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COLOR The Bueealo News riday April Ut 2006 C5 Arts Entertainment RADIO As replacement for Stem David Lee Roth is Van By Larry McShane ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK or David Lee Roth morning drive time is turn ing into a car wreck The former Van Halen front man barely into his fourth month as replacement for the departed shock jock Howard Stem is the subject of rumors about his radio demise four hour show was already revamped once pro ducing an on air tirade against management And initial ratings were discouraging It appears that following Stem own rock star for the last two decades is more diffi cult for the fest talking Roth than staying on estranged bandmate Eddie Van Christmas card list a dead man said Michael Harrison founder of the trade publication Talkers maga zine on reports from be hind the scenes and critical reac tion coupled with early ratings not looking The once spandexed lead sing er has rarely hit the right notes since his January debut on New York WNY (billed as ree M) and six other CBS Radio stations none in Western New York In a recent broadcast Roth claimed he was bombarded with four management letters in five days about content and predicted his show could be finished before May Several of his on air sidekicks were dumped as the program struggled to find its groove Roth disappeared from the airwaves for two days amid the turmoil think the radio industry ex pects this will end sooner than lat said Tom Taylor editor of the trade publication Inside Radio CBS Radio spokeswoman Ka ren Matteo declined to comment on the Roth show But it was widely believed even before choice that replacing Stem was a near impossible task particularly for an inexperi enced broadcaster CBS Radio realizing its dilem ma replaced the self proclaimed King of All Media with several people including comedian' Ad am Carolla also struggling to keep audience in Los Angeles) Roth landed the plum job in New York the No 1 radio market Billboards and bus ads herald ed the beginning of Roth radio as Howard sailed into the satellite radio sunset with his $500 mil lion deal It take long for critics to tear into perfor mance show is skin crawl ingly wrote Rob Sheffield in a Rolling Stone piece these days of bland Clear ChannelIn finity corporate radio bracing to hear a guy who has no idea what doing Listening to Roth you feel actual physical The nasty cracks soon spread to competition in the cut throat New York morning radio market a mess and a loud mouth said syndicated ra TELEVISION News file photo Maryalice Demler will help anchor the 10 pm newscast rata Channel 2 will produce 10 pm news on WNYO By Jani Kwiatkowski NEWS STA REPORTER Sports tops the bill in a new 10 pm local news program that will premiere next Thursday officials from WGRZ TV and WNYO TV announced Thursday on NYO 10 at and ern New York Sports repre sents a partnership between WNYO TV and WGRZ TV which will staff the 30 minute telecast Scott Levin and Maryalice Demler Channel 2 news co anchors will host the first 10 minutes of each show along with weather caster Kevin The fol lowing 20 minutes will team Channel 2 sports director Ed Kil gore with Adam Benigni for ex panded sports coverage are busier today so this is a chance for our viewers to get 2 on Your Side News said Ellen Crooke Channel 2 News director will be able to get all the news and weather affecting Western New York in just 10 minutes while still keeping the 2 on Your Side ap proach of tough questions hold ing people accountable and cele brating Western New The new program will fill the gap left by the recent departure of WB 49 News after a 20 month run The partnership between Gan nett Broadcast Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group offers a quick dose of news and weather with an expanded version of sports are pleased to be associat ed with WGRZ TV and their ex cellent news weather and sports said Nick Magnini general manager of WNYO TV The new program will run op posite a 30 minute newscast on WNLO Channel 23 Channel sister station 11 Your Dollar Brings I(nS I Them Hope ip A I 1 ij Tuesday April OK Net profits benefit the children of Variety Kids 2006 David Lee Roth at least for the moment is on New York City billboards and morning radio MdSMUtt rT MW lIPsw a dio host Don Imus in a recent cri tique of Roth Over on WKTU a Van Halen song was played on a ri day morning Lee Roth singing on asked co host Goumba Johnny people heard him on KTU this morning than on ree It wasn't this way back in Oc tober when Roth was rolled out as replacement The shock jock hosted the rock star on his radio show and wished his suc cessor well But by March the Ar bitron monthly trends indicated Roth was drawing a fraction of New York audience Roth bristling at what he con sidered management interfer ence responded by doing a show that sounded like a hostage tape He later changed his tune prom ising to stick with the program: going to give it a try in vested too much in this show not He returned this week with a renewed 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