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7/15: Neal Boortz in the U.K., Star 94’s latest promotion kind of lonely, “Closer” ratings
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WSB’s Neal Boortz is in London doing a seminar on the role of talk show hosts on the American Presidential election at the U.S. Embassy. He said the ambassador to the embassy, who he has never spoken to, requested Boortz and the State Department contacted him and he thought, “Why not?”
(American Express, not the government, is paying Boortz an honorarium and per diem.)
He decided to turn it into a vacation with his wife. He also recommended a liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller to join him for balance. She is on the same syndicated network as Boortz.
He will be doing his show live from London tomorrow.
-Someone was kind enough to tape Willard’s farewell from radio last Friday.
-Star 94’s “Live in it and Win it” promotion is two weeks old and of the eight original contestants, only one person is left. Yet Neva has to stay another two weeks to win the vehicle, a 2008 Mercury Milan. In fact, Neva has been alone since day 11 after some contestants failed to get back in the car in time from breaks, others quit and one person accidentally got out of the car in the middle of the night. You can read the details here. Kind of sucks the tension out of the “ultimate reality show,” eh? It’s as if CBS watched everybody leave the “Big Brother” house early except one and forced that soul to live by himself for weeks. How exciting!
-Fans of FX’s “Nip/Tuck” should be thrilled to know the show is guaranteed a final season, 19 episodes through 2011.
Michael J. Fox guests for four episodes on FX’s “Rescue Me,” which doesn’t come back until next spring.
-Ratings for TNT’s “The Closer” were comparable to last year: 7.8 million people caught the debut last night, down from 8.2 million a year ago. For a scripted basic cable network show, that’s still a huge number.
“Saving Grace” opened to virtually the same numbers as a year ago, with 5.2 million this year, 5.1 million a year ago.
Comments
By Been there, done that ...
July 16, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Well, the downward spiral of Star 94 continues!
First the music went into the BORING, DEPRESSSING zone … then management and programming went brain-dead … now the disease has spread to the promotions department and to the quality of listeners themselves!
When you’re programming to 5th-grade boys, this sort of disastrous promotion will happen!
I’m pretty sure 11 Alive will be re-thinking future decisions to co-promote with Star 94 as they re-hash the same old stunts over … and over … and over … and over …
By abc
July 17, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
It’s getting more difficult to listen to Star94 on the drive home from work due to the poor music programming. The talk is often entertaining, even if only for Cindy’s idiocy and Ray’s placation. (Just sayin, eh Ray? SO not so much, Cindy.) The awful tunes are running me off though.
I’ve given up on radio in the morning. I suppose after the kids go back to school and Morning Mess loses their audience, something new will appear. Hope so, anyway.
By Q100 Listener
July 23, 2008 11:46 PM | Link to this
This is Why Q100 is THE TOP 40 STATION in Atlanta. Great Programming, jocks, promotions. Star continues to chase them and underperform
By Thrash
July 24, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this
Hey Stupid94, give up the gringo and go Spanish, yo.
By war eagle
July 25, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
AM readio is taking over again-the stations on FM are playing the same drab music from the same drab bands-they all sound the same-drag and grungy or screaming like a car commercial. And crap rap-yeah that section of town-prisoners/drug dealers/thugs-all listen to that garbage and feed off of it-the oppression hour with Rev Wright.
FM went down hill further with S and V. Nothing good any more-the ideas are being re hashed. We need some good sports radio programs like Jim Rome or the ESPN shows with Pete Rose, Ferrell, and Arnie.