Twitter Updates for 2012-04-17
- Dear @7NewsSydney and other media. Anders Breivik is not a "right-wing extremist". He is a paranoid schizophrenic with left and right views. #
- Dear media, Anders Breivik did not perform a "far right salute". It closely resembled a communist salute, but he is not left or right. #
- There have been four shootings in Sydney in the last four hours, reports @2GBAndrewMoore on @2GB873 #
- Having finished work, my plan is to have breakfast (bacon, eggs, toast and coffee), then turn on the electric blanket and sleep until noon. #
- @tenbreakfast no, plain packaging of cigarettes will not help. I don't smoke, but I respect the right of the industry to exist and market in reply to tenbreakfast #
- @HeidiHarrisShow answers the rumours with a promotion to Los Angeles, but will @glennbeck lose L.A. clearance? http://t.co/t263GKDu #
- 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Chile. #
- @Jez_1985 Thanks Jez. Nice to meet another Canberra conservative. in reply to Jez_1985 #
- Air Services Aus built a 2nd Canberra Airport radar near Hume a few months back. I'm not having much luck finding a road to get me near it. #
- 7.0 magnitude quake in Papua New Guinea. Quite the day for quakes… #
- @tenbreakfast thanks for the retweet this morning 🙂 #
April 17th, 2012 at 09:00pm
Heidi (pictured) will be taking over the morning drive (6am-9am) show on two stations in California. KRLA 870 Los Angeles and KTIE 590 Inland Empire. Both stations are part of Salem Communications’ conservative talk network, and both stations are being rebranded as “The Answer” in conjunction with the move (yes, now my clunky attempts at fitting the word “answer” in to earlier sentences makes some sense).
It’s a position which is more in line with Salem Communications’ philosophy (Salem, primarily, is a Christian broadcaster and although its general conservative talk stations are distinct from its Christian talk stations, the general talk stations do carry a “moral code” of sorts) and although it hasn’t helped overall ratings at the New York station as yet (they’ve actually gone down a smidge), it has apparently helped to better engage the existing audience and improve the station’s performance among certain key demographics. It’s not surprising that ratings haven’t changed all that much in New York, but it does seem like a bright move from group Program Director Phil Boyce (pictured) to expand the new branding to other markets, as it’s a point of difference which is likely to do well outside of New York, especially California with its somewhat peculiar overly positive attitude. It could do quite well in Los Angeles in particular where rival station KFI has endured a heap of bad press of late for the negative views express by some of its hosts.
The move could make a third bit of big news. The timeslot which Heidi is taking over is currently occupied by Glenn Beck’s (pictured) syndicated Premiere Radio Networks show. When WNYM was rebranded, it resulted in the timeslots of many syndicated shows changing so as to allow more shows to air live, but no such announcement has been made about the programming lineups on KRLA and KTIE yet, so it’s not known if Glenn Beck’s show will be shuffled back to a later timeslot on delay, or if his show will be dropped completely. If it’s the latter, then that will be massive news, as this would mean that The Glenn Beck Show would no longer be cleared in either of the two biggest markets in the country, New York City (it was dropped from WOR some time back) or Los Angeles.