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Tony Bruno Launches Tonight

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I heard Bruno On KNBR with Gary Radnich announce his new syndicated show will finally launch in 12 markets starting tonight from KLAC 570 in LA.

Didn't catch the list of stations, but I did hear LA, SF, Tampa and it'll be on XM and Sirius soon. I'll be interesting to hear Bruno do a night time show instead of morning drive. I'm sure he's happy to have any gig in these bad radio economic times.

It's good that a talent like him could find another job after the Sporting News fiasco or we'd all be screwed in this business!
 
570 may not even be doing sports in six months. Big discussions taking place as we speak.
 
Really?

What would they possibly flip to? From what I hear, 570 beats 710 easily, out bills them and has the Lakers.
 
lakers to 710. next season. expect major news on 570 future..not good...very soon.
 
I would think 710 local talent should have more to worry about since they will probably run mostly network programming and eliminate virtually all of what's left locally since ESPN over-paid for the Lakers. I would bet they go to only 1 local show to over-hype the Lakers and go bare bones the rest of the time. 570 would be stupid to drop sports since they too carry mostly syndicated programming and can still hype up the Lakers - even without the rights - by putting local shows on remotes. What else would they run on 570, religion, more general talk?
 
you'll see, very soon. 710 will be adding local, not dropping. 71 percent of espn revenues are NOT ad revenue. they are locked in, cable deals. they are buying in this recession, not selling. incredibly heathy company. they have purchased all BCS bowls and lakers last two weeks. I'm told they are not even close to finished, with buying rights and properties. They are in a MAJOR buying mode.
570 will sound much different very soon.
 
They have low cost talent now and after the Dameshek fiasco in pm drive, won't even pay for a real talent to compete in the only major local timeslot they have. They'll probably move Mason and Ireland to afternoons and keep the other 50-grand a year talent to fill in for the other crappy pre and post game show obligations. I know for a fact the local owned ESPN stations are NOT spending money on air talent; they're overpaying for rights fees and need to make Disney spending millions for that "LA Live ESPN complex" look significant. They are LOSING money locally and the only way they can make it back is tons of pre-and-post filler stuff like all local stations do to sell remotes and try to get back the idiotic amount paid for the rights. You have bad information sir. What Disney does with the BCS farce and paying for rights has nothing to do with the bad economics hurting all local radio stations, especially 710. I hear they are already dumping staff, so if you count those brutal high school shows as "local" programming, you are obviously clueless when it comes to local plans to spend money. My bet is they have 1 local show and won't even have a PD next year as Bristol will call the shots and therefore have no need for much staff when you only produce 3 hours of local programming a day.
 
They have low cost talent now and after the Dameshek fiasco in pm drive, won't even pay for a real talent to compete in the only major local timeslot they have. They'll probably move Mason and Ireland to afternoons and keep the other 50-grand a year talent to fill in for the other crappy pre and post game show obligations. I know for a fact the local owned ESPN stations are NOT spending money on air talent; they're overpaying for rights fees and need to make Disney spending millions for that "LA Live ESPN complex" look significant. They are LOSING money locally and the only way they can make it back is tons of pre-and-post filler stuff like all local stations do to sell remotes and try to get back the idiotic amount paid for the rights. You have bad information sir. What Disney does with the BCS farce and paying for rights has nothing to do with the bad economics hurting all local radio stations, especially 710. I hear they are already dumping staff, so if you count those brutal high school shows as "local" programming, you are obviously clueless when it comes to local plans to spend money. My bet is they have 1 local show and won't even have a PD next year as Bristol will call the shots and therefore have no need for much staff when you only produce 3 hours of local programming a day.
 
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