Roth....gone!

[Muzaklvr]

DLR has been replaced with.........O&A!
Not sure how it going to work out, but it is done.

 

[DiamondJoe]

And Rover? Too close to call...

The deal is basically a way to fix the morning drive situation that appears to be going downhill with Diamond Dave.

With that said, despite the drubbings the Rover show has received from the local press, and the program's low rating to boot, keep in mind that Rover and the crew - unlike Roth - actually have some radio experience. Plus they are going to hire a new member to their writing staff on the heels of the "Make Rover Laugh" competition conclusion tomorrow. I wouldn't be concerned about the fate of "Morning Glory" just yet. And the keyword in that sentence, of course, is "yet".<P ID="signature">______________


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[regionear]

Re: And Rover? Too close to call...

I could be way off on this...but I would also assume that Rover's show is cheaper than Dave....

I haven't seen or heard....has Rover gone down in his home city since going to CKG?

When I was in Memphis I saw some Rover billboards, ect. Around here, I've seen stuff on busses for it.

 

[scoob]

Re: And Rover? Too close to call...

> I could be way off on this...but I would also assume that
> Rover's show is cheaper than Dave....
>
> I haven't seen or heard....has Rover gone down in his home
> city since going to CKG?
>
> When I was in Memphis I saw some Rover billboards, ect.
> Around here, I've seen stuff on busses for it.
>

Rover is #1 in AM Drive in Cleveland with persons 18-34.

 

[ZelenRecords]

Re: And Rover? Too close to call...

> > I could be way off on this...but I would also assume that
> > Rover's show is cheaper than Dave....
> >
> > I haven't seen or heard....has Rover gone down in his home
>
> > city since going to CKG?
> >
> > When I was in Memphis I saw some Rover billboards, ect.
> > Around here, I've seen stuff on busses for it.
> >
>
> Rover is #1 in AM Drive in Cleveland with persons 18-34.
>

Yeah, I don't know about them getting rid of Rover just yet. As for O&A, I have to say (I usually don't say this about people, but....) THEY SOLD OUT!!!! After all that terestrial radio bashing, and CBS bashing, here they come again. My question is, how is CBS going to edit the live XM show? Especially without promoting XM all over the radio. Its going to be worse then when Howard was promoting Sirius.

 

[columbus radio fan]

Re: And Rover? Too close to call...

Yeah, I don't know about them getting rid of Rover just yet. As for O&A, I have to say (I usually don't say this about people, but....) THEY SOLD OUT!!!! After all that terestrial radio bashing, and CBS bashing, here they come again. My question is, how is CBS going to edit the live XM show? Especially without promoting XM all over the radio. Its going to be worse then when Howard was promoting Sirius.

Actually the agreement is that they can promote XM on the terrestrial broadcast, and the show is simulcast on XM and the terrestrial stations.

 

[Matt K]

Is it a full-on simulcast? I was listening to Howard Stern talk about this Friday morning (before it became "official", so some of it may have been speculative), Stern said that O&A were going to do FM for 3 hours, FOLLOWED by 2 hours on XM. He never used the word simulcast, so this is new info to me. The idea with this setup would be that they'd do the "clean and edited" FM show, being allowed to promote the follow up show on XM with the hopes that listeners would follow.

 

[columbus radio fan]

Is it a full-on simulcast? I was listening to Howard Stern talk about this Friday morning (before it became "official", so some of it may have been speculative), Stern said that O&A were going to do FM for 3 hours, FOLLOWED by 2 hours on XM. He never used the word simulcast, so this is new info to me. The idea with this setup would be that they'd do the "clean and edited" FM show, being allowed to promote the follow up show on XM with the hopes that listeners would follow.

You actually trust what Howie is saying? Yes it is a full simulcast on both XM and terrestrial stations from 6a to 9a, and then a XM only show from 9a to 11a and sometimes going to noon. Obviously the show is on a delay for the terrestrial stations should a bad word come out, but the bad word is not edited out of the XM feed. I know this is the case because I am not in a O&A market, but do listen daily on XM, and has been listening to them for several months on XM. I was not a O&A fan till a few months ago. They are not the same O&A that were on when the whole St. Patrick's Cathederal thing happened. Howie is so pissed off with this deal he's going to say anything to try to make the situation look good for him, which makes him look like an idiot for leaving his 18 million listeners (that is the number that didn't follow him to Sirius) for O&A to take on!