Whoa - J. Springer's show no longer to air in Cincinnati!
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:34 pm
Read all about it here!!!! I hate his show, just hate it, and finally it will no longer air here. I have personally called WLWT/Channel 5, the NBC affiliate and station where his TV career started after serving as our Mayor, to complain many times thru the years. I feel like celebrating!!! And I used to like the man, once upon a time.....
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Cincinnati Post
Saturday, March 13, 2004
http://www.cincypost.com/2004/03/13/spring031304.html
Today on Springer: My TV station dumped me
By Rick Bird
Post staff reporter
"The Jerry Springer Show" is making an earlier than expected exit from WLWT-TV (Channel 5), apparently because of decency concerns.
The station where Springer got his start in the 1980s as a news commentator and later as an anchor has dropped the show effective March 22. Its corporate parent apparently is suddenly worried about the show's sex, language and violence.
The move only speeds up what was already scheduled to happen. Channel 5 last fall announced it was not renewing its contract for Springer's show because, Channel 5 said, of its "declining ratings performance" in this market. The station was scheduled to air it until late summer, however.
Hearst-Argyle, Channel 5's corporate owner, apparently has decided that, in the wake of the new concerns about broadcast decency, it would abandon the show immediately here and at a station it owns in Baltimore.
"As the FCC focuses on programming content, we wouldn't anticipate Springer escaping that radar," explained Channel 5 General Manger Richard Dyer about Hearst-Argyle's decision.
Springer's show already had been picked up for the fall by WSTR-TV (Channel 64). The station will get it sooner than expected, much to the delight of Channel 64 General Manager Merry Ewing. Springer's show will debut on Channel 64 at 10 a.m. March 22.
"The show has a great legacy in this town," Ewing said.
Channel 5 will replace Springer at 11 a.m. with "Judge Joe Brown" until Aug. 30, when the new "Jane Pauley Show" will go into the time slot.
After flirting with a run for U.S. Senate from Ohio last summer, Springer signed a new multi-year deal last summer with the show's producers to continue as the host. While the show has toned down some of its violence and language in recent years, viewers can still find a parade of dysfunctional "trailer park trash" characters who may or may not be real. It is known that producers encourage the guests to "act up" on the show.
While the show's ratings have faded since its late '90s heyday, it still is one of the top 15-rated, syndicated daytime U.S. shows.
Any glow from Springer's Cincinnati legacy seems long gone in this market. The show has been running a distant fourth in ratings at 11 a.m. behind "The Price is Right" on Channel 12, ABC's "The View" on Channel 9 and Channel 19's "Texas Justice."
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Cincinnati Post
Saturday, March 13, 2004
http://www.cincypost.com/2004/03/13/spring031304.html
Today on Springer: My TV station dumped me
By Rick Bird
Post staff reporter
"The Jerry Springer Show" is making an earlier than expected exit from WLWT-TV (Channel 5), apparently because of decency concerns.
The station where Springer got his start in the 1980s as a news commentator and later as an anchor has dropped the show effective March 22. Its corporate parent apparently is suddenly worried about the show's sex, language and violence.
The move only speeds up what was already scheduled to happen. Channel 5 last fall announced it was not renewing its contract for Springer's show because, Channel 5 said, of its "declining ratings performance" in this market. The station was scheduled to air it until late summer, however.
Hearst-Argyle, Channel 5's corporate owner, apparently has decided that, in the wake of the new concerns about broadcast decency, it would abandon the show immediately here and at a station it owns in Baltimore.
"As the FCC focuses on programming content, we wouldn't anticipate Springer escaping that radar," explained Channel 5 General Manger Richard Dyer about Hearst-Argyle's decision.
Springer's show already had been picked up for the fall by WSTR-TV (Channel 64). The station will get it sooner than expected, much to the delight of Channel 64 General Manager Merry Ewing. Springer's show will debut on Channel 64 at 10 a.m. March 22.
"The show has a great legacy in this town," Ewing said.
Channel 5 will replace Springer at 11 a.m. with "Judge Joe Brown" until Aug. 30, when the new "Jane Pauley Show" will go into the time slot.
After flirting with a run for U.S. Senate from Ohio last summer, Springer signed a new multi-year deal last summer with the show's producers to continue as the host. While the show has toned down some of its violence and language in recent years, viewers can still find a parade of dysfunctional "trailer park trash" characters who may or may not be real. It is known that producers encourage the guests to "act up" on the show.
While the show's ratings have faded since its late '90s heyday, it still is one of the top 15-rated, syndicated daytime U.S. shows.
Any glow from Springer's Cincinnati legacy seems long gone in this market. The show has been running a distant fourth in ratings at 11 a.m. behind "The Price is Right" on Channel 12, ABC's "The View" on Channel 9 and Channel 19's "Texas Justice."
