Cemeteries can be creepy. Radio shows are a bit like college professors. Your college alumni newsletter will never let you know they fired your favorite professor or they quit. The moment radio talent and radio owners separate, the host no longer exists.
When I wander by and update a station schedule, the show becomes an orphan, which I may or may not notice. The hosts often move on to another station, but often not for years until a non-compete expires.
So if you want to walk through the graveyard of radio shows, here you go
Not all the shows are really dead. Maybe five years ago, I purged any schedule items nobody had even tried to use. That turned a lot of public radio and local radio shows into zombies. ?
Interesting – I checked one website for Stephanie Abrams and she apparently does live webcasts and has archives. I don’t travel enough to follow her, but it’s good to know she is still working.
Some shows have reverted to podcasts.
In her case, she still has a show with a different name – Travel 411. A decision I often have to make is whether to merge two shows as really being the same show. There is a car show with a guy named Alan Taylor who is on his 3rd or fourth incarnation as radio magazines died out from under him.
If you are curious about a show, the show page has a little check box that says to show all affiliates that ever carried the show. That can help track shows down.
Speaking of moving around, Shannon Burke has moved to WYAY in Hotlanta Georgia. He likes to describe himself as Conservative, but it might be his own brand. His picture on WYAY shows him in a Harley Davidson T-shirt. He previously had worked for Bubba The Love Sponge in Florida. Shannon got in trouble for being pulled over for a DUI while on probation for discharging a gun that grazed his wife and dog.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/belle-isle-fl/T500HRTCBK2C4CCAM
He is replacing Michael Graham who used to work in Boston and has bounced around a bit.
Click on this link, then click on the play button, then you will see the Program Guide.
http://player.listenlive.co/37501/en/programguide
No surprises, right… at least until your eye scans down the page and sees that tonight and every night this week at 10 PM is “Alan Colmes with Alan Colmes” . The description says, “Alan Colmes gained a reputation as a hard-hitting liberal known for his electric commentary on the American agenda. He has interviewed many key political and pop culture figures, including President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Lynn Cheney, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senators John Kerry and John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Deepak Chopra, and Carole King.”
Wonder what he is talking about tonight?
It’s a panel discussion with Art Bell and Ed Schultz
They’re not even on public radio. 😉
Seriously, although I have never read a talent contract, my observations are that they often seem to exclude public radio and television as competition. After people have left CNN for example, they would often turn up on PBS with a show before moving on to another commercial network.
I was surprised to see Greta Van Sustren in the background holding a microphone and interviewing President Trump. You may recall that she had a successful show that she ran on CNN and then moved to Fox News Channel and then moved to MSNBC. Ex FNC people are not popular at MSNBC and her show was canceled quickly and she disappeared.
She now works for the Voice of America and I suspect it too may be excluded from traditional non-compete clauses.