Tuesday, October 16, 2007
P.S.
In case any CRRs thought my rant about Curtis and Kuby was chiefly my own opinion, check this out, from last week's generally reliable (about New York City, anyway) Daily News:
Since the current program director at ABC is the same guy who has won kudos for putting C&K together, maybe he doesn't want to silence that success story now, or be the one to sell out two wonderful guys and their listeners and fans in order to hire one disgusting one, just for the chance of bigger bucks. Here's hoping.
The morning slot at WABC is currently occupied by Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby, who have been one of program director Phil Boyce's best success stories.So the good news is that a deal may not actually be signed and sealed about Imus' taking the morning radio show at ABC. Plus, this morning Curtis was razzing Kuby about taking gossip as fact because apparently Kuby saw the same story I did yesterday and went into surprised farewell speech mode. (By the way, imagine a world in which you get information about your own career by reading news reports. Must be fun. Not.) Anyway, the implications of the tease were obvious: it's not a done deal yet. So I searched online this morning and although it is heavily rumored that Imus will take the morning slot at ABC, it's not definite, particularly since, as everyone points out, Curtis and Kuby are ABC radio's pre-eminent locally focused show and "their ratings have been higher than Imus' for several years." On the other hand, "Imus would [probably] be syndicated, which increases his worth [and] could also, in theory, draw a more elusive and potentially more valuable audience in the city itself: the higher levels of the political, corporate, publishing and media worlds." But - as I said yesterday - this assumes advertisers would come and/or return to Imus, not to mention that "his ongoing appeal also could depend to an extent on how many of his regular guests would return, since some indicated during the Rutgers furor that they would be hesitant." Hesitant??? How about sooner slit their wrists, if they have brains or hearts or measurable i.q.'s?
Since the current program director at ABC is the same guy who has won kudos for putting C&K together, maybe he doesn't want to silence that success story now, or be the one to sell out two wonderful guys and their listeners and fans in order to hire one disgusting one, just for the chance of bigger bucks. Here's hoping.
Labels: about me, disappointments, headlines, ranting, reflections
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