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Beck and his fellow right-wing gabber Sean Hannity were dumped yesterday by the city’s top-ranked talk-radio outlet, WPHT, The Big Talker (1210-AM), in a shakeup aimed at keepin’ it local.

While Hannity and Beck - nationally the No. 2 and No. 3 most-listened-to talk hosts behind Rush Limbaugh - are scrambling to find a new home in America’s fourth-biggest media market, the shuffle means a more prominent role for locally based Michael Smerconish.

Thanks for making sense of this thread... at first I had no idea what "1210" was, but now I do recognize Philadelphia's WPHT, The Big Talker, 1210 AM.

Wow, that is shocking that WPHT would dump Beck and Hannity from a Rush station in a big market like that, and just when they could probably pick up many new listeners thanks to the Tea Party movement. Why would they do this? Hope this is an isolated incident and not the beginning of some "trend"...