Boston mag.: WTKK to go local with McPhee

[Sean Smyth]

Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
> Which adds up to 33 hours of local talk a day, which has got to put 
> Boston very much in the top tier of talk radio cities!
> 
> With WABC's nearly all-syndie schedule now (Imus, Rush, Hannity,
> Levin, 
> etc.), and WOR as the only real talk competition in the city, there's
> no 
> way NYC's total adds up to anything even close, and the picture in 
> Philadelphia and DC is even more bleak. LA is worse yet.
> 
> I haven't added up the numbers, but I'd guess Chicago (pretty much
> all 
> day local on WGN, plus strong local content on WLS) and San Francisco
> 
> (all local on KGO, plus some local shows on KSFO and KNEW) would 
> probably rank second and third in local talk hours, just on a hunch.

1. Is it fair to not count syndicated shows in NYC? Sure, they're not
talking about Bloomberg's moves running the city, but we are talking
the No. 1 market -- a big (no pun intended) appetite there for national
talk, no? It's not like we're talking about syndie talk popping up on a
station in the North Country or something.

2. If you counted sports talk, NYC's numbers may well surpass Boston.


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