Some of these stations are so dilluted with national hosts that they’re opting for locals. I was in radio for 25 years and can’t say that it was overly exciting to hear everything so homogenized. Driving from town to town it’d be refreshing to hear local talk.
Hannity being replaced makes even more sense. He’s boring. Talks to the same guests over and over. Coulter, Gingrich, Rove. It’s old and boring.
Yes; in Prov RI for example Citadel’s WPRO has all local hosts while Clear Channel’s WHJJ is mostly their own
syndie hosts like Rush, Hannity, etc; not sure how ratings are but you see one station taking the local tilt. In Boston
conservative talk WRKO and WTKK have a lot of local hosts
while Rush Radio 1200 is mostly those Premiere hosts; while
the former two have gotten good ratings, the latter one has not. (Though Rush Radio does have a local morning show)
My favorite talk host is a local/regional one, New
England’s Howie Carr
I agree with you about Sean Hannity. He’s a nice man, but he isn’t the brightest bulb on the tree, nor is he a deep thinker.
Every conservative lineup should include Rush and Levin, but after that, local programming is valuable, if it is done well. Our local talk show hosts helped to flip the entire state (WI) from Dem to Repub in the last election. They saw to it that the Repub candidates had access to listeners to counteract the union ads and the local liberal rag.