Atlanta loses it's C2C affiliate

[BigDave]

WGST 640 am flipped to spanish ESPN Desportes. I guess I'll be listening to C2C on tunein.com

[stevesh]

You might try bugging the other AM stations in town. When WJIM replaced C2C with Red Eye Radio, I contacted their competitor here, WILS ( I suspect others did too) and they picked up C2C a couple of weeks later. They did the same when WJIM replaced Glenn Beck with Geraldo Rivera (I can't believe I just typed that).

[BigDave]

You might try bugging the other AM stations in town. When WJIM replaced C2C with Red Eye Radio, I contacted their competitor here, WILS ( I suspect others did too) and they picked up C2C a couple of weeks later. They did the same when WJIM replaced Glenn Beck with Geraldo Rivera (I can't believe I just typed that).

That sounds like a good idea! Glenn Beck has already went to 920 am in Atlanta and Rush Limbaugh has went to 750 WSB

[Ipokesmot]

pollo tetas!

[Digitech]

There's been quite a few threads on here where people have noted the slow but steady decline in the number of C2C affiliates.

Right now I'm listening to 'JT The Brick' on Fox Sports Radio. For what it's worth, he just said that his show is 'on more stations than anybody else at night.' I have listened to his program in the past and never heard him say it, but it seems to be a sort of tagline that he says to open the show. Could be that he's just talking about having more affiliates than any other sports show, but who knows?

[Widget]

"Coast To Coast AM" is a mainstay of Premiere Radio Networks. It may lose affiliates, but it can offer a feasible-package to news-talk stations and it can be picked up by other ones. There's been other overnight talk shows who've come and gone, but "Coast" is a standard in the industry and "sinking it" won't be easy.

Yes, there's Fox-Sports Radio. There's also ESPN radio. There's Red-Eye Radio. No doubt, I foresee, they'll be others that surface in the next few years. But "Coast" going away because it loses affiliates? Not until Premiere and Clear Channel Communications goes away. That won't be easy. It's not about the best show. It's about who has more money to invest in the fight.

ESPN Radio should sink Fox-Sports Radio. It never enters political realms and appeals to those of all incomes, ages and political affiliations. Now, "J.T." may claim more stations, but he's an elitist who seems to go out of his way to insult the common people. Obviously,  Fox Sports has backed his program more on their own resources than content value. One day, "J.T" and his arrogance may put him the way of Tony Bruno with the highly rated "Into The Night." Bruno got his contract with Fox cancelled and then canned his sorry behind like a stewed tomato. What then? It's not the host. It's not the show. It's the time slot and the resources of the media company backing it.

Bruno's program simply got replaced by a part-time Fox employee host who was offered -- and obviously took -- a full-time gig. You know what? The ratings are fair in market share. It's not the message, but the media that matters.

"Coast" will go on no matter who hosts it. It will survive. It's become bigger than the initial backers ever envisioned years ago -- and they will ride that wave for all it's worth.

[earlygrayce]

"Coast" will go on no matter who hosts it. It will survive. It's become bigger than the initial backers ever envisioned years ago -- and they will ride that wave for all it's worth.

For many of us, Coast died long, long ago. The only way it lives on is in the old shows, or the memories.

[LacyWoodrow]

"Coast" will go on no matter who hosts it. It will survive. It's become bigger than the initial backers ever envisioned years ago -- and they will ride that wave for all it's worth.

If Ground Zero keeps at the pace it is now, I would not be surprised if it replaces it. Remember this, Clearchannel is incorporated. The big wigs make decisions. When the love of C2C is already souring, do you still thing the investors will do it for the love? I am willing to be they have never heard a single C2C broadcast.

[ChandlersDad]

If Ground Zero keeps at the pace it is now, I would not be surprised if it replaces it. Remember this, Clearchannel is incorporated. The big wigs make decisions. When the love of C2C is already souring, do you still thing the investors will do it for the love? I am willing to be they have never heard a single C2C broadcast.

