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Surprised WLW has dodged the Clear Channel budget-cuts bullet

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livingfruitvirus

"What about Bill Boshears?"

Okay, there's one weekend host, but they still have live and local/homegrown hosts around the clock on weekdays. That station must be expensive to operate considering how staffed it is, so I'm surprised the cuts have been extremely minimal. Even WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, a CC operated station that had live and local talk shows around the clock, wasn't able to avoid the company budget cuts and lost their local evening show and replaced it with a syndicated morning show on tape delay (Lex and Terry).
 
The (somewhat) big one has survived...at least for now..the CC sharks will come back and attack again.

"FINS TO THE LEFT...FINS TO THE RIGHT....."
 
kirkiefan said:
The (somewhat) big one has survived...at least for now..the CC sharks will come back and attack again.

"FINS TO THE LEFT...FINS TO THE RIGHT....."
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I guess we can find out when Gary Burbank retires. If they replace him with a local host I guess it shows Clear Channel views WLW as something above most of their AM talkers.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
kirkiefan said:
The (somewhat) big one has survived...at least for now..the CC sharks will come back and attack again.

"FINS TO THE LEFT...FINS TO THE RIGHT....."
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I guess we can find out when Gary Burbank retires. If they replace him with a local host I guess it shows Clear Channel views WLW as something above most of their AM talkers.
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I'd rather listen to WLW than WHAS. When Burbank retires, I may not listen to either of them.
 
Well, you might consider that there's a lot more money at stake with a WLW, than with some two share or three share talker somewhere else. (I'm not saying that was the case in the market specified, but...)

Fact is: WLW's a cash cow. And the stations that make the big bucks, generally in this business, avoid some of the extreme budget cutting that'll go on at the other end of the ratings spectrum.
 
kyscott said:
I'd rather listen to WLW than WHAS. When Burbank retires, I may not listen to either of them.
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Those two legendary stations are both cash cows. Actually, two of the best of their genre in the country. Full service N/T is becoming more of a lost art with many having a local morning show followed by Glen Beck, Rush, Hannity, Savage and whatever else late-night. Those two have minimal non-local programming compared to most.
 
Oldies Cat said:
kyscott said:
I'd rather listen to WLW than WHAS. When Burbank retires, I may not listen to either of them.
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Those two legendary stations are both cash cows. Actually, two of the best of their genre in the country. Full service N/T is becoming more of a lost art with many having a local morning show followed by Glen Beck, Rush, Hannity, Savage and whatever else late-night. Those two have minimal non-local programming compared to most.
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I wouldn't consider WHAS one of the "best" in the country. Not anymore. Terry Meiners is an idiot. If he was as funny as he thought he was, he'd be worth listening to. And I'm sure that Francene is a nice woman in person, but she's not really much of a talk show host. I stopped listening to her when she allowed a guest to state several times that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, and didn't refute the argument. On the weekends, there is no local newscasts anymore. it's all 5 minutes of Fox News Radio. Now, they depend totally on the EAS system to relay weather alerts, before there was a live person out of the WHAS-TV studios. Since they turned on the digital noise generator, there is this low level hash on their analog audio signal. If WHAS is a cash cow, the milk is beginning to dry up.
 
Darryl Parks will make sure that Mike McConnell and Willie Cunningham will always have a job at the Big One no matter what and to hellwith the rest..
 
Triple T said:
Darryl Parks will make sure that Mike McConnell and Willie Cunningham will always have a job at the Big One no matter what and to hellwith the rest..
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Speaking of Parks and McConnell, Mike's on vacation this week and Darryl is filling in on WLW, but on the Premiere Radio satellite feed nationwide, Mark Williams is the fill-in. Seems unnecessary.
 
I wasn't sure if the net feed would be "The Best of Mike" or a fill-in. Darryl Parks filling in locally does bring some local content to that time slot, maybe that's the intention.
 
KevinFodor said:
Well, you might consider that there's a lot more money at stake with a WLW, than with some two share or three share talker somewhere else. (I'm not saying that was the case in the market specified, but...)

Fact is: WLW's a cash cow. And the stations that make the big bucks, generally in this business, avoid some of the extreme budget cutting that'll go on at the other end of the ratings spectrum.
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The station I mentioned, WTKS-FM, does extremely well with 25-54. Their morning and afternoon shows are ratings juggernauts (morning has something like an 18 share). Orlando is actually a market Clear Channel does quite well in. It surprises me that they're putting the whole cluster up for sale. Meanwhile their Atlanta cluster is a huge trainwreck and they're keeping all but one station they're being forced to divest, which is WLTM, the weakest signal.

gr8oldies said:
I wasn't sure if the net feed would be "The Best of Mike" or a fill-in. Darryl Parks filling in locally does bring some local content to that time slot, maybe that's the intention.
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So if Cinci residents hear someone like Mark Williams filling in they'll all panic? "Oh no who's this guy?! He's not from here!!!" followed by hyperventilating. Also, listening to the podcast, Darryl spent most of the show talking about the bridge disaster in Minneapolis. Not exactly a local topic, mind you.

Elephant said:
McConnell should be live and local. The national feel does take away his edge.
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What? McConnell shouldn't bring down his career expectations to satisfy one city. I'm glad the guy or any host attempting to do a national show is trying to make something of him/herself in radio, and if he/she isn't good enough, well, I guess they'll end up another one of those one-market sensations who is silently miserable through the rest of their career. I've listened to some of these shows that have attempted syndication, and eventually lose every affiliate, and soon they just sound like they've given up trying to entertain because they know that one market is the peak in their career and they're never going to move further. Their local fans keep tuning in though, because it's become a comfortable habit.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
The station I mentioned, WTKS-FM, does extremely well with 25-54. Their morning and afternoon shows are ratings juggernauts (morning has something like an 18 share). Orlando is actually a market Clear Channel does quite well in. It surprises me that they're putting the whole cluster up for sale. Meanwhile their
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You should do your homework. The "juggernaut" on WTKS was Howard Stern doing mornings- the Monsters (used to be midday, now of the mornings) and Phillips in the afternoon do well but they are not the perennial #1 25-54 they were 5 years ago. They did come into the Top 5 this latest book and are doing better after a couple of pretty rough years in the Stern aftermath.

(p.s.: WLTM no longer exists in Atlanta- they've been WUBL for most of this year, the year 2007).
 
You should also do some homework on McConnell. He's on live in two large cities, Cincinnati and Atlanta. The Atlanta station is going nowhere and is getting killed by WSB. He's on tape in some large markets, but in the evening or overnight.
 
Elephant said:
You should also do some homework on McConnell. He's on live in two large cities, Cincinnati and Atlanta. The Atlanta station is going nowhere and is getting killed by WSB. He's on tape in some large markets, but in the evening or overnight.
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I've said nothing about McConnell- I have no idea who he is and, that being the case, would have no comment about him. So, why would you make such a statement to me?
 
Oldies Cat said:
(p.s.: WLTM no longer exists in Atlanta- they've been WUBL for most of this year, the year 2007).
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Nope, once WUBL came on the 94.9 signal, WLTM moved to the rimshot 96.7 signal. Lite FM is still very much alive.....if you're in the southern suburbs. Signal's awful up here in Dunwoody though.
 
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