in affiliate cities, how would one go about finding that information?

 

[DanStrassberg]

Santos is not behind on his bills. He is meeting his payroll every week and his employees are paid a very nice wage. Santos is expanding his Network and is currently on a promotion tour to all his affiliates cities. "the house of cards is crumbling as no basis in truth or fact."

If you reread my message, I think you will find that I didn't say Santos wasn't paying his bills; I said that I had heard a rumor (which I could not verify) that WWZN wasn't paying at least some of its bills. I also pointed out that WWZN, Revolution Boston (Santos), and Dial Global are separate financial entities. I did speculate that, if Santos were not paying WWZN, his failure to pay could be responsible for WWZN being unable to pay Dial Global. I did not say that I knew that to be the case. I tried to make it clear that I was speculating. When I am guessing or speculating, as I was in the post to which you are referring, I try to make that clear.

 

[Jimmy128]

Anybody think that Dial Global would rather be on 1200 AM, while conservative goes to 101.7 FM?

 

[HHH]

You really think that CC is going to put "Lib Talk" on 1200 after it couldn't even muster a tenth of a point on 1510?

This IS a business, remember?

And it's a myth that every conservative talker or every right-wing station gets huge numbers.

Right you are. All you have to do is look at the Salem talk stations, many of which on very competitive signals, and you will see practically no numbers. But, year after year, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager and Michael Medved just keep pulling paychecks.

Possibly "Lib Talk" is headed to 101.7. Or, in other words, using talk radio speak: "All the lazy welfare libs who refuse to work along with their spoiled, OWS college students in the city will have 101.7, while all the rich, fat cat Conservatives who have McManisions outside the city in Westwood and Concord will have 1200".

 

[raccoonradio]

Those Salem talkers aren't on in Bos. anymore of course

btw...Geraldo nationwide in Aug. Cumulus...here? Any room? maybe smaller stations. If Huckabee can land on some stations somewhere, then...

 

[fybush]

Possibly "Lib Talk" is headed to 101.7. Or, in other words, using talk radio speak: "All the lazy welfare libs who refuse to work along with their spoiled, OWS college students in the city will have 101.7, while all the rich, fat cat Conservatives who have McManisions outside the city in Westwood and Concord will have 1200".

...well, they'll have 1200 at least until sunset, anyway...

 

[raccoonradio]

CC related news, Glenn Beck re ups radio $20 mil a yr over 5 years. Whether or not conserv talk flourishes here in New Eng, the demand is there nationwide for Beck, Rush, Hannity

 

[raccoonradio]

speaking of dial global they're creating NBC sports radio--we all need yet another sports radio net besides ESPN, Fox Sports, and Yahoo!sports...

http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...herald/business+(Business+-+BostonHerald.com)

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

"Yahoo Sports Radio" doesn't have any more (Live) shows on the weekend overnights, they have Repeated shows, and a few Speciality Shows early Saturday mornings.


"ESPN Radio" is not live all night, every night



"Fox Sports Radio" also isn't (LIVE) the whole time it states on weekend overnights, and early morning weekends


Someone needs to come up with something and put (LIVE) Talk shows on 24/7 365, because they have to think about listeners in Alaska and Hawaii. When it's overnight here, there it's still late afternoon
Something to think about in closing!

 

[whdh1920]

"Yahoo Sports Radio" doesn't have any more (Live) shows on the weekend overnights, they have Repeated shows, and a few Speciality Shows early Saturday mornings.


"ESPN Radio" is not live all night, every night



"Fox Sports Radio" also isn't (LIVE) the whole time it states on weekend overnights, and early morning weekends


no offense but thoses two states have very remote areas meaning i think radio execs care about the continous 48 states!! i like the idea though it gets boring after awhile not having a live voice onthe dial.

Someone needs to come up with something and put (LIVE) Talk shows on 24/7 365, because they have to think about listeners in Alaska and Hawaii. When it's overnight here, there it's still late afternoon
Something to think about in closing!

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

you've got a point, and a good one too.
I didn't consider that.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

"Yahoo Sports Radio" doesn't have any more (Live) shows on the weekend overnights, they have Repeated shows, and a few Speciality Shows early Saturday mornings.


"ESPN Radio" is not live all night, every night



"Fox Sports Radio" also isn't (LIVE) the whole time it states on weekend overnights, and early morning weekends


no offense but thoses two states have very remote areas meaning i think radio execs care about the continous 48 states!! i like the idea though it gets boring after awhile not having a live voice onthe dial.

