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Don C said:
OK..he's not making them up....he's just repeating unsubstantiated gossip.
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OK..he's not making them up....he's just repeating unsubstantiated gossip.
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Don Juannn
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Don Juannn said:
"...problem is that "the original deal was mediocre, so this is mediocre.”
http://bostonradio.blogspot.com/2010/09/opie-and-anthony.html
DToTheJ said:
Thanks for the best laugh of the day. Thinking that Talkers Magazine is an authority on anything at all is a joke.
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Imagine these dominoes falling (and they could, given current economics);
1)Howard Stern looks at the post-Mel Karamazin landscape and decides he's better off going back into terrestrial radio syndication
2)O&A do likewise
3)Cumulus decides its biggest talk station in NYC is a loser especially after all the Premiere syndicated shows fly the coop for Clear Channel's captive WOR and the cost of re-programming it competitively is too high for their liking...so WABC winds up on the block
4)Seeing the price (likely $25 million or less in a market set by the recent WOR sale) Howard sees WABC as a natural and for him, easily affordable platform for relaunching his terrestrial radio act, especially figuring if he owns it, no one else will tell him what he can't say and do except a considerably more lenient FCC than he had to deal with in the days of Bush 43. So he buys WABC and seeks out other hot button acts to join him on it and revitalize what was once the city's hottest station. Stern in the morning, O&A in the afternoon...hey, it ain't Harry Harrison and Dan Ingram but it'd be the hottest pair of drive time acts to hit the market on the same station since 1980. And they could rapidly spread through the country. A few dozen selected stations in big cities, some AM and some FM, and they would beat Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage and even rival NPR's daily morning and afternoon magazine shows for cume.
Don't Laugh. This could happen. Economically and logically, it should. If I could advise Stern and O&A, I'd tell them to join forces and work for this.
1)Howard Stern looks at the post-Mel Karamazin landscape and decides he's better off going back into terrestrial radio syndication
2)O&A do likewise
3)Cumulus decides its biggest talk station in NYC is a loser especially after all the Premiere syndicated shows fly the coop for Clear Channel's captive WOR and the cost of re-programming it competitively is too high for their liking...so WABC winds up on the block
4)Seeing the price (likely $25 million or less in a market set by the recent WOR sale) Howard sees WABC as a natural and for him, easily affordable platform for relaunching his terrestrial radio act, especially figuring if he owns it, no one else will tell him what he can't say and do except a considerably more lenient FCC than he had to deal with in the days of Bush 43. So he buys WABC and seeks out other hot button acts to join him on it and revitalize what was once the city's hottest station. Stern in the morning, O&A in the afternoon...hey, it ain't Harry Harrison and Dan Ingram but it'd be the hottest pair of drive time acts to hit the market on the same station since 1980. And they could rapidly spread through the country. A few dozen selected stations in big cities, some AM and some FM, and they would beat Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage and even rival NPR's daily morning and afternoon magazine shows for cume.
Don't Laugh. This could happen. Economically and logically, it should. If I could advise Stern and O&A, I'd tell them to join forces and work for this.
Neither of them have the ability to do the radio that they used to.
O&A (especially Opie) might be interested in the FM thing again, but again, my guess is that they would make more and be happier doing their own thing.
Stern... My opinion as a listener is there is no way he'd go back or buy stations. Too much hassle. He' can make the same as be makes now doing a subscription service and retain creative freedom without FCC
Stern... My opinion as a listener is there is no way he'd go back or buy stations. Too much hassle. He' can make the same as be makes now doing a subscription service and retain creative freedom without FCC
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