[media] WABC Radio *fires* Rudy G.

2024-05-10 Thread danny burstein

Ok, to be clear here...  WABC AM radio, 770 kc, broadcasting
50,000 watts from NYC... is no longer part of the ABC network
(well, pseudo network) in any way, shape, or form [a].

A NYC billionaire, John Catsimatidis, bought it from,
umm, whatever its exact status was... about four
years ago and has been having some fun with it.

To his credit, he re-hired Cousin Brucie to DJ music
Sat evenings.  However, most of the week daytime
programming is quasi right-wing "talk".

One of these shows was... the Rudy hour.  But Catsimatidis
finally got pissed enough to fire him.

disclosure: Catsi and I have known each other for a decade,
and he'll read maybe 1/10th of the notes I send him, and
actually follow up on maybe 1/10,000th of them.

Anyway, just sending this out 'cuz the tenuous ABC connection...

The NYPost has a great story about this:

https://nypost.com/2024/05/10/us-news/rudy-giuliani-blasts-wabc-for-firing-over-election-talk/

[a] at times they've run ABC network news feeds.  I have
absolutely no idea who "owns" or affiliated with what
in that regard these days.

_
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
 dan...@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]


Re: [media] WABC Radio *fires* Rudy G.

2024-05-11 Thread Mike Ward
The previous owner was Cumulus.
On May 11, 2024, 1:01 AM -0400, danny burstein , wrote:
> Ok, to be clear here... WABC AM radio, 770 kc, broadcasting
> 50,000 watts from NYC... is no longer part of the ABC network
> (well, pseudo network) in any way, shape, or form [a].
>
> A NYC billionaire, John Catsimatidis, bought it from,
> umm, whatever its exact status was... about four
> years ago and has been having some fun with it.
>
> To his credit, he re-hired Cousin Brucie to DJ music
> Sat evenings. However, most of the week daytime
> programming is quasi right-wing "talk".
>
> One of these shows was... the Rudy hour. But Catsimatidis
> finally got pissed enough to fire him.
>
> disclosure: Catsi and I have known each other for a decade,
> and he'll read maybe 1/10th of the notes I send him, and
> actually follow up on maybe 1/10,000th of them.
>
> Anyway, just sending this out 'cuz the tenuous ABC connection...
>
> The NYPost has a great story about this:
>
> https://nypost.com/2024/05/10/us-news/rudy-giuliani-blasts-wabc-for-firing-over-election-talk/
>
> [a] at times they've run ABC network news feeds. I have
> absolutely no idea who "owns" or affiliated with what
> in that regard these days.
>
> _
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
> dan...@panix.com
> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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Re: [media] WABC Radio *fires* Rudy G.

2024-05-11 Thread danny burstein

The previous owner was Cumulus.


thanks...