"Arbitrend ratings released yesterday show that in January, Roth’s first month, WFNY’s morning share among its target audience of 18- to 34-year-olds fell from 13.8% to 1.3%. … Stern replacements in Chicago and Los Angeles, Rover and Adam Carolla, also fell sharply."
Remember when CBS "created" FM radio? Well okay, that was a while back, but it was a kickass alternative to AM, and Stern, like him or hate him, was a monster act. To replace him with Roth had to be the dumbest idea the suits had come up with since believing they could screw with the talent and the DJ strike of the late 60's was going to blow over without much fuss.
And now they are suing Stern for promoting his new gig while still employed by CBS, when anytime, any damned time at all they could have stopped him, but he was still generating so much money for them they racked in the dinero and crossed their fingers in hoping people would continue to tune in when he was long gone.
Lame assholes.
13.8 to 1.3? Sweet geez, but even Imus does better than that.
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