How do you know the love of C2C is already souring? I am honestly asking. There is a small disgruntled group on this little forum who do not like it, but I think the USA is full of dingbats who think George vibrates intellectually at their speed and love the current form of the show. I suspect most of the people who listened when AB was the host (in the golden old days) have long moved on AWAY from C2C.  So are you sure you aren't in a small minority? As long as the commercials keep running faster and faster and the affiliates hang in there, Clear Channel will be happy. If the public was happy with it, they'd hire a chimp to screech into the microphone for 3 hours a night. I think the USA would be a far happier kinder country if there was a primetime TV show just showing puppies or kittens playing with each other. 

[LacyWoodrow]

How do you know the love of C2C is already souring? I am honestly asking. There is a small disgruntled group on this little forum who do not like it, but I think the USA is full of dingbats who think George vibrates intellectually at their speed and love the current form of the show. I suspect most of the people who listened when AB was the host (in the golden old days) have long moved on AWAY from C2C.  So are you sure you aren't in a small minority? As long as the commercials keep running faster and faster and the affiliates hang in there, Clear Channel will be happy. If the public was happy with it, they'd hire a chimp to screech into the microphone for 3 hours a night. I think the USA would be a far happier kinder country if there was a primetime TV show just showing puppies or kittens playing with each other. 

You're right, but if C2C still keeps an audience it wont do any good if Ground Zero surpasses the numbers. I think it's sour because George has turned it into a giant infomercial as you've said. The only loyal listeners are disgruntle fans who haven't an alternative, and the dedicated ones who just refuse to give in.
I didn't know about Coastgab until this Ghost2Ghost aired. I typed in I hate George Noory and this popped up. So my opinion is fresh.
Lately I'd much rather spend my night ranting about the show than listening to it lol 

[ChandlersDad]

You're right, but if C2C still keeps an audience it wont do any good if Ground Zero surpasses the numbers. I think it's sour because George has turned it into a giant infomercial as you've said. The only loyal listeners are disgruntle fans who haven't an alternative, and the dedicated ones who just refuse to give in.
I didn't know about Coastgab until this Ghost2Ghost aired. I typed in I hate George Noory and this popped up. So my opinion is fresh.
Lately I'd much rather spend my night ranting about the show than listening to it lol 

I haven't listened to C2C live in many years. I still subscribe so I can pick and choose the shows to listen to, but (alas!) I am so often disappointed. This is usually not the guest's fault but the interviewer. I am always pleasantly pleased when I discover that George Knapp is the interviewer because then I can be assured that the questions will make sense and be pertinent to the flow of the interview. Knapp also does NOT digress and tell long stories from his own life, like Noory.  Often if I had been the guest with Noory, I would have become quite snarky, e.g., "Excuse me, but I thought the show was about ME and my story, not yours. Can we please discuss what I came here to share with people?"  I would love to hear a guest do that, even if it did mean that this remark would be followed by an immediate commercial break. When the break was over, we would be told that they lost contact with the guest so it is now Open Lines. LOL

[stevesh]

I haven't listened to C2C live in many years. I still subscribe so I can pick and choose the shows to listen to, but (alas!) I am so often disappointed. This is usually not the guest's fault but the interviewer. I am always pleasantly pleased when I discover that George Knapp is the interviewer because then I can be assured that the questions will make sense and be pertinent to the flow of the interview. Knapp also does NOT digress and tell long stories from his own life, like Noory.  Often if I had been the guest with Noory, I would have become quite snarky, e.g., "Excuse me, but I thought the show was about ME and my story, not yours. Can we please discuss what I came here to share with people?"  I would love to hear a guest do that, even if it did mean that this remark would be followed by an immediate commercial break. When the break was over, we would be told that they lost contact with the guest so it is now Open Lines. LOL

Search the C2C website for Mark Edward and listen to his two-hour interview. He didn't call out Simple George quite as blatantly as you suggested, but he did get cranky with Ol' George and a couple of callers. Great show.