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Walt Sterling Leaves WPHT

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Walt Sterling officially announced at WABC

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Walter Sterling Named Host Of ‘The Other Side of Midnight.’

Red Apple Audio Networks and WABC New York name veteran programmer, consultant and radio personality Walter Sterling the new host of the nationally syndicated “The Other Side of Midnight” overnight
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Other Side of Midnight: Walter Sterling replaces Lionel

Red Apple Audio's syndicated "The Other Side of Midnight" has replaced main weekday host Lionel with weekend host Walter Sterling. The change happened suddenly beginning Monday with no explanation, and barely noticed by the industry. The difference between the two is like night and day. Sterling...
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WPHT still has "Walter Sterling Every Damn Night" on the cover page of its website, even though he apparently left for WABC in April. I wonder how he got the overnight WABC gig? Does it pay better since it's syndicated? Walter Sabo is not a young man so how is it doing a radio show until dawn? And how did WABC decide to use Sabo five nights a week (1 to 5 a.m. early Monday to early Friday) and move Lionel to a three hour show on weekends (2 to 5 a.m. early Saturday and early Sunday). Lionel went from 20 hours a week to six.

When you go into the WPHT schedule, it does have the current line up, despite Sabo's picture still on the cover page. Does anyone at Audacy, with Philadelphia as its home city, care about the webpage at its 50,000 watt clear channel station in Philly? Actually, for whatever reason, WPHT's ratings are not too bad, competitive with some of the lower rated FM stations.

Note that WPHT uses several shows from Fox even though it doesn't carry Fox News on the hour. (It runs ABC nights and weekends but skips hourly news on weekdays to run more commercials.) As the only talk station in Philly, other than Salem's WNTP 990, WPHT could take any syndicated show it wanted to, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin. Why does it use several not-so-popular syndicated shows, other than Coast to Coast AM?

5 a.m. Fox News Rundown (syndicated from Fox)
6 a.m. Kayal and Company (I'd like to tell you who Kayal & Co. are, but the website doesn't even tell us their names, just that they interview newsmakers and take phone calls)
10:30 Dawn Strensland (she is also on Kayal & Co.)
Noon Dom Giordano
3 p.m. Nobody is listed here
6 p.m. Rich Zeoli
7 p.m. Fox Across America with Jimmy Faillla (syndicated from Fox)
10 p.m. Rita Cosby (syndicated from Red Apple Media--WABC)
12 a.m. Will Cain Country (syndicated from Fox)
1 a..m. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (syndicated from Premiere Networks--iHeart)

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Gregg. said:
WPHT still has "Walter Sterling Every Damn Night" on the cover page of its website, even though he apparently left for WABC in April. I wonder how he got the overnight WABC gig? Does it pay better since it's syndicated? Walter Sabo is not a young man so how is it doing a radio show until dawn? And how did WABC decide to use Sabo five nights a week (1 to 5 a.m. early Monday to early Friday) and move Lionel to a three hour show on weekends (2 to 5 a.m. early Saturday and early Sunday). Lionel went from 20 hours a week to six.

When you go into the WPHT schedule, it does have the current line up, despite Sabo's picture still on the cover page. Does anyone at Audacy, with Philadelphia as its home city, care about the webpage at its 50,000 watt clear channel station in Philly? Actually, for whatever reason, WPHT's ratings are not too bad, competitive with some of the lower rated FM stations.

Note that WPHT uses several shows from Fox even though it doesn't carry Fox News on the hour. (It runs ABC nights and weekends but skips hourly news on weekdays to run more commercials.) As the only talk station in Philly, other than Salem's WNTP 990, WPHT could take any syndicated show it wanted to, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin. Why does it use several not-so-popular syndicated shows, other than Coast to Coast AM?

5 a.m. Fox News Rundown (syndicated from Fox)
6 a.m. Kayal and Company (I'd like to tell you who Kayal & Co. are, but the website doesn't even tell us their names, just that they interview newsmakers and take phone calls)
10:30 Dawn Strensland (she is also on Kayal & Co.)
Noon Dom Giordano
3 p.m. Nobody is listed here
6 p.m. Rich Zeoli
7 p.m. Fox Across America with Jimmy Faillla (syndicated from Fox)
10 p.m. Rita Cosby (syndicated from Red Apple Media--WABC)
12 a.m. Will Cain Country (syndicated from Fox)
1 a..m. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (syndicated from Premiere Networks--iHeart)

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As someone who used to listen to this stuff somewhat regularly, I don’t even have them on my presets anymore. I can only speak for myself but it’s my understanding that Sean Hannity and Mark Levin have never been overly popular in Philadelphia. All Levin does is yell and scream, no thanks. And I don’t know how anyone listens to Hannity when all he does is recycle the same talking points repeatedly and interrupts all of his guests.
 


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