Stunning how fast the implosion has been.
The reason Dr Bill’s 800 number (that does not start with 800) stopped ringing is he doesn’t have a single station left carrying the former Jerry Doyle time slot (3-6 PM ET) live.
Stations that used to carry Doyle’s show on a delayed basis are carrying Doyle instead of Wattenburg. Bill is now playing great moments from his archives. It’s dead.
Doyle continues to ride Savage’s plane into the ground, now at #19
Wonder if Doyle has a parachute? And would he deploy it even if he has one?
Where’s the ground? #100 ???
Around # 10.
Folks who used to be barely measurable are showing up in the top 20, which is a hint of how far things have fallen. As people leave, I sense the audience is leaving radio, not just switching to another host
Well, TRN DID say that Wattenburg was a temporary host. Looks like he may be even more temporary than originally planned!
Found this memo… the shuffle continues… now Rusty Humphries is moving into Doyle’s old slot:
http://www.trn1.com/existing-syndicated-giant-moves-earlier-into-afternoon-drive-time-on-trn
It’s too late even if it was a good idea.
Most the affiliates have left the building. Salem in particular seems to have dumped all their TRN programming. Savage was the package – people probably put up with the TRN lineup in the middle of the night to get Savage. 3PM is awful early in the day to talk about Obama’s fake birth certificate. Humphries has been on a slow downward ascent.
I spent an evening once in his video chat room. That’s how I learned his show wasn’t live much of the time. He slapped on the Suzanne Sommers interview and told us – that’s it for today, see you Monday
I enjoy listening to Rusty, I think. I download his program on iTunes and play it while I sleep. He tends to have a set roster of guests. The same ones are on every week just like clockwork.
I discovered as I was reworking things that I had two bunches of former Jerry Doyle affiliates. Things could be totally hosed up now 😉
I also combined all the Anerica’s Radio News shows except for the morning show into one big show. The hosts keep changing and stations carry hours that cross the boundaries where the hosts change. That will tend to boost the popularity a tiny bit, but that wasn’t the purpose.
Since I worked so much today, I get more time off on Monday so I will try to get things mostly right.