The show is ending on Westwood one today. Rather sudden, the topics for todays network show were on Larslarsen.com. No trace of him on the Westwood one site. I'm not bashing Lars..I thought he did a good show.

WW1's fallen on hard times and they're cutting their costs by pulling off the less-popular shows (i.e. Leykis, Carolla, etc.). It was just a matter of time before Lars' program was cut.

WW1 is almost tits up kids.....they were lousy payers as well. I'm sure a net will pick Lars up..The guy is full of talent

Lars is full of talent?

Good God, I had another name for what he's full of.

Wonder if Air America would like Lars???

Given the way AAR has changed in recent years, seeing them take on Lars wouldn't exactly surprise me now...

Funny, I don't ever listen to Lars in Portland, but I'm in the middle of a long road trip, and after flipping around the dial as I tend to do in the middle of nowhere I found Lars just this week on some station between Boise and Salt Lake City. One of his last WW1 shows I guess.

http://stumptownblogger.typepad.com/stumptownblogger/

REAL STORY

Not mentioned on this thread, Lars can still be heard on 18 stations throughout Oregon & Southern Washington on the Radio Northwest Network. Maybe some of the 175 Westwood One stations that carried Lars will opt to carry his RNW program.

Westwood One is trading for three cents a share. Need I say more. Also CBS is trading for just over four dollars a share and ETM is hanging in there at just above a buck a share.

He could do show on KGO-810 to fill that Bernie Wardposition!!!!or replace Ray T.!!!??

For what does ETM stand?

That would be Entercom.

----------------------Lars Larson seeks new home----------------------

Portland-based Lars Larson received word yesterday Westwood One has, effective immediately, pulled the plug on his syndicated show. It had been cleared on 125 affiliates. Larson tells Inside Radio other networks are interested in the show.

Can he do national on 125 current stations without a new network?

Somebody will pick him up. That somebody can go make some calls, and he probably will get a whole lot of his affiliates back.

If they were running the show, they probably still want to run the show.

Lars just got caught in this horrible economy like a whole lot of people are.

Heck, look at what happened with Randi Rhodes a while back. She had to switch networks and recovered nicely. That tells me this stuff can happen pretty fast, if people want it to.

OMI is reporting he has a new syndicator lined up and will make an announcement Monday.

Again, I may not like his product, but because he's a radio guy who is tenacious, I say kick ass and hope his new syndicator is stable in funding.

Lars finds a new home:
http://www.radio-info.com/

This from All Access:

------------Lars Larson Lands With Compass Media Networks------------

It didn't take long for LARS LARSON to land with a new syndicator after WESTWOOD ONE pulled the plug on its distribution of his national show last week, with COMPASS MEDIA NETWORKS taking over as the show's syndicator effective MARCH 30.

The show presently airs on over 150 stations, including 14 of the top 15 markets, including a weekend clearance on SALEM Talk WNYM-A (AM 970 THE APPLE)/NEW YORK, weekdays on MT. WILSON BROADCASTING Talk KGIL-A/LOS ANGELES and XESURF-A/SAN DIEGO, and a weekday evening clearance on CBS RADIO Talk KRLD-A/DALLAS.

COMPASS Founder PETER KOSANN told ALL ACCESS, "Our industry needs talent like LARS LARSON -- a tireless worker, an award winning journalist and broadcaster, a proven winner - who wakes up every day thinking about ways to serve his listeners and affiliates. He is a ray of sunshine for our industry. We are thrilled to welcome him to the COMPASS MEDIA NETWORKS family."

LARSON is based at ROSE CITY RADIO Talk KXL-A/PORTLAND, where he also does a local/regionally syndicated show.

Westwood One still has a lot of shows, so Larson was likely dropped only because no one really cared to listen to him. Compass Media, which only has one other show, probably got a cheap deal in signing him.

Westwood One will probably soon be dropping a lot of those shows, especially with the word in the works that WW1 is about to declare chapter 7.

What that version of the story does not say is that Compass Media's founder Peter Kosann used to run Westwood One until a few months ago.

WW1 did just land another 2 years of the NFL radio contract though...

