Malzberg was a fixture on WABC in New York, then spent a year in exile co-hosting a morning show with a black woman in Harlem who was pretending to be a Republican, then joined the now defunct WOR radio network.<\/p>\n
NewsMax has signed Steve for a three hr\/day show on Internet TV, airing at 3-6 PM (ET), competing against Sean Hannity, Michael Medved and Rusty Humphries.<\/p>\n
Newsmax hopes to sign up radio stations – that’s a tall order, but God is on their side (just ask them). Cumulus, Salem and Clear Channel have stove-piped their programming – going generally toward 21 hrs\/day of national programming run from HQ, and a local host for 3 hrs in the morning (who may be doing the local show actually from 1000 miles away) and dropping syndicated products from other companies. The number of stations not owned by Big Radio is shrinking. Since NewsMax is mostly a web site and TV program, radio station program directors would look at a competitor trying to siphon audience away from radio, not to strengthen radio. That’s on top of wondering if Newsmax TV will talk about anything other than Obama’s birth certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malzberg was a fixture on WABC in New York, then spent a year in exile co-hosting a morning show with a black woman in Harlem who was pretending to be a Republican, then joined the now defunct WOR radio network. … Continue reading