WABC could be (almost) all syndicated shows

[Alan Tolz]

It's a sad commentary on the state of available "major market" talk radio 
talent.  Bob Grant will be 80 years old. His contemporaries - Jerry 
Williams, Michael Jackson, Stan Major, Allan Burke, are all retired or gone.

Nobody came up the ranks that did not catch the syndication bug.  In a 
different time, Glen Beck would have "graduated" from New Haven, CT to New 
York or Philly rather than going syndicated, where he's on WPHT in 
Philadelphia from 9-noon anyway.

Alan
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Subject: WABC could be (almost) all syndicated shows


Sign of the times? Here, WRKO finds it's almost all syndicated shows (only 
Finneran and Howie Carr are local;
well, Carr's syndicated by Entercom technically but 'RKO is the flagship and 
it's usually Boston-based talk--
certainly lately it has been). Now WABC in New York may be just about all 
syndicated. They're doing a news
show from 5-6 am with Charles McCord, followed by Imus, (apparently) Joe 
Scarborough, Rush, Hannity, Levin,
Laura Ingraham (replacing Bob Grant) and the new Curtis Sliwa show. I think 
they do Coast to Coast after that.
(The news about "Morning Joe" comes from Tom Taylor's email-provided 
radio-info.com column.)

A powerful station in the nation's biggest city--just about all syndicated 
talk, though. As we've said local
talk is important, but it's a sign of cost-cutting (such as at WRKO, where 
the 10-noon slot had been local
for some time but got turned over to Ingraham).