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Channel Surfing Salutes
to Spector – Let it Be
Oldies WOGL 98.1-FM and WPEN’s Jerry Blavat both recently
featured the music of record producer Phil Spector, after he was charged
with the murder of a woman in his California home.
WOGL program director Dennis Winslow explained the reason Spector
was the subject of WOGL’s hour-long “Artist Spotlight” last week
was, “People were wondering what songs Spector was behind and we
weren’t celebrating him.” Blavat,
who devoted his entire two-hour Sunday afternoon show to Spector said
“It was a musical salute and I’m not judging the man.”
Spector produced records for The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The
Righteous Brothers, The Ronnettes, and others. Veteran Philadelphia
radio professional Tom Richards said, “Blavat’s decision to air this
special at this time is in the poorest of taste.”
With February sweeps halfway over, expect the big winner to be
WTXF thanks to a couple of guys named Simon and Joe.
Due to the outstanding ratings of “American Idol” and “Joe
Millionaire” the numbers for the “Ten O’clock News” have been
terrific according to WTXF spokesman Chris Wolf.
Plus, according to another industry insider, there is an outside
chance that the ratings for the “Ten O’clock” News may surpass the
11 p.m. numbers for KYW and its high priced free agent talent Marc
Howard and Kathy Orr.
Fox News Channel weekend host Mike Jerrick competed against his
former show “Good Day Philadelphia,” Monday when he filled-in on
“Fox and Friends.” WTXF
has yet to name a permanent replacement for Jerrick, who left the show
in the fall. WTXF reporter
Christian Farr has been the most frequent substitute.
Some of the others to sit next to Kerri Lee Halkett have been Pat
Croce and Mike Missanelli.
“Wonder Woman” Lynda Carter appears on “10” today at 10
a.m. on WCAU. Tomorrow’s
entire show will be a Valentine’s Day spectacular.
Wonder if co-host Steve Levy will wear red cowboy boots for the
occasion? Also, for
Valentine’s Day, “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle” is doing a
show about relationships tonight at 9 p.m. on CN8, and Sunny 104.5-FM
hopes to repeat the success of its holiday songs over the holiday
season, as it continues with “Love Songs” week.
Former Philadelphia talk radio host John Ziegler, most recently a
contributor to CN8’s “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle” has found
success in his new home of Louisville, Kentucky.
Ziegler, a native of Washington Crossing and a graduate of Holy
Ghost Prep won his 9 a.m. – noon timeslot for talk show station
WHAS-840AM. He also is
appearing on the NBC Louisville affiliate’s 7 p.m. news for a weekly
debate.
The latest traffic star is KYW’s hyper Bob Kelly, who has
managed to put personality into traffic updates.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see Kelly eventually promoted to a
regular reporter gig, since stations seem to be more relaxed about
moving traffic reporters into other roles.
At WTXF, traffic reporter Dorothy Krysiuk handles “Consumer
Reports.” WCAU’s Amber
Rupinta has been moved from the traffic desk to regular reporting
duties, and of course the big success story is KYW’s Robin Rieger, who
began at KYW in traffic and is now the morning weekend news anchor. “True Colors” Contrary to what was reported last week, WPHL’s station colors continue to be purple and black, but the new news colors are black, white, and red. Thus the web site is in the clear for its purple and black theme.
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