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Lot’s of talk about The President doing The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...
And, let’s face it... the simple reason is that Jay’s audience is HUGE! He has a message he wants to get out directly to the American people. And, that audience is very welcoming for President Obama.
It’s just that simple.
Now, a more interesting question. Consider for a moment why The President did NOT choose to motor across town from The White House Sunday Morning and appear on Meet The Press. Some folks say it’s because of Dave Gregory who we know is not the same type of moderator that Tim Russert was.
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Ever wonder what we’re talking about when it’s not politics? Why ourselves, of course...
Talk Radio Hosts’ Favorite Topics: The Election (and Themselves): In a heated and historic election year, the campaigns and politics accounted for 60% of the radio talk newshole in 2008. Nothing else came close.
But the No. 2 subject said something fundamental about the talk business. It wasn’t an economy in meltdown or foreign events, with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
No, the talkers’ second-favorite subject (for the second year in a row) often involved invoking the first person pronoun. Conversations about the media, much of which focused on the hosts themselves, accounted for almost one-tenth of the talk newshole in the year.
In a medium that is very much about the person behind the microphone connecting with listeners, self-referential comments often come with the territory for conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and their liberal counterparts Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes
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Don Imus has had a long and highly varied life in the radio business. Small market to Network Syndication and unknown to too well known.
In any event, it’s generally acknowledged the I-Man’s better days are now well behind him andhe’s no longer capable of doing what he once did. In that case why all the hubbub about what he said the other day?
Pure foolishness - that’s it. Jay Severin does a great job in the Boston market and Imus traveling up there and threatening Severin was just do much B.S. It’s OVER!
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It took no time at all for the House to pass legislation that calls for BIG taxes on Wall Street/AIG bonuses.
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What in the world was Imus thinking? It happened because there is multiple confirmation and that’s simply not a good thing.
Death threat from Imus against Jay Severin on St. Pat’s Day?
The Boston Herald reports the off-air exchange of words, and the Imus alleged threat came during a meeting when both were on a stage together during Imus’ St. Patrick’s Day broadcast.
The Herald says Imus ripped into Severin because last year, the WTKK-FM (96.9) host said he’s no longer appearing on the I-man’s show. The reason? He was tired of the insults.
Imus told Severin to get off the (expletive) stage or “I’m going to shoot you. Do you (expletive) understand what I’m saying to you? You get off this stage right now or I’m going to shoot you.”
The exchange was confirmed to the Herald by Severin’s agent, and an Imus spokesman.
WTKK parent company Greater Media released a statement calling the Imus remarks to “shoot” everin “unfortunate, and we trust that he will rectify the situation.”
The question everyone seems to be asking is whether Secretary Geithner’s time has come to bow out or is it simply an opportunity that Republican’s are working for all they possibly can. Is it opportunistic shenannigans? Or, was Tim simply the right guy put in place at the wrong time?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/18/rep-mack-calls-geithner-resign-fired-aig-bonuses/
There is good news for NewsTalkers...
New Coleman study stays spoken word can thrive in PPM - especially all-news and sports.
The broad average for spoken word rises when comparing 80+ stations under their first four People Meter months, to their previous four diary quarterlies. Their 12+ AQH share improved from 2.1 to a 2.4, says Jon Coleman at last weekend’s R&R Talk Radio Seminar.
Spoken word stations do a smidgeon better than that in 25-54s and 35-64s. (Particularly in morning drive.) And the biggest contributors, format-wise, are all-news stations and sports. While the stations defined as “news/talk” - which I’m guessing are mostly “talk” - indexed at a 102, pretty much even with their diary numbers.
Public radio stations that specialize in news/talk/information index at a 94 - worse than the diary. (All-news indexes at 140 and sports at 134.) So why the increases? Coleman Insights says it’s mostly a matter of better TSL, Time Spent listening. It’s true the cume rises compared to the diary, but less than it does for some other formats.
But even with the cume and TSL gains, Coleman says the better average share for the broad spoken word category “does not result in rank improvement.” Coleman’s been producing an ongoing series titled Mapping the DNA of PPM”, and the “spoken-word” pdf is here.
(Thanks, Tom Taylor - )
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