..Just trying to learn the lingo....
jimwalsh2001 said:It's "Rush and his ten thousand clones" who are the fringe format...
upstate29651 said:jimwalsh2001 said:It's "Rush and his ten thousand clones" who are the fringe format...
The ratings & overall success say otherwise, my friend....
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jimwalsh2001 said:Not unless you define 65+ as mainstream...
Re guys like Stern, Leykis, NJ 101.5, WTKS, etc:
Don't call it Hot Talk.
Call it talk.
These guys, and those like them are the real mainstream of spoken-word radio. It's "Rush and his ten thousand clones" who are the fringe format...
If the show does not have a major sex component, it's not hot talk.
I would throw "The Don & Mike Show" in there as well. Those cats had some of the funniest stuff I've heard on radio.
Bump. Seriously. paintyourbaldspot.com
That is not some plug. That is all of an education of what is and what was hot talk radio through the 90's to 2008 (death). Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara were the last two big time nationally syndicated "hot talk" host to go, and they actually covered it all right there on the show day to day, they feuded with O and A and Howard AND Larry King. Even gave Larry one of his many heart attacks.