just happened to tune in to wilk the other day. to be honest i havent been listning to radio that much, because all local stations suck. BUT, tuning in to wilk last week i heard rob neyhard, sitting in for sue henry, and again rob please come back full time. it was a pleasure to hear you on the air. your the only talk show host who really knows the talk format, and how to do talk radio. you had good callers, and allowed them to give their comments without jumping in on top of them. you are a pleasure to listen too.
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Rob is a genuine radio pro, something very much lacking at WILK, especially with Nancy Kman and Steve Corbett. For all the years Nancy has been in radio, she has almost zero vocal control. Her voice is all over the place and when they go to the T.V. portion she makes the biggest rookie mistake and her voice goes all sing/song. Very difficult to listen to her anymore.
your right, but even sue henry will have a one sided conversation with herself or with the producer, who you cant hear and its annoying. its the same callers everyday, and now it sounds like a click between the caller and the host....thats bad talk radio.. as far as corbett goes, he shouts and screams on his soap box like a carnival barker. same callers on his show also.lfcsuuite100 said:Rob is a genuine radio pro, something very much lacking at WILK, especially with Nancy Kman and Steve Corbett. For all the years Nancy has been in radio, she has almost zero vocal control. Her voice is all over the place and when they go to the T.V. portion she makes the biggest rookie mistake and her voice goes all sing/song. Very difficult to listen to her anymore.
Corbett mistakes volume for passion. A good radio pro or public speaker knows that when you are raising your voice, move back from the microphone. The anger/outrage/passion will come through, but the volume won't be irritating and unbearable.
As far as the clicks I agree 100%. When you look at their fb pages, their numbers really are pathetic. They have such a small listener base, that if not for Rush and Savage, they would have no ratings. And if not for Froggy and KRZ they would have no revenue.
As far as the clicks I agree 100%. When you look at their fb pages, their numbers really are pathetic. They have such a small listener base, that if not for Rush and Savage, they would have no ratings. And if not for Froggy and KRZ they would have no revenue.
I'm glad this thread it titled 'Talk Radio' as that is exactly what WILK is; they call themselves 'newsradio' but how much 'news' is actually on the station as opposed to opinionated 'talk.' Back in its heyday 590 WARM did local news twice an hour all day, and correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't WVIA-FM actually do more news than WILK? The only news station in NEPA I've ever known was WBRE 98 FM/1-3-4 AM when they used NBCs News and Information Service (NIS). Hell, WKRZ-AM 1340 was the next closest to a 'newsradio' format in the early 80s when they did All News 6a - 9a; Noon - 1pm, and 4p - 6pm, and had a news staff of at least five: Carol Gibbons (ND/PM FM Anchor), Bud Brown (Morning Anchor/Luzerne County reporter), Jerry Padden (Lackawanna County Reporter), Marla Howells (reporter), Jay Daniels (AM/PM news block anchor).
WILK newsradio? Far from it. It is just like WTRW talk but with better market coverage via 3 AMs and 1 FM, and some local 'talk' shows.
Why is 'talk' these days referred to as 'news?'
1060 KYW: News; 1010 WINS: News; 880 WCBS: News; 101.9 WEMP: News.
WILK: Talk.
WILK newsradio? Far from it. It is just like WTRW talk but with better market coverage via 3 AMs and 1 FM, and some local 'talk' shows.
Why is 'talk' these days referred to as 'news?'
1060 KYW: News; 1010 WINS: News; 880 WCBS: News; 101.9 WEMP: News.
WILK: Talk.
"Why is 'talk' these days referred to as 'news?'"
So Steve Corbett doesn't have to admit to himself, what everyone else knows, that he is now an second rate entertainer.
So Steve Corbett doesn't have to admit to himself, what everyone else knows, that he is now an second rate entertainer.
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Can't stomach Steve Corbett. Terrible in every way. Rude. Stupid. Uninformed.
Rob's an 'old friend', but I'm not a fan.
Sue is OK at best.
I liked Art Bell, but George Noory is annoying with his "gee wiz; do ya think so?" remarks.
Rush always was less than honest.
Smirkonish who?
LA Ty-rant. (And that voice!)
Nancy and John
Michael Savage
sometimes Sue the only weekday shows worth hearing on WILK.
