NYC Radio: Pat Kiernan Keeps Things Light On WABC

Pat Kiernan

Pat Kiernan’s new WABC 770 AM radio show started off Monday like media sherbet, cleansing the listener’s palate between two courses of raw meat, according to media writer David Hinckley at the NYDaily News.

Hinckly writes there’s no way Kiernan, airing from 5 to 6 p.m., won’t sound like a downshift from the high-octane Michael Savage, who precedes him, and Mark Levin, who comes in on his heels.

The NY1 Morning News anchor delivers, however, exactly what the station seems to want: an hour to just chat about what’s going on in New York.

“You won’t hear a lot of political opinions from me,” Kiernan said when the show was announced late last week. “That’s not what the station wants, and it’s not what I do.

“We’ll cover what people are talking about, but not like a news show, with a news wheel. We’ve already got stations to do that.

“We’ll have interviews, some pop culture, news you can use.”

Monday’s show kept to the mission, starting with a long segment on everybody’s No. 1 topic of the day: the wacky weather.

Kiernan recalled temperatures of minus 46 where he grew up in Canada. But he also had meteorologist Bill Evans spend four minutes putting the “polar vortex” into civilian terms.

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