Howie obviously was asking for too much money for his reruns!!
Who knows!
McIntyre, according to LARadio.com, “...talked about how the industry tends to throw away the overnight shift.
“’People are up for a reason,’ said Doug, ‘especially in a 24/7 digital world. We are all trying to live at the pace of the Internet, which is impossible and a reason why we’re all crazed. People are online working, on Amazon.com or eBay or downloading Korean porn, whatever they’re doing they’re up doing things. In the markets we’re in, these are giant places. I learned this from Jean Shepherd – there are night people. There’s a whole other world out there – lawyers, pilots, film editors, and moms and unemployed fathers worried how they’re going to pay the bills. And crazy people, which is part of the tapestry of late-night radio.’”
probably more than “800 large”.. ;0