Bring back Lord Edward Fitzgerald!
Posted on 12/05/2008 9:17:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
Bill O’Reilly’s just plain over-worked, and can’t keep doing radio.
Yes, it’s official, final, confirmed, and you-won’t-have-Bill-to-kick-around-any-more for-sure. That leaves a hole in the daytime schedule for Westwood One, whose then-CEO Joel Hollander convinced the Fox News Channel personality to host a daily “Radio Factor” starting in May 2002. Now the New York Daily News has Bill saying he’ll be giving up his daily radio gig “in the first quarter of next year.” The affiliate count of 430 stations looks very impressive, and Hollander said it was the biggest coordinated launch of a talkshow ever back in ’02. But some of those clearances weren’t on the top-rated or even core-metro stations, and that’s the same problem anybody new has to battle in talk radio – Rush and Hannity and a few other talkers have had key dayparts sewn up for years. For O’Reilly, shelving “Radio Factor” is a necessity, given the 60-65 hours a week he’s putting in now, between Fox, radio and his newspaper column and other work. He says “I just can’t keep doing that.”
New York’s WOR (710) didn’t wait for Bill O’Reilly to officially leave radio.
Their new daytime lineup starting January 5 imports Glenn Beck, 9-11am, and Lou Dobbs, 2-4pm. It also drops Dennis Miller along with Bill O’Reilly. And in one of the most significant changes for a station that used to make a lot of revenue from this particular specialty, it will no longer serve up a midday program devoted to cooking and dining. That job’s been handled over the years by folks like Rocco DiSpirito, Arthur Schwartz and (currently) Mike Colameco, who hosts the 11am-noon “Food Talk.” The new lineup also gives its WOR-syndicated Dr. Joy Browne a brief daytime appearance, so she’ll be working a split shift - 1-2pm, then 9-11pm, as part of the late-evening Doc Block with Dr. Ronald Hoffman.
Here’s the WOR roster for 2009 – The WOR Morning News, 5-5:30am. John Gambling, 5:30-9am. Glenn Beck, 9 -11am (a live clearance). Joan Hamburg, 11am-1pm (currently 9-11am). Dr. Joy Browne, 1-2pm. Lou Dobbs, 2-4pm (clearing live). The local Steve Malzberg, 4-6pm. Michael Savage, 6-9pm. Dr. Joy Browne, 9-11pm. Dr. Ronald Hoffman, 11pm-midnight. And the irrepressible Joey Reynolds, still one of the few live overnight syndicated talkshows, doing the third-shift midnight-5am slot.
Bring back Bob Grant!
Here’s a national spot for Tammy Bruce!
He’s 60 kilocycles up the dial, back on 770 WABC.
Tammy Bruce? No way. I can’t stand her anymore since a few FReepers filled me in on her militant pro-abortion activities. You can be pro-choice and be a Republican. I have no problem with that. But when you start escorting women into clinics and trashing pro-lifers that’s where we part ways.
Bring back Lord Edward Fitzgerald!
No, Grant was dumped recently by WABC for Laura Ingraham
12:00PM 3:00PM Rush Limbaugh
3:00PM 6:00PM Sean Hannity
6:00PM 8:00PM Mark Levin
8:00PM 10:00PM Laura Ingraham
10:00PM 12:00AM Curtis Sliwa
Larry Elder.
Actually Grant was dumped so they could find an evening slot for Sliwa.
They pushed Laura up two hours. (And cut an hour out of her show...much to my chagrin.)
Good riddance to Bill the Blowhard!
Or rather BOR realizes that he CANNOT compete with EL Rushbo.
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