News/Talk WGST Returning on June 3

[beachguy3b]

I keep seeing claims Cain is killing ratings, but no one backs up their words with data, which tells me it is empirical at best.

Anyone have any numbers to back up their claims?

 

[FLjack2]

It ain't never gonna "be over" for WSB; all they have to do is pull a few strings. They are still riding on the novelty of Citizen Cain's presidential run (which, by the way, he LOST), and offering that novelty to other stations.

(4) Related to (3), if WSB wants to SERIOUSLY rebrand itself as "all news", then it had better start muck-raking the regional Atlanta and State Capital political/government scenes. There's ZERO excuse for a total lack of investigative reporting now that it's pretending to be an "all news" station again. Otherwise, what we really have is that WSB is still 'grandma' who just put on a new dress, but she still has that 'grandma' smell about her...and we're holding our noses.

They would never use ALL NEWS. What was mentioned was dropping TALK from the name. So "NEWS 750" It might work. But I think most people understand the difference between news, talk and all-news.

I would bet that if it's close to the top of the hour and someone wants to hear news when they get in their car, they are tuning to WSB. (Habit, I'm sure.) But if it's :20 past, then they'll tune into 106.7 -- if they even know it's on the air.

 

[RhubarbFan]

Neal boortz help make him a house hold name in Atlanta.

 

[BigDave]

Lets hope it does't turn into:

We'er Georgia's Substandard Talk.

It's going to be a good lineup with

Glenn Beck
Andrea Tantaros
Dave Ramsey
Todd Schnitt
Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis
Coast to Coast AM with George Noory