Sean Hannity on the radio this afternoon said he and WTIC are working on a possible appearance for him in the Insurance City.
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Sean Hannity Appearance in Hartford?
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PJ
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Thanks for the warning.
You two could only wish to be the successful broadcaster Hannity is. The guy paid his dues, worked hard, and won success. Imagine that!
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The Mighty Duck
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ricardariley said:The guy paid his dues, worked hard, and won success. Imagine that!
Good for him. Paying dues and working hard and being rewarded for it is tough to come by these days. I've been on both sides. Try finding someone that is willing to work any shift for crap money, people aren't exactly knocking down the door to get into radio nowadays are they?
And as a person busting their ass to get into radio, is it worth it? You'll be consolidated soon enough. Like the WELI thing, I'm sure a ton of folks would love to have a job working for a news station like that. Are the jobs there? No. But we can save 10 grand!
Do you remember the Paul Pacelli talk show which WELI Aired before Sean Hannity? I do. Pacelli read headlines from the Register and asked "what do you think - call in and let's tlak about it". He got very few calls. Pacelli couldn't carry a conversation the way Hannity does (or Ed Schultz does, so you don;t think I am pusing a conservative agenda). For everyone who hates those big bad national guysm tell me how Pacelli's show was better than Hannity's? Who was better informed about national issues? Who had more interesting topics (the New Haven School Board, traffic at the mall, how producer Andy was feeling after visiting his parents vs. Iraq, Hillary, the latest Jerry Falwell statement, trends in the economy or religion)? Who got bigger guests to call in (some guy from the CT toll committee vs. Dick Cheney). If you can find a local host who is well informed on a bunch of national issues, and can make it interesting, put them on. Til then, don't keep yammering for local people to tell us about the spaghetti dinner (as some local host on WICC did for ten minutes one time I listened). Call me strange, but I find Imus's visits with Tim Russert more interesting than calls from parishoners discussing the next big church rummage sale.
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PJ
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First of all, my comment was my opinion of HIM and specifically his politics, not of his success.
Second, how do you know I am not a successful broadcaster? That's making quite an assumption.
Second, how do you know I am not a successful broadcaster? That's making quite an assumption.
Hannity spends too much time interviewing has-beens with axes to grind. Dick Morris, Newt Gingrich and Ollie North are yesterday's news. He should spend more time with people like Republican Party Chairman Ken Melman and current office holders. Hannity also spends too much time pushing his TV show.
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chuckydoll
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Better hope it's not advertised
Bill O'Reilly did a gig in New Jersey a couple of years ago. That gig was not advertised for fear of drawing pickets and boycotts.
Sean Hannity got where he is by being a right-wing thug whoring for his masters at ABC Radio and Fox News Channel. CBS owns WTIC so CBS must pay a pretty penny to ABC to carry Hannity on 1080. After all CBS is owned by Viacom, whose chairman openly supports George W. Bush.
Bill O'Reilly did a gig in New Jersey a couple of years ago. That gig was not advertised for fear of drawing pickets and boycotts.
Sean Hannity got where he is by being a right-wing thug whoring for his masters at ABC Radio and Fox News Channel. CBS owns WTIC so CBS must pay a pretty penny to ABC to carry Hannity on 1080. After all CBS is owned by Viacom, whose chairman openly supports George W. Bush.
>CBS must pay a pretty penny to ABC to carry Hannity on 1080.
Maybe not. TIC picked up the show for late night about a week after they were dropped by WDRC/WMMW/WSNG/WWCO. DRC replaced him with Dan Lovallo, a host with plenty of CT political guests and local callers. Excellent move, just for this issue alone: The governor recently proposed raising the state income tax in order to give additional educational funding to the cities and towns. Lots of opinions on that one. Good for local talk radio.
Maybe not. TIC picked up the show for late night about a week after they were dropped by WDRC/WMMW/WSNG/WWCO. DRC replaced him with Dan Lovallo, a host with plenty of CT political guests and local callers. Excellent move, just for this issue alone: The governor recently proposed raising the state income tax in order to give additional educational funding to the cities and towns. Lots of opinions on that one. Good for local talk radio.
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The timing of when a station drops a show vs when another picks it up is not necessarily consecutive, or successive. Sometimes a station has "signed" a show, and the show needs to complete the terms with the station it is on before it can start on the new station. In other words, DRC didn't necessarily "drop" Hannity as much as TIC picked him up, and took him from DRC.
