Radio

Top Guy at Clear Channel Out

Posted 5:10 pm, July 9th, 2007 by Sarah Janecek

Twin Cities radio fans take note: Mick Anselmo, the long-time general manager of local Clear Channel stations, was fired today. Of particular interest to Minnnesota public affairs junkies is 100.3 KTLK FM, which became a conservative talk station under Anselmo's decisionmaking in January 2006. KTLK's ratings numbers -- like most of talk radio-- have been down and new leadership at Clear Channel could make major changes.

For more on this story, your best bets are the Clear Channel gossip site, www.redandnater.com and Brian Lambert's media blog on therake.com, "Lambert to the Slaughter."

[And yes, PIM Publisher Sarah Janecek did have a show on KTLK cohosted with Lambert. The show was replaced by Jason Lewis. Both Lambert and Janecek still feel good about the show, which was perhaps the only show in the country where a conservative and a liberal sat in the same booth every day and argued politics without killing each other (or at least trying not to). And last time we saw any numbers, we still beat Lewis in the highly desirable 25-54 buying demo! Any success Lambert & Janecek enjoyed can be attributed to our producer, Rob Pendleton.]