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Other Side of Midnight: Walter Sterling replaces Lionel

Red Apple Audio's syndicated "The Other Side of Midnight" has replaced main weekday host Lionel with weekend host Walter Sterling. The change happened suddenly beginning Monday with no explanation, and barely noticed by the industry. The difference between the two is like night and day. Sterling is laid back, non confrontational, and friendly. Discussing just about anything with callers and guests. And thankfully, anything is up for discussion... except politics. What a nice change!

I apologize for posting this AI drivel of a news item below, but Barrett is only source I could find.

 
From last night's show...

It was mentioned that Lionel will now do the weekend version of the show " Another Side of Midnight.

John Catsimatidas put out a full page ad in the New York Times advertising the new show.

Is Lee Harris of WGN, the person responsible for the changes?

Conspiracy theories, and UFO's seem to be a popular topic.
 
Let's hope this guy is more reasonable. Lionel leaned too much into Alex Jones level conspiracy theories.
Oh, he's much, much more reasonable. Even more so than what you hear on Coast to Coast AM. And it's treated as just a topic, between talking about Hostess Orange Cupcakes, and how hard it is to meet new friends when you get older. The show is now a place of normalcy.
 
Oh, he's much, much more reasonable. Even more so than what you hear on Coast to Coast AM. And it's treated as just a topic, between talking about Hostess Orange Cupcakes, and how hard it is to meet new friends when you get older. The show is now a place of normalcy.

I'm not much for news talk and random chatter but at least I won't actively avoid the station anymore. I definitely lean very right but this guy was several steps too far for even me. Fox News yes, Lionel absolutely not
 
I'm trying to like Walter, but the jury is still out. My affiliate carries other weekend programming so no more Lionel. Not a fan of the UFO talk.
 
I tuned in for a few moments and heard a nut job who described a special US designed airplane that put a hologram image of a plane flying into the World Trade Center at the moment that "they" detonated the explosion which brought the towers down. That nut job was the host. Nuff said. I will go back to late night TV when I can't sleep. Lionel had so odd theories but he had a sense of humor. This new guy seems naive enough to believe the nonsense he spouts.
 
Sterling is now peppering THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT with “Sterling Every Damn Night” jingle-sings, which he also uses on his local Philadelphia show, 10p-1a on WPHT. That show has been guest-hosted all week.
 
Walter is one of the most boring hosts I have ever heard. I tried listening to his “Sterling on Sunday” show once and I shut it off after about 2 minutes. Based on what @Hyrum said, this show sounds like hot garbage.
 
John Catsimatidas put out a full page ad in the New York Times advertising the new show.
Correction: It was the Post, not the Times.

It was pointed out to me that Cats is too cheap to purchase ad space in the Times, and that it doesn't align with his worldview. Lol.

And go... Staten Island Ferryhawks!
 
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Sterling is now peppering THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT with “Sterling Every Damn Night” jingle-sings, which he also uses on his local Philadelphia show, 10p-1a on WPHT. That show has been guest-hosted all week.
He seems to have a number of recorded bits like the one about 'left handed people', the "Danger, Walter Sterling, danger" with the Lost in Space robot, and the woman dispensing relationship advice. A nice change from the music bumpers every one else does.

At least it's a show I can listen to. I stopped listening to Lionel the night he went off claiming most child molesters are liberal democrats...and yes, he was serious.
 
I tuned in for a few moments and heard a nut job who described a special US designed airplane that put a hologram image of a plane flying into the World Trade Center at the moment that "they" detonated the explosion which brought the towers down. That nut job was the host. Nuff said. I will go back to late night TV when I can't sleep. Lionel had so odd theories but he had a sense of humor. This new guy seems naive enough to believe the nonsense he spouts.
@KilowattKat why would you want to listen to someone who says stuff like this?
 
@KilowattKat why would you want to listen to someone who says stuff like this?
I certainly don't recall hearing that one. That one is pretty off the wall! The show itself isn't entirely about the tin foil hat / UFO stuff. Listening, it's the type of show that if you don't care for the topic, wait 5 minutes for the next one, like his battle with AT&T, or the perils of living in New Jersey, followed by an expert guest on alternative history. Totally different from Coast to Coast AM, when a topic can last for 2 hours.

