TRN has found a replacement for Laura Ingraham – Andrea Tantaros. Not owning a TV, I can’t tell you a thing about her – here is the Wikipefia link
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Tantaros
She’s 34, works on Fox News and Fox Business. Her college degree was at Lehigh University, where she studied French before heading to Europe for some reason.
Her resume reads very clearly as “Republican Party Spinmeister”. I guarantee you that her job will be to tell you what to think, not to listen to you.
She is the headliner and will have a male co-host, 29 year old Jason Matera, probably best known for his book “Obama Zombies”.
The new show starts January 2, 2013 – which is closer than it appears.
Tom Taylor reports that Andrea has done radio before, though he doesn’t say where. I’ve listened to Mattera on WABC. He has a stereotypical New York-style approach, which doesn’t always translate well on a national basis.
My exhaustive research found that she has filled in for Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio at least once. You knew what I was thinking without me saying it.
Looking through my data, two radio stations carry “Brian without the Judge” live in its entirety. The Fox News Radio shows are primarily for SiriusXM
In related news, Mel Karmazin has officially left SiriusXM. The folks who saved the company from bankruptcy are now in charge – and John Malone is repotedly a big fan of Rush. I could see Clear Channel and Rush agreeing to part ways before his contract is up. Other than maybe thinking Rush helped get Obama reelected, Bob Pittman is not a Rush fan.
Was listening to Gibson today. He mentioned Fox News Radio/SiriusXM contract set to expire end of year and is not settled business as of today. Any info?…..
No idea. In theory, SiriusXM doesn’t want commercials on the shows, but unless the show is Internet only, the syndication format forces commercial breaks. Clear Channel was part owner of XM and pushed commercials onto their channels.
I don’t know the details with Fox News Radio – but it’s a pretty safe bet if they leave Sirius/XM they’ll be going away – they only have a handful of affiliates in minor markets. There is no critical mass
My take: Republican Party Spinmeister’s are out-of-favor with most of the talk show audience. FAIL……
Well, it might be amusing to see what beginner mistakes she makes – like holding a picture up and telling the radio audience to look at it or mentioning the hour of the day, or talking about what’s on the TV.
A joint male/female hosting team can get dicey pretty quick if they aren’t a couple or are clearly not going to become a couple. They can end up doing a show to each other and forget people are listening. It’s possible they won’t even be doing the show from the same place.
Well, TRN probably isn’t having to pay them a lot. I wonder if they get free Roy Masters’s self hypnosis tapes…
The article I read about her said they were going with youth over Laura Ingraham. I think I read some of her stuff in the WSJ. Her cohost is the youngest editor ever of Human Events, I believe.
It might work. The issues that would work against it is how many follow Laura away from this (she gonna be on here live?) -she has become tiresome though- and in Tampa there are a lot of 9 am shows including Beck who has a big audience. Maybe they’ll tape it? Whatever. I’ll listen for a week, online if need be-I like Mattera -but will change the if they stink. Lots of numbers yet on my radio dial!
Did James Materro get the boot already? His name doesn’t appear on the TRN web site program description. Maybe I just got confused and he was a guest the first day or something.
It looks like WICO AM has gone back to Ingraham in the morning. At least she was on today, Feb 13. I am bummed.