And WABC, WOR, WPHT, etc. are all even worse.
"Canned corporate crap". It's a meaningless charade.
Talk radio is dead, and will be until it gets back to being sincere/genuine.
Can't stomach Steve Corbett. Terrible in every way. Rude. Stupid. Uninformed.
Rob's an 'old friend', but I'm not a fan.
Sue is OK at best.
I liked Art Bell, but George Noory is annoying with his "gee wiz; do ya think so?" remarks.
Rush always was less than honest.
Smirkonish who?
LA Ty-rant. (And that voice!)
Nancy and John
Michael Savage
sometimes Sue the only weekday shows worth hearing on WILK.
And WABC, WOR, WPHT, etc. are all even worse.
"Canned corporate crap". It's a meaningless charade.
Talk radio is dead, and will be until it gets back to being sincere/genuine.
NXEA wrote:
Hell, WKRZ-AM 1340 was the next closest to a 'newsradio' format in the early 80s when they did All News 6a - 9a; Noon - 1pm, and 4p - 6pm, and had a news staff of at least five: Carol Gibbons (ND/PM FM Anchor), Bud Brown (Morning Anchor/Luzerne County reporter), Jerry Padden (Lackawanna County Reporter), Marla Howells (reporter), Jay Daniels (AM/PM news block anchor).
They were still WBRE at that time. Late 1970's actually. It may have held on through 1980.
WKRZ (AM) never was a news station.
Hell, WKRZ-AM 1340 was the next closest to a 'newsradio' format in the early 80s when they did All News 6a - 9a; Noon - 1pm, and 4p - 6pm, and had a news staff of at least five: Carol Gibbons (ND/PM FM Anchor), Bud Brown (Morning Anchor/Luzerne County reporter), Jerry Padden (Lackawanna County Reporter), Marla Howells (reporter), Jay Daniels (AM/PM news block anchor).
They were still WBRE at that time. Late 1970's actually. It may have held on through 1980.
WKRZ (AM) never was a news station.
WBRE AM/FM became WKRZ-AM/FM in 1980. 98.5 flipped to CHR; 1340 flipped to 'Music of Your Life.' The AM did very well with that format getting a 4.0 share. The AM dropped the format in hopes of even higher ratings and a bit younger demo with Pat Ward's MOR format; the ratings fell. By 1983 the station was being programmed internally and was called the 1340 Ballroom and was essentially Nostaglia/Big Band. A consultant was brought in; he listened to all the stations in the market; he selected Carol Gibbons of then WWDL/WICK to be News Director for both AM/FM. WKRZ-AM then changed its slogan to 'Newsradio 1340AM' and added AP Network news at top and bottom of each hour; Morning Drive was All News 6a-9a read by Jay Daniels; WNEP's Joe Zone did a sports feed via the phone. From 9a to 12p and 1p - 4p AP was carried top and bottom of the hour with AP Business and Sports at :15 and :45, and local news at :57 and :27. Music was played in between. 12Noon to 1pm was All News anchored mainly by Carol Gibbons. 4pm - 6pm was then again All News with Jay Daniels who did a split shift. Jerry Padden would file reports in the late afternoon and then do local news at :27/:57 along with AP at the top and bottom of each hour and Sports at :45 through till 10pm, with Music in between. Bud Brown, who anchored the FM morning newscasts, filed reports for WKRZ-AM as did Marla Howells. David Decosmo of then WDAU/WYOU told Jay Daniels he listened in the morning to get story ideas. This format lasted for just over two years but did not produce the rating results the station management were looking for. The news blocks were dropped with the :27/:57 local news retained when the station flipped to Oldies as 'Krazy Gold 1340 KRZ-AM.' The reference to KRZ-AM was dropped shortly after with the call sign never mentioned except for the top hour.
I stand corrected. I was thinking of an earlier effort when WBRE attempted the same thing,
claiming to have been inspired by the ratings KYW was getting in Philadelphia.
claiming to have been inspired by the ratings KYW was getting in Philadelphia.
I have to admit to some confusion on my part. What NXEA describes is definitely the operation I remember.
I recall someone saying how much they loathed it, and in my memory, it was my father, but he was dead by then. :-\
So... whoever it was that made the comment made me think that that was from the WBRE days.
