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In article <2obpcj$b39@mercury.mcs.com>,
Aaron Barnhart <barnhart@MCS.COM> wrote:
>jsp@dlogics.dlogics.com (Jeff Spivak) wrote:
>:The above mentioned "talents" are but knaves in the court of the King
>:of All Media, Howard Stern.  Choke on that you "lup"ers. 
>
>Hard to choke on a wart, sir.  But rather than start another Howard-versus-
>Chicago thread that we all find so, so edifying here on the Net, I'd like to
>add that Steve is back on high octane.  If you haven't listened to him and
>the morning team at AM 1000 lately, you're missing the best radio in town.
>
That ain't sayin' much, pal. Bruce Wolf was brought in as a radio
fireman--there to put out the flames of two disasterous ratings books.

He's talented, so is Dahl. The listlesness of Dahl's current position
can be contributed to his breakup with Meier. Dahl takes a self-
righteous attitude toward the split (..."it's all his fault...") and
consequently hasn't done anything creative since his solo stint began.

Dahl is still doing his best to distance his show from the rest of
the programming on his station ("sports and more with Steve Dahl and
the morning team"), and doing a miserable job at it. Through poor
marketing on WMVP's behalf, listeners who never listen to all sports
radio have not been tuning in to Dahl. On several occasions he's
mentioned that people he runs into ask him if he's still on the radio!

>This weaseling about how great he could be if The Man hadn't yanked his
>show is unconvincing.


Maybe to you it is. Howard's track record is not one of instant success
in any market where his show airs. It takes time to build an audience.
Ten months in a huge market like Chicago is not enough time to prove
ones self. The shortsighted Larry Wert prematurely yanked Howard
just as his demographics were proving what Howard had felt all along.
In the last ratings book the Stern show was #1 with men age 18-34. True,
his overall ratings were poor, but the show was gaining in momentum
in this market. Remember also that Howard's book hadn't been published
yet and with all the surrounding controversy that it created most certainly
would have translated into improved ratings for WLUP. By the way, Howard's
book was a top ten best seller in the Chicago market for over 4 weeks. 
Quite amazing since he hasn't been in the Chicago market for months.

I have nothing against Dahl. But for a short time there was a new
sheriff in town: Howard Stern. Nostagically speaking, all was right
with the world.


Jeff






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Jeffrey Spivak        jsp@dlogics.com            Datalogics, Inc.
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