Tom Leykis Planning A Comeback To Talk Radio

[Steven Roy]

Save the date: Tom Leykis starts his new radio show next Monday... and the highest bidder for his first live broadcast is over $3,000...

Leykis 101!!!

[vsa]

Here is a good example of how TALK is done successfully in today's world.

http://www.talkers.com/2011/07/08/alex-jones/

[DToTheJ]

Leykis resumes his talk show today, and he's looking forward to tearing John and Ken a new one:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/04/tom_leykis_new_normal.php

[Robnoxious]

About 2 minutes until Tom's triumphant return.
His website is down with a 503 error.

That's ol foward thinking Tom for ya.

[emailfailed]

I tried listening, but got the server error indeed.

[Robnoxious]

Yeah, he's probably mid rant tearing John & Ken asunder right now to a captivated audience of tens of listeners.

If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it... do you care?

[pjc1961]

The servers blew out - but are now (mostly) back online. There are several streaming links available via www.blowmeuptom.com at the Winamp, iTunes, etc. link.

Tom was on live from 3-7pm PT (6-10pm ET) and now the show will repeat every 4 hours until the next live show on Tue. 4/3/12 at 3pm PT/7pm ET.

[westfield60]

It is such a joke how pathetic this internet or podcasting radio is.  Maybe in several more years it may catch up but no one is leaving terrestrial radio for the time being. I went to Leykis website and clicked on the external player button and sure enough an error message appears. This is freaking unbelievable. The webmaster over there should be fired on the spot. How is it that on the first day they can't make the basic things work.

It just gives the impression that it is run out  someone's basement or home studio (aka Frank and Heidi).

[radio-darn]

It is such a joke how pathetic this internet or podcasting radio is. 

Yep - Tom has not - as this topic's title wrongly suggests  - made a "comeback to talk radio." He's merely on the internet, which even you and I can do with little effort, whereas getting on actual "talk radio" is a far more elusive goal.

The server problems are probably just one indication of the poor planning. Another is the hoped for $9.95 monthly subscriptions! How unrealistic is that in an era of thousands of free internet streams and where an outfit like Sirius/XM provides a whole slew of great radio streams for really not much than Tom's people seem to think that can get for just one stream.

[radiojomo]

Actually, I did some research right now on today's launch and he was running 14 different Shoutcast servers, all with 500-1,000 slots available. At 3PM, pretty much all these servers were jammed, meaning he got some great numbers in the several thousands when it came to internet listening. It is EXTREMELY difficult to know what to expect when it comes to anything internet related. Just think of what happens to the Apple website after a new iPhone is released. I was actually impressed that his tech team patched up most of the streaming problems by the start of the 4PM hour. 
His show was pretty much the same as what you would hear on KLSX. Except for the end of the 4PM hour where he got caught up talking to some nobody band.