Re: Woody Woodland, Glen Beck and WGIR

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com>]

dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:
>I was exposed to Beck on a 
>trip to Tampa in October. My reaction was "man, was this 
>small-market non-talent lucky to land a gig in a big 
>market working for America's largest radio company that 
>syndicates him God knows where." I chalked it up to the 
>low level of inteligence and sophistication of the Tampa 
>audience and of Clear Channel's "we don't have to put on 
>good programming; we own all the stations, so the 
>listeners have nowhere else to go" attitude.


There is plenty of weak syndicated programming around, not all of it
CC/Premiere.  Even some of the shows with a fairly large affiliate base are
not exempt.  I cringe at the number of clichés the Dolans manage to work in
per sentence.