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630 WMAL's Grandy & Andy FIRED -- Bryan Nehman reportedly spared.
FishbowlDC ^ | 4/14/10 | Betsy Rothstein

Posted on 04/14/2010 2:36:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

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To: EDINVA
WMAL certainly has its audience identified, but do they know what that audience wants?

I guess the suits at WMAL decided to use the Reid / Pelosi marketing strategy.

41 posted on 04/14/2010 5:28:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Laura Ingraham gets on my nerves, though.


42 posted on 04/14/2010 5:29:28 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: EverOnward
Nehman isn’t wet behind the ears yet and isn’t strong enough to hold me as a listener.

Disagree.

Maybe the station is prepping for a more younger audience-oriented program? In which case, I can see Bryan carrying something like a news talk/sports show on WMAL, along with a young gal or guy... their producer Ann Wog is one of the best radio producers in DC... I've heard this from many people...

43 posted on 04/14/2010 5:31:54 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Luckily for me, Laura doesn’t get on the air until 9:00...


44 posted on 04/14/2010 5:50:04 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: COBOL2Java
Luckily for me, Laura doesn’t get on the air until 9:00...

Yeah. She rode my last nerve during the whole Harriet Miers confirmation thing. And now that she's adopted 2 kids, that's all she talks about on-air, kinda like another Kathy Lee Gifford... it's nerve-wracking...

45 posted on 04/14/2010 5:54:08 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
To drop them would be a drastic mistake on management's part. I hope they rethink and keep them. I usually listen to Christian radio, WGTS in the morning, but if I need information, it's Andy and Grandy.
46 posted on 04/14/2010 6:28:08 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Whoa.


47 posted on 04/14/2010 8:01:17 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray, Pray, Pray.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Maybe the station is prepping for a more younger audience-oriented program?

The problem with that strategy though is that the vast bulk of the audience for the 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Andy & Grandy slot are the hundreds of thousands of middle-aged commuters stuck in the DC traffic jam during those hours. A slimmed-down, more hip program will have ZERO appeal.

And if they are thinking about replacing Grandy & Andy with Imus, all I can say to that is that I'll listen to the Grease Man before I ever listen to Imus again.

48 posted on 04/15/2010 4:10:10 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: kburi; sofaman; BufordP; SE Mom; armymarinemom; HokieMom; MarineMom613; Tennessee Nana; ...
READ THE BOLD SECTION IN THE BELOW PARAGRAPH FROM DCRTV.COM --- LET'S START SENDING E-MAILS TO THE STATION, PEOPLE!

WMAL Melodrama: Parks Present, Grandy Absent - 4/15/10 - Well, Andy Parks and newsman Bryan Nehman were there today, but Fred Grandy was absent. No more news about yesterday's bombshell that DCRTV first broke about the WMAL "Grandy And Andy" morning team getting "fired." A reliable source told DCRTV that the talk station's owner, Citadel, has set a termination date (we don't know when) for the highly-paid G&A to end their show due to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy-related cutbacks.

And, apparently, the show will continue until then, or until listener reaction forces some sort of change in Citadel's plans.

DCRTV sources tell us that Citadel, which also owns WRQX and WVRX in the DC area, is in serious financial trouble and could soon be selling stations, perhaps all three in DC, and even shutting down some money-losing operations in smaller markets. More as we hear it....

49 posted on 04/15/2010 4:19:22 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; All
Yeah, we all did force them pretty much to drop Joe Scarborough and bring back Chris Plante.

Fred's independently wealthy and does the show because he enjoys it. I would imagine that he would just say screw it and stay home after getting the news yesterday, since what can they do to him?

Silvie, can you post Duckworth's email so that we can right in! I would, but am leaving for work right now.

50 posted on 04/15/2010 4:23:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

This is a bigger problem than G and A, very sadly.

I have noticed and I am sure have you that there are the same 3 commercials run over and over throughout the day.

I don’t know how that can carry a station. OK, I have new windows, my rugs are spotless and a great dentist, now what?

Frankly, the local show is a rare thing these days. Its so flippin cheap to do it on Radio America or another internet franchise, that is where they all need to go, to XM or Sirius or somewhere where the music stations carry the talk, kind of like the booze carrying a fine food restaurant.


51 posted on 04/15/2010 4:49:23 AM PDT by HonestConservative (When Injustice becomes law, resistence becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Well, that would be the end of WMAL. I’m hoping Citadel changes their mind or G&A find a home elsewhere. I’ll follow them and replace WMAL on the dial.


52 posted on 04/15/2010 4:57:29 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (There's a strange odor coming from the White House. Smells like BO.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
BTW, that hotel sucks.

Whoever picked the DC Hyatt has a head up their butt.

Do you know there are no AM radio's in the place?

DUH!

Gee I wonder why we had 2 hotel emptying false alarm fire evacuations during our Eden-like stay?

53 posted on 04/15/2010 5:04:25 AM PDT by HonestConservative (When Injustice becomes law, resistence becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: HonestConservative

CHARLES TOWN RACES AND SLOTS!

I can’t hit the mute button fast enough when that commercial comes on.


54 posted on 04/15/2010 5:05:29 AM PDT by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Bummer, but I bet the Fred makes a little pile of cash and MAL simply can’t keep pace with ad revenues being down.

I’ll find Parks where ever he goes ~ and if I can’t I’ll simply have to listen to the “cranky, old, white guy” in my head.


55 posted on 04/15/2010 5:36:50 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Live Free or Fight!!")
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To: Keith in Iowa

“Or US Senate to replace DungHeap Harkin.”

Gopher it!


56 posted on 04/15/2010 5:38:40 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Live Free or Fight!!")
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; EverOnward

Personally, I like Nehman, but as “young voices” go, he is part of what is wrong with this country; young, liberal, government schooled, misinformed voters.

My guess is that I would not be able to stomach Nehman, were it not for Parks being there to set him ~ and the listeners ~ on the straight and narrow.


57 posted on 04/15/2010 5:49:34 AM PDT by incredulous joe ("Live Free or Fight!!")
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Back to playing music CDs on my drive to work.

Shame.


58 posted on 04/15/2010 6:18:18 AM PDT by BufordP (Once a Marine - always a Marine ... Until Jack Murtha.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

With the audience WMAL gets, I really don’t see how they are having financial issues. Their ad revenues should be high.

It makes me so sad when they break up an absolute institution like G&A, but I don’t want them to sell off or close down the station, either. Looks like they should bring in some efficiency expert to figure out where the $ leaks are.


59 posted on 04/15/2010 6:50:30 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: BufordP
Back to playing music CDs on my drive to work.

Or better yet, download Levin's show and play it during your drive! I take the MARC train and listen to Levin on my Zune. :-)

60 posted on 04/15/2010 7:10:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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