Miller, Schultz and Hartman off WWZN?

[BosRad]

Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz and Thom Hartman are off the program schedule on WWZN.  Feel bad for the people who invested in that station.  Other than Al Sharpton, I have not heard of any of the replacement hosts listed on the website.  Since Dial Global didn't renew their contract with WWZN, I wonder if they're looking for another outlet in the Boston market?

[Schuyler]

If you pull down the ON AIR menu and hover over the new 10am, noon and 7pm titles, Stephanie's, Ed's, and Thom's come up in the little "hidden caption" box (whatever you kids call it).  But not a word of explanation for the change.

[whdh1920]

talk 101.7 anyone?? with a different lineup

[raccoonradio]

Someone on a different thread talked about how their favorite syndie talk show, which ran 10 am-noon, would be going off locally this week. I thought, wait, if they meant Laura I. she
was on 11a-1 pm...but Steph Miller was on 10-noon, right?

Dare CC try prog talk, or maybe shift cons talk to 101.7 and put libtalk on 1200?

WWZN lists Warren Ballantine, Democracy Now, Al Sharpton etc

[raccoonradio]

btw while WRKO goes with 4 hours of McPhee I kind of wish they could have done 1 or 2 hrs of Dennis Miller (yes, he is syndicated, and yes I can get him in the car here on the North Shore via WZAN 970 over the water from Po'tland, ayuh). "Of course that's just my opinion...hey, I could be wrong"--The aforementioned Mr Miller. "Now I don't want to get off on a rant here, but..."

[raccoonradio]

Dem. Now has been on WZBC I think, even if you haven't heard it. Some local access cable stations run a TV version of it too.

[fmradio1]

CC doing progressive talk is not new.  KTLK/LA, WDTW/Detroit, KPOJ/Portland, KKZN/Denver, KABQ/Albuquerque and WXXM/Madison, WI still run the format.  Boston would be a good fit to try it again, since the leading national hosts (Miller, Schultz & Hartmann) are more established now.  In addition, CC-owned Premiere Networks distributes progressive talker Randi Rhodes.  Putting the format on 1200 gives the company another revenue stream instead of wasting a signal to a simulcast (like WEEI is doing with 850) and it keeps the progressive talk option away from other competitors.  Makes sense, actually.

[WNTIRadio]

You really think that CC is going to put "Lib Talk" on 1200 after it couldn't even muster a tenth of a point on 1510?

They may as well shut off the transmitter, they would save money by not paying the electric bill for 50kW. 

This IS a business, remember?

[fmradio1]

Several years ago CC ran progressive talk on 1200 & 1430 and it regularly rated around a one share, and that was before the signal upgrade to 1200.  With at least a little promotion (and no Jeff Santos) it could do it again.  Besides, if the conservatalkers move to 101.7 next month as expected, how many listeners will 1200 have if it's just a straight simulcast?  Close to zero.  It would cost little to run (all birdfed, maybe one local host), and could be sold in tandem with the other station. It's worth a shot.

[raccoonradio]

Interesting...For ratings I'm not sure if WWZN subscribes but they tend to not show up at all.
(If anything PPMs have been killing some talk stations in the ratings, but maybe the moves to
FM will help.)

>> it regularly rated around a one share, and that was before the signal upgrade to 1200.

0.6, 0.7, maybe a 1 but of course I'm talking about the 6-plus numbers we get to see not the 25-54s

They'd want to keep the cons talk on one of the two freqs in question (1200 or 101.7--though more than a few think 101.7 could go Spanish), to clear shows, ads (Rush, Beck, Hannity and they do have the 2 local hosts). Ratings may not be spectacular but they can sell national and local ads and make at least some money with conserv--maybe even prog talk.

Entercom does prog talk in Buffalo but I get the feeling it doesn't do well. Stuck with it
though.
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/buffalo-niagara-falls
(WWKB does a bit less than a 1 but again, 6 plus. WBEN, conservative talk I think, does better for them, a lot better.)

It is a business but either argument could be valid.

--
First ep of WKRP in Cincinnati
MRS CARLSON (station owner): Young man, this radio station is a business. It is not here for
your personal listening pleasure.

ANDY TRAVIS (new prog dir who switched format to rock): Ma'am I know it's a business. That's
why I had no choice but to change the format.