O'REILLY RADIO SHOCKER: STATIONS PAID TO CARRY SHOW

drudgereport.com ^ | May 6, 2002 | Matt Drudge

[GreatOne]

In a dramatic reversal from normal radio practice, stations are being paid big bucks to carry Bill O'Reilly's new nationally syndicated talkshow, the DRUDGE REPORT can now disclose...

[GreatOne]

More later, I suppose.

Don't know if this is a big deal (O'Reilly's ego is really starting to wear on me, anyway), or it's a big yawn (Drudge being a wussy).

[PeteF]

Drudge was pretty steamed about O'Reilly last night..

[mdittmar]

I think Matt's a little p.o.ed at O'reilly.

Should be fun to watch it unfold.

[PeteF]

I agree...

This one is going to be entertaining, to say the least

[Senator Pardek]

That was reported here a couple of days ago by a Freeper who's "in the know".

[Goldi-Lox]

O'Reilly and his swelled ego...steenk! We don't need no steenking O'Reilley.

(But Smith and Hume - they's okays!)

[ambrose]

can you say... "hissy fit"?

[browardchad]

O'Really said something about Drudge "hating" him tonight -- acutally, these two curmudgeons deserve each other.

[Tuor]

O'Reilly lied to Drudge on Drudge's radio show. Flat out. I would be pretty steamed if I were Drudge. I think anyone would be.

Tuor

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

That was reported here a couple of days ago by a Freeper who's "in the know".

Really? I'd like to read that post but can't find it using the Search facility. Do you have the URL, maybe in your browser's history list? Thanks in advance.

[harpo11]

That's ok, tax payers paid impeached Clinton, too.

[hole_n_one]

That was reported here a couple of days ago by a Freeper who's "in the know".

Here's a list, as best as I can tell, of who's "in the know".......

1. hole_n_one

[M. Thatcher]

From Drudge:

O'Reilly's radio flagship in New York City, WOR-AM, alone is being paid $300,000, according to sources, just to carry the cable star's radio program, which launches on Wednesday... MORE...

[Jolly Green]

O'Reilly lied to Drudge on Drudge's radio show. Flat out. I would be pretty steamed if I were Drudge. I think anyone would be.

This is bogus. O'Reilly explained this rather well tonight, I thought, when he said he told Drudge he wouldn't go up against Rush while Rush was handicapped i.e. deaf, but after Rush's implant was a success, all bets were off. Sounds realsonable to me. That's not a lie, that's a change in the environment. Drudge can whine all he wants.

[Burr5]

As long as he doesn't BRIBE WOWO here in Fort Wayne to dump Glenn Beck (the best!) or Rush (without whom I could not live), he can screw the rest of the free market all he wants.

[VinnyTex]

What did O'Reilly lie about!

[July 4th]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY MAY 07, 2002 04:57:05 ET XXXXX

O'REILLY RADIO SHOCKER: STATIONS PAID TO CARRY SHOW

**Exclusive**

In a dramatic reversal from normal radio practice stations are being paid big bucks to carry Bill O'Reilly's new nationally syndicated talkshow, the DRUDGE REPORT can now disclose.

O'Reilly's radio flagship in New York City, WOR-AM, alone is being paid $300,000, according to sources, just to carry the cable star's radio program, which launches on Wednesday.

Difficulty clearing O'Reilly in the Washington, DC market raised the payout price to $200,000, according to insiders -- a payout that was rejected by all major stations in the region!

It is not known if KABC in LOS ANGELES was awarded cash to run the daily program.

Incentives to carry O'Reilly came after syndicator WESTWOODONEINFINITYVIACOM had trouble placing the controversial TV host and best-selling author.

Unlike his targeted radio competitor Rush Limbaugh, who has never paid stations to carry his broadcast, O'Reilly launches this week under a cloud of controversy.

"This is without precedent in the spoken word format of commercial radio," noted a broadcast executive who personally rejected an O'Reilly offer.

But a source close to the O'Reilly's no-spin team explains, "This is simply money for marketing."

As first reported in this space last November, FOXNEWS host O'Reilly has been planning to join the radio wars. Initially denying a deal was afoot, months later O'Reilly and syndicator WESTWOODONE struck a deal.

"The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly is the Biggest Launch in the History of Talk Radio; To Air On a Record 205 Radio Stations Nationwide," trumpeted a BUSINESS WIRE press release issued by O'Reilly's syndicator this week.

Stations ready to air the program include: "WAIT-AM, Chicago; KTCT-AM, San Francisco; KRLD-AM, Dallas; WALR-AM, Atlanta."

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[Palladin]

Just two roosters strutting and puffing out their feathers. A feud would make good copy for both of them.

[Jolly Green]

Sheesh! The whiners are coming out of the woodwork. We don't like Rush, we don't like Drudge, we don't like O'Reilly. You're a sorry lot!