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WSPZ Cuts All Local Weekday Programs... Cluster Shake-Up Continues

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jetfli

Dunaway & Brown's afternoon sports talk program is being shifted from WSPZ to take the afternoon spot at WAPI. The shift means there are no more live weekday programs in the WSPZ line-up.

The cluster says it has every intention of the AM staying sports, but with national programming. Clearing out a whole day like this sounds suspiciously as though it is being cleared for a full day of ESPN programming. I mean, with ESPN in house, why would you clear out a whole day for Fox?

Meanwhile, the shift's impact at WAPI has Murphy moving to mornings and Rox downsizing to a one hour news spot (maybe just 45 minutes to be paired with Paul Harvey) that effectively splits Boortz. Then they'll run Hannity's full three-hour show, but no longer live and after Dunaway & Brown. When the dust clears, Beck is MIA.

The WAPI changes could likely mean the station is headed to 100.5, maybe with some slight programming differences between AM & FM. It at least puts a possible simulcast of the station back into contention with True Oldies as the frequency's next format.
 
Zach said:
duncanalausa said:
sounds like a decent linup for the fm if it happens. simulcasting am & fm talk. that i don't like.
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I don't like simulcasts like that either, but WAPI could use the coverage boost. It seems neither WAPI nor 100.5 will do a good job of covering the entire metro.
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Even though an FM simulcast could help WAPI, I hope 100.5 doesn't wind up being a simulcast of WAPI (or anything else for that matter). Do we really need another talk station, even if it's just a simulcast? That'd be sort of ironic though if 100.5 did wind up simulcasting WAPI and became WAPI-FM. :D


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And if it happens, is the irony lost on anyone besides me that the WAPI call letters ("API" standing for Alabama Polytechnic Institute, see also, Auburn University) would be licensed to a station that primarily serves Tuscaloosa? Gee, the Bammers can't catch a break, can they? ;)
 
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