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Shakeup at "the Big Talker 1210 WPHT"

Radiomania said:
So where will Rush and Hannity go? Does this mean Clear Channel might be considering flipping one of its FMs to talk?
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Could be. If they do, Rush will probably go with the other two.
 
Radiomania said:
So where will Rush and Hannity go? Does this mean Clear Channel might be considering flipping one of its FMs to talk?
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States in the article that Rush is staying.

Not from area, but are the new guys purely political talkers or are they more diversified?
 
UpstateNYBill said:
States in the article that Rush is staying.

Not from area, but are the new guys purely political talkers or are they more diversified?
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Smerconish and Giordano are mostly political, but they talk about local interest stuff and a little pop culture stuff too.

Does the new morning guy have any links to Philly? The article says he's going to do local content, but that can't be easy in Philly for a guy from Kansas City.
 
According to Michael Klein, the new morning drive host will start on 1210, 1/3/11.
 
Either one of three options takes place:

1) CC flips either 104.5 or 106.1 to an FM talk format. It would be more likely if CC/Premiere wanted to break Rush's contract with WPHT, although if that was the case, CC would have done so already. Greater Media won't do anything, obviously because they won't have the possibility to poach Rush like CC could.

2) Salem's WNTP picks up Glenn Beck (and Hannity as well) shuttling off Mike Gallagher and Micheal Medved to the late night hours. All they need to do is drop Savage and Dennis Miller - which for some oddball reason only air back-to-back from midnight-5am.

Glenn Beck has really benefited from Salem adding the show on their conservatalkers in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Lancaster CA, and Washington, DC. (The DC clearance also came after CBS pushed Glenn off of their abysmal WHFS/1580 in favor of infomercials.) What also helps is the fact that Salem often pushes Gallagher's show off into obscure time-slots as it is; he's not live in any of the aforementioned cities, nor is he live in his home market of New York.

And don't forget Salem's clearance of Hannity on KNUS in Denver (and also cleared it on the former WTTT/Boston).

3) Neither Beck or Hannity gets picked up by any station whatsoever, and fans will have to listen to suburban signals instead. That's not likely at all IMO.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Either one of three options takes place:

1) CC flips either 104.5 or 106.1 to an FM talk format. It would be more likely if CC/Premiere wanted to break Rush's contract with WPHT, although if that was the case, CC would have done so already. Greater Media won't do anything, obviously because they won't have the possibility to poach Rush like CC could.

2) Salem's WNTP picks up Glenn Beck (and Hannity as well) shuttling off Mike Gallagher and Micheal Medved to the late night hours. All they need to do is drop Savage and Dennis Miller - which for some oddball reason only air back-to-back from midnight-5am.

Glenn Beck has really benefited from Salem adding the show on their conservatalkers in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Lancaster CA, and Washington, DC. (The DC clearance also came after CBS pushed Glenn off of their abysmal WHFS/1580 in favor of infomercials.) What also helps is the fact that Salem often pushes Gallagher's show off into obscure time-slots as it is; he's not live in any of the aforementioned cities, nor is he live in his home market of New York.

And don't forget Salem's clearance of Hannity on KNUS in Denver (and also cleared it on the former WTTT/Boston).

3) Neither Beck or Hannity gets picked up by any station whatsoever, and fans will have to listen to suburban signals instead. That's not likely at all IMO.
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Why should they drop Savage who is at least entertaining ones in a while for that bore Hannity ??
 
scott5 said:
Nathan Obral said:
Either one of three options takes place:

1) CC flips either 104.5 or 106.1 to an FM talk format. It would be more likely if CC/Premiere wanted to break Rush's contract with WPHT, although if that was the case, CC would have done so already. Greater Media won't do anything, obviously because they won't have the possibility to poach Rush like CC could.

2) Salem's WNTP picks up Glenn Beck (and Hannity as well) shuttling off Mike Gallagher and Micheal Medved to the late night hours. All they need to do is drop Savage and Dennis Miller - which for some oddball reason only air back-to-back from midnight-5am.

Glenn Beck has really benefited from Salem adding the show on their conservatalkers in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Lancaster CA, and Washington, DC. (The DC clearance also came after CBS pushed Glenn off of their abysmal WHFS/1580 in favor of infomercials.) What also helps is the fact that Salem often pushes Gallagher's show off into obscure time-slots as it is; he's not live in any of the aforementioned cities, nor is he live in his home market of New York.

And don't forget Salem's clearance of Hannity on KNUS in Denver (and also cleared it on the former WTTT/Boston).

3) Neither Beck or Hannity gets picked up by any station whatsoever, and fans will have to listen to suburban signals instead. That's not likely at all IMO.
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Why should they drop Savage who is at least entertaining ones in a while for that bore Hannity ??
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Since WNTP only airs Savage in an obscene 3a - 5a timeslot, it's the equivalent of not having a clearance in the Philly market at all. IIRC, he was tape-delayed at 9p a long time ago; that slot's now occupied by brokered financial talker Ray Lucia.
 
WNTP is likely pay-for-play. You pay more, you get a good slot. After a live clearance and then 9PM to midnight, Savage is now on overnights. Dennis Miller was similarly moved back after initially running 9PM to midnight. Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin are both off WNTP after turning down less than stellar slots. Philly needs another talk station to clear some of these first and second-tier talk hosts. WPEN(AM) would make sense, but they may be tied up in some kind of clearance agreement with ESPN. At least publicly, Clear Channel claims it's not going to blow up one of its Philly FMs for a talk station that, at least initially, wouldn't include Rush.

CC/Premiere certainly has enough product to fill the better part of the broadcast day with Beck, Hannity and Quinn & Rose's morning show. (Q & R are actually syndicated by Clear Channel rather than Premiere.) They also carry Randi Rhodes, though she'd be a tune-out for the conservative talk audience. Citadel's Levin needs a slot, and Ingraham and Savage could also be plugged in. It'$ all about the balance $heet. If the math works, they'll do it.
 
Philly needs another talk station to clear some of these first and second-tier talk hosts.
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Don't you mean "the syndicators need a Philly station" to clear those hosts? I see no indication that Philly or any other market "needs", or even wants, the second tier shows. In the consolidation-syndication era, radio has never been about what particular markets and their listeners need or want.
 
smedge2006 said:
Philly needs another talk station to clear some of these first and second-tier talk hosts.
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Don't you mean "the syndicators need a Philly station" to clear those hosts? I see no indication that Philly or any other market "needs", or even wants, the second tier shows. In the consolidation-syndication era, radio has never been about what particular markets and their listeners need or want.
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No, I meant that Philly listeners would benefit from an additional talk outlet. ("Need" may have been a poor choice of a word. Philly doesn't 'need' a dance stayshun either. ;D)

I think there's an audience for some of the talkers not heard in Philly during daylight hours - Savage, Levin, Quinn & Rose and soon Beck and Hannity. There's plenty of talent to fill another full time talker with a relatively small outlay. PHT focuses on Smerconish because he has a market heritage and gets (or got) numbers here. Outside of Philly, his show is considered third-tier. It doesn't help that his live clearance is up against Rush and that Smerconish has a nebulous world view in an industry that thrives on ideological clarity.
 
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