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RETURN OF THE FRANK FOSTER SHOW

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Those of you who've followed talk radio in this market for more than a few years will remember "The Frank Foster Show", a brokered time program that ran for an hour a day around 2000 on WWBA when it was still trying to figure out whether to be Christian talk, family talk, friendly talk or brokered talk. Frank Foster was the antithesis of a good talk show host. His show was mostly lame guest-interviews, sort of 1983 talk radio. His shtick was anything but contemporary. His on-air persona seemed to be a mincing imitation of one of Johnny Carson's characters, ("the kwwwwwwwestion of the day"), which always seemed to undercut his conservative talking points. He was such a poor talk show host that some of the creative crank callers who were displaced when 970 went all-syndicated started calling the show and pulling the host's leg. Someone described it to me as Phil Hendrie in reverse: the callers know it's a joke but the host doesn't. Foster went into Chapter 11 (under his real name) and the show went away for awhile.

Anyway, those folks will be glad to know that a showcase of bad talk radio is back... every Saturday at 2 p.m. on WGUL 860... in the "death slot" where shows usually last for a few weeks at most. Perhaps any remaining cranks out there (they're about as useful as buggy whips in the syndicated universe :'( ) could crank it up again for Frank.

http://www.frankfostershow.com/
 
Oh the Japanese "RCA Mic" knockoff on the home page started it for me..then this selection from the home page:

..previously and nationally syndicated by over 100 stations spanning the entire United States, Good Sense Radio is proud to present the return of "The Frank Foster Show". You will be enlightened and enriched by Frank's entertaining sense of humor and refreshingly enjoyable way of delivering value-added facts you can not live without..

You see the "value added fact" is something that is sorely missing on most major talk stations, and now I know where to get them. Also the value-added fact that Frank was "previously and nationally" syndicated BY over 100 stations makes me curious. Does that mean that the stations were the ones DOING the syndicating? AND if it was a succesful endeavor why is this a "previous" condition rather than a current condition? Also is there a thinly veiled threat here by insinuating that IF we choose to ignore "value added facts you CAN NOT LIVE without" we might get whacked?

This must be a crankers heaven..takes me back to all the fun "someone" used to have cranking Robert VanAmberg on WFLA..back in the day..

"Helllllllooo R-r-r-rroberrrt? I have a nice chili recipe I would like to give out over the airwaves if I may so please..."

Here it goes.."Helllllllooooo F-f-f-frrrraaaank?
 
If Frank Foster is that dog-gone good, then I wonder why Salem's WLSS-930 is not airing his "innovative" show?.... since WLSS pretty much mirrors WGUL.(esxcept for local, traffic and weather breaks).

Sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen.

God, I miss the old WKXY and WGUL, both with live and local programming; I guess each held on as long as they could.

Interesting to see Salem's stations advertise on ClearChannel and CBS billboards; I guess Salem needs to expand some more and get into the billboard business as well.

Remember............ "Your opinion counts!" a good catchy slogan for Salem. (as long as their syndicated screeners allow you to express the opinion of the talk show entertainer/host or set someone up to be ridiculed)

Salem's political talk stations here do have decent news/traffic and weather at the top of the hour; it's the rest of the hour that has me flipping back to XM.
 
..previously and nationally syndicated by over 100 stations spanning the entire United States, Good Sense Radio is proud to present the return of "The Frank Foster Show". You will be enlightened and enriched by Frank's entertaining sense of humor and refreshingly enjoyable way of delivering value-added facts you can not live without..
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After Foster lost his WWBA gig, he syndicated (bought?) an hour on one of the 24-7 satellite talk networks, which had BA or its sister station 1470 as an affiliate, perhaps hoping to get clearance for free. As I recall, 'BA went out of their way to pre-empt that hour of the network's programming. I don't think his syndicated show ever got cleared in this market -- where his product (?) was best known.

"Value added facts" = a remote and promo mentions with each fact sold ;)
 
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