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...efforts to organize radio hosts nationwide. "All the bad it can do outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel that unifying talk-show hosts on any political topic is undue and unfair concentration of media power," says program director John Mainelli...
Rather, Brokaw and Jennings compete directly in only 112 of the nation's 205 TV markets; in many instances affiliates have shifted the programs to make room for more profitable game shows. In December, for example, WABC in New York switched the Jennings broadcast from 7 p.m., where it finished third against Rather and Brokaw, to 6:30 and replaced it with Jeopardy. The popular game show beats the two news programs, thus allowing WABC to charge more for commercials in that time period. World News Tonight achieves better ratings at 6:30 than it did at 7, but Jennings...
...medal. Like many radio talk-show hosts, Clark Weber of Chicago station WIND has been swamped with pro-Goetz calls. "They won't let it go," he said. "There's an intense frustration out there, and it bothers me." Bob Grant, a contentious radio personality at New York's WABC, startled his listeners last week by saying that Goetz had not done the job right. "The essence of what I said," explained Grant later, "was if he had learned how to use that gun, they all would have been dead in the first place...
Every Monday morning at 6:25 a.m. he is the "Emperor of Trivia" on WABC Radio in New York City...
Evans landed the Emperor of Trivia slot at WABC in May after he set up a booth outside the ABC building in New York and asked trivia questions to random pedestrians...