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WBT Dropps Neal Boortz for local late-night show

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Matt

From the WBT Website...

News/Talk 1110, WBT is pleased to announce that Tara Servatius host of the Citizen Servatius Show moves to five nights a week starting Monday, June 4, 2007. Tara will air from 9pm – Midnight, immediately following the John Hancock Show.

Read more about it...http://www.wbt.com/page.cfm?ID=31

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
That's really unempressive, wow just what WBT needs is another biased conservative. Like they had a shortage of those!

Once again Boortz is treated like a yo-yo. I can't believe they allow WBT to add and drop his show. Anyone know how many times Boortz has been on and off WBT? How long before he tells WBT that's it, no more?

I'm not a big fan of political talk on the radio. The issues wear quickly, but if we must whatever happened to giving both sides of the issue?

MS
 
I can't imagine Boortz burning such a bridge. WBT can pretty much do what they want. I don't much care for Boortz, but Servatius is worse. She's the "don't confuse me with the facts" type of conservative.

I always figured Loaf hired her to be the "balance" because she's horribly inept at making her points.

The only talk host I ever remember burning his BT bridge was Tom Snyder. He was cancelled less than a week after he sang WBT's praises during the 70th anniversary day. He was, to say the least, bitter.
 
I'm not a big Boortz fan but nobody show get the treatment he has suffered from WBT. This is why Charlotte needs another big signal to serve the market.
 
The problem with media today....including newspaper and radio...is that people are hiring 20-somethings who have no talent, drive or initiative. It's nothing more than some perverted so-and-so getting his rocks off on having a tight butt, nice rack and no brains so he can look at everyone and say "see what a great hire I have."

While I don't think she's going to last long, I wish her the best of luck.....and I agree with what everyone's posted about Boortz. I don't like Boortz, either, but crappy treatment needs to be brought to the light.
 
What ever happened to TYYYYYYYY Boyd?
 
He's still out there...doing motivational speaking and business consulting.

http://www.tyboyd.com

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
NewsNow said:
I can't imagine Boortz burning such a bridge. WBT can pretty much do what they want. I don't much care for Boortz, but Servatius is worse. She's the "don't confuse me with the facts" type of conservative.

I always figured Loaf hired her to be the "balance" because she's horribly inept at making her points.

The only talk host I ever remember burning his BT bridge was Tom Snyder. He was cancelled less than a week after he sang WBT's praises during the 70th anniversary day. He was, to say the least, bitter.
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Tom Snyder, now there is a man who knew how to entertain on the air. Talent like that doesn't come along very often. Ego, hell yes but he had the goods to back it up. I believe he is in poor health these days.

I'm sorry but Servatius sounds like someone who just came in off the street. It used to be to get to WBT you had to have lots of experience and have paid your dues in the business. Ah those were the days.....
 
It's been about a month now that she's been on the air.

I haven't heard her and I'm wondering what you think. Is she improving? Doing well? Not so good?

It doesn't seem constructive to make a comparison to Neal Boortz, so let's just discuss Servatius and whether your listening habits have changed in the last month because of the change on the air. Thanks.
 
In either case, I think Radiomania was simply trying to elicit some interesting and possibly useful conversation on this board. I would be interested in answers from people in the market.

I personally have always preferred local to syndicated programming and applaud WBT for giving it a shot in the daypart.

I can't hear them in my normal travels, so can comment on the success or failure of the attempt.
 
I work for neither (Boortz or WBT). In fact, I'm not in the market. Just an interested party.

Reason -- I see a trend in several markets -- stations are moving toward live, local programming at night, rather than a 12-hour old re-run of a syndicated program. And if not live and local, some are trying to put on live syndicated programming. Wanted to know how it was doing in Charlotte.

Since owners/programmers consider other dayparts pretty much untouchable for local programming (i.e. 12-3p and 3-6p with the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.), I'm curious as to the viability of live programming in other dayparts, especially nights.

Does that answer your question, Big Ape?
 
Yep! And I'll all for the local programming!
 
Problem with live and local outside of 6AM-6PM is $$$. Local talk hosts and shows are expensive to product and the revenue is just not there in many cases.

And, in North Carolina, sports often gets in the way of developing an evening audience. Too many pre-emptions for basketball, hockey, baseball, racing, etc. Really hard to build a following Monday through Friday evenings when the show is no on two or three nights in a row.

More power to those who try!!!
 
I really don't care what the content is, I'm glad to see stations like WBT go "live and local."
One of the biggest problems in the radio biz is the lack of new, young, exciting talent coming up through the ranks.
 
Somebody off the street...

I guess the public looks at things differently. I remember several years ago in Rochester, NY when the FM rock station put a guy name Brother Wease on as host of their morning show.

He sounded like a guy off the street, anything but a radio professional. He had worked in the concert promotion business and his first radio shift before the morning show was hosting the station's Saturday night shift.

At the time, I laughed, "What are they crazy? He'll never make it in the morning!"

Brother Wease went on to become a legend in the market, making a gazillion dollars a year and he's still there today - more than 20 years later.

Oh, and by the way, he still sounds like somebody off the street!
 
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