They can't get us to change our minds and they can't get us to stop listening to what we want to listen to but they CAN get rid of the people we like to listen to.
This is not too far away from womb to tomb when our day is morning to night what THEY want us to hear.
Consider the kids with earbuds in all day long ... what ARE they inputting ?
So far all that's left (I don't know everything, but as far as I know ... ) is Rush and Glenn.
I like radio, but for myself, the commercials were finally the end of radio as I knew it. I’ve switched over to Sirius/XM, unless something drastic occurs I will just pay a yearly fee to listen to it. Otherwise I’m going commercial Free and as a MAJOR bonus I won’t have to listen to Obama again on the ‘news’.
I’m in this market and I came across Elliott while I was driving in the car one morning. Seemed to me like nothing but stupid and scatological shtick.
Or is CC planning to spring some new national morning show on us?
They dumped Quinn and Rose here in Pittsburgh a couple of months back. Some local dweeb from Wheeling, WV is still filling that slot. Can’t imagine he’s their long-term solution.
A lot of radio folks (past and present) were surprised when Clear Channel selected “Elliot” for the morning slot. Yeah, I know they’re going after the younger demo, but his “approach” just doesn’t mesh with a conservative talk format.
Ironically, WOR is up three-tenths of a point in the latest “people meter” ratings, while WABC is down half a point. That may not sound like much, but in a huge market like NYC, it represents a definite shift, and I’d say Rush is responsible for much of it.
In fact, WOR should avoid an even bigger mistake by making a quick hire to fill the slot permanently. First of all, the pool of local hosts capable of stepping into that slot is fairly small, and it’s tough to get someone to follow a disaster like Elliot, knowing they may get canned a year or so down the road.
If I were programming WOR, I’d stick Mark Simone in the morning slot for the next six months, and give him a nice bonus for holding down the fort. That would give Clear Channel time to find a permanent host and promote him/her ahead of a mid-summer launch. Imus is at his ranch for most of the summer and when he’s not taking a day off, he’s phoning in his show—literally and figuratively. Ratings for Imus trend down in the summer, so there’s an opportunity for WOR (if they find the right host), to generate some buzz—and ratings—at that juncture.
There’s also a school of thought that says WOR can survive with a middling, even weak morning show. WABC did it for years; Curtis and Kuby rarely cracked the Top 10 in the morning slot, so WABC made its money later in the day with Rush and Hannity.
With the addition of Rush, Sean, and the Mets (plus an election year), there’s a better than 50/50 shot that WOR passes WABC in six months, even if 710 lags in the mornings. That will affirm the legacy of Lew Dickey (CEO of Cumulus, owner of WABC) as one of the biggest idiots in the history of broadcasting. Someone ought to ask him how that “Savage” experiment in the afternoons is going.
Here’s the thing that gets me: The radio professional who decided upon Eliot didn’t know he sucks. I heard maybe 10 min. of Eliot and got tired of his yelling and frenetic laugh. He ain’t NY.
I,like tried to,like, listen to Elliott but, like, he was too much, like, listening to, like, a teenager. You know, bro? Dude, he like, talked, like, like a bro, like, too much bro!
Gosh he was banal!
In CT, there is a very sucessful local radio station, WTIC AM, a 50,000 watts flame thrower. Has kept pretty much its local line-up pretty much intact.