Remember Doc Thompson?
He’s the former production director for Clear Channel oldies/classic hits WMJI/105.7, and also was a producer and sidekick for the station’s longtime top-rated “Lanigan and Malone” morning show. (Listeners to talk WTVN/610 Columbus may even remember the Saturday night talk show he co-hosted with fellow WMJI staffer Bryan Radabaugh back at the turn of the century.)
Doc left WMJI in 2005 for a programming gig at short-lived Albuquerque NM startup FM talker KAGM, and later became the operations manager of Magic Broadcasting’s cluster of radio stations in Dothan, Alabama. Eventually, Doc landed at Clear Channel’s heritage talker, WRVA/1140 Richmond as their late-afternoon host. (And yes, this is the same Doc Thompson that has done frequent fill-in work for Glenn Beck, and even once for Matt Patrick.)
Well, he’s headed back to the Buckeye State. Sorta.
Doc announced yesterday on his Facebook fan page that, in addition to his afternoon show on WRVA, he will soon start hosting a daily show on WLW/700 Cincinnati, otherwise known as the original “Big One.”
I’ve had several job offers over the last year to go to a bigger city and grow my career but I love Virginia and I want to stay on WRVA. So I will be doing TWO daily shows. Little will change on my WRVA show but soon I will start hosting an additional daily show on WLW-Cincinnati!
Thanks to the WRVA staff and Thank YOU!
It doesn’t take a detective to find out what time Doc’s new WLW show will air.
WLW’s 9 p.m. – 12 midnight slot has been open since early June, when Scott Sloan (a WSPD/1370 Toledo alum) was promoted from late evenings to Mike McConnell’s former 9 a.m. – noon slot, after McConnell left to join WGN/720 Chicago. Weekend talker (and weekday lawyer) Eric Deters, who anchored that time slot on an interim basis – albeit sparingly, given Cincinnati Reds play-by-play – had no interest in taking the night slot permanently.
Even with the Cincinnati Reds heading to the playoffs next week, the end of the regular season obviously necessitated WLW’s bringing Doc on board.
And again, even though a host may be based far, far away from their respective studios, it can still be considered a “local show.” (Obviously, Brian Wilson doing his WSPD afternoon drive show from his Virginia home because of health issues comes to mind… but so does WGN-AM afternoon talk host John Williams, who also hosts a late-morning show on WCCO-AM in Minneapolis from WGN’s facilities.)
By this technicality alone, WLW can still lay claim to an all-live, all-local program lineup.
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