Regardless of what one thinks of the political views on Lars' show, I 100% agree with the Peter Kosann quote regarding him.

What I imagine Lars is not advertising is the massive change in the terms and conditions of his new syndication gig. He is bu*****ing big time.

With WW1 I imagine he worked on the model of giving away his show for free to whoever wanted it with WW1 getting a couple of spot minutes per hour on each syndicated station, for their own national clients. Those national WW1 client $$ would be used to pay Lars his money......BUT WW1 has(d) enough large national clients to make that model work.

BUT now with Compass being a one man dog and pony show I can't imagine they have enough large national reach clients who will be able to pay for those two or three minutes each hour. Therefore no money for Compass to pay Lars or anyway, no way to pay Lars the large $$ he was probably used to getting through WW1.

I guess the hope is that Compass will be able to snag some large nationals willing to step in to take the Compass minutes. In this day and age that's a large "if" starting from scratch. If WW1 can't make Lars work nationally, why would Compass think they can ?

Only if Lars is working for free until those national spots are sold by Compass ?

And who is paying KXL how much for the use of their studio facilities for the national show ?

And if anybody has any doubt about how precarious the state of conservative talk radio is becoming they only need look at California where the Lars's are dropping like flies.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-talkradio15-2009mar15,0,39114.story

I fail to see the connection between conservative talk formats being "on the wane" according to the LA Times article when ALL radio is on the wane. As a matter of fact, revenue wise, conservative talk may be less "on the wane" than other formats.
On the other hand, a few stations like KPOJ are not "on the wane" audience wise but ARE on the wane revenue wise.
And another reason newspapers are totally in the tank is because they use words like "wane".

What this board needs is fewer Wanes.

Lars infested the Ed Schultz Show today. Lars Larson said:

"I love the guy (George W Bush). I voted for him twice."

Lars' man-love for Bush is an obscenity to any clear-thinking person. I'll bet he loves Bush's war crimes, too.

Sorry, but you just don't disregard the political views of a twit like Larson for the purpose of finding something honorable about him.

But one can disregard the political views of a twit like YOU for not taking your blatant political bias to the other side of this site.

Cracker has a point. Lars is a deliberately biased broadcaster and to suggest any opposing views of him and they way he broadcasts automatically be restricted to the other side isn't going to fly.

Lars thrives on division, aka f--ing up the country, so posts from people holding him accountable should be expected, no matter what side of the forum we're on.

Discussion of the specific political issue should be on the other side.

Manipulation of people's political view in the name of "radio entertainment" belongs here.

Lars doesn't get off the hook on this easily no matter how "hardworking and likeable" he is.

This is why I gave up politics a year and a half ago. Idiots keep abounding and interrupting the flow of conversations I end up in.

I'm sorry to tell you this, Skeptical, but the way he broadcasts being a political subject (rather than a nuts and bolts/procedural subject) belongs on the politics side of the board. And in a stickied thread that states "Bash Lars Here".

Hell, even Andrew was able to make a good post in here about what he noticed about the nuts and bolts along his trip through the badlands of Utah.

I personally believe, Skeptical, you are here for no other reason than to be a hatemonger. And that's just plain out sad and disgusting.

I personally believe, Skeptical, you are here for no other reason than to be a hatemonger. And that's just plain out sad and disgusting.

Hatemonger? Are you talking about me or Lars? I know he's a hater, but me? Hmm. That's a new one.

Put away your drink before post more nonsense.

Most likely you "gave up politics" because you couldn't get people to see things your way. That's not how it works. In reality one often is called upon to defend a statement they made with facts and evidence and THIS is what people are REALLY complaining about when they say "idiots keep abounding and interrupting the flow of conversations."


So anyway, for the record, Lars is no doubt a hard working broadcaster because even if you KILL KITTENS on the air to get attention, you still have to do a lot of daily prep to get a loyal radio audience as Lars has shown himself capable of doing.

Heck, before Lars started KILLING KITTENS on the air, he was a darned good reporter and anchor on KPTV. I even thought at one time he ought to be a network news reporter if not anchor.

But unfortunately, he decided to take up KITTEN KILLING on the air, so even though he's a hard worker (and likely a great guy to hang out with as I'm quite sure he doesn't KILL KITTENS when hanging out with friends) I cannot ignore the fact that he's using the airwaves to KILL KITTENS.

