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What would you do with RKO when Howie Leaves

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I'd have Fineberg and Mc Phee in drive times, mornings and afternoons respectively. Middle of the day I'd start with Armstrong and then move to Dave Ramsey. In the evenings, I'd have Clark Howard. Overnights, I'd run Bloomberg. So, controversial talk in drive times and money talk outside of drive times.
 
Laura Ingraham 9-12

A squawking parrot from 12-3 (because even that is better than Mcphee) And nobody is going to listen from 12-3 anyway because everyone is tuned to Rush.

Barry Armstrong 3-6pm

Michael Savage live and unfiltered from 6-9pm.


~jay.
 
indystorm said:
A squawking parrot from 12-3 (because even that is better than Mcphee) And nobody is going to listen from 12-3 anyway because everyone is tuned to Rush.
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Really? I don't see any big numbers on Rush in this market.

And the numbers he does have are pretty high demos.
 
Granite Guy said:
Not a Howie fan, SB? (Although with that moniker, you must LOVE Family Guy.....or ARE YOU actually Seth McFarlane??????)
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Honestly...There's no significance with my board name...I watch FG though I'm not a huge fanboy...Personally, I want to see if I can change my name to something wackier and hackier...Can you change your name on here?
 
I'd say they should do like this when he leaves, and or now (other times Howie is not on now_

-Weeknights-
Midnight-4am "America Tonight with KateDelaney" Genesis Communications
4am-5am "Talk Radio Countdown" Genesis Communications
5am-9am Todd Feinbergh
9am-Noon "Laura Ingram" Talk Radio Network
Noon-3pm Michelle McPhee
3pm-6pm "Jerry either Avi Nelson or ["Jerry Doyal" Talk Radio Network]
6pm-9pm "America's News" Talk Radio Network
9pm-Midnight Rusty Humpries Talk Radio Network
-Saturday-
Midnight-1am "24/7 Comedy Radio Network" Cumulus Radio Network
1am-5am "Sports Overnight America" Sportsbyline USA

They should do like that
 
Not sure if Avi Nelson would want to do full time like that (btw he has a second career as a physicist or something). I do like Avi but he is kinda getting up there in age (still good though). Who knows.

3-6 pm should probably be local.
I would like them to run Dennis Miller if they can (they do run him a bit on the weekends)
For overnight sports if they don't wind up with ESPN somehow, other possibilities include
the other networks--perhaps Fox (if Sports Hub throws them aside to take CBS Sports Network),
your beloved Yahoo Sports, or the new NBC sports (package includes NFL games). I didn't know Sports Byline was still around

And I don't think they'd spend the money but would they dare do live and local talk at midnight
to counter WBZ? Probably not but if they found an up- and -coming host and gave it a shot..
then again I get the feeling Ent. without Howie would mean little attention to 680
 
just one question,with the poor ratings if Howie leaves does anyone think they will have any ratings at all?? maybe in talk 1200's territory??
 
I guess nobody on this board understands what has been going on for about 75 years on one of New York City's biggest AM signals--WOR. WOR, under several owners (Macy's/Bamburger's, General Tire, and Buckley--I've probably left out a few) has been substantially brokered time for more decades than just about anybody who reads this board has been alive. Among the brokered shows back in the '40s were Carleton Fredericks, Mary-Margaret McBride (possibly under the air name of Martha Deane), and many more. WRKO is no stranger to brokered time. They've carried Pat Whitley's restaurant show on weekends for several decades. Whitley buys the time. More recently, they've added Barry Armstrong.

The secret to making brokered time work for many hours a day every day on big major-market signals appears to be to recognize that you can't accept every offer to buy time that comes down the pike. The station needs strict guidelines on what kinds of shows it will accept. And until the schedule fills up with brokered shows, the station needs a good lineup of syndicated programs to fill the unsold time. WOR has had very long-standing deals with many of the independent producers who buy time, but I think another part of the recipe is a willingness to kick a show off the air if its producers don't live up to the guidelines that the station has set up and the producer has agreed to.
 
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