How will this affect ol Rushbo and Hannity?
Our talk radio is on the foxnews radio. I believe many clear channel stations, if not all, just recently switched over.
Memo to Boys and Girls' Clubs: check your wallets.
Well .. what if Rushbo buys it .. I wouldn't be surprised if he did. It would give him more exposure, and he could have a major network involved in educating America on what conservatism really is.
> How will this affect ol Rushbo and Hannity?
Well, the dissonance is apt to be less jarring on the
local stations, where they break from these two to what
passes for "news" from ABC.
My guess is that unless some sugar daddy picks up the
net, many affiliates will switch to Fox. The only downside
of that is that they might be compelled to pick up
the populist blowhard O'Reilly.
Funny how things turn out. I prayed for the end of ABC news in our area -- so unfair in its broadcasting.
I dunno, but WABC fired Bob Grant (and IIRC Jay Diamond) shortly after the network was acquired by Disney. Listening to Grant was nevr a pleasant experience (especially if you had a headache on the commute home), but I liked Jay. I wonder if they'll hire them back after the sale?
Interestingly enough, ABC-owned Radio Disney and ESPN
Radio are not affected.
There's a crazy quilt of radio networks, radio ownership
groups, syndicators, etc.--I can't get it straight. You might have a network called "Fox Sports Radio" that is actually owned
by Premiere (Rush's syndicator), or is it Westwood One,
and "NBC News Radio" that's actually owned by Westwood One
and not NBC...?!?
Premiere does: Drudge, Rush, Phil Hendrie, Glenn Beck,
and Coast to Coast (Noory/Bell). In Boston, WRKO airs
Drudge, Rush, and Coast to Coast so evidently they're
the Premiere "affiliate". Oh, and Premiere does own
Fox News Radio. That's right. NOT Fox.
And Fox News Radio isn't the same as Fox Sports Radio
or Fox talk radio...I think. I'm so confused :)
http://www.premrad.com/shows/view/Premiere_Fox_News_Radio_Network.html
In Boston Entercom's WRKO runs news from both ABC and
Fox News, while Fox Sports Radio programming runs on its
sister station, WEEI. Greater Media's WTKK has newscasts
from both CNN and "NBC News Radio" and they carry Westwood
One-syndicated shows like Bill O'Reilly, and at least
one ABC-syndicated show, Hannity...There's a station that runs ESPN Sports but is not owned by them, etc.
Let's see, I went to Westwood One's page and find that for news radio networks they own: CBS, CNBC Business Radio,
CNN Headline News, NBC News Radio...for talk they have
Imus, Ron Insana, O'Reilly (all of which are on WTKK), etc.
What does this mean in our NY Metro area? I looked at the station portfolios of the 3 Matt listed. My question is what kind of programing does each one carry. The last, Cumulus, seemed to have more conservative areas covered. I don't want to see my Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham (my kids relate to her humor & music) and John Batchelor at night go away. What about Mark Simone?
One thing about WABC in my area, I could listen on the net if need be. That's how I listen to Tony Snow.
The house that Rush built.
It won't affect Rush, as his show is syndicated through Premiere Networks. Hannity's show syndication will probably fall under the control of the new buyer.
I listen to Rush on WLS streaming audio in my office....
Hope the lefties don't get it.
Will this mean we won't have to suffer the ABC Radio newscasts? That'll be a huge relief.
They already tried once to get rid of Melanie Morgan at KSFO last month. I wonder if this would give them a second chance at it.
-PJ