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"The Fred Show" To Launch In Baltimore & Washington DC

I will be curious to see the succession plan for both Elvis and Seacrest. Ryan has been hosting both AT40 and the KIIS mornig show for 22 years and change now. That's just one year shy of Rick Dees' run on KIIS mornings.

Casey had a 34 year run on CHR countdowns if you combine the original Watermark/ABC run with the Westwood One years and then the AT40 2.0 era with AMFM/Premiere. And I'd argue he stayed on CHR a little too long, especially since he was doing 3 separate shows for 3 formats for so many years.
 
vw86 said:
I will be curious to see the succession plan for both Elvis and Seacrest. Ryan has been hosting both AT40 and the KIIS mornig show for 22 years and change now. That's just one year shy of Rick Dees' run on KIIS mornings.

Casey had a 34 year run on CHR countdowns if you combine the original Watermark/ABC run with the Westwood One years and then the AT40 2.0 era with AMFM/Premiere. And I'd argue he stayed on CHR a little too long, especially since he was doing 3 separate shows for 3 formats for so many years.
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I think Seacrest is a different case than Elvis. Elvis is only radio famous. Seacrest is a celebrity on all media. And he's one of those celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson who geniunely enjoys working hard.
 
lanceventa said:
Fred is 45 years old. Elvis is in his 60s. You're not building a long-term growth strategy around him at this point. And sadly it's probably a matter of time before Fred relocates from Chicago to New York.
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Elvis probably could "retire" from Z100 and hold a big celebration - then get a second wind doing AC or Classic Hits locally like Scott Shannon did.
 
Identnut said:
Elvis probably could "retire" from Z100 and hold a big celebration - then get a second wind doing AC or Classic Hits locally like Scott Shannon did.
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Rick Dees couldn't let it go. Matty Siegel in Boston couldn't let it go. Top 40 or any currents based radio can be like heroin.
 
You can be in your 60s or even 70s on CHR if you don't sound it. And I don't mean the actual sound of your voice, I mean the ability to stay relevant to the audience and to much younger co hosts. There is at least one legacy iHeart CHR morning host that's probably late 50s/early 60s , but you'd never, ever know it. To me Elvis doesn't sound it at all. Rick Dees sounds it, both in terms of voice quality and relevance. If you go to iHeart and switch between his retro channel and the channel that loops the current weekly show you can hardly tell it's the same person. But you'll still hear imaging, canned laughs and Don LaFontaine voicers from 30 years ago on the 2026 shows.
 


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