Apologies to all.
Incidentally, if anyone knows who might (if anyone) have the old WBRE jingles on tape from the 1950s and 60s when Joe Scott was there - gathering mold in their attic, I'd love to know.
I recall someone saying how much they loathed it, and in my memory, it was my father, but he was dead by then. :-\
So... whoever it was that made the comment made me think that that was from the WBRE days.
Apologies to all.
Incidentally, if anyone knows who might (if anyone) have the old WBRE jingles on tape from the 1950s and 60s when Joe Scott was there - gathering mold in their attic, I'd love to know.
NigelWick said:I remember the KRZ AM all news effort, and it's sad it was never given enough time to find an audience. I believe the station also carried Mets baseball for a while.
Remember the days when companies spent money on AM stations?
Entercom is spenindg money because WILK is a money pit. Not sure how it is possible with WILK bringing in Corbett and then Webster how they could be making any money. They were just finally breaking even years ago when they let let Regan go and back then it was only local talk from 6am to noon Nancy was/is PD, Sue was full timer and Kevin Lynn was only a part time hourly air personality. Adding salaries of Corbett and the Webster, there is no way they are making that much more income. I've been told that Corbett, with his Kevin Lynn like turn, has been costing them advertisers in the last 6-9 months.
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Entercom is spenindg money because WILK is a money pit. Not sure how it is possible with WILK bringing in Corbett and then Webster how they could be making any money. They were just finally breaking even years ago when they let let Regan go and back then it was only local talk from 6am to noon Nancy was/is PD, Sue was full timer and Kevin Lynn was only a part time hourly air personality. Adding salaries of Corbett and the Webster, there is no way they are making that much more income. I've been told that Corbett, with his Kevin Lynn like turn, has been costing them advertisers in the last 6-9 months.
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WILK does 11 hours of local talk every weekday. How can you say it's a money pit? I will agree that paying all those people is no easy feat. Do you think Entercom would tolerate that payroll if it didn't make money?
Entercom is spenindg money because WILK is a money pit. Not sure how it is possible with WILK bringing in Corbett and then Webster how they could be making any money. They were just finally breaking even years ago when they let let Regan go and back then it was only local talk from 6am to noon Nancy was/is PD, Sue was full timer and Kevin Lynn was only a part time hourly air personality. Adding salaries of Corbett and the Webster, there is no way they are making that much more income. I've been told that Corbett, with his Kevin Lynn like turn, has been costing them advertisers in the last 6-9 months.
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WILK does 11 hours of local talk every weekday. How can you say it's a money pit? I will agree that paying all those people is no easy feat. Do you think Entercom would tolerate that payroll if it didn't make money?
NigelWick said:
Entercom is spenindg money because WILK is a money pit. Not sure how it is possible with WILK bringing in Corbett and then Webster how they could be making any money. They were just finally breaking even years ago when they let let Regan go and back then it was only local talk from 6am to noon Nancy was/is PD, Sue was full timer and Kevin Lynn was only a part time hourly air personality. Adding salaries of Corbett and the Webster, there is no way they are making that much more income. I've been told that Corbett, with his Kevin Lynn like turn, has been costing them advertisers in the last 6-9 months.
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WILK does 11 hours of local talk every weekday. How can you say it's a money pit? I will agree that paying all those people is no easy feat. Do you think Entercom would tolerate that payroll if it didn't make money?
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WILK should get lots of credit for having as much local programming on the air it does. In Allentown a comparable market size wise. WAEB does 4 hours in AM drive and that's it. THe difference? Clearly Entercom vs Clear Channel. Entercom still understands the importance of the product.
Entercom does deserve credit. I talked to someone in the know and WILK costs the group money. It is just made up by the other stations. There was a lot of anger a few years back when they got rid of a news reporter. I don't think he made a lot of money, but the person claimed that they finally "made" money and now they got rid of someone. Since that time they added Corbett and Webster. So if they were just making money then with almost no payroll, think of what they are spending now. Their ad rates are not very high and they have trouble selling the station as a stand alone. They have tried everything, even adding a stand alone sales position, but they seem to have a local host that turns off potential advertisers.
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