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WHAS radio (CC Louisville) drops show to protect its listeners!

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And its not Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh... its PAUL HARVEY!! Apparently Kelly Carls has deemed Paul Harvey as not worthy to be on the public's airwaves.

http://thevillevoice.com/2008/10/06/whas-radio-will-drop-paul-harvey/#comment-28685

“In the last year, he’s been gone more than he’s been present,” said Carls, who says he regrets making the move because he’s been a Harvey fan since he was 10 years old. “His fill-ins are not great. Paul Harvey Jr. is awful, and we won’t subject our listeners to it.”

Strange thing is Paul was just on with actual interesting news.

Luckily another locally-owned station has him. They are an oldies format with even a call in request format during the noon hour. Imagine in this day a radio station who cares about the listeners! Check it out:

http://www.waky1035.com/
 
Nothing but truth in this statement from the article:

He said WLW, the powerful station in Cincinnati, dropped Harvey earlier this year, as have most of the larger stations carrying Harvey around the country. In some markets, the show has been picked up by second-tier news stations or Christian programmers.
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It's not been a good year for the Harvey syndication, and most of that is driven by the fact that stations basically have no interest in carrying his fill-ins. Just about anyone suffers in comparison to PH, and that includes his son.

The 15 minute midday/noon segment is an anomaly in the current world of radio. Only PH can keep doing it.

They'll put someone on when PH retires or passes on, probably in the morning news slot, but stations are already voting by walking away from the show. It'd certainly be a different story if Mr. Harvey would be able to be there full time.
 
We said goodbye to Paul in 08 also. ..and we switched to Fox instead of ABC. Less commercial requirments and better service.
 
Dan Gaffney said:
We said goodbye to Paul in 08 also. ..and we switched to Fox instead of ABC. Less commercial requirments and better service.
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Better service?? Strange, WHAS switched back when many other CC stations switched (06 maybe) and then picked up CBS News in '07 to supplement their news coverage. What else would be the reason in having both CBS and Fox stories in the same top of the hour newscast? To me it seems that Fox doesn't covers much breaking news. If Fox can't rip it and read it, its not news to them. At least CBS will still do investigative research. Check out the story on the bank bailout:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/12/eveningnews/main4717298.shtml?tag=main_home_webExclusive
 
Dan Gaffney said:
We said goodbye to Paul in 08 also. ..and we switched to Fox instead of ABC. Less commercial requirments and better service.
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I think you've hit on it here, Dan.

The Harvey package carries along with it a pretty daunting amount of commercial inventory a station has to clear.

ABC basically requires you to carry the full spot load of the Information network, including the spots attached to its sportscasts, whatever "Peter Jennings' Journal" turned into (I think "Reporter's Notebook" or some such), and other programming that you don't have to carry, but do have to clear the spots.

The number was pretty eyepopping, as I recall.

This could have changed since I saw the numbers about 5 years ago, but probably not much.

It's one thing, to carry the spot load if PH is there all year...it's another to carry it when his fill-ins are on most of the time.

Now, even if Mr. Harvey was feeling up to par this past year, even if he didn't have personal life issues to deal with, etc., the PH franchise is in its waning days.

He's lost a large number of his former flamethrowing Clear Channel large market news/talk stations. WTAM here held onto Mr. Harvey for a few months after it switched to Fox News Radio for news product, but no longer carries him. PH's Youngstown affiliate, dominant news/talker WKBN/570, moved him over to standards WNIO/1390 instead.

If all those rumblings about more "centralized" CC management in the smaller markets turn out to be true, expect any remaining CC-owned PH affiliates to dump the show.

No Cleveland station picked up Mr. Harvey - not even Salem talk WHK/1420 (Salem took the franchise in Sacramento and Boston, the latter talk station now a Spanish-language religious outlet). His biggest area affiliate is Akron's WAKR/1590, where he still fits very well, and WAKR proudly proclaims that they're "Northeast Ohio's Home for Paul Harvey" now. But 1590 is not a Cleveland signal, even as a rimshot.
 
WLW continued to carry Paul Harvey even when it was affiliated with Fox. WLW is back to ABC but dropped Harvey a few months ago, starting Bill Cunningham at 12:06. Oldies WDJO picked up the show (they seem to pick up about anything dropped by other stations).
 
It's interesting that CC Cincinnati dumped Mr. Harvey entirely, instead of moving him to mostly-syndicated WKRC/550. They'd have to slim down Glenn Beck to fit Harvey at 11:45, tho.

But overall, I think it's a smart, solid move to free up the first fifteen minutes of the noon hour for Willie.

San Francisco's KGO just pushed Harvey over to sister conservative talker KSFO. PH has been on KGO for decades.
 
Years ago when McConnell was still doing 10am-2pm it was announced that Harvey would move to WKRC, but that never materialized.
 
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