Word From NYC
by Brian Maloney, June 5th, 2008 at 11:19pm
I’m in Manhattan for the talk radio convention which begins tomorrow, but already the buzz in the hallways is about Laura Ingraham’s abrupt and mysterious exit from the airwaves.
Today, she made a cryptic remark about being away from the show in a regular email update sent to fans.
In the hotel lift, I bumped into some radio people and their first question was about Ingraham.
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20 Comments
1. ChrisNH | June 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I signed up for her e-mail blast months ago, and I only started getting them THIS WEEK…and several in a row!
2. bjd | June 6th, 2008 at 10:43 am
“In the hotel lift,…”
The lift??? Where did you say you were again? Was elavator, elevator, elivator, elovator, eluvator, elyvator too hard to spell?
Please post what you find out about Laura.
3. SlouchingtowardBoulder | June 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
It’s because she became a mother last month to an adopted daughter from Guatamala and wants to spend time with her.
4. Evan | June 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
We can only hope she if she is indeed leaving that it’s Mark Levin taking her place. Even a tape delay would be good.
Evan
5. WRKO Staffer | June 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
She is a bland talk show host. No big loss to radio.
6. jim | June 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
WOW, Radio Convention? How irnoic. A man who has been run out of the industry is at a convention for it.
7. Laurence Glavin | June 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Keating Willcox, the owner of WNSH-AM, Beverly, posted to the Boston Radio Interest Group that if Ingraham is no longer available, he MIGHT be amenable to a liberal talk-show host in that time slot.
8. raccoonradio | June 7th, 2008 at 3:21 am
That “bland talk host, no big loss” has
millions of listeners, bestselling books,
and regular appearances on highly rated
cable news shows.
9. mojoe | June 7th, 2008 at 10:13 am
jim,
That would be like you being invited to a blog commenters convention.
Assclown.
10. jsyk | June 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
LOL WRKO Staffer…you got the FELON on the payroll…don’t think you’d know a truely BLAND host if they stuck the microphone up your nose. With the BLAND lineup of your fabulous station, I wouldn’t be so cavalier. Plus she’s in the top 10 of hosts. Moron.
11. 1Dracut | June 7th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Laura Ingraham and Mary Katharine Ham in the same week. Conservative radio/blogging is a lot less cute now.
12. Sorenson | June 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Oh geeeese!
Our Briii
All by his self in NY on the bloody “lift”.
What all ye been dippin into there bri.
Post us when your really ripped will ya.
That would be fun eh?
I tink ee run into mary poppins on the lift and say “eh dar mary ol girl will ya com oop ta me place and teach me ow ta feed ya pigeon?”
13. BigBlue | June 9th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Hey Jim -
Brian was not ‘RUN OUT OF THE INDUSTRY’, he retired due to ill health, the listners got sick of him!
14. Celtic Frost | June 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
You are all jealous of my superior intellect and general radio knowledge. Sticks and stones…
In any event, once I knew a girl named Joy. We were friends in HS. Her daddy made a pass at me one night after dinner in their basement rumpus room. Needless to say Joy’s daddy and I got quite close that summer. He is still in the closet, however. She is a bitter, fat, therapy-laden 40-something now. Sad.
15. Laurence Glavin | June 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
No Laura on Monday morning, June the ninth…Monica Creepy Crawley instead.
16. raccoonradio | June 10th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Yes, and WTKK runs it tape delayed and I heard
Monica come on and say that Laura would be back
(but wouldn’t say when) and that she’s doing well
17. raccoonradio | June 10th, 2008 at 3:30 am
…and now I see Brian’s article about the
poss. she’s trying to move to ABC-Citadel
and may have violated her TRN contract (etc.;
see radio equalizer blog). interesting!
18. WRKO Staffer | June 10th, 2008 at 6:23 am
raccoonradio…is “Shut Up and Sing” your beach book this summer? Yeah, she might have million of listeners but Michael Bolton, Celine Dion and Kenny G had millions of people who bought theirlousy cd’s (it doesn’t make them somehow brilliant cd’s). Also, if she is really that good why isn’t she on in a better time slot locally? She is about as exciting as dry toast. Let Freedom Ring!
19. bjd | June 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
racoonradio,
listen to wrkostaffer. the folks at rko know radio better than anybody else. who else would have the vision to put on felon, reese, wendy, and others.
rko is the stations others use as a model.
20. raccoonradio | June 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
At least they have the Fried Clam Man (and he almost fled to FM last year)