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Rita Cosby 4-6 pm WOR

This is the problem with talk hosts. No one will be acceptable to everyone. The biggest problem is finding hosts who have some credibility, experience, and name recognition. New York is not a place for beginners. You also want some diversity. This last election taught us that there are lots of other people besides older white men. Rita is a young woman, and hopefully she'll bring a few more with her to the format.

The key thing is the station will be live & local in afternoon drive, so now we can see if New York is really hungering for local talk.
 
It's good that CC try local talk. CBS radio try that with the Free FM station a couple of years ago but failed. Now on AM, maybe it works. Better than conservative talk in my opinion. There is a too much right wing political talk. Listeners who wanna hear conservative talk, WABC it is. For local talk/less political talk most of the time WOR is a good alternative.
 
TheBigA said:
This is the problem with talk hosts. No one will be acceptable to everyone. The biggest problem is finding hosts who have some credibility, experience, and name recognition. New York is not a place for beginners. You also want some diversity. This last election taught us that there are lots of other people besides older white men. Rita is a young woman, and hopefully she'll bring a few more with her to the format.

The key thing is the station will be live & local in afternoon drive, so now we can see if New York is really hungering for local talk.
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The former host in that slot wasn't an old white man. ;) It took him awhile to get comfortable in the role of talk show host ... maybe she will too, but right now she IS a relative beginner -- at radio.

My point is that there's a whole country full of capable broadcasters and I think they could have done much better. It's almost as though they read her resume but didn't bother to listen to her audition.

And while live & local is very important, given the choice between a second rate local host and a compelling syndicated show, listeners are likely to go with the latter.
 
wadio said:
My point is that there's a whole country full of capable broadcasters and I think they could have done much better. It's almost as though they read her resume but didn't bother to listen to her audition.
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How many of those "capable broadcasters" actually applied?

Unlike the former host, she's been a broadcaster for 20 years. She's done a lot and seen a lot. People know her name, and so she brings name recognition that just about anyone else wouldn't have. And she's actually a born & bred New Yorker! Not a carpet bagger. So she knows issues facing New Yorkers from personal experience. She has something a "capable broadcaster" from Minnesota doesn't have. She will pronounce street names and neighborhoods correctly, and we all know how annoying that can be.

The one thing she's not is an ideologue, so we'll see if there's an audience for a news reporter rather than someone pushing a political agenda.
 
TheBigA said:
The one thing she's not is an ideologue, so we'll see if there's an audience for a news reporter rather than someone pushing a political agenda.
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You don't suppose this is the thinly veiled reason behind the criticism, do you? I guess she's already not extreme enough for people who listen to AM talk radio.
 
Yeah, she actually has all that. I'm only basing my opinion on one thing -- listening to her. She's filled in for Gambling and others on WOR quite a few times over the past several years and I could never take more than a few minutes. Just too giggly-bubbly. Maybe after she has 300 or 400 daily shows under her belt the newness will wear off and she'll settle down. We'll see.

@Theater of the Mind -- don't make assumptions. :)
 
wadio said:
Just too giggly-bubbly. Maybe after she has 300 or 400 daily shows under her belt the newness will wear off and she'll settle down. We'll see.
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Some people like giggly-bubbly. Certainly the opposite of Hannity, who is neither.
 
Then they should have hired Lisa Wexler (WFAS 4-6 pm.) Wexler, an attorney, is young, smart, politically independent and is able to discuss a wide range of subjects. Unlike Cosby, she generally has a unique take on issues, a great sense of humor and she always sounds in control.
 
Question: What makes a radio show to be *local* ? Is it the content of the program, or the number of stations the show airs??

IMO their was nothing *local* with the Steve Malzbarg show, and there will not be anything local with Cosby. Nothing to be exited about ???

If you want to listen to a *local* show, tune in to WNYC 10a - noon.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Could Rita Cosby's show on WOR-710 be short-term until the station can get Sean Hannity??
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My sense is they've already fought that battle and lost. However, the placeholder is at noon for the eventual arrival of Rush.
 
TheBigA said:
Joseph_Gallant said:
Could Rita Cosby's show on WOR-710 be short-term until the station can get Sean Hannity??
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My sense is they've already fought that battle and lost. However, the placeholder is at noon for the eventual arrival of Rush.
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Doesn't Hannity have some special deal where Cumulus syndicates him to their large market stations and Premiere gets the rest of the country? I think the deal may have been signed when WABC was owned by Citadel. I doubt Hannity would be moved to WOR, but Limbaugh is definitely a possibility in the future.
 
The first day of the new *local* Cosby show... Discussing Chuck Hagel nomination. I think Hannity is doing a better *local* show on WABC....
 
I'm listening to the Mike Gallagher 24/7 stream right now and he's talking more about NY than Mark Simone did this morning. It's Gallagher's first day on WNYM and he's looking for an apartment in Manhattan and taking calls about it.

Truthfully I miss Gallagher following Gambling on WOR. I like Mark Simone but he gets repetitive and I fear he'll start bringing on the octogenarian guests soon -- Ed Koch, Larry King, Robert Klein (OK, he just sounds old,) Dick Cavett, etc.

WOR now has three weekday shows I'll listen to: Gambling, Simone and John & Ken. The rest is sub-par, IMO. WNYM has Mike Gallagher, Curtis, Curtis & Lichtman and Jon Grayson so it's kind of a tie at the moment. Who is Steve Deace? Maybe a tie-breaker? I'll try listening, but it has to be online because WNYM has no signal.
 
Rita Cosby's voice is hard to listen to.  And she is doing the same political stuff everyone else talks about.  I can't see her keeping her high-profile spot on WOR for very long.  Has she ever done her own radio show before? Where is Steve Maltzberg now? Seems like he would be a better fit.
 
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