>>Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Rush move : Daytime talk titan to debut on new signal next week
Boston's brand new talk radio station Rush Radio 1200/WXKS AM, in the works for months for April 1st launch, will push up its start time by 3 weeks as it kicks off with a major piece of its new sound starting at Noon next Monday(3/8), BRW has learned. Rush Limbaugh, for 15 years the pivot man of WRKO AM 680's daytime schedule, will now air from 12pm to 3pm on WXKS AM 1200(as of last night, the old WKOX call letters now reside on AM 1430 frequency).
Sean Hannity will follow Limbaugh from 3 to 6pm. Landing Limbaugh makes AM 1200 the Boston outlet for the nation's three most-listened-to syndicated talk hosts, according to the radio trade journal Talkers Magazine, which counts Limbaugh's cumulative weekly national audience at 15 million, Hannity's at 14 million and Glenn Beck at 9 million. WRKO AM 680 will counter deferctor Rush with a new local show hosted by Charley Manning(see story below).
Beyond Limbaugh and Hannity, Rush Radio's new lineup will have Glenn Beck(9am-Noon), Jason Lewish(6pm-9pm), Mark Levin(9pm-Midnight) and Coast to Coast(12am-5am).
The new local morning show is yet to be announced and will debut on April 1st according to sources. WRKO's early Rush pull-out this week caught the new talker off guard as it's rushing(no pun, intended) to air with its new line-up. Rush' reruns will air in the AM drive until local show show is ready to debut in three weeks.
(Note: One rumor has it that "Rumba" on AM 1200 will end at 3 pm on Fri, followed by "stunting" of Best of Rush till Monday at noon)
Didn’t know who Jason Lewis was, so just looked him up. Found this graph on his web site that looks pretty damning of Tim Pawlenty: http://www.jasonlewisshow.com/pages/taxes.html
(Scroll down the page to see how taxes have risen during his term in office.)
Morning drive time is a void in the Boston area, hope they come up with something. I heard the station that signed Howie before the court overturned his contract wanted him in the AM. Too bad.
They are directional to avoid interfering with WOAI in San Antonio, the "grandfather" station on that frequency.
Here's their pattern:
See Dude, that could be us. I mentioned doing this to you like 2 years ago remember?
How/why did WRKO let Rush get away? This is going to kill them and WEEI is getting a bite taken out of them by 98.5.
Time to fire the whole Boston Entercom crew is you ask me.