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Philly Morning News on IQ

KYW and WPHT will always be numbers for local news and talk in the morning.
 
I think IQ will chase WPHT out of the talk format soon, I know people that switched to 106.9 and don't listen to 1210 anymore
 
Julius May said:
WPHT will always be numbers for local news and talk in the morning.
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Looks like the next time someone as much as coughs or sneezes on 1210 the station's gonna completely tank. Imaging is all wrong. Morning show need a local breed. Audio need to be square waved. The tower need's moved to the 610 site for better ground conductivity instead of the sand pit it's on now.... I could go on.

Probably will go CBS Deportes in less than a year. ..Oh wait. That doesn't exist yet.
 
Doesn't matter how good they show might be, do they have any local advertising on there yet? Bet that place gets sold berfore they even know what happens there.
 
What's up with Mente 8:30-10? People want to hear Beck 9-noon not 10 to noon. And who has a morning show only to 8:30 in the morning?
 
Glad to see some people liking Lionel. I stream the PXI11 news out of New York most nights and he's a commentator there too. Fantastic topics that absolutely nobody else is talking about. As for Mendte, major props to the station for giving up a sliver of time for local talk. Granted, Mendte can discuss whatever he wants, but its at least a shot for local callers to voice their opinions at some point during the day.

More Larry & Lionel, less Limbaugh & Levin. Their imaging calling out CBS for having a liberal bias is cringeworthy when you look at their conservative wet-dream schedule. However, some of their quick liners into/out of breaks are pretty funny, as is most of the promotion for their shows. It may be just me, but it casts all the syndicated hosts in a kind of... questionable light.

Even with the biased lineup, I'm still holding out hope for the station.
 
PhillyWatch said:
More Larry & Lionel, less Limbaugh & Levin.
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Unlikely. It's nice to see that IQ got smart and got another radio veteran to team with Gardner. Haven't heard the show yet, but Lionel has a long track record as both a general topics host and a liberal political talker (I believe he was on Air America for a short stint).

As for Mendte, maybe he'll be better on his own, maybe not. Parking him at 8:30 is a smart tryout slot. I assume he's already under contract for a period (one of Randy Michaels' buddies), so other than having to air the national spots for Beck's first hour, it's a freebee. If he works out, he can get a better slot (assuming a new owner sticks with talk). If not, well, I hope he saved all that big anchor money.

Their imaging calling out CBS for having a liberal bias is cringeworthy when you look at their conservative wet-dream schedule.
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That's really the point. PHT dropped the conservative shows and went with the undistinguished mess they have now. They have a few not-especially distinctive left-leaning voices on the schedule. And of course there's still the bad taste left by Smerconish's magic conversion from conservative to "moderate" for syndication's sake - plunging the knife into the majority of his regular audience by endorsing Obama in 2008. An artificial non-local Smerconish isn't much of a draw, but hey, he got what he wanted and he provided PHT with good ratings for several years. That's unlikely to happen in his current format. I think that facet of IQ's imaging is on target. IQ is marketing themselves as a conservative talker and PHT's displaced conservative talk fans is where IQ is pulling most of its audience from.

Referring to "CBS" isn't such a hot idea if the promo is solely aimed at listeners - most won't get the connection even if PHT is mentioned in the same breath. But it's a convenient form for IQ to throw darts at both KYW and WPHT and tweak CBS insiders which is likely part of the aim as well.

Even with the biased lineup, I'm still holding out hope for the station.
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The "biased" lineup is the station's calling card. If they can get a good local morning show going with an ideological pair or by de-emphasizing the ideological angle altogether in that slot, that's fine. The morning show feeds into the rest of the day. And morning commuters will have IQ already set for the ride home (Hannity isn't getting much competition from 1210). The top talkers in the format are the conservatives, and the Premiere/Mark Levin block grabs and holds a fair amount of ears nationwide. No reason it can't work here and from the early ratings it appears to be doing so.

PHT could counter IQ and become a less ideological regional talker, but they have to find some quality hosts to go up against syndication's finest, and they don't yet seem willing to do that. That leaves IQ the option of developing or adopting some different programs if one or two of the current syndicated slots doesn't pull its weight. But the syndicated hosts are better and cheaper than most regional ones, especially unknowns, so I wouldn't bet on much more than perhaps a local PM driver down the road. And that assumes that the new owner etc....
 
Wow sounded even better today. This was really a great pairing. Yes I am going to be regular if they keep this up every morning. Hope IQ keeps this combination just way it is.
 
Lionel did a few long monologs without much interaction with Al, but I do like the material and the pace. I wonder if Lionel is in NY or down here. A vast improvement over the first attempt.
 
musichead1029 said:
I wonder if Lionel is in NY or down here.
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I was wondering that about Larry, too, since they both do work for WPIX. Lionel presents their 4-6 am morning show, so unless he has a transporter that can get here in about 5 minutes (I wouldn't doubt it), then he's probably up in NY (possibly 'RXP?)
 
50,000 watt clear channel WPHT should be the 24 hour newsradio station in Philly...clearer signal all the way around,that is,when the transmitter is working at peak performance..48 states and Canada ;)...the philly powerhouse..so KYW should switch to 1210 and WPHT to 1060...cant pick up 1060 very clear in parts of South Jersey where WPHT covers most of that area especially near the shore points....who have no 24 hour news station at all...and is not reliable especially whenever they have a major emergency,power outage or when they have major weather problems like they had this summer..or crippling winter storms....most of the radio stations serving the jersey shore are not dependable, go off the air when major emergencys happen...like the station that claims...THE STATION THAT YOU CAN DEPEND ON..WOND...the only news talk station at the shore....that goes off the air every time a major occurence happens...so the folks at the shore have no where to turn for news or emergency information ....WPHT could fill that 24 hour news station void for the South Jersey shore area.....
 
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