WPOP Hartford Makes Long Awaited Talk Flip (Carr, Levin etc)

RadioInsight ^ | 8/17/15 | Lance Venta

[raccoonradio]

http://www.foxsportsradio1410.com/main.html

News Talk 1410 WPOP Hartford on air.

6a Vinnie Penn (via WELI)
10a Financial Exchange
Noon Bloomberg Radio (...for now...Rush later?)
3 p Howie Carr
6 p Mark Levin
9 p Meghan “Daughter of RINO” McCain

[taildragger]

12 - 3, Jeff Kuhner WRKO when he goes national... ( Hopefully soon )...

[twister881]

9pm-12am: Meghan McCain “Bottle Blonde Airhead Radio”

[Biggirl]

Happy that WPOP will do talk radio.

But for Rush, he will stay parked at WTIC AM.

[Sasparilla]

I can’t take more than 30 seconds of Naggin McCain.

[Biggirl]

Happy to see Mark Levin come to earth radio. Will give my puter a rest at night.

[George from New England]

fyi:

http://www.hartfordradiohistory.com/WPOP__WNBC_.html

So much history at this site.

[raccoonradio]

Maybe though they are owned by iHeart (formerly Clear Channel). If WTIC 1080 decides not to renew Rush, he may well wind up on 1410.

In Boston when WRKO decided not to renew Rush—thus giving Kuhner that noon slot, iHeart took their Spanish language WKOX 1430 to talk with Beck, Rush, Hannity etc. That may change next year when Rush’s contract with iHeart/Premiere syndication expires and Rush, if offered a contract at all,
may get “low-balled”...

[Dr. Sivana]

Happy that WPOP will do talk radio.

But for Rush, he will stay parked at WTIC AM.

Rush was on WPOP the last time it was a talk station. I remember when it was a "Pop" station (hence the call letters). Rush had to go over to WTIC,becasuse it is (In his words) a "50,000 watt blow torch". He also likes heritage stations, and WTIC goes back to the early 1920s.

[kidd]

Listen to Howie Carr for conservative fun
Listen to Levin for a conservative education

[raccoonradio]

WPOP was a pop/top 40 station years ago (hence the call letters) and they had a DJ named "Dale Denver"--real name Mike Adams, now doing night on the WEEI Sports Radio Network.

Day signal of WPOP:

Night signal of WPOP:

[Biggirl]

Listening now to the opening act before Rush, Jim Vicevich local conservative talk radio.

[Biggirl]

When I saw the map of how WTIC AM reaches, it covers all of CT and parts of RI and MA.

[raccoonradio]

Who knows..WRKO was losing money on him and they dumped him. But we’ll see if WTIC (owned by CBS I believe) decides to renew. Smaller markets like Hartford, he may not be as big a liability. WRKO’s ratings were bad and they were losing money because to carry Rush they had to place some ads iHeart was running elsewhere in the lineup.

WTIC may well keep Rush, who knows!

[Biggirl]

Listen to Rush for he is the “gold standard” of conservative talk.

[raccoonradio]

Indeed and at night WTIC is heard far away, like in Ohio...one time I was attending a minor league ballgame near Youngstown and I was getting WTIC election coverage (a Lieberman primary) on car radio.

WTIC “Traveler’s Insurance Company”...big antenna near or in Farmington, I believe

[Biggirl]

Yep, because WTIC AM has, the franchise, Ray Donnaway, Jim Vicevich, warmup for Rush, Rush, than Joe D. and Grese For Sports talk. After that, national shows take over unless there is a sports presentation.

[taildragger]

If POP is a small station they can’t afford El-Rushbo’s 500 Large a year. My guess is Kuhner will be a lot less than that... And as another poster noted TIC is a 50,000 watt blow torch and Rush loves those, WLS, WJR etc etc...

[Biggirl]

Yes, now all in Farmington, station and all.