“Is the CBS run by morons?” you might ask… Well in fact, in late february they fired everybody at 97.1 Free FM and replaced the station with a computer playing the same top 20 chart hits over and over. Not even worth to mention the new stations name here.
97.1 Free FM was one of the few talk radio stations in southern California available on terrestrial radio. Funny, entertaining and provocative and even with an educational claim as well. Adam Corolla and the professor Tom Leykis (as he calls himself), just to name the two most famous guys they had. The second one has been doing successful talk radio for over 12 years.
I really don’t get it - the show has actually been really really popular with listeners. People were calling from all over the US - even from states where they didn’t air the show, people were following the live-stream of the show…
So who’s going to make fun of all the celebrities now? And who’s going to teach like the Professor Tom Leykis did?
There have been rumors about his contract (or he told that on air?), which guarantees him some $400.000 in the next years, even though the station was shut down and he won’t work another day. So maybe that is the reason why CBS had to quit his contract today rather than tomorrow.
So for now I stay a long time listener that never got to call in, so I’ll just be missing the show, hopefully he’s back on air soon.
May the responsible persons at CBS corporation listen to their new top 40 station until their ears bleed… :D
(which is like 10 minutes).
more on the story here, here, here or here.
Schlagworte: blowmeuptom, cbs, freefm, moron, talk radio, tom leykis