Cumulus has blown up its “SuperTalk” FM talk format in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Enquirer TV/radio guru John Kiesewetter reports that WFTK pulled the plug on the talk format after the end of this morning’s “Two Angry Guys” morning drive talk show with Richard Skinner and Tom Gamble. Construction noises have filled the 96.5 airwaves.
Skinner tells Kiese that the pair is still with the station, and will return to the station post-format change, after a previously scheduled vacation, on January 2nd.
But what airs after them – in a format supposedly set to launch Friday at noon according to a countdown on the station’s website – is anyone’s guess.
Cumulus has thrown up roughly four or five “possible” logos, including formats from country to religious to Spanish-language formats.
Talking to Kiesewetter, WFTK afternoon drive sports star Andy Furman doesn’t seem optimistic. He doesn’t seem to know if contract negotiations to renew his deal with Cumulus will resume before the deal ends at the end of the year, and he quips, “I’m not spinning country music, that’s for sure.”
It would appear that a full-fledged change to sports talk would have to include Furman, and his being out of the loop on this change is probably not a good sign for his future on the new 96.5 format…
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