January 24, 2011 – a day of change

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Art Stone
  • Doug Urbanski debuts on Westwood One, replacing Fred Thompson – 18 Cumulus stations should be carrying the show – only two stations are promoting it – if you assume Cumulus is  just replacing with Thompson with Urbanski, that’s 16 streaming stations.   Cumulus was about the only one still carrying Thompson…
  • America’s Radio News Network debuts on at least zero stations
  • Joey Reynolds surfaces – he will be doing a show from the NASDAQ market site on Times Square for NBC
  • Peter Shiff starts a program on GCN4  (Peter Shiff likes to sell gold to people concerned about the future)
  • Curtis Sliwa starts his Saturday shift on WNYM-AM in New York (Curtis would work for free – don’t tell Salem)
  • Keith Olbermann will be spending the day filing paperwork for 99 weeks of  unemployment  (MSNBC fired him on Friday!)

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9 Responses to January 24, 2011 – a day of change

  1. Hesperus says:
    January 22, 2011 at 2:29 am

    Can’t WAIT to hear to John Gibson’s treatise on the bathtub gurgles of bathtub boy. Hahahaha! Sic Semper Tyranis.

  2. smiteboy says:
    January 22, 2011 at 4:50 am

    Man, they did this on purpose…same as when Olbermann was suspended…sneak the news in late Friday evening, after his main detractors had finished their shows for the week. Too bad much of the impact will be dulled by Monday when Gibson, Beck, and Limbaugh are back on the air. Phil Hendrie suggested that it’s a good idea if Fox or CNN hire him….I agree, being forced to live under legitimate editorial guidance would reveal him to the world as the phony he is.

    • Art Stone says:
      January 22, 2011 at 11:15 am

      Back before he joined MSNBC, for a short time he worked at WABC-AM – he had been doing sports and decided to try the political opinion thing. He was incredibly bad and only lasted a short time and left. Since I don’t have a TV, the only stuff of his I’ve had to endure was the occasional YouTube clip or when a radio host would play a clip.

      I wonder if MSNBC is still partly owned by Microsoft. Back at the debut, the concept was that one of the hosts was a computer generated creature, and the live host had to interact with the animated alien. Maybe they could bring that back.

  3. smiteboy says:
    January 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    Back at the debut, the concept was that one of the hosts was a computer generated creature, and the live host had to interact with the animated alien. Maybe they could bring that back.

    What do you think Rachel Maddow is?

  4. ICCDude says:
    January 24, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    “Keith Olbermann will be spending the day filing paperwork for 99 weeks of unemployment (MSNBC fired him on Friday!) ”
    Ding dong the $itch is dead, the wicked ole $itch!
    I think we need to plant someone close to him and advise him he wasn’t liberal enough!
    Maybe we could start a string titled “Keith Olbermann”s Most Rediculous Statements”. Didn’t he say Palin was a “bag of blood and bones”?
    What a tool.

    • smiteboy says:
      January 25, 2011 at 3:50 am

      The ironic and sad thing is that MSNBC is holding him to his contract, which means he still has around two years of sitting and being paid for doing nothing due to a non-compete. Maybe he’ll start a podcast…let’s see him get by without a team of writers to do everything for him.

      • jmyrlefuller says:
        January 28, 2011 at 10:41 pm

        I don’t think that’s quite how it works. The last reported contract was in 2007 for four years– which would mean it would have expired only a few months after this incident. Reports that this runs to 2012 or 2013 appear to be erroneous. Also, MSNBC is based in New York City, where non-competes are illegal.

        What more likely happened is that Olbermann declared he wouldn’t agree to a contract extension and so they decided to pull him off the air early. Olbermann’s reported “non-compete” only lasts about 6 months (less than Conan’s).

        • Art Stone says:
          January 28, 2011 at 10:48 pm

          I read one place that Olbermann is going to be paid for the next two years – ala Steve Dahl in Chicago or Tom Leykis in California. They’ll pay him for the remainder of his contract, but his duties will be to do nothing and the contract language prohibiting him from appearing in other venues will remain in effect unless MSNBC authorizes it. But that’s only one place I read that, and it was on the internet – so take anything you read on the Internet with a big grain of salt, unless it is on Wikipedia.

          • Art Stone says:
            January 28, 2011 at 10:49 pm

            Oh, now I see where I read that. :)

            NY Times

            The NY Times basically says it was negotiated – that MSNBC and Olbermann agreed to terms, including not disclosing the terms.

            I wonder if this was a story about Rush Limbaugh, how many times would the Times refer to Rush as “Mr. Limbaugh”

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