On Aug 17, 10:28 pm, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin M., in part: > > > However, with Larry King, Laura, and Oprah all nearing the end of > > their broadcast careers, there is a massive vacuum in the field > > moronic snake-oil salesmen that will need to be filled. Ryan Seacrest > > can't take over for all of them, can he? > > Radio stations have figured out a way to clone him, at least if > they're affiliated with Premiere, whose satellite facilities deliver > Laura, so it's theoretically possible.
She and Premiere ended their relationship years ago. She started her own syndication company called Take on the Day, but for the last year or so has had Talk Radio Network, the people who bring you Mancow and the charming Michael Savage, handle sales and affiliate relations. Tom Taylor of Radio-Info quotes this morning Tom Tradup of Salem Radio Network (the people who bring you Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Praeger and JAY-sus talk radio--he picked up Dr. Laura for WLS in Chicago when he was GM there) as saying that it's "a tragedy to have her, in effect, run out of our industry by a high-tech lynch mob of activists and serial boycotters." Whatever. (I thought maybe WIND, the station owned by the parent of Tradup's employers, carried Dr. Laura in Chicago since 'LS dropped her some years ago, but they don't. WIND, like I suspect many of Salem's right- wing talk stations, used to run billboards with the slogan "LIBERALS HATE US." As if that's a good enough reason to listen to a radio station--but if that's also the reason that they give that Caribou Barbie should be loved and cherished, well....) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
