RE: Is WBZ that hard up for ad revenue?

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

There must be bad blood between Armstrong and either 
Alex Langer or Brad and Bonnie Bleidt who LMA WBIX from 
Langer M-F 6:00 AM-7:00 PM. One would think that if 
Armstrong wanted to be on a Boston-market station that 
does financial talk and that can be heard beyond the 
limits of its own ground system, he'd go for WBIX. He 
surely could buy the time there for a lot less than WRKO 
charges.

Almost everything if not flat-out everything that 
appears on WBIX is brokered time. If Armstrong bought 
time for a program, the program would have to air 
outside of the hours programmed by the Bleidts. That 
means Armstrong would be dealing directly with Langer. 
Of course, the Bleidts may have veto power over any WBIX 
financial talk show that they don't provide themselves. 
Still, WBIX carries a Saturday morning financial talk 
show done (and paid for) by Stu Taylor.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205
eFax 707-215-6367
> Bill O'Neill writes:
> 
> >A clear channel flamethrower humping vitamins?  When do they run that
> >again?   I'll call everyone I know and invite them to set their alarm
> >clocks.  Now, if they pre-empt Sullivan for St. Johns Wort....
> 
> I happened to tune in to Wisconsin Blimps and Zeppelin at about 9:30pm
> yesterday. For a while they had been pre-empting the last half hour of Neil
> Chayet's call-in lawyer show for an info-mercial. Yesterday this Chayet was
> still on the air until right up until 10.
> 
> Also on my infomercial watch list, I notice that Barry Armstrong (as in WBNW
> 1120), has been buying a 1 hour block of time from 7 to 8pm on to air a
> WRKO - right after Bob Brinker. It sort of an edition of Money Matters. At
> first I thought that 'RKO had signed on Armstrong or somethning. Then at the
> half our break an announcer came on with a 'paid-programming' announcement.
> I just looked at WRKO's web site, and their Sunday programming schedule
> lists 7 to 9pm Sunday as 'paid programming' So two hours of info-mercials.
> Now we know what those supposedly six-figure earning sales people they are
> advertising for are up to. :-)
> 
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
> 
> 
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