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WABC Fires Joe Crummey

It will be interesting to see if he makes it more than a year. They have had trouble with that time slot ever since Ron Lundy left!
 
Saw a comment in a piece where Geraldo said he hoped "other markets" will enjoy his new radio show.

Syndication clue No. 1.
 
Here's one of the new taglines for the new Geraldo radio show: "Not red, not blue... Red, white and blue." Yawn. Sounds like something Smerconish would think up...

R-I's own Tom Taylor on Geraldo's radio show: "...it’s up to him to fit his TV persona into a radio microphone, where the audience can’t see you..." Luckily for him, callers can't punch him in the face through the radio. ::)
 
raccoonradio said:
WABC site now reads "77WABC Local Talk" in the former Crummey slot
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You mean that WABC is Flipping to the local News/Talk format that KGO got rid of? or will it be like KABC when Mr. Germain was a local host under the mr. KABC alias.
 
DToTheJ said:
Saw a comment in a piece where Geraldo said he hoped "other markets" will enjoy his new radio show.

Syndication clue No. 1.
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And it's unfortunate. I would expect New York City, being the #1 market in the country, to have a healthy local talk radio scene. The top rated talk station KFI in market #2 has local morning, mid-day, afternoon and evening hosts, and even the struggling KABC is local from 5 AM-Noon and 6-10 PM. WABC currently has 3 hours of local talk. They even syndicate their morning show, which is probably the most difficult slot to syndicate in talk radio. The radio business seems to think that if your show is popular enough in New York City, it should just be syndicated. I wonder how many local NYC talkers have been let go for "not having syndication potential."
 
KABC is carrying Geraldo, but the press release from Los Angeles says he's starting at noon local time there (he'll be on at 10 AM ET in NYC, at the same time Doug McIntyre will be on air doing a live 5-9 AM PT morning show for KABC). It's possible that Geraldo could do a couple hours live for NYC and two hours live fed to LA later on in the day (it'll be 3 PM New York time when his appearance in LA starts)--after all, that's the way Steven A. Smith works, doing separate two hour live evening shows for ESPN's New York and LA stations. But Cumulus isn't likely to spend extra for a second live show the way the Mouse's sports broadcasting division will...so my bet is LA gets the same show content NYC gets, only recorded to the hard drive and played back five hours later.
 
Bob1370 said:
KABC is carrying Geraldo, but the press release from Los Angeles says he's starting at noon local time there (he'll be on at 10 AM ET in NYC, at the same time Doug McIntyre will be on air doing a live 5-9 AM PT morning show for KABC). It's possible that Geraldo could do a couple hours live for NYC and two hours live fed to LA later on in the day (it'll be 3 PM New York time when his appearance in LA starts)--after all, that's the way Steven A. Smith works, doing separate two hour live evening shows for ESPN's New York and LA stations. But Cumulus isn't likely to spend extra for a second live show the way the Mouse's sports broadcasting division will...so my bet is LA gets the same show content NYC gets, only recorded to the hard drive and played back five hours later.
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Go back and read the story again. It says that Geraldo will be on 10AM to Noon at KABC or 1PM New York time.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
...The radio business seems to think that if your show is popular enough in New York City, it should just be syndicated. I wonder how many local NYC talkers have been let go for "not having syndication potential."
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Let's see, Joe Crummey... Ooh, Joe and Mika, remember them? Let's see, who else was in that timeslot that WABC (at least on paper) let go because they didn't have a "big name"...
 
Geraldo going up against Rush (on KFI) in L.A. Yeah... good luck with that, Jerry...
 
AllAccess is now reporting that Geraldo will not be part of the new KABC lineup. However, when asked to comment about Rivera, PD Jack Silver is reported to have said, "Stand by for news on that part of it."

Sounds like the plan is to launch it as a live and local WABC show and then slither into syndication after a few weeks, hoping that the locals won't notice.
 
So we go from having a "New York Centric" show to one that will work in NYC AND LA? To be fair, WABC was trying to be New York centric with a host from the west coast and that clearly did not work. So trying this approach with a guy from NYC who really knows the city, the burbs AND is known nationally might actually work in that time slot here and on the "left" coast.
 
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