Just a couple of quick ones:
LIBERAL TALK RADIO BACK IN COLUMBUS: It had been rumored around liberal/progressive political circles and the blogosphere for a day or two, but it’s now official – liberal talk radio is making a comeback in Columbus.
Columbus Dispatch radio/TV writer Tim Feran confirms that Bernard Radio’s WVKO/1580, which recently returned to the air after being silent, will pick up the format on Monday. It’ll feature a similar lineup to the market’s former liberal talk outlet – Clear Channel now-general market talk WYTS/1230.
WVKO general manager Gary Richards, a long-time local sales executive in the market, says the new station will not only feature all three Jones Radio liberal syndicated talk shows – Bill Press in morning drive, Stephanie Miller in middays and Ed Schultz in early afternoon – but will likely also run Air America’s Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow.
Such a schedule would basically make WVKO’s lineup nearly identical to the lineup employed by the former WTPG/1230, now a general talker dubbed “Your Talk Station”.
Richards also promises “local news and talk”, and says the upcoming election season should provide fuel for the station’s fortunes.
The format debut/return is Monday, barring possible “technical glitches”, says Richards.
WVKO has been running a Spanish-language format, since its return to the airwaves from a new Morse Road tower site…
TV TUNES: TV show theme songs are what new Columbus market move-in WMRN-FM/106.7 Dublin is offering listeners, as the station stunts into its eventual permanent format.
OMW hears that the TV Tunes will be heard on the new station until mid-December.
And we’ve had at least one listener tell us that he believes the translator station that occupied that frequency, relaying Ohio State University’s WOSU-FM (or perhaps technically, WOSB-FM Marion), may not have signed off yet. If it hasn’t, it’s obviously getting clobbered by the new station.
The WMRN-FM calls, of course, will eventually migrate back to Marion, where the former 106.9 “Buckeye Country” format has moved to former AC outlet WDIF/94.3…
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