Someone needs to come up with something and put (LIVE) Talk shows on 24/7 365, because they have to think about listeners in Alaska and Hawaii. When it's overnight here, there it's still late afternoon
Something to think about in closing!

One reason I agree with you also is because, as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong? Alaska, and Hawaii doesn't have any Major Sports teams?

 

[raccoonradio]

Donna said on b-r-i there is talk of Schulz showing up on a "bigger station in Boston later this summer".

We could speculate about 1200 or 101.7 going libtalk (rightie talk
one, leftie on the other); I would doubt WRKO. As for WTKK they seem
to like Smerconish at noon (and I don't know if Grace Blazer is still there
but she brought him into radio at WPHT I think). Another option might
be for 96.9 to run it at 6 pm where currently The Daily Wrap airs, or
about 9 or 10 pm in place of Batchelor. What are the other options,
"bigger" than WWZN? (As for WRKO, somehow I doubt them, but they could
possibly run Ed at 7 pm in place of Savage. Entercom does do libtalk
in
Buffalo...)

 

[WNTIRadio]

CC isn't doing Lib Talk on 101.7 or 1200. It got a negative rating at 1510, why would they do it somewhere else?

This is not political, this is business. Lib Talk is a failure in almost every market. Air America went belly up. 1510 is a joke. Again, I'm not talking politically, I'm talking about making money. Lib Talk doesn't make money. THAT is the bottom line.

CC wants to make money with 101.7, with minimal outlay. 1200/101.7 fills that need.

 

[fybush]

This is not political, this is business. Lib Talk is a failure in almost every market. Air America went belly up. 1510 is a joke. Again, I'm not talking politically, I'm talking about making money. Lib Talk doesn't make money. THAT is the bottom line.

And it's a bottom line that seems to be working for CC in Madison, LA, Portland and a handful of other markets where they've been running progressive talk on secondary signals. If it weren't making them money in those markets, they'd have flipped those stations by now.

I'd also caution against overestimating 101.7's building penetration in Boston. It's good in the financial district, yes - but the massive front-end overload from the Pru still makes it a challenge on cheaper radios in the Back Bay, where 75 or 80 dBu from 101.7 can't break through 110+ from five Pru FMs.

 

[raccoonradio]

In the case of conservative or liberal talk, the ratings may be puny or so-so but if they can make money or break even they'll do so. Maybe sister stations can subsidize--Greater, CC, Entercom may not necessarily make lots of $ with 96.9, 1200, or 680 but then they do have 105.7/106.7/102.5/92.9 (GM), 94.5/107.9/1430(CC), and 97.7/107.3/850/93.7 (Entercom). So the other stations could make up for weak earnings on the talkers. But who's to say they're totally weak?

1200 must be doing enough to justify continuing conservative talk, enough to justify 2 daily local hosts at the moment. Money could be made; companies can either go for the bottom line (not working, try something else...but, what?) and junk it if it doesn't perform, or stick with it and let the other stations in their cluster earn them the big bucks.
While Boston can be seen as a liberal town note that it isn't WTKK, WRKO, or WXKS AM that has someone buying time to put it on. In each case, GM, Ent., and CC runs it themselves...it's 1510 that has had to have someone buy time to put it on....here.
WXKS has done conserv talk since March of 2010. It has already lasted longer than their attempt at libtalk here and no doubt will be around till at least the election--and it gives them a home for Rush, Beck, and Hannity, plus local content.

CC running libtalk seems far fetched but who's to say? What would most of you say if I predicted, a little over a month ago
that WFNX would be sold (Hmm, maybe)...to,..Clear Channel...? (No way! Mindich would never do that!)

But as the 80s new wave band Romeo Void once put it, "Never Say...Never."
Anything can happen. But the bottom line does indeed make a difference. We can speculate about libtalk via CC. We'll find out if they'll try it.

As for conservative talk, nationwide it must have quite a few listeners and makes quite a bit of $, resulting in huge salaries for Rush, Beck, Hannity. Then again consider the huge number of stations that carry them. Even if WXKS (AM) isn't a huge ratings success it's part of the many affiliates that advertisers want to reach... 600 for Rush alone (and often fairly big in power.)

 

[JIBGUY]

Donna said on b-r-i there is talk of Schulz showing up on a "bigger station in Boston later this summer".

We must define "bigger". Shultz, in saying "bigger", might just be what someone within his ranks told him to say. Bigger in wattage? Bigger in coverage? Bigger in listeners? Maybe it's not even bigger at all.... just another nice-sounding promotional announcement. And truth-stretching has been known to happen in this business.