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Sorry to say, Jim Hummel is worse than Dave Barber.

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ryanbadrapper

I thought Jim Hummel was the best investigative reporter on RI News Telivision. Ok, I said it. I think he's the most wishie washie goofy Liberal on radio. Thats my opinion, NOT an attack! Jim is a GREAT reporter. As a talk host, he's Al Franken , or Dave Barber. My Lady DEMANDED I put music on yesterday, because she couldn't take anymore of Hummel. I was only half listening, cause thats too often the way I listen. I had to agree with her, after fully paying attention.
After hearing about Matt Allen's number one ratings and Matt's got to be the most conservative host, why would WPRO ALIENATE it's Dan Yorke hard core listeners with a Global Warming, Bush Hater? Radio people ( maybe Haynes) can't stop screwing around with what works. Am I wrong? Oh and I wish New Channel 10 would hire Jim!!


ryan
 
Hummel just blamed President Bush for the housing bubble????
My God, it was Barney Frank - Franklin Raines . We've all seen the video's. I never knew Jim was extreme
to the left to the point of telling un truths.
 
Hummel's doing it for free. Thats why Barbara Haynes has him on.
The other subs like Pearice want to get paid. Vacation time has been cut also.

The 'King' Buddy is exempt.

It's Animal Farm at Wpro. Did you ever read Animal Farm? You should.
 
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 10
 
As a proud social liberal, yet "real" fiscal conservative, I am glad to hear that Hummel has filled in at WPRO. Talk radio is extremely boring when it is all the same. On most stations nationwide, there isn't a dime's worth of difference among the views of the hosts, whether local or national. Save Air America - where it remains - they are all far-right conservatives. Show after show, the same mantras are repeated. Unless the host is a true entertainer like Michael Savage, it is almost un-listenable.
 
tattletailradeo said:
Hummel's doing it for free. Thats why Barbara Haynes has him on.
The other subs like Pearice want to get paid. Vacation time has been cut also.

The 'King' Buddy is exempt.

It's Animal Farm at Wpro. Did you ever read Animal Farm? You should.
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There is NO WAY Hummel is doing it for free.
Buddy and everyone else there who has a contract and has the clause in their contract about vacation time still has all of their weeks of vacation, so Buddy isn't exempt, it is in his and others' contract. It will be a matter of it is included in their next negotiations when their contracts come up.
 
Wknd. You're totally wrong. At 2 pm, call Hummel and ask him if he's being paid. He isn't.

Remember 2 weeks ago, Yorke was supposed to have a whole week off and that changed to a day? Haynes is cutting everywhere she can. She's in DEEP S--T with Fraid. Call her and ask her, but ofcourse, she won't talk to you.
 
Scott Burns, I guess if you want to see WPRO loose market share, you push an Air America type on them once and a while, right? Have you been hanging out with Holland Cooke? lol.
I've been listening to Hannity and hey, I may be going back and forth now.. Nice job WPRO. You may have driven me away too.
 
No, I am talking about good radio. Talk radio should not be the exclusive province of conservatives. The airwaves are a public trust. Talk radio should be a forum for the robust discussion of ideas. I am not one of those types who would banish all conservatives or install Air America everywhere. Some balance, on the whole, is needed.
 
Dude, (Scott) nice to what you want, BUT, Liberals like Dave Barber, Howie Bart, etc are station killers. Liberal doesn't work in RI talk radio. You like the Sybolism. I like the Substance. I'll bet you WPRO lost thousands of York listeners to WHJJ and Hanitty, these last few days.

I actually heard Joe from Providence on Friday and Pat on a truck phone calling Hanitty today!
Those callers are SOLID to WPRO, until a Hummel comes along. Thats my point. If I were Yorke, I'd be rip sh-t Hummel drove in my time and ran over my listeners!


ryan
 
While liberal talkers have been few and far between in Providence, they have succeeded. Air America, by the way, is not a valid sample, as it was not on the air long enough to develop any kind of objective analysis.

But I would say that Mary Ann Sorrentino had a good run. Geoff Charles had some good numbers when he was on WPRO. Moreover, while Buddy Cianci's show is right-of-center, it is certainly not as Far Right as that of DePetro or Yorke or Allen.

And I know it is comparing apples and oranges, but liberal talkers have done well in other markets with similar voting patterns to Rhode Island. Take South Florida. Liberal talkers like Neil Rogers and Randi Rhodes (before she was syndicated on Air America) were wildly successful.
 
Yea well , this isn't Florida. Geoff Charles was a hype balloon. He was a liability. Take a look at the last 5 to 10 yrs around here Scott. When Violet went from moderate conservative to Liberal, her ratings went from 4.3 to 0.9 in 2 years! Dan Yorke became the happy receiver of those ratings. Then, you have Bart and most recently Barber. As for Cianci, that is a story that goes beyond the politics of Liberal - Conservative to the politics of hate. I don't consider Yorke or Allen Far Anything. Rick Adams would be far right. Allen and Yorke are Common Sense.. Or what used to be called that.
 
