Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison
good ratings
It's been good for him, ... His ratings are up.
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It's very common in radio for people to re-hire someone they let go. Opie and Anthony have ratings in New York and a loyal following, and they know how to do the shock genre successfully, which not many people do.
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Ratings are not the same as votes. (Some) people like to listen to people they disagree with. We learned that when Rush had his drug problem; it made him more interesting.
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You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.
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If someone had come along and instantly maintained the ratings that Howard Stern had, that would have been looked at as the second coming of Christ,
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Replacing Stern on the radio is like replacing John Lennon in the Beatles. And it's even harder because Roth has no radio experience.
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Remember, talk radio is show business and it's not considered a breaking of the rules to play the show-business angle.
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Stern as a property is far more expendable to Clear Channel than to (Viacom), taking into account the money involved and the politics of dealing with the FCC.
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Some of the things he's been saying on the air about terrestrial (public) radio and his promoting of satellite radio has created some strained relationships and ruffled feathers.
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We just came out and decided we were going to let our defense fuel our offense.
flowers
We're already getting the flowers and the curses.
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We came in with the focus that we wanted to get stops. We just didn't do a very good job of getting back in time.
list reaction
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It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.