Random rumblings from outside the edges of the usual OMW Coverage Area:
* We hear noise out of Dayton that Radio One sports talk WING “ESPN Radio 1410” may not be long for its sports format. In addition to rumors of the departure of the station’s program director, there is also a nagging rumor that the station will flip to Radio One’s own urban talk format, currently heard on sister station WERE/1300 Cleveland. It’s not like we’re surprised, though… we expected such a move when the national network featuring Rev. Al Sharpton and company was announced.
* And we’re not sure, but we believe Clear Channel talk WSPD/1370 Toledo may actually fill the 6-7 PM weekday evening slot with a new local talk show host. “Eye on Toledo” was created when the station moved Bob Frantz out of mornings a few months ago. Frantz, of course, landed on his feet as the newly-minted local mid-morning host at WTAM/1100 in Cleveland.
We don’t have any details on WSPD’s plans to replace him, but we believe they may continue with some sort of local talk in the hour time slot following station program director Brian Wilson’s 3-6 PM show.
As we don’t have a lot of readers in those two markets (if any!), the above changes may have already taken place. Or, we could be entirely wrong…but feel free to label this “unverified chatter”…
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