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Saturday Night Syndicated Wasteland

FTL_Ian

FTL_Ian

Tammy Bruce has left syndicated radio. Rusty Humphries no longer does a live Saturday night show. Alan Hunt is leaving his Saturday night show within the next couple of weeks to focus on his new weekday program...

Who is left besides Free Talk Live and TRN's "Science Fantastic"?

TRN was FTL's biggest competition, but now both their highest profile Saturday night hosts are no longer there live or at all. In Bruce's place they seem to have the Darla Shine Show and "Finding God in Physics". It is not indicated if they are live.

WOR is running refeeds.
Premiere is running refeeds.
Westwood is running refeeds.

Even Science Fantastic ends at 8pm, so it's not in full competition with FTL's 7-10p ET timeslot.

Is there any syndicated competition left out there?
 
Unless you count Somewhere in Time, there isn't much syndication on Saturday nights. I guess too many stations broker those hours. One station I listen to plays Science Fantastic on a delay, into Peter Greenberg (delay) from 6-9 Pacific. Another plays an Alex Jones rerun into Somewhere in Time. Another plays the mandated Sean Hannity Weekend.
 
While it may garner listenership, Somewhere in Time doesn't count for my question, as it's not live. Looking for other live programs... unless there's something on another obscure network, I can't think of anything.
 
If I understand RI news correctly Tammy Bruce left terrestrial radio and went strictly Internet.
 
Silkie said:
If I understand RI news correctly Tammy Bruce left terrestrial radio and went strictly Internet.
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Yep, she's already been pulled from TRN's schedule. Wonder what the behind-the-scenes story is on that one.
 
In Greensboro, N.C., the "other" talk station is smooth jazz.

At one time (I don't know if this is still true but I haven't checked lately) the Rush Limbaugh station was standards on the weekends when not doing sports.
 
Radio America runs some programming on Saturday night.....I think it's just short one hour single subject programs (i.e. A Golf show, an auto show, etc.)
 
vchimpanzee said:
In Greensboro, N.C., the "other" talk station is smooth jazz.

At one time (I don't know if this is still true but I haven't checked lately) the Rush Limbaugh station was standards on the weekends when not doing sports.
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600/1200 was doing music on the weekends?
 
Mainedude2007 said:
Radio America runs some programming on Saturday night.....I think it's just short one hour single subject programs (i.e. A Golf show, an auto show, etc.)
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Do you know if they are live?
 
Mark Simone's show is oldies not talk isn't it?

People out and about on Sat night, watching TV, doing whatever but I'd think the listenership is low. Some stations choose to run "best ofs" including some whose only airings of certain shows are "best ofs"; in Boston, WRKO doesn't run Glenn Beck weekdays and WTKK doesn't run Mark Levin weeknights but I believe both are available as "best ofs" on Sat. night (similarly WRKO's only airing of Dennis Miller is weekends...)
 
It has been Saturday Night Oldies but thought I'd heard it was going to go into more of a talk direction. Other weekend shows that aren't "best ofs" include Handel on the Law, Kim Kommando's computer show, and Allen Hunt, syndicated from WSB. Some markets play "The Weekend with Mike McConnell" from WLW on Saturday nights (WHO being one of them).
 
quadraphonic said:
vchimpanzee said:
In Greensboro, N.C., the "other" talk station is smooth jazz.

At one time (I don't know if this is still true but I haven't checked lately) the Rush Limbaugh station was standards on the weekends when not doing sports.
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600/1200 was doing music on the weekends?
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At that time, I don't think there was a 1200.
 
Well, Salem's talk network runs BMX Radio. The show airs Saturdays 9 - 11pm ET with Stephen Baldwin, who found religion as his movie career fizzled, and his minder who stops Baldwin from saying anything that's too crazy. It's live. They take calls. They try aiming younger than the average conservative talk show, stemming from Baldwin's "biker-skater ministry." But it's same-old same-old.

Of course, there was that story in the press a few weeks ago that Baldwin was $2.3 million in debt and filing for bankruptcy, which I don't think is very Christian to all those people to whom he owes money. And while his minder follows the typical conservative talk radio format, Baldwin makes it clear he often doesn't know what he's talking about.


Gregg
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Gregg said:
Well, Salem's talk network runs BMX Radio. The show airs Saturdays 9 - 11pm ET with Stephen Baldwin, who found religion as his movie career fizzled, and his minder who stops Baldwin from saying anything that's too crazy. It's live. They take calls. They try aiming younger than the average conservative talk show, stemming from Baldwin's "biker-skater ministry." But it's same-old same-old.

Of course, there was that story in the press a few weeks ago that Baldwin was $2.3 million in debt and filing for bankruptcy, which I don't think is very Christian to all those people to whom he owes money. And while his minder follows the typical conservative talk radio format, Baldwin makes it clear he often doesn't know what he's talking about.


Gregg
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I was unaware - thanks for the heads up.
 
John Batchelor is apparently doing a Saturday night show now, from 9 PM to 1 AM Eastern. Both shows are interview/commentary type shows, and don't take calls.
 
vchimpanzee said:
quadraphonic said:
vchimpanzee said:
In Greensboro, N.C., the "other" talk station is smooth jazz.

At one time (I don't know if this is still true but I haven't checked lately) the Rush Limbaugh station was standards on the weekends when not doing sports.
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600/1200 was doing music on the weekends?
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At that time, I don't think there was a 1200.
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So you're talking about 15 years ago?
 
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