8.25.2006
Ed Walsh Out... Glenn Beck In?
Word is that longtime WOR morning host - and first-removed Gambling replacement Ed Walsh has exited the station. Sources say it was over contract negotiations gone bad.
At any rate, here's what I hope they establish in time for the fall: Take either one or both of the talent from the allegedly syndicated Ellis Henican and Lynne White morning show, put one or both of them in the morning show mix alongside Donna HAnover and Joe Bartlett, and... since they clearly wouldn't bump their hot commodity Joan Hamburg... place Glenn Beck in afternoon drive from 4-6 pm. I know, a three-hour show broken down into a two-hour tape-delay show, but you know what, it's time. Beck's entire operations have moved to New York with the genesis of his CNN Headline News TV show. Heck, why doesn't Premiere or CNN or both simply BUY the 4-6 pm slot from WOR: they can clear his radio show, and promote his TV show, which airs later on at 7 PM (rebroadcast at 9 PM).
In other words, just so Opie & Anthony couldn't just swoop in to replace Howard Stern, I'm sure it couldn't be easy for Glenn Beck to walk right in and claim the time slot that once belonged to area radio legend Bob Grant - whom Beck often gives homage to by telling his own erratic callers to "get off my phone" - he has once acknowledged that. Therefore, it is in WOR's best interest for Henican & White to make like David Lee Roth and split. Then again, Roth didn't do too well in mornings - but he was syndicated.
At any rate, here's what I hope they establish in time for the fall: Take either one or both of the talent from the allegedly syndicated Ellis Henican and Lynne White morning show, put one or both of them in the morning show mix alongside Donna HAnover and Joe Bartlett, and... since they clearly wouldn't bump their hot commodity Joan Hamburg... place Glenn Beck in afternoon drive from 4-6 pm. I know, a three-hour show broken down into a two-hour tape-delay show, but you know what, it's time. Beck's entire operations have moved to New York with the genesis of his CNN Headline News TV show. Heck, why doesn't Premiere or CNN or both simply BUY the 4-6 pm slot from WOR: they can clear his radio show, and promote his TV show, which airs later on at 7 PM (rebroadcast at 9 PM).
In other words, just so Opie & Anthony couldn't just swoop in to replace Howard Stern, I'm sure it couldn't be easy for Glenn Beck to walk right in and claim the time slot that once belonged to area radio legend Bob Grant - whom Beck often gives homage to by telling his own erratic callers to "get off my phone" - he has once acknowledged that. Therefore, it is in WOR's best interest for Henican & White to make like David Lee Roth and split. Then again, Roth didn't do too well in mornings - but he was syndicated.
