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The Drive at Five with Curtis Sliwa (WABC 5-6pm)

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Curtis Sliwa takes over the 5-6 pm weekday slot from Doug McIntyre starting today. Newsmax has the story:

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/77-wa.../05/id/708214/

Predictably, the WABC website still lists "Right Now with Doug McIntyre" in that slot. You'd think the WABC website would be the GO-TO place for info about WABC. Cumulus (& iHeart) salivate over driving listeners to their websites, but offer nothing when they get there.
 
Curtis is a workhorse. During the few years he was on 970 he did morning and afternoon drive. If he and Kuby were to be Imus' replacements(interesting..Imus replaced them in 2007)I'm sure Curtis would do both shows.
 
"My job will be to take people from their suites to the streets and re-connect them with everything that has transpired while they've been working their nine to five jobs," said Sliwa.

Given that audience age median and quality this comment is so bizarre it is almost poignant.

No point in elaborating. Just sad.

LCG
 
Good for WABC to produce a local show. Sliwa is a good host and is bound to attract some attention. Whatever the show ultimately proves to be, it'll be FAR better than whatever would be airing on 820 or 93.9 at that time.
 
TTalkradio1 said:
Mark Levin is the only host that I listen to anymore. Talk radio isn't good anymore.
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I have to ask ... and please don't be offended, this is a sincere question ... what appeals to you about Mark Levin? When I listen I hear a cranky old man whining and complaining non-stop. Everything stinks, there's no sense of fun in his voice and no hope in his message. What am I missing? Obviously he has a sizable audience. I just don't get it.
 
Agreed. I find Mark Levin annoying. Always yelling and totally devoid of any humor. He has a few Bob Grant mannerisms, but unlike Grant he is not entertaining, is a one trick pony and is not compelling(to me,anyway).In addition his voice is annoying. I much prefer Savage.
 
wadio said:
I have to ask ... and please don't be offended, this is a sincere question ... what appeals to you about Mark Levin? When I listen I hear a cranky old man whining and complaining non-stop. Everything stinks, there's no sense of fun in his voice and no hope in his message. What am I missing? Obviously he has a sizable audience. I just don't get it.
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Aren't you around his age? I agree that Bob Grant was better than Mark Levin, but there's no one great in NY now. Sometimes Mark Levin's big ego and book plugging annoy me. However, I like Levin, because I agree with his politics. He's the only host who endorses candidates during the primary. He goes after people at Nation Review, the Wall St. Journal, and sometimes Fox News. As a constitutional attorney sometimes he presents research for his audience that I find interesting. I never liked when radio hosts take a position just to annoy their audience. Mark Levin doesn't do that. I like his forceful delivery and he makes jokes.
 
wadio said:
I have to ask ... and please don't be offended, this is a sincere question ... what appeals to you about Mark Levin? When I listen I hear a cranky old man whining and complaining non-stop. Everything stinks, there's no sense of fun in his voice and no hope in his message. What am I missing? Obviously he has a sizable audience. I just don't get it.
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He's a long time political operative who worked in the Reagan White House and as chief of staff to the Attorney General.

I like him because he knows how the system works. He's been there. IMO, that gives him a leg up on all the other talking heads in the media.
 
I just don't understand listening to someone who's extreme, extreme, extreme right. Honestly, that's how you feel, that there is absolutely no good idea that ever comes from the left? I'm very liberal but I don't feel that there's nothing that the other side could offer. I would like the country to lean further left but I also know the dynamic tension between the two viewpoints is what has made America great. I wouldn't want to listen to a show where the host is so predicable that if Obama said he liked chocolate ice cream, the host would say that's a sign of how he wants to destroy the country and vanilla is the only way to save the nation.


Maybe I don't understand that when it comes to talk radio, nobody can be too extreme. Even if that's not the way the listeners feel, it's better to be extreme in all cases because no one wants to hear "yes, but." They only want to hear "hell yes!" There is no nuance in Talk Radio.
 
There is no nuance in Talk Radio.
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Gregg, that's painting with quite a broad brush. As a fan of talk radio I find it unfortunate that so many people come to that conclusion based solely on hosts like Levin, Limbaugh and Hannity. If I tell someone I'm a talk radio listener there's a very good chance I'll instantly be judged as an extremist.

The nuance in talk radio is there but you have to dig a little deeper to find it. That used to mean using the radio dial but now, depending on your market, it often means searching for internet streams.

While some of the talk shows I enjoy aren't heard in NYC, many shows heard here aren't rabidly conservative. In fact, other than the three I mentioned, what NYC talk shows can you name that are totally without nuance when it comes to political ideology?
 
Gregg. said:
Maybe I don't understand that when it comes to talk radio, nobody can be too extreme.
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I think there's a difference between practical political ideology and doing entertaining radio. The mistake some of these folks make is thinking they actually know politics. When you put real politicians on the radio, like Fred Thompson, the public shuts the radio off. They want to be entertained.
 
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