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WOR on the look for local talent in the evenings

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scott5

That's according to Talkers magazine online edition:

"WOR Looking to Launch New Evening Show in 2012. Pardon the mixed fruit metaphor, but plum talk show jobs like this don’t come up that often in the Big Apple as WOR tips TALKERS to its plans to fill 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm with a new show at the beginning of the year. According to program director Scott Lakefield, the legendary station is completely open to all ideas as it looks to bring in someone or something new to fill that cool two-hour slice of its evening schedule. Lakefield tells TALKERS that the timing of the move is being designed to coincide with forthcoming changes at the end of the year in the business relationship between Dial Global and Philadelphia-based talker Michael Smerconish whose syndicated program is currently in that slot. Lakefield points out that in keeping with the station’s present direction of focusing on locally-originated talent with a broad-based political/social agenda, the station would most-likely hire a non-syndicated talent such as it offers in morning drive with John Gambling and the recent addition of former New York Governor David Paterson in afternoons. “We are very encouraged by the response we are getting with these shows and feel that the station is filling a real programming void in New York news/talk radio programming.”

Your thoughts/ideas ??
 
Smerconish is my favorite show on the station! I'm all for live and local, but can't they dump someone else to achieve it?
 
joshie0 said:
Smerconish is my favorite show on the station! I'm all for live and local, but can't they dump someone else to achieve it?
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From the article quoted, it would seem that Smerconish and his syndicator, Dial-Global, will be parting ways at the end of the year. Maybe there will be no Smerconish show at all, for any station, unless he finds another syndicator for 2012.
 
CTListener said:
From the article quoted, it would seem that Smerconish and his syndicator, Dial-Global, will be parting ways at the end of the year. Maybe there will be no Smerconish show at all, for any station, unless he finds another syndicator for 2012.
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Smerconish will continue with the radio show. Here's the second part of Talkers report:

"Meantime, in light of this development, TALKERS checked with Dial Global to ascertain the status of the syndicated Michael Smerconish program learning that the changes ahead will simply pertain to the production and ownership of the successful show and not to its continuation as a syndicated offering in the new year. According to Dial Global vice president Amy Bolton, “It’s moving from a Dial Global-owned product to being a repped product owned by an outside producer. We hope to announce the details shortly. But it is all good. In essence, nothing changes as we would still handle ad sales, affiliate sales and distribution.” Michael Smerconish is a perennial member of the TALKERS Heavy Hundred and generally recognized as not only being the leading news/talk talent in Philadelphia but one of the hottest rising stars on the national talk media scene."
 
With them specifying the "8-10 PM" time slot, it tells me that Savage is safe, despite now having 1/8 of his show pre-empted for a partial simulcast of "NBC Nightly News."

Speaking of evenings, I'm wondering what WOR will be doing with the late evening slot starting at 10 PM... one would have to think Dr. Joy would be long in the tooth at this point... maybe they can opt for sassy, stimulating medical talk radio - and a show that's live in that time slot... Dr. Daliah, perhaps?
 
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