

BREAKING NEWS: Jaybird Drennan Passes Away.BREAKING NEWS: Browns, Clear Channel Renew Through.EXCLUSIVE: Bull About To Ride in Canton?.BREAKING NEWS: WRQK Swap to Clear Channel Filed.

BREAKING NEWS: WMMS Voice Len "Boom" Goldberg Pass.But they had established local talent hours in the evening that they blew off. I don't want to listen to reruns of Hannity, and I don't particularly care to listen to Rush. What Riley wasn't comprehending is that the guy was complaining about losing Beck LIVE and inserting RERUNS of Hannity in the evening. Again, Riley was hammering a guy who was complaining that they dumped the #3 rated syndicated show, but were carrying #2 as a rerun. Riley said this morning on Open Lines that it had something to do with not being able to get a meteorologist during the evening hours when they had bad weather. Dumping Steve Cannon for reruns of Hannity and the last hour of the previous nights Coast to Coast. WTVN has made some major blunders in the past few years. Nonetheless, they shouldn't have dumped him the way they did, although I like Joel Riley better. He was funny and witty, but his monotone, fast talking delivery was just too much to bear. (By the way.the contestant buzzed in that the question was "What are electric.power plants?" Ah, well.)įor me, listening to Sterling was like getting a root canal.

We'd probably fall over backwards and have a heart attack if we saw OMW as the subject of an answer on "Jeopardy!", like good ol' 100K was recently. ("Your Talk Station", perhaps?)Īnd when we say "world-famous", we mean it. He tells us that WTPG has picked up new call letters.WYTS. We know of one other change for 1230, thanks to long-time Friend of OMW Scott Fybush, keeper of world-famous radio/TV data site. We hear Westwood One's Bill O'Reilly may also be in the mix, along with what we'd assume is a new affiliation for sister WLW/700-based syndicated overnight trucking show "America's Truckin' Network with Steve Sommers".

* Self-syndicated money advice guru Dave Ramsey in afternoon drive. * Premiere sports talk star Jim Rome making his return to both Columbus and an old frequency in the noon-3 slot. * WPGB/104.7 Pittsburgh-based Jim Quinn and Rose Somma-Tennant's "War Room" in morning drive. The lineup presented to us - starting January 8th - would include: We also are hearing what will happen to sister liberal talk outlet WTPG/1230 "Progressive Talk 1230".Īccording to those who heard the above mentioned WTVN appearance, 1230 will become a sister talk station (without the current liberal lineup) to 610. Hannity's show took hold in late evenings after the station dumped long-time late night host Steve "Boom Boom" Cannon. The Riley move to the 9 AM-noon slot allows the station to expand popular afternoon drive host John Corby another hour (3-7 PM), and ABC Radio host Sean Hannity's show moves up to 7-10 PM. Losing yet another large market Clear Channel talk station clearance is Premiere's Glenn Beck, who will be bounced off of WTVN's mid-morning slot in favor of.local host Joel Riley, who's currently on the schedule from 6-9 PM. This afternoon on talk WTVN/610, station management announced another reshuffling of the station's talk show lineup. OMW readers in Central Ohio tell us that rumored changes at Clear Channel's two Columbus AM outlets have been announced, officially.
