More Bad News from Allan Harris

[mwebster]

All Access:
<blockquote>Harris Out At WROC-A/Rochester
ALL ACCESS hears that ENTERCOM Talk WROC-A/ROCHESTER local host ALLAN HARRIS has exited the station. HARRIS, a veteran local talker (formerly evening host at WHAM) who was the station's only local host apart from a simulcast of WROC-TV's 6p and 11p ET newscasts, has disappeared from the station's website and AIR AMERICA RADIO's "MORNING SEDITION" is listed for morning drive for now. </blockquote>

Two local progressive talk hosts in one day! Not good.
And Winter on the shores of Lake Ontario is bleak enough without Morning Sedition.

 

[dampier]

> Two local progressive talk hosts in one day! Not good.
> And Winter on the shores of Lake Ontario is bleak enough
> without Morning Sedition.

OK, being from Rochester, there is a lot of background that didn't make this news clip.

First, Allan Harris has been a moderate for as long as I've heard him. He used to have a local program on WHAM which was probably the least political current events show on that station.

Second, WROC was originally a second tier conservative talk station, and Harris had a morning show there as well. When the station went to AAR, his local show stayed (although it gradually was reduced in length). I don't think he's ever modified his on air viewpoints. He's a pretty consistent and reminds me of the good old days of talk radio when being vicious was rare.

Entercom treats WROC as a turnkey operation - have to figure out what to do with WROC... satellite delivered talk is easy enough, just like Clear Channel's "sports/hot talk" WHTK which does the same thing.

So to call Harris' show a local "progressive" show is really incorrect. I never listened that early, so I don't know whether he had much of a call-in audience or not. Around here, most talk stations tend to run news/features during the morning drive. The call ins don't usually start until later in the morning.