I only listen to radio this late at night when I have a bout of insomnia. There's not much choice as far as different live options to listen to. And this one I find tolerable, and it is growing on me.
 
I tuned in for a few moments and heard a nut job who described a special US designed airplane that put a hologram image of a plane flying into the World Trade Center at the moment that "they" detonated the explosion which brought the towers down. That nut job was the host. Nuff said. I will go back to late night TV when I can't sleep. Lionel had so odd theories but he had a sense of humor. This new guy seems naive enough to believe the nonsense he spouts.
Think about that for a moment. All of us who've lived through that tragedy/atrocity can remember seeing video (unless you were in lower Manhattan yourself at that moment and witnessed it live) of the first plane hitting the side of one tower, then 15 minutes later the second plane slamming into the second tower. Followed by another hour of smoke, fire, occupants trying to escape while firemen and police were fighting their way into the towers to attempt to rescue other people. Around the end of that hour, the second tower lost its structural stability and began pancaking, and after another 10 or 15 minutes the first tower joined it. We've all seen the footage, the images, ad nauseam for a quarter century.

Okay, so when was this hologram projected onto the building? How were hundreds of people on the street misled by their own eyes? How'd that (assumedly) fixed wing aircraft stay in one place for all that time? If the explosives were set off by a military (or intelligence agency) aircraft, how do you account for the hole with the outline of a Boeing plane punched through the building? Did that "government" plane stay there for that ~90 minutes to keep the image in view until the building came down? Then what? Wouldn't it have to have been sucked into the vortex as the building pancaked, or make a fast and loud escape to avoid becoming collateral roadkill? And what about the other tower? Are we to believe there was another plane hovering on the other side?

I could go on with probably another hundred questions debunking the bunk.

I wasn't there that day, but from California I saw the coverage live, watched TV news coverage from home while it was happening, before the buildings went down, and then from a TV in my office. And six weeks later, I was in New York and New Jersey, and my flight went right by Ground Zero and "the pile" on its final approach into Newark. It was especially painful to see, since I spent my college years watching those building go up from across the other river, walking distance away from the construction site.

So if what Hyrum wrote is accurate, I don't ever need to listen to "Walter Sterling", now or ever. Walt Sabo didn't have my respect before -- I was around to hear the execution of his bright idea for a "game zone" and how it destroyed KFRC in the mid '80s -- and his new attempt to fearmonger and throw out absurd conspiracy theories should make him unfit to ever appear on what's left of WABC.
 
Heard him for a few minutes last night because I was negotiating construction and couldn't turn it off. He was going on about Q day and how apparently our most secure systems could then be breached instantly with quantum computers.
 
I'm trying to like Walter, but the jury is still out. My affiliate carries other weekend programming so no more Lionel. Not a fan of the UFO talk.
I believe it's only the shows from Monday-Friday that are syndicated. In other words, the first syndicated show of the week is early Monday morning. For late Friday nights and late Saturday nights, WABC doesn't syndicate those shows. Apparently those are the ones Lionel now does, not offered to other stations.

Affiliates including WGN Chicago, WCCO Minneapolis and KMOX St. Louis have to come up with their own overnight programming on those weekend nights. That differs with iHeart/Premiere Networks' "Coast to Coast AM" which has live weekend shows with rotating hosts in addition to weeknights with George Noory. The other popular syndicated overnight talk show, "Red Eye Radio" from Cumulus/Westwood One, does repeats of weeknight shows on weekends.

You'd think Red Apple Media/WABC would offer "The Other Side of Midnight" seven nights a week, similar to Coast and Red Eye.
 
Sterling is now peppering THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT with “Sterling Every Damn Night” jingle-sings, which he also uses on his local Philadelphia show, 10p-1a on WPHT. That show has been guest-hosted all week.

Now being reported that Sterling has left WPHT:


However, he's still listed at WPHT's website:

 
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