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Geraldo is bad on radio. ( & TV)
And , he's off the air too often.
'Get rid of Geraldo & hire John Gambling
or someone else for late morning.
 
WABC should air Curtis & Kuby , & John Gambling or other local hosts.
Get Imus & Geraldo off the air.
 
No change at WABC

WABC should keep Geraldo Rivera and Curtis & Kuby in theri respected time slot slots

Do you think of any thing better? Are there any better talk show hosts out there?





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Cumulus may move McGuirk & Mendte to full time at WABC at some point.
 
Let's face it....Cumulus and so many of today's radio companies know nothing about radio. It's sad, but they run the companies for Wall Street, not the listeners. Look at Cumulus' great "finds" over the last couple of years...Mike Huckeby, Geraldo Rivera network show, Larry King Dropping In, and let's not even talk about WPLJ, Nash, and everything else.
 
Talk radio will likely hire younger talk hosts but I doubt
'they will attract many younger listeners. People under 50 generally
don't listen to AM radio.
 
rjt45 said:
Let's face it....Cumulus and so many of today's radio companies know nothing about radio. It's sad, but they run the companies for Wall Street, not the listeners. Look at Cumulus' great "finds" over the last couple of years...Mike Huckeby, Geraldo Rivera network show, Larry King Dropping In, and let's not even talk about WPLJ, Nash, and everything else.
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no one has to think on their feet anymore to stay afloat with something unique and fun.

all these giant corps sucking the fun out of radio
 
I have to wonder if this is the next phase of radio.
Like the ending of Jack Benny or the Loan Ranger.
It won't be like it was and what it will become doesn't seem to appealing.
I started in 1980 and have been out for a few years.
Miss it but probably won't be coming back.
 
Lester_the_NightFly said:
It won't be like it was and what it will become doesn't seem to appealing.
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It depends on the format. Music formats are extremely appealing to a wide range of people.

On the talk side, different stations are trying different things, but all seem to be getting pretty much the same results, which is mainly older male listeners.
 
Unregistered said:
Talk radio will likely hire younger talk hosts but I doubt
'they will attract many younger listeners. People under 50 generally
don't listen to AM radio.
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Correction---- many people under 50---- don't bother with AM or FM.
Radio will move to the internet as it attempts to survive .
 
TheBigA said:
It depends on the format. Music formats are extremely appealing to a wide range of people.
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Not so much anymore. Spotify, Pandora, etc. are more appealing to many music listeners, especially younger ones.

On the talk side, different stations are trying different things, but all seem to be getting pretty much the same results, which is mainly older male listeners.
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But hasn't that always been the case? Howard and Rush attempted (successfully) to bring in younger listeners but talk has always skewed older.

Seems to me radio's best hope is to target interests ... not demos. Sell advertisers on the interests, activities, lifestyle and purchasing profile of the audience. Bloomberg Radio is an example of that ... no ratings but I'll bet Mike isn't losing money.
 
Public stations are winning the ratings war in most cities over these legacy talkers. Why is no one going that direction? They keep doing the same old with slightly different people.
 
rjt45 said:
Public stations are winning the ratings war in most cities over these legacy talkers. Why is no one going that direction? They keep doing the same old with slightly different people.
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Public stations are doing well on FM. They mainly have liberal or progressive listeners.
Commercial AM stations will continue to try to make $$$ with
'conservative talk, infomercials & sports. ( such as WABC, WOR, WNYM)
 
rjt45 said:
Public stations are winning the ratings war in most cities over these legacy talkers. Why is no one going that direction? They keep doing the same old with slightly different people.
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You're right. Most Public Radio talk isn't exactly scintillating. It shouldn't be too hard to beat.
 
rjt45 said:
Public stations are winning the ratings war in most cities over these legacy talkers. Why is no one going that direction? They keep doing the same old with slightly different people.
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I wonder how many listeners the public stations share with the legacy talkers. They're really two different formats, just both spoken word. And I don't mean one is liberal or conservative. They're just different. Sort of like how AC and country are different, but are both music formats.
 
The public stations have a younger more intelligent listener. Why do the legacy talkers go fir the lowest common denominator?
 
rjt45 said:
The public stations have a younger more intelligent listener.
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Actually the public stations also have older audiences, not younger. Which is why commercial stations aren't trying to copy what they do.

wadio said:
Not so much anymore. Spotify, Pandora, etc. are more appealing to many music listeners, especially younger ones.
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Not true. Demographic data on commercial OTA music stations like Z-100 shows that the majority of the listeners are young. What the studies show is the people who use Pandora and Spotify ALSO listen to OTA stations in large numbers.

wadio said:
Seems to me radio's best hope is to target interests ... not demos. Sell advertisers on the interests, activities, lifestyle and purchasing profile of the audience. Bloomberg Radio is an example of that ... no ratings but I'll bet Mike isn't losing money.
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Advertisers buy what they want. It's their money and they have lots of other media to spend it on. We can try to sell them on certain activities and lifestyle, but at the end of the day, if the audience is mainly 65 year old white men, they're not going to spend a lot of money.
 
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We've been over the "more intelligent" assertion a number of times so no need to belabor it here.

I think I'm reasonably intelligent and yet I find much of NPRs programming to be quite dull. It sounds scripted, effete, condescending ... as though the host is reading to a child. I'm not the only one who feels that way -- I've seen it noted elsewhere.

OTOH, much of today's commercial talk is just the opposite -- rude, crude, whiny, narrowly focused and ridiculously repetitive.

I think JRH's question is a good one:
I wonder how many listeners the public stations share with the legacy talkers. They're really two different formats, just both spoken word. And I don't mean one is liberal or conservative. They're just different. Sort of like how AC and country are different, but are both music formats.
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Well said! To me politics isn't the issue -- it's the format, the tone, the presentation.

I think there is a middle ground. NPR's "The Takeaway," seems like a step in the right direction -- away from the stogy clenched-jaw delivery that's long defined the sound of NPR.

Commercial shows like KFI's John & Ken, the syndicated Jerry Doyle Show and others are smart and entertaining. Unfortunately we don't get those shows on terrestrial NY radio.
 
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