I am not going to get into what is Far Right or not. That is beyond the scope of this board. Again, Bart was not on the air for enough books to make any kind of determination. Arlene's listeners did leave; but her turn to the left did not last sufficiently long for her, or the station, to build a new listener base. And all indications were that ratings were starting to grow when the plug was pulled on the station.

My only point is that all-conservative, all the time, is boring. This may offend conservatives like you, but to me and to others, THAT is "common sense."
 
Scott, Arlene needed time to build back her numbers?
Why did she lose them in the first place?
Howie Bart didn't have enough time?
What would more time have done?
And Air America, their numbers were terrible in RI.
Did Air America need more time too?
I think the person whom is offended is you my friend. I just telling you what is PROVEN to work here.
 
Here's the thing thats misleading about conservative talk radio that proponets of the format forget to pass along. Sure the ratings are strong. 3/4 of the audience are left wing and moderates who tune in for the same reason you turn your head to look at a car accident-the shock , the horror, the humanity and there but for the grace of good go I. It's just as much of a shock jock approached as Stern. Take Rush's comments recently that he hopes obama doesn't succeed. How can any sane man make such a comment? Surely an Obama failure means more economical as well as possible military tragady. Just so he can say I told you so? To Rush's credit he's admitted that it's all part of an act. Unfortunatley for the left, the extreme right wackos belive this multimillionare, drug addict, overweight, fatherless entertainer. Rush is a long way from feeling the effects of any failed policies so why not say it.

With comments like that, any liberal talk show is going to be a snoozefest in comparison.
 
Let me address, again, each of your points.

Scott, Arlene needed time to build back her numbers?
Why did she lose them in the first place?

Yes, she needed time to build back her numbers. Liberal talk represents a different format than conservative talk. To Arlene's credit, her views changed. She did not become a liberal overnight. She was appalled at the Republican Congress, as well as the actions of President Bush. When she turned left, she probably lost some listeners. However, she should have been given time to build a new audience. And Rhode Island does have listeners that are hungry for progressive talk. Ask Mary Ann Sorrentino.

Howie Bart didn't have enough time?
What would more time have done?

As I noted, time builds an audience.

And Air America, their numbers were terrible in RI.
Did Air America need more time too?

Yes, they did. While studies indicate that liberals do not listen to the radio as much as conservatives, there is an untapped audience in Providence. With the right mix of advertising and buzz, an audience could have been built.

I think the person whom is offended is you my friend. I just telling you what is PROVEN to work here.

Again, I am offended by all-conservative, all-the-time radio. This isn't Soviet Russia; we are a society of diverse opinions. The other side deserves to be heard when it comes to airwaves that were meant for public use.
 
Scott, If you're who I think you are, VERY sorry about your job with Clear Channel. Honestly
good luck.
Mary Anne Sorintino wound up having poor ratings. So did Mryna Lamb . So did Howie Barte ,Arlene and so on.
As for all the Conservative talk, It's the counter balance to NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, CNN HEADLINE NEWS and 95% of all news papers. How do you think ANY Conservative feels when the ONLY place to go is talk radio?? And Fox News with Shepard Smith - Greta - and Geraldo, all admitted liberals , is no safe haven either. I guess we just agree to disagree. By the way, I hope I'm wrong about your job!!
 
I am not who you are thinking of. I have never worked for Clear Channel.

I guess we can agree to disagree. There is no liberal bias whatsoever in any of those networks you mentioned. MSNBC is the only network with any liberal bias. Study after study has proven this; check out Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media?.

Geraldo is no longer a liberal; he dropped his liberal views when he came to Fox. Greta has never been a liberal. In Fox's lexicon, she is a liberal, as she is to the left of Hannity, O'Reilly, Hume, etc. And Shep Smith? Are you kidding? He is definitely right of center.

But again, let us agree to disagree.
 
Hi , I heard Shepard Smith last night saying "It's terrible those people haven't been treated like people with all the rights our Founding fathers stated " Smith was talking about those terrorists at Guantunimo Bay.
Oh my , everyone knows Altermans book was like Bill Clinton saying he never had sex with that woman. Or oral sex wasn't Sex. oh boy. Even Bernie Goldberg of CBS and HBO has all the numbers . Knows all the players.


Lin
 
Just a lurker - I've been out of RI (and RI radio) for more than ten years now.
But just to set the record straight for alfieradioguy, I was Mary Ann Sorrentino's program director at WPRO the second half of her tenure there, and her ratings were outstanding - in fact, WPRO's ratings as a whole were very strong during that period and were still trending up sharply, most notably in 25-54, until Citadel took over and changed everything that was there. If you're referring to her ratings when she was at 550....well...um...she was at 550. But to say "Mary Anne Sorintino (sic) wound up having poor ratings" is just incorrect.
One other point - liberals and conservatives can argue all they want about the success or failure of programs or hosts based on their political beliefs. But that's missing the point. They succeed or fail largely on how entertaining they are. During that period at WPRO, we had strong ratings for one liberal (Mary Ann) and two conservatives (Rush and Howie Carr) - because all THREE were very entertaining hosts who knew how to do good radio. THAT is the bottom line.
 
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