News From Philly--Could It Impact Boston?

["Joseph Gallant" <loungetv@onebox.com>]

Although this is not a Boston/New England story, I'll share it with you
for reasons that will become obvious as you read the full post:

According to FMQB.com's scrolling "Headlines" (at this time, 1:30 P.M.
Friday September 7th, details are yet to be posted), Philadelphia's WYSP-FM
will not replace departing program director Neal Mirsky, who's headed
for Kansas City.

The reason I bring this to your attention is that WYSP, which has carried
Howard Stern for years (like Boston's WBCN) and is otherwise a rock station,
now also carries Opie & Anthony (again like WBCN).

What this may mean is that WYSP could be following in the footsteps of
New York's WNEW-FM and become round-the-clock extreme talk. And, CBS/Westwood
One/Infinity has a syndicated lineup of extreme-talk hosts that WYSP
could "plug-into".

Were WYSP to take the full lineup of CBS/Infinity/Westwood One shock
jocks, then there would be nothing local to program. A program director
would not be necessary.

This may be a sign that Philadelphia's WYSP is about to go fulltime extreme
talk. And if they do so soon, several other Infinity stations that run
Stern and Opie & Anthony, like WBCN, will probably follow suit in short
order.

So savor any music you hear on 104.1 here in Boston. The music might
not be there for much longer.

Joseph Gallant
Reply to: <notquite@hotmail.com> 

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