Greater Media confirms WTKK ends talk at 10 AM tomorrow (1-2-2013)

[Kevin Vahey]

But Steve had his loyal core of fans and that has been splintered by having
a host du jour.

I am sure GM regrets not going to sports when they had the chance but they
also crunched the Red Sox numbers and they don't work.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:

> On 1/1/2013 2:21 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
>> My big fear is CBS will move Overnight America back to WBZ as
>> no permanent host has been hired to do overnights.
>>
>>
> WBZ got so much negative publicity the last time they tried that, so I
> doubt they wanna go through that again.  As for talk radio, it desperately
> needs to be re-invented.  It has not done a good job reaching younger
> demos, and there are just so many angry white males out there-- many of
> whom much prefer sports-talk anyway (the famous "bloodthirsty shut-ins").
>  I rarely agree with Michael Savage, but he warned conservative talkers
> that they were gonna die out as a format if all they did day and night was
> just bash President Obama-- no matter how you may dislike the current
> administration (whichever the party in power), if all you talk about day in
> and day out is one topic, you gradually turn off people who are tired of
> hearing about it.  So what is next for talk radio as a format?
>