Jimme misses the point. Any half brained nitwit can talk about national issues....for god's sake EVERYONE who is syndicated talks about national issues. I challenge anyone to identify other then by voice the opinions of Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh or any of a dozen other members of the flat-earth society. It is like listening to a one-note samba. If national programming was such a great idea then TV stations would never have local news departments. Fact is TV is POURING money into local news because they realize that is where the viewers and the $$ are. Sure, everyone wants to watch the Sopranos...but when the the word snow creeps into the conversation who turns on CNN or MSNBC? They turn on their LOCAL station. Just like local TV, local radio stations make their $ talking about local issues. WICC practically PRINTS money with all of their local programming. So too WTIC.
To paraphrase Martha Stewart, "making money is a good thing." I'm all for it. But there is a responsible and an iresponsible way of doing so. CC and some other radio and TV groups have taken greed to new heights. To the issue of "selling" I have a good friend who is a radio salesman. He could sell ice to Eskimos. He knows the product and he learned the "art" of selling.
And the band played on.
To paraphrase Martha Stewart, "making money is a good thing." I'm all for it. But there is a responsible and an iresponsible way of doing so. CC and some other radio and TV groups have taken greed to new heights. To the issue of "selling" I have a good friend who is a radio salesman. He could sell ice to Eskimos. He knows the product and he learned the "art" of selling.
And the band played on.
BE LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL... That's what I hear terrestrial broadcasters say when it comes to fending off the challenges of new media such as satellite radio, MP3's, internet, etc. Some broadcasters remain true to a local tradition, but many have dropped the ball completely. Even in what's been the radio prime time -morning drive - the syndicated and "most music in the morning" programming leaves local radio stations open to erosion from well-targeted morning TV coupling big network shows with impressive local news/traffic/weather operations.
When radio as a whole loses that local connection, it's impossible to get it back. The satellite-delivered guy, last Tuesday's voice track or a newsroom 400 miles away may have a place. It's just not as the savior of terrestrial radio.
In my market, local content is referred to by one station as "clutter." A music station is directing listeners to its sister and mainly syndicated talker for basic storm info. Another carries syndicated shock jocks who pushed the envelope too far before and wouldn't know where the station is. A big signal FM relays sports talk from 100 miles away. The heritage AM gets some local credit, but doesn't target anyone under 55 (maybe 65). Economic realities? Sure. Local? No.
When radio as a whole loses that local connection, it's impossible to get it back. The satellite-delivered guy, last Tuesday's voice track or a newsroom 400 miles away may have a place. It's just not as the savior of terrestrial radio.
In my market, local content is referred to by one station as "clutter." A music station is directing listeners to its sister and mainly syndicated talker for basic storm info. Another carries syndicated shock jocks who pushed the envelope too far before and wouldn't know where the station is. A big signal FM relays sports talk from 100 miles away. The heritage AM gets some local credit, but doesn't target anyone under 55 (maybe 65). Economic realities? Sure. Local? No.
To SDKATH: I hope you include Ed Schultz and Al Franken in the flat-earth society, because I don't believe you think only conservatives are one-note. I simple believe that one note has some diversity to it (politics, Iraq, elections, economy, religion, movies). Limbaugh talks about all kinds of things - as he says, "anything tha tinterests him" - and it isn't all politics. LIsten some time. I just find that "one note" more interesting than what I have heard on WICC about spaghetti dinners, rummage sales, and where the host had dinner last night. If WICC is the way to go, then why aren't local morning hosts making what Limbaugh or Randi Rhodes make? As for people wanting more local news, I agree people tune in for snow coverage and their local traffic, but it truly scares me to believe people like the locally produced morning shows consistently providing nothing more than cooking segments, local school children performing at a mall, or some silly "consumer alert" such as how to cut your credit card rate. (That is only repeated every month in multiple media channels. How original!!) I'm sorry, but I will watch Today for morning entertainment as I dress for work than some local school choir hitting only every other note closely. My all-time favorite local "big story" was a Zanesville, Ohio local tv morning news show having a five minute interview with a hospital official on why a local hospital removed an additional catheter unit from the budget. If this is such high-demand programming, why do I see so much Jerry Springer, Montel, Maury, Martha, Ellen, and the dozens of Tony Danzas whose shows sucked.
