May 2006 News Archive

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May 10, 2006
Clear Channel has fired Star of the Star & Buc Wild show (and apparently dropped the show outright) for comments he allegedly made on the program regarding another radio personality in the market. Moreover, Clear Channel's primary syndication company, Premiere Radio Networks, has dropped distribution of Star & Buc Wild, and it appears from a search of all (former?) CC affiliates of S&BW that the show has been dropped from the entirety of the Clear Channel stations that aired it (seven in total.)

Star indicated to me in a March 2006 e-mail that he (not CC or Premiere) owns the rights to his show, so it's unclear how things will continue in the near future. Without a flagship station, it can be very difficult to continue a radio network (trust me, I know first-hand.) Syndicated radio can be a crazy world, and knee-jerk reactions can be swift and severe, particularly with Clear Channel. I wish Star & Buc Wild the best of luck.

May 18, 2006
According to All Access, WLRS/Louisville has dropped Lex & Terry, effective Monday 5/15.

Something that I haven't made nearly enough of a big deal about on here is the impending retirement of Phil Hendrie from radio. The man is a genius who created a one-man genre with his fake-guest talk radio program. What happened with him in Los Angeles, first getting bumped from afternoon drive, and then being jettisoned from KFI to KLAC was disgusting, but typical Clear Channel wasting and alienating a great talent. But thank you, Phil, for the years of laughter and entertainment that you brought to me and your many millions of fans. The Phil Hendrie show was a true one-of-a-kind, one that couldn't be ripped off because no one, and I mean no one, could pull off what he did on a nightly basis. Good luck in Hollywood, Phil.

May 31, 2006
DCRTV.com reports that the Opie & Anthony show is rumored to be heading to Washington DC's WJFK-FM on tape-delay in middays, replacing Peter Rosenberg's 10 AM-noon show. The question: will the station move the horribly misplaced Bill O'Reilly out the noon-2 PM slot? With the station's ratings slumping post-Howard Stern, and really tanking in middays (hurting the lead-in for Don & Mike), Opie & Anthony are going to need three hours between 10 AM-2 PM if their show, in fact, is going to the station. Penn Jillette currently has his one-hour show from 2-3 PM, which airs live; in the past, Don & Mike had a best of hour that aired there locally. The Junkies could add an hour (go until 11 AM), allowing O&A to then go from 11 AM-2 PM. Or if O'Reilly simply can't be bumped from the lineup (contractually or due to a managerial edict), Jillette could get jettisoned to a later timeslot, and you could have either O'Reilly/O&A or O&A/O'Reilly, either of which would be an odd pairing.

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