KVI's management has been unable to adequatly explain this sudden replacement of Medved with Sean Hannity's show. Both shows are highly rated, and Hannity is on the rise. But KVI was Medved's flagship station, home since he started his radio career after filling in on the Rush Limbaugh show several times.
To: libertynews
I hope we still get Medved here in Montgomery.
2 posted on
09/02/2002 5:53:15 PM PDT by
TankerKC
To: libertynews
Interesting.
Medved is one of the shows that has been targeted for censorship by the Oregon Democrats. Is the situation the same in Washington?
Dave in Eugene
To: libertynews
I'm sure another station will snatch him up.
To: libertynews
WHAT!! Michael Medved is my favorite radio show. I listen everyday at work. We get Hannity later in evening- the best of both worlds. I don't like this one bit.
7 posted on
09/02/2002 6:16:04 PM PDT by
noexcuses
To: libertynews
They canned him on the station I listen to for Glenn Beck. Glenn is fine, but I think I prefer Medved. I wish his website listed his affiliate stations. So far I haven't been able to find anywhere in the Honolulu vicinity who broadcasts his show.
8 posted on
09/02/2002 6:16:50 PM PDT by
Spyder
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Too bad for KVI listeners. What will Dean from Burien do for four months without being able to call Michael "a stooge for the rich." You know he'd never bring himself to use an evil invention like a PC. Hannity is affable enough but is an intellectual lightweight compared to Medved. Michael would clean his clock on Jeopardy. In fact that would be a good tournament for Trebek to put on. Talk show hosts. Throw in some lefties to get spanked in the early rounds and end up with a final showdown between Medved, Praeger and Hewitt. Wonder if Hannity's star will fall as quickly as it has risen.
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I haven't been able to listen to Medved this summer but I love the way he slays the socialist on his show. He has a total recall of historic events that causes a loss of my bowels when he is refuting the nuts that call in even Liberal Larry.
To: libertynews
Itis money. This is going on all over the nation.
When a station picks up Hanity or Limbaugh it pays nothing for the show. The satellite show gets half the commercial content in the show for national sales. Thus if there is 14 minutes commercial time in a show, the station keeps all the revenue from the 7 minutes it sells and the syndicated show can sell the rest nationally and keep the money.
Typically a local show like Medvid would cost 10 minutes of the time sold each hour. Thus a station had to sell on average 12 minutes an hour to make a buck.
With a syndicated show, which has no production and talent costs the first two minutes sold pay all the bills for that hour. If station sells 6 minutes an hour in Hannity it makes more money than if it salls 12 minutes in a locally produced Medvid. Hanity only has to do half as well as Medvid for the station to make a lot more money.
Hannity's show can't sell locally in the market. Buying a spot on the Hannity show from the Hannity producers means buying a spot on all stations that carry Hannity. It is not really possible for Hannity to sell a spot on his show to just run on KVI. To get a spot that just runs in the local market one has to go to KVI. To buy all 130 stations costs too much for locals and offers no benifet to local stores. So the money spent for the national spots on Hanity don't hurt KVI. The locals don't buy the national spots.
If Medvid were to originate in the market, and had the right to local sales, he could sell spots on all his stations or feed separate local spots to KVI for local rates.
KVI certainly does not want that.
It is all about money. I had lunch with one of the few remaining independent major market station owners last week. I complimented him on the quality of his staff. He said that with all the syndicated shows, there was a huge talent surplus. Each of the hundreds of stations that carry Limbaugh, used to have a local person in that slot. There are thousands of fewer jobs because of the success of syndication. That has resulted is a huge natioal talent pool of very good people at very reasonable pay.
In most markets there is one sales staff selling 5 stations where there used to be 5 sales staffs. There is one local news staff doing 5 stations where there used to be 5 staffs. In many markets only morning drive time is locally staffed.
There are far fewer jobs. Money is made by carrying "time share" programs that a computer puts on the air by tuning in a satellite dish.
It is just economics. The station can make more money with Hanity than it can with Medvid. He knows the reason. He is just not telling you how it is. Everyone knows the score .... even Medivd.
To: libertynews
It's probably retaliation for the two who got canned in that St. Patricks sex radio caper a couple of weeks ago.
16 posted on
09/02/2002 6:40:54 PM PDT by
Consort
To: libertynews
That's a shame. Sean is ok, and a good guy, but Medved is GREAT. Haven't heard Hewitt yet, but of those I've heard, Medved and Praeger are the two best candidates to replace Limbaugh, when that sad day eventually comes(far away, I hope!)
To: libertynews
This is indeed a major disappointment.
Did you happen to hear the first hour of Carlson's program on Friday, when the management fielded a lot of calls from upset listeners? They said they had three options for Michael that they offered, but they couldn't work it out.
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Isn't it interesting that there is such a glut of Conservative talk hosts - Medved, Rush, Hannity, Liddy, Dr. Laura, a bunch of local ones, - and so few Liberal ones? You have to tune into network news (Rather, Brokaw, etc.) to get the Lib view.
I can get more Conservative talk shows than I can ever listen to.
To: libertynews
WHAT THE JUNK! WHAT THE H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS IS GOING ON!!! DOES ANYONE KNOW? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! MICHAEL MEDVED IS WAY WAY WAY MY FAVORITE SHOW! WHERE WILL HE BROADCAST FROM NOW? WILL HE COME BACK TO LA?
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