Laura bump
Posted on 08/25/2003 10:52:14 AM PDT by kattracks
The Laura Ingraham Show will begin airing live 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Eastern with her new syndicator Talk Radio Network (TRN) September 1st.
New York’s 770 WABC has picked up Laura and will clear her daily radio program. With her previous syndicator, Laura Ingraham’s program grew to 192 affiliates, but this will be her debut in the nation’s number one radio market.
"There can be no clearer sign that Laura Ingraham has arrived. WABC adding her daily program is confirmation of what we already believed when we signed Laura. Her talent, wit and passion has taken her to the top,” says Mark Masters, CEO of TRN.
"Laura gives many AM affiliates something that they need – a smart, fun, female presence to broaden the station's audience appeal and avoid being pigeon holed as having an 'old guy' lineup," he added.
In addition to hosting her own nationally syndicated radio program, Ingraham is an author, frequent columnist and television commentator. Her book "The Hillary Trap," first released in June 2000, was recently published in an updated paperback version. Her new book, "Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics...and the U.N. are Subverting America" (Regnery) will be released in September.
Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justice Clarence Thomas.
TRN also syndicates The Michael Savage Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Bob Dornan Show, Motor Trend Radio Magazine, Fight Back with David Horowitz and many other fine programs.
Every now and then I'll sit down and put together what I think is a "dream lineup" for a talk radio station, comprised of all my favorite hosts in time slots as close to their own slots as possible.
Check this out:
5:00 to 10:00 AM -- Imus in the morning, with his entire cast.
10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon -- Ed Koch, immediately after he left office as Mayor of New York.
12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM -- Rush Limbaugh, c.1990-1994, with his full supporting staff including H.R. "Kit" Carson, Lo Bianco, and (of course) Bo Snerdley.
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM -- Bob Grant.
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM -- Jay Diamond (even though he never liked this slot on WABC because he was always pre-empted by the Yankees and Devils).
10:00 PM to 2:00 AM -- Curtis Sliwa (minus Ron Kuby). Some of the most bizarre things you ever heard on the air were uttered by Curtis Sliwa when he didn't have someone to rein him in.
2:00 AM to 5:00 AM -- Art Bell, if you could stay up late enough to listen to him.
Keep in mind that it is going to be convoluted no matter how they schedule them. Once the Devils are back on the air starting in late October, they are going to be on about 90 times in the course of six months anyway.
That's the kind of thing that made Jay Diamond a legend on the air. He would find the most trivial story on page 47 of the New York Times, and spend 20 minutes doing voice-overs and caricatures of the people in the story.
Laura bump
I'm listening to her now filling in for Gambling, and it sounds like the evening show will be in addition to her morning show, not a rebroadcast. She's in the midst of changing companies right now, so the details have been a little hard to come by, but it sounds like it is all settled now. It should be clear by the end of this week(if it already isn't to all).
She does support Arnold. And... she's fantastic. I'm soooo glad she replaced Larry Elders on WABC - he wasn't bad, but she's so much better.
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