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Smerconish Gets Evenings On WTKK

Hasn't he been on for several months now. Since Grace first put Smerkonish on the air in Philly this really isn't a surprise.
 
You wonder if we'll see this come fall of 2012 on 96.9
6a Eagan and Braude
10a Michael Graham
2 p HOWIE CARR
6 p Doug Meehan
(or Carr, Graham, E&B, Meehan if HC gets his wish of morning drive). HC will feel like
an alligator today (great mood--Weiner resigning apparently, DiMasi, lousy EEI ratings;
he openly referred to the B's 'helping him out'--i.e. good ratings for 98.5, taking listeners
from EEI...did the old 'Entercom happens' quote when the 'new intro' wouldn't play. Will we
soon see another 'suspension' soon if it keeps up.) Keep your pants on, Howie (not that
A. Weiner did); a little over a year from now you could be at 96.9 or 1200.
 
Carr would be a disaster in the morning. Do people believe Peter Smyth when he said he is no longer interested in Carr? Ever since he show turned into day after day of Obama and Illegal Alien bashing I listen less and less.

If I had a bookk out and a vehicle to promote all those book signings at your local Rite Aid, I wouldn't be trying to piss my boss off and face a possible suspension.

At this point, I would be happy to see him fade into obscurity doing afternoons on Talk 1200.
 
He must be doing OK for RKO to keep him on pm drive. As for time slot he may covet am drive on TKK
but prob would work best in slot he has now. The advertisers like the Caddy dealer know what to
expect--enough to be a bit outrageous, but not in a Severin way (it didn't help Jay that his
ratings weren't the best lately, though on Facebook he has a lot of supporters and we'll see where
he ends up)
If Howie were a ratings and/or billing disaster maybe RKO wouldn't bother renewing him, but for now he's still their main attraction. And sometimes his attacking his employer might get him suspended
but it gets him in the headlines again.
 
this show is supposed to be on (LIVE) weekdays Noon-3pm according to their website (Dial-Global.com) And Grace puts this on a delay time?
I know a few (Average) Radio Listenners who listen to this station, all of them may not know that this show is on delay time. These people I know is in Real Estate, some work for MBTA, and three of my coworkers.
Why not put Mel Robbins on at that time, or like Raccoonradio says, put her on ??? 7pm-9pm, or, put her on 6pm-9pm (that will be local)
Why 96.9 don't do something like this?
Week
5am-9am Eagan and Braude
9am-Noon Michael Graham
Noon-3pm Michael Smerconish
3pm-6pm Meehan
6pm-9pm Mel Robbins
9pm-1am John Batchelor
 
if they do like that, most of their shows on weekdays will be on LIVE (Local and Syndicated) LIVE.
They're on FM!!!
Many people listen to them, as I stated above. One of my three coworkers is a Boss (Boss=Business People)
Real Estate (Real Estate-Business People) MBTA (MBTA-Customer Service)
Anyways, what I'm saying is, they're a Strong Signal Boston FM Talk Station, so put on most of your shows on LIVE, especially at famous regular times such as a weekday, wheres most people will be listenning.
I wish I can be Assistant PD or PD in Radio Program Management of a radio station, especially Talk or Sports Talk, I would put most radio shows on LIVE!!!!
 
hey thanks.
I know I'm not an angel. Sorry if I said anything bad. I don't mean to say anything bad. 96.9 Boston Talks is ok. I look forward to listen to them (when I want to know) what's going on in todays world as well as WRKO, and WBZ 1030am. Maybe I'll listen to each for about ??? half hour?/45 minutes?
I'm just saying, the regular listener may not know these talk shows are delay. They may not know the difference. That's why I suggested that on my last responce. Put most of their shows on LIVE (even if the show is) local or syndicated. Put it on live during those famous hours.
 
:-[ I mean, yeah, the hours of (Example:??? 4am-6am weekdays, 4am-7am weekends) for a Talk/Sports Talk Station could be used as (Best Of Shows/PSA Programs etc....) weekdays or weekends. I'd say that's an only exception to have Replays, Best Ofs, and PSA Shows). Other than that, I'd say. most programs on Talk Radio/Sports Radio should be LIVE (either if it's) a local show or syndicated show. They should try to put most programs on live
 
Some stations would rather put their local stuff on during the day when most people are listening rather than go syndie. Stations with very low budgets might go mostly or all syndicated--like WXKS
which after Jeff Katz is pretty much all live (Levin is delayed a bit). Scanning the dial the other day I heard the beginning of the Jay Sekulow show on WEZE 590; a political show from a religious perspective (he's like a lawyer fighting for the rights of Christians or Jews), I heard him say "Anthony Weiner
is supposedly resigning today at 2 pm, and that's all we'll talk about that subject". Well, this was just after 5 pm so I knew Sekulow's show had to be probably a late morning show (the reference
to the 2 pm press conference as being 'later on')

(Jay Sekulow, not to be confused with the similarly named Jay Severin )

WRKO had Sean Hannity for about a year, delayed to 7 pm (airs at 3 pm). When they dumped it
in favor of Michael Savage they said one reason was because Savage was live (at that time I
think Savage was 7-10 pm live feed, later 6-9) and there were breaking news stories like the
"DC Sniper" going on. They wanted to be live at 7 pm rather than delayed Hannity.

On your suggestions I haven't heard too much of Mel Robbins but it may be a kind of touchy-"relationships" type of show but who knows, some do like that rather than hardcore
politics.
Stations like WRKO and WTKK try to maximize profit by having local talent on (so does WEEI,
Sports Hub) during the most-listened-to times of the day, though syndicated shows can be
thrown in. RKO has their morning duo of Todd and Tom then go syndie with Laura Ingraham (live;
she had been delayed when WTKK ran her), then a brokered hour of money talk, then back to
local with McPhee and then Howie. Syndie stuff after that (Savage, Doyle, Redeye). WTKK goes
local from morning drive all the way to 6 pm: E&B, Graham, Meehan, then syndie with Smerconish,
Batchelor, John and Jeff. WTKK had tried some local talk post 6 pm--Graham, later McPhee.
 
LAUROJRM said:
this show is supposed to be on (LIVE) weekdays Noon-3pm according to their website... And Grace puts this on a delay time?
Click to expand...

Apparently, Grace is still remotely programming WPHT in Philadelphia; Smerconish's flagship station airs the syndicated program on a tape delay, right in afternoon drive from 4-7 PM (after a local hour at 3 PM).
 
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