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(8/11/2012 3:21:00 PM) Flag as inappropriate content
WABC, WLS, KABC, once legendary role models for talk radio, reduced to being an embarrassment. Lack of pride is obvious, no excitement, boring radio and if Huckabee makes any meaningful contribution of success for Cumulus, Huckabee needs direction...Limbaugh doesn't...he's a rock star. Huckabee thus far is a modern day version of Arthur Godfrey and sounds as dated.
KGO didn't seem to be dragging down Disney/ABC or even Citadel. It was my understanding that KGO was subsidizing the rest of the station group during the final days of Citadel. Cumulus fired all the talent and went to "news on the cheap". The station is unlistenable. You alienate your legacy audience and then wonder why the station is dragging you down? It's about the content stupid.
Lew Dickey has no one to blame for the News/Talk poor performance other than himself.
The guy has no practical major market programming knowledge in the format.
No applicable knowledge and ignorance about what is needed for success in the format.
Watching this spoiled brat destroy station after station is the best thing that can happen to him. When all of the marbles are counted he will have nothing left except towers and equipment and no listeners.
So sad that Dickey is so self-centered he had no tolerance to learn from the huge and excellent talent pool he once had on staff.
Didn't this all start with Bob "Booble" Struble and his Big Group Radio CEO's when they decided to squeeze every last drop from radio by destroying it then planning to go IPO?
Does anyone have a success story for narrowly-focused programming appealing to a limited audience segment of a particular mindset?
Lew is short for "Lew-ser."
His middle name is probably Dick.
The man and his company lacks integrity, ethics, scruples...oh, and common sense!
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(8/11/2012 3:21:00 PM) Flag as inappropriate content
WABC, WLS, KABC, once legendary role models for talk radio, reduced to being an embarrassment. Lack of pride is obvious, no excitement, boring radio and if Huckabee makes any meaningful contribution of success for Cumulus, Huckabee needs direction...Limbaugh doesn't...he's a rock star. Huckabee thus far is a modern day version of Arthur Godfrey and sounds as dated.
- John Rook
(8/11/2012 7:28:37 AM) Flag as inappropriate contentKGO didn't seem to be dragging down Disney/ABC or even Citadel. It was my understanding that KGO was subsidizing the rest of the station group during the final days of Citadel. Cumulus fired all the talent and went to "news on the cheap". The station is unlistenable. You alienate your legacy audience and then wonder why the station is dragging you down? It's about the content stupid.
- JD
(8/10/2012 8:12:33 PM) Flag as inappropriate contentLew Dickey has no one to blame for the News/Talk poor performance other than himself.
The guy has no practical major market programming knowledge in the format.
No applicable knowledge and ignorance about what is needed for success in the format.
Watching this spoiled brat destroy station after station is the best thing that can happen to him. When all of the marbles are counted he will have nothing left except towers and equipment and no listeners.
So sad that Dickey is so self-centered he had no tolerance to learn from the huge and excellent talent pool he once had on staff.
- Jim Schlichting
(8/10/2012 4:25:09 PM) Flag as inappropriate contentDidn't this all start with Bob "Booble" Struble and his Big Group Radio CEO's when they decided to squeeze every last drop from radio by destroying it then planning to go IPO?
- Boner
(8/10/2012 4:22:34 PM) Flag as inappropriate content- Anon
(8/10/2012 2:14:02 PM) Flag as inappropriate contentDoes anyone have a success story for narrowly-focused programming appealing to a limited audience segment of a particular mindset?
- Robert Jenkins
(8/10/2012 1:58:30 PM) Flag as inappropriate contentLew is short for "Lew-ser."
His middle name is probably Dick.
The man and his company lacks integrity, ethics, scruples...oh, and common sense!
- David Aamodt
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