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Tom Leykis Planning A Comeback To Talk Radio

Hmmmm.... no radio station? Maybe internet-only and/or syndicated? Don't quit your day job Tom. Oh that's right, you don't have a day job.

Can it be talk radio without the radio? After this many years away from whatever limelight he had, an internet-only venture seems like a good way to spend one's life's savings. Does anyone actually make a decent living from an internet-only show?
 
radio-darn said:
Can it be talk radio without the radio?
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Based on what he's told Gary Lycan (middle of page), that's exactly what it is:

"I have learned that a radio is merely an appliance that most radio people are too in love with to divorce it from its content. Content transcends appliances... why would anyone think that a show, say, The Tom Leykis Show, that was so popular for so long on the available appliances of the time, wouldn't work as an online stream or a podcast, with or without an traditional radio station component?"

Basically, he's pulling a Steve Dahl here. Incidentally, Dahl recently started charging a premium for access to his podcasts.

"Talk radio without the radio" - I ought to trademark that... ::)
 
I love Leykis but if he thinks a podcast or an internet station is going to cut it, he has got to be smoking some strong stuff. How's Adam Carolla doing? How is Heidi and Frank doing? How is Mr. KABC doing? NOBODY knows because nobody listens to them.
 
All the former radio personalities trying to "make a go of it" by podcasting, particularly by subscription, are doing one thing - serving their former radio audiences and trying to monetize them.

Adam Carolla, Steve Dahl, ex-WJFK/Washington DC/WW1 syndicated host Mike O'Meara ("Don & Mike" and his later follow-on show)...they are all pretty much podcasting to their old radio audiences.

There's no evidence that ANY of 'em are picking up new audiences online.

This is the world Tom Leykis is entering. And it may be why he is strongly suggesting that there will be a broadcast component of SOME sort.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
All the former radio personalities trying to "make a go of it" by podcasting, particularly by subscription, are doing one thing - serving their former radio audiences and trying to monetize them.

Adam Carolla, Steve Dahl, ex-WJFK/Washington DC/WW1 syndicated host Mike O'Meara ("Don & Mike" and his later follow-on show)...they are all pretty much podcasting to their old radio audiences.
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Even Stern lost most of his audience going to Sirius, but they were dumb enough to give him millions for making the sacrifice so he didn't care and in fact it was a better deal for him, but no one else has left behind the traditional radio appliance and done better, or seemingly even made anywhere near what they made in radio. Again, who actually supports themselves woth podcasts in the style to which they've become accustomed?
 
Right now? Probably no one.

In the future? Perhaps names that aren't long-time over-air jocks who have been blown out of the contracts. We are talking The Future, after all...
 
DToTheJ said:
Save the date: Tom Leykis starts his new radio show next Monday... and the highest bidder for his first live broadcast is over $3,000...
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Leykis 101!!! 8)
 
About 2 minutes until Tom's triumphant return.
His website is down with a 503 error. :D

That's ol foward thinking Tom for ya.
 
Yeah, he's probably mid rant tearing John & Ken asunder right now to a captivated audience of tens of listeners.

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it... do you care?
 
The servers blew out - but are now (mostly) back online. There are several streaming links available via www.blowmeuptom.com at the Winamp, iTunes, etc. link.

Tom was on live from 3-7pm PT (6-10pm ET) and now the show will repeat every 4 hours until the next live show on Tue. 4/3/12 at 3pm PT/7pm ET.
 
It is such a joke how pathetic this internet or podcasting radio is. Maybe in several more years it may catch up but no one is leaving terrestrial radio for the time being. I went to Leykis website and clicked on the external player button and sure enough an error message appears. This is freaking unbelievable. The webmaster over there should be fired on the spot. How is it that on the first day they can't make the basic things work.

It just gives the impression that it is run out someone's basement or home studio (aka Frank and Heidi).
 
westfield60 said:
It is such a joke how pathetic this internet or podcasting radio is.
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Yep - Tom has not - as this topic's title wrongly suggests - made a "comeback to talk radio." He's merely on the internet, which even you and I can do with little effort, whereas getting on actual "talk radio" is a far more elusive goal.

The server problems are probably just one indication of the poor planning. Another is the hoped for $9.95 monthly subscriptions! How unrealistic is that in an era of thousands of free internet streams and where an outfit like Sirius/XM provides a whole slew of great radio streams for really not much than Tom's people seem to think that can get for just one stream.
 
Actually, I did some research right now on today's launch and he was running 14 different Shoutcast servers, all with 500-1,000 slots available. At 3PM, pretty much all these servers were jammed, meaning he got some great numbers in the several thousands when it came to internet listening. It is EXTREMELY difficult to know what to expect when it comes to anything internet related. Just think of what happens to the Apple website after a new iPhone is released. I was actually impressed that his tech team patched up most of the streaming problems by the start of the 4PM hour.
His show was pretty much the same as what you would hear on KLSX. Except for the end of the 4PM hour where he got caught up talking to some nobody band.
 
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