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Will it be live or on tape. If it is on tape, 1210 I think is making a huge mistake.
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My understanding is that it will be live. The first hour will focus on local issues followed by the remaining hours that will be syndicated across the country.
FWIW, I still think this is a huge gamble for Smerconish. He appears to be leaving his primary morning-drive audience and shooting for the national stage. I guess his goal is to be broadcasting live at a time slot that gives him the highest chance of live syndication. Pre-recorded syndicated shows just don't work well, IMO.
FWIW, I still think this is a huge gamble for Smerconish. He appears to be leaving his primary morning-drive audience and shooting for the national stage. I guess his goal is to be broadcasting live at a time slot that gives him the highest chance of live syndication. Pre-recorded syndicated shows just don't work well, IMO.
Well, if all four hours are going to be live-- my apologies to Smerconish, Palladino, and Bloom.
It was my understanding only the first hour would be "live and local." The remaining 4-7PM was to have been a simple tape-delay carriage of his syndicated show (which runs opposite Rush, and would be four hours behind).
I thought he didn't want to do two shows anymore.
It was my understanding only the first hour would be "live and local." The remaining 4-7PM was to have been a simple tape-delay carriage of his syndicated show (which runs opposite Rush, and would be four hours behind).
I thought he didn't want to do two shows anymore.
George Brusstar said:
I think this is the answer. He works noon-4. Noon-3 doing the syndicated show (live in other markets, not Philadelphia), 3-4 doing the local show live. Then the station airs, on a four hour tape delay, the show that he did from noon-3.
I guess we'll find out soon enough how he handles things like phone calls, etc.
I guess we'll also find out whether live Hannity or taped Smerconish gets better ratings in Philadelphia.
Maybe the long term plan, if he can get his other affiliates on board, is to move the national show to live 4-7.
Perhaps I got it wrong and he is in fact recording the syndicated show from 12-3pm during Rush's show and ending with 1-hr of local programming at 3pm. This will give him plenty of time to prepare for his MSNBC slots I guess. If this is the case, then I'd have to agree that this is very risky. The last thing we need is a syndicated pre-recorded show during the drive home.
Smerconish's nationally syndicated show is moving to 4-7pm EST. He will do the live and local Philadelphia hour from 3-4 before the national show.
This link says his national show will be noon-3 pm: http://www.dial-global.com/index.ph...y-program&catid=1:on-the-dial-press&Itemid=92
This was announced in November at the same time that the WPHT moves were announced.
Doesn't Smerconish want to be available to certain cable channel shows from 4-7pm?
If there is published information that things changed between the November announcement and now ... please post it.
This was announced in November at the same time that the WPHT moves were announced.
Doesn't Smerconish want to be available to certain cable channel shows from 4-7pm?
If there is published information that things changed between the November announcement and now ... please post it.
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It may well be a gamble for Smirconish, and WPHT. But business--and life--is full of gambles. Perhaps they're well-calculated risks, but risks nonetheless. (And to be fair, doing nothing--playing it safe--is a risk itself.) You study the data, make your best projections and act (or don't act as the case may be) on it.
Is it possible/probable that 1340 WHAT is keeping their current programming until Beck and Hannity are dropped from 1210 and then will premiere those two hosts on 1340?
That's the only reason I can think of for Bowe and Soncini to announce (mistakenly) that last week was their last show.
That's the only reason I can think of for Bowe and Soncini to announce (mistakenly) that last week was their last show.
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If you knew that was the plan, and you had all of, what, two weeks to fill, why bother keeping hosts on? Save even the limited salary and just run music until making the switch.
But it raises a bigger question--if WPHT with its signal (not getting into problems here, just compairing it overall to 1340) feels the cost/benefit ratio is such that they'll do better mixing things up, what reasonable chance does WHAT have of a better (any?) return on investment?
But it raises a bigger question--if WPHT with its signal (not getting into problems here, just compairing it overall to 1340) feels the cost/benefit ratio is such that they'll do better mixing things up, what reasonable chance does WHAT have of a better (any?) return on investment?
I would suspect that WPHT pays to clear Beck and Hannity, certainly in ad time and possibly some cash as well. If Premiere were to make a deal with WHAT or WNTP or WUBA, the new station would likely get paid to carry Beck and/or Hannity for the clearance value to Premiere. Therein lies the potential return.imhomerjay said:
radiophiler said:
I stand corrected. There was actually a debate about this on another board a while ago and one source said the national show was moving from 4-7 while another said it was staying Noon-3. I think Dial Global, since they are Smerconish's syndicator, is right.
Doesn't matter from Premiere's point of view. A clearance in Market # 8 on a peashooter is better than no clearance.Mike said:
musichead1029 said:
It matters to agency time buyers. Besides, if you can claim East Stroudburg as a Philly affiliate, you can claim Wilmington or even New York. They can actually be heard - at least in some parts of the Philly market. Not that time buyers are dumb enough to buy that load of BS either. Broadcasters just love to believe their own BS.
aindik said:
His syndicated show is live noon-3 ET, while WPHT is airing El Rushbo. He then does a (Philly)
local only hour on 1210 from 3-4 ET. WPHT then runs his national show on a four-hour delay
from 4-7 ET.
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