If we banish any talk of on-air KITTEN KILLINGS to the other side, the next thing we'll have is on-air PONY KILLINGS, all "excusable" in the name of "entertainment" because we're not holding KITTEN KILLERS accountable for this manipulation of the public airwaves. (This also applies to the folks on the other side of the aisle -- puppy killers.)

Now if Lars was to play fair and go one on one with a full grown CAT (lets say a saber-toothed tiger), then that would be true entertainment in the literal sense of the word.

Yer an idiot skeptical.
Get a job, preferably NOT in radio.

"But one can disregard the political views of a twit like YOU for not taking your blatant political bias to the other side of this site." [Notalent]

I see.

Lars said it on the radio, honeybunch. I responded, and unless I point out the obvious, I can't engage in meaningful dialog. Comprehendo?

You folks really should learn to control your authoritarian rage. It's eating you from the inside out.

I now return you to the Lars Lovefest and how talented he is...

Yer an idiot skeptical.
Get a job, preferably NOT in radio.

There still are jobs in radio?

Besides, I've a hunch Lars would give me a job working for him if he has an opening because he'll be looking for someone who works as hard as he does and lord knows I'll give him a run for the money on that!

"Most likely you "gave up politics" because you couldn't get people to see things your way. That's not how it works. In reality one often is called upon to defend a statement they made with facts and evidence and THIS is what people are REALLY complaining about when they say "idiots keep abounding and interrupting the flow of conversations."

I gave up politics because I couldn't stand the partisan assholes on both sides of the aisle. They didn't get things done, and still don't get things done. And people like you don't help the cause at all. You whine and whack off to the sounds of your own hatred. And that makes you a sad and disgusting person.

I don't like Lars's politics one iota. But on this side of the board, I will give him the props for sticking with the business in a climate that is very unfriendly to live persons doing a radio show and being successful. I would do the same thing with Thom Hartmann, but he doesn't have enough experience under his belt as of yet.

C'mon everybody, for the love of humanity, please take it outside!

Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble!

This from All Access:

-----------------Lars Larson Moves To Compass Today-----------------

LARS LARSON is back live TODAY (3/30) as "THE LARS LARSON SHOW" makes its move from WESTWOOD ONE to COMPASS MEDIA NETWORKS. The show has retained 135 of the 150 affiliates it had at its former syndication home.

COMPASS Founder PETER KOSANN tells ALL ACCESS, "We can't wait to invest more resources into THE LARS LARSON SHOW. He is an all-star and his best days are ahead of him."

Retains 135 of 150...not bad. Congrats to Lars. Wonder which station decided not to carry him.

I heard the Lars show on KTTH friday night and they were playing the KXL show complete with portland traffic and bottom of the hour news!! KTTH runs the show at midnight.

Free is awfully good price.

>>>>>COMPASS Founder PETER KOSANN tells ALL ACCESS, "We can't wait to invest more resources into THE LARS LARSON SHOW<<<<

Haha freakin ha....what resources ?

Compass has one show on 15 affiliates (#1 in Grand Rapids..woohoo.) And the guy that runs it was a CEO of a 20 station cluster until leaving that to form Compass in Jan 2009. Big dawg.

If I can stomach it, I will have to listen to see what national brand tattoo shops, tee shirt vendors and auto part stores will be advertising on the Lars national show.

Would guess the whole thing will fold within a year.

maybe you are thinking of a different Peter Kosann?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/12/1216_under40/38.htm

I am not a listener of Lars Larson's show, but he must be doing something right as he at least HAS a show. In these tough economic times, that seems to be a big deal.

As far as his syndication package is concerned, again...at least he has syndication deal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are not Lars and Thom Hartmann the only hosts in Portland to have syndicated deal?

Do you want to count "Beatles Basement"? The Stoner had at least 2 shows in syndication at one time. Are either of them still going? At one time, KKEY had a show in national syndication that was so bad, we refused to run it!

Notalent..its the same guy but he left W1 in 2008

http://compassmedianetworks.com/common/aboutus.jsp