{"id":4186,"date":"2012-01-25T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2012-01-25T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:49:08","slug":"a-new-voice-on-overnight-radio-starting-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"A new voice on overnight radio starting Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually not a new voice, but a bigger one. \u00a0 Back in 2009, CBS decided it could save money by putting <a href=\"http:\/\/stlouis.cbslocal.com\/tag\/jon-grayson\/\"><strong>Jon Grayson<\/strong><\/a> on its major market Flame Thrower AM talk radio stations (formerly part of Westinghouse)\u00a0&#8211; KDKA in Pittsburgh, WCCO in Minneapolis \/ St Paul, KMOX in Saint Louis and WBZ in Boston &#8211; there was immediate pushback in Boston and\u00a0CBS rehired a local person for overnights.\u00a0\u00a0 Jon does his <strong><em>Overnight America<\/em><\/strong> show from KMOX in Saint Louis &#8211; the show runs from 1-6 AM Eastern Time.<\/p>\n<p>What is changing is that\u00a0Jon Grayson\u00a0is being picked up by <strong>Dial Global<\/strong> (the former Jones Radio and Westwood One) for syndication nationally &#8211; <strong>filling the hole<\/strong> left by the sudden departure of the <strong>Midnight Radio Network<\/strong> guys who now do <strong>Redeye Radio<\/strong> for Cumulus Media.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Jon Grayson being on for so long, I know very little about him or what he talks about or\u00a0 believes. \u00a0 My sense is he is similar to Doug McIntyre &#8211; willing to talk about politics but not obsessed with the subject.\u00a0\u00a0 He has virtually no presence here in terms of listening by web site visitors &#8211; few peolple come here to randomly listen to radio stations, so they don&#8217;t know he exists outside of the 3 markets where he is heard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any new live overnight alternatives to the hegemony of Coast to Coast is a good thing<\/strong> &#8211; perhaps a few program directors will give a listen to the show.\u00a0\u00a0 A program director being able to &#8220;Listen In&#8221; on talent in other markets without being observed (instead of getting cherry picked examples of their program thrown at them over the transom) has always been one of the ways that I hoped this directory and internet streaming in general could be useful..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually not a new voice, but a bigger one. \u00a0 Back in 2009, CBS decided it could save money by putting Jon Grayson on its major market Flame Thrower AM talk radio stations (formerly part of Westinghouse)\u00a0&#8211; KDKA in Pittsburgh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}