The key to good radio is to be entertaining as well as informative. Franken has NEVER been entertaining. Limbaugh at least has a radio background and can sometimes be funny, but then his politics get in the way. Hannity needs to go back to painting houses and get treatment for all the fumes he inhaled.
As for why some of the locals don't get paid what Hannity, Limbaugh, beck get the answer is too obvious to rate a reply. Most of these fellas get airtime because Premier is owned by..whoops..CC..and it costs nothing..nada...for a CC station to run Hannity for example. Let's see...free vs. paying...
Same thing with Beck.
You may enjoy watching the today show, but when you want to find out why the trains don't run don't expect answers about the local train wreck from the "Today Show." Same with the local school closing or the local pol who was arrested for fiddling with the kids.
It is the LOCAL folks who report that.
It is inconceivable to me how anyone can defend CC especially in the light of the raping that has taken place at their stations all over the US. They have emptied news departments and turned their stations into satellite downlinks. With any luck dozens of their licenses will be challenged at renewal time.
As for why some of the locals don't get paid what Hannity, Limbaugh, beck get the answer is too obvious to rate a reply. Most of these fellas get airtime because Premier is owned by..whoops..CC..and it costs nothing..nada...for a CC station to run Hannity for example. Let's see...free vs. paying...
Same thing with Beck.
You may enjoy watching the today show, but when you want to find out why the trains don't run don't expect answers about the local train wreck from the "Today Show." Same with the local school closing or the local pol who was arrested for fiddling with the kids.
It is the LOCAL folks who report that.
It is inconceivable to me how anyone can defend CC especially in the light of the raping that has taken place at their stations all over the US. They have emptied news departments and turned their stations into satellite downlinks. With any luck dozens of their licenses will be challenged at renewal time.
1.) I have never given Clear Channel any kudos for locally produced entertainment or local news. I do give CC kudos for providing entertaining formats and (through Premiere or however else) entertaining talk radio. I guess I don't really give a damn about the latest New Haven shooting, school board initiative, or break-in. I would have loved better discussion of what was in Rell's latest tax proposal (such as a scoop of what she was going to announce), but none of these local news professionals scooped the story. Radio news, on cc and non-CC stations, seemed pretty much reading from the Courant or Register with softball interviews from local politicians.
2.) On the issue of traffic, specifically, I have driven straight into too many miles-long backups on I-91 listening to WELI traffic reports with no mention at all of the jam I am sitting in. I no longer trust the locals for traffic. but it is amusing to hear hte announcer say I can trust WELI for up to the minute traffic. As far as weather and school closings, local stations should just just post it on the internet and I will find it there. No need to tune in at 11 to see Keith, Denise or Jerry. (This would be a perfect time to say who is/was more talented, Keith Kountz or Peter Jennings, but I know the preference for local talent.)
3.) People seem to have an ideal for Clear Channel to follow, accompanied by a tailoring of the phrase "in the public interest" to mean their desired quota of locally-produced information. If cable access tv channels don't give enough of a sense of the potential for locally produced informative television (in a world with no Clear Channel) I would suggest a few more hours a week of that fare, watching the local (insert special interest group name here) whining about a lack of government funding.
2.) On the issue of traffic, specifically, I have driven straight into too many miles-long backups on I-91 listening to WELI traffic reports with no mention at all of the jam I am sitting in. I no longer trust the locals for traffic. but it is amusing to hear hte announcer say I can trust WELI for up to the minute traffic. As far as weather and school closings, local stations should just just post it on the internet and I will find it there. No need to tune in at 11 to see Keith, Denise or Jerry. (This would be a perfect time to say who is/was more talented, Keith Kountz or Peter Jennings, but I know the preference for local talent.)
3.) People seem to have an ideal for Clear Channel to follow, accompanied by a tailoring of the phrase "in the public interest" to mean their desired quota of locally-produced information. If cable access tv channels don't give enough of a sense of the potential for locally produced informative television (in a world with no Clear Channel) I would suggest a few more hours a week of that fare, watching the local (insert special interest group name here) whining about a lack of government funding.
As for why some of the locals don't get paid what Hannity, Limbaugh, beck get the answer is too obvious to rate a reply. Most of these fellas get airtime because Premier is owned by..whoops..CC..and it costs nothing..nada...for a CC station to run Hannity for example. Let's see...free vs. paying...
Just one problem with your assertion...Hannity is syndicated by ABC not Premier.
Just one problem with your assertion...Hannity is syndicated by ABC not Premier.
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