We actually have had this one for a while, but figured we’d put it up when it appeared on the AllAccess Net News scroll. (The fine folks at AllAccess don’t have the digital TV transition in their workload, after all. Heh.)
Yes, Clear Channel standards/soft AC WNCO/1340 Ashland is changing to a talk format, featuring a lineup that does not duplicate sister news/talk WMAN/1400 Mansfield.
While WMAN carries shows like Premiere’s Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Coast to Coast AM, “Mid-Ohio’s Talk Station” will carry Pittsburgh-based “Quinn and Rose”, Cox/Dial Global’s Neal Boortz, self-syndicated financial advice guru Dave Ramsey, Premiere/Citadel afternoon driver Sean Hannity and Citadel early evening host Mark Levin.
As far as we know, WNCO’s AM side will also have Ohio’s first clearance of Premiere 6-9 PM (ET) host Jason Lewis, based at KTLK-FM in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
We’re told WNCO will be Ohio’s first affiliate for Premiere’s “Jesus Christ Show”, a unique Sunday morning program based at talk powerhouse KFI/640 Los Angeles and created by KFI’s Neil Saveedra.
Until now, 1340 has been an affiliate of Citadel’s “Timeless”, the soft AC/nostalgia hybrid format that grew out of mergers with former networks like “Stardust”…which WNCO’s AM side started carrying originally.
And none of this, of course, affects the other Clear Channel Ashland-based station carrying the WNCO calls, country giant WNCO-FM 101.3…
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