More Syndication for Smirconish?

[aindik]

New York Radio Message Board has a post that says Michael Smirconish starts in late evenings (9p) on WOR New York in January. Anyone know more? I assume this is tape delay, and not a second live show in the evenings for New York or syndication.

 

[DToTheJ]

I can't imagine it would be a similar deal to what Curtis Sliwa had previously, doing two shows for two different dayparts and different cities.

Will it be WW1-delivered?

 

[aindik]

I can't imagine it would be a similar deal to what Curtis Sliwa had previously, doing two shows for two different dayparts and different cities.

Will it be WW1-delivered?

Yeah, Sliwa doing that didn't last very long. He's now doing one shift, 10p-1a eastern, which show is airing live in New York, L.A., Boston, and D.C.

I checked the WW1 page. They don't list Smirconish as a show of theirs.

His "syndication" to D.C. is being handled internally at CBS, right? Not through WW1?

Anyway, from a programming POV, it seems odd to syndicate morning drive, with all the drive time elements, to tape delay.

 

[DToTheJ]

According to the Inquirer's Michael Klein, the syndicator would be, not WW1, but Dial Global (nee Jones Radio), known for syndicating among other programming, progressive talk shows.

"Into the great national vacuum, I hear, will go Michael Smerconish of Philly's WPHT (1210). A deal supposedly is close between Smerconish - newly simulcasting his morning show in D.C. - and syndicator Dial Global..."

Full story:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/colu...qlings__Smerconish_may_be_going_national.html

 

[aindik]

That's interesting. The implication is that he moves to middays to fill the "great national vacuum" caused by O'Reilly's leaving radio. What does that mean for Philadelphia? Or D.C., where CBS just launched a talk station centered around Smirconish in mornings?

I guess in D.C. they could just plug him in where they were already airing O'Reilly live. Unless the entire point of the station's existence is to clear Westwood One's political talkers in the Nation's Capital, which would mean they'd run Fred Thompson in middays.