update—Talk 1200 not necessarily ending but they had to cut costs...so Katz and Severin are gone. Rest of lineup:
6am Andy Dean (from day before), 9 am Beck
Noon FOR NOW Rush (debut on WRKO 8/20). 3 pm Hannity (live).
6 pm Mark Levin (live). 9 pm on—Coast to Coast Early Edition and Coast to Coast (BUT C2C moves to RKO, too)
Clear Channel just paid $14 million for WFNX 101.7 and made it a “variety hits” station. It may make money. But 1200 apparently wasn’t. However CC wants to clear the shows its Premiere division puts out (run the shows, run the ads, tell the sponsors “your spots are being heard in Boston!”). That means Rush and C2C on RKO,
and shows like Beck, Sean etc. stay on 1200.
For now. But again the local talk is gone.
I’m wondering if losing Rush triggered the cost-cutting moves at Talk 1200 . . . I also wonder why he’s leaving.
C2C is a joke. It’s like the John Edwards Show (the guy that can ‘speak’ to the dead, not the disgraced pol), only on the radio.
That drivel makes money?