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Red Eye Radio moves to 3 hours from 5

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wadio

This began last week and they talked about it at length last night. Said it was their request, not anyone else's, something they'd been thinking about for awhile.

I assume Westwood One will repeat the first two hours to replace hours 4 and 5, but will stations fill them with something else -- maybe a repeat of a daytime show?

Now the weekends will have even more repeats!
 
I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. It's an awful lot to host a five-hour political talk show (even if it's two people hosting). Or to have it live seven nights a week. There's only so much you can say.

The timeslot was always a relic from Bill Mack's trucker show, and he interspersed country music into the program. There hasn't been any music played since Gary McNamara became co-host... 20 years ago?
 
Dan Mandis has filled in for the Red Eye guys, then after that 5 hour shift, immediately shifted to his own morning show on WWTN. That's 9 straight hours of talk radio hosting without a break! Pretty amazing.
 
wadio said:
Dan Mandis has filled in for the Red Eye guys, then after that 5 hour shift, immediately shifted to his own morning show on WWTN. That's 9 straight hours of talk radio hosting without a break! Pretty amazing.
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Thats gotta be exhausting.
 
wadio said:
I assume Westwood One will repeat the first two hours to replace hours 4 and 5,
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Seems to me that's what the Larry King show did in later years. He did 2 hours of interviews and one hour of open phones.

Then they'd repeat the first two hours.

I imagine the stations will stick with it (as they did with King) because there's not much else out there.
 
The show is pretty bad. I'm not just talking about their RW politics. But they rarely took a call when i heard it and I never caught someone disagreeing with them on anything, ever. But maybe these days that's the nature of all talk. Especially national shows.
 
QED said:
The show is pretty bad. I'm not just talking about their RW politics. But they rarely took a call when i heard it and I never caught someone disagreeing with them on anything, ever. But maybe these days that's the nature of all talk. Especially national shows.
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Thom Hartmann loves taking callers that disagree with him. In fact, they go right to the front of the queue.

Though, it should be pointed out, he is on the opposite end of the political spectrum from most talk radio hosts.
 
QED said:
The show is pretty bad. I'm not just talking about their RW politics. But they rarely took a call when i heard it and I never caught someone disagreeing with them on anything, ever. But maybe these days that's the nature of all talk. Especially national shows.
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I agree ... the show is pretty bad these days.

They sound unprepared and often start a segment (or even the show opening) by rambling about something without setting it up. They used to end each segment with the phone number but now it's just, "We're Red Eye Radio." So they're apparently not soliciting calls.

Eric has a good sense of humor but often Garry starts laughing uncontrollably, then they both laugh and laugh and laugh. The Car Talk guys got away with lots of laughing but not like this.

Lately they talk a lot about their ages (I think 60 and 70) and it sounds to me like retirement is in the cards. I wonder when their contract ends.

Westwood One might do well to fill the two repeat hours with new tryout hosts to eventually take over the nighttime slot.
 


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