Local radio station to add 'On Air with Ryan Seacrest' to line-up
September 25, 2008 @ 11:50 PM
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- WKEE-FM adds "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" to its weekday line-up, beginning Monday, Sept. 29. The music and entertainment news program will air from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Seacrest highlights and interviews top talent in the entertainment industry, covering music, film and television. Listeners can visit www.RyanSeacrest.com to interact and connect with the show and get daily entertainment and lifestyle news. The site features photos, videos and social networking.
Seacrest is also the host of American Top 40, heard on WKEE from 7 to 11 a.m. every Sunday. For more information, visit 100.5 WKEE's Web site, www.wkee.com.
Also known as more local programming goes by the wayside to be replaced with canned national stuff. This time in the middle of the day. Not good. Not good at all.
The day may be coming when there is virtually no local talent across the street from a Walgreen's in Huntington.
1 to 4? That's preposterous. Why would a radio station dump local programming for a canned shit show from 1 to 4? I can perfectly understand 7 to midnight, or midnight to 6, or even 6 to 9. I don't get it at all.
I have been listening to Gary "Music" Miller since I was shitting yellow. No sense at all.
1. Desperation. Let's face it, the station has fallen from 20 to 8 and change in the ratings. If Judy wasn't such a decent human being, Jim would have been on the street by now.
2. Corporate said to do it. I don't know if the Seacrest show has anything to do with CC, but it sure seems like a stunt they'd pull. KISS is, after all, on 107.1 because of corporate.
sportsvoice wrote:I think CC Corporate is shoving this down the throats of the local stations.
It seems just by the sightings of the show in this thread that there is some option as to when to air it. Why would someone want to throw this (good, bad or otherwise) into that 1-4 slot? It just doesn't seem like a smart move... then again, I'm not a music CONsultant or a corporate drone, so who knows.
