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Delilah Rene (born
February 15,
1960 in
Reedsport, Oregon), almost always simply known as
Delilah, is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the eponymous host of a nationally
syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 7 million listeners.
Radio show
Format
The program, known simply as
Delilah (or, alternately, as
Love Songs with Delilah or
Delilah After Dark) begins at 7 p.m. and ends at
midnight local time, although a few stations (such as
WRCH) air the show from midnight to 5 a.m. She doles out relationship advice between musical requests and describes herself as "the queen of sappy love songs."
One of the cornerstones of Delilah's show is its use of callers. Most of the time the caller tells Delilah their situation or story and then Delilah chooses the song that she feels best matches the caller's situation. She also plays songs by direct request.
Originally heard only on weeknights, stations that carry Delilah now have the option of carrying the show six or even seven nights a week, with most stations doing so at least one night of the weekend (usually Sunday) in addition to the weeknight show. Usually, the weekend version is a replay of programming recorded the previous week.
There are several versions of the program that are available, and in some cases, radio stations are free to substitute their own songs into the playlist. The most common formats are as follows:
- Soft AC: This is the most widely distributed version of the show between January and early November. It airs mostly the usual adult contemporary music. This is the version heard on most stations, including WLTW, KODA and WRCH.
- Hot AC: This version of the show is geared toward a younger audience (such as that of WMYX) and thus features more current hits.
- Gold-based AC: A version of the show that features several older hits. Stations which air this version include WBBQ in Augusta, GA, and WSAM/WSAG in Saginaw, MI.
- Canadian: A specially formatted version specifically for stations in Canada. Because of Canadian content requirements, this version has several songs by Canadian artists substituted into the regular playlist. This version was initially only three hours long (although it has since expanded to regular full-show length) and airs on EZ Rock stations such as CJEZ in Toronto and CFMG in Edmonton.
- Christmas music: This is the only version that's produced live between the Friday before Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. It features all Christmas music, mainly because most of the stations that carry the show switch over to the format. Stations that don't switch to Christmas music at that time can receive repeats of previous programs. Likewise, those who change before the Friday before Thanksgiving (such as KOSY-FM) can get repeats of the previous years' Christmas shows until the changeover takes place.
Chevrolet has a sponsorship deal with the show.
Distribution
The show was originally syndicated by Broadcast Programming in the late 1990s, which was later bought by
Jones Radio Networks. Delilah moved to
Premiere Radio Networks in
2004, where she remains to this day.
Many of the stations carrying Delilah's show were owned by Premiere parent
Clear Channel Communications, which led to speculation that Clear Channel would drop similar locally-produced "lovesongs" programs in New York and Los Angeles in order to place Delilah on the air in the nation's top two radio markets. In November of 2006,
WLTW in New York began carrying Delilah, after longtime evening hostess J.J. Kennedy was laid-off as part of a major company-wide layoff at Clear Channel. In 2007, longtime lovesongs host Zoe Bonet was dropped from
KODA Houston and replaced with Delilah.
Los Angeles,
Chicago,
San Diego, and
Detroit are the four largest markets not served by Delilah.
KOST in Los Angeles,
WLIT in Chicago,
KYXY in San Diego, and
WNIC in Detroit currently have local evening lovesongs shows on their schedule, although WNIC's competitor
WMGC airs John Tesh and had previously aired Delilah from 2001 to 2004. (Delilah is available in parts of the Detroit area via
WCRZ in
Flint, Michigan and
WWWM in
Toledo, Ohio.) Also,
KBIG-FM 104.3 in Los Angeles carried a modified version of Delilah custom-fit to the station's rhythmic
AC format from January to September 2007; when the station switched formats, Delilah was dropped. Delilah had aired on WLIT in Chicago for approximately eight years until the program was dropped in favor of a local host in November 2007.
Boston MA doesn't have a "official" Delilah station, however suburban stations that penetrate the Boston metro do carry the show. Also, an affiliation change occurred in
Atlanta shortly after Christmas 2006, when Delilah was dropped from Clear Channel-owned
WLTM-FM (which was then "94.9 Lite FM" and changed soon afterward to a
country music format) and immediately picked up by
Cox-owned main rival
WSB-FM ("B98.5FM").
The show's current flagship station is
KRWM in
Seattle, a station owned by Sandusky Broadcasting.
Audience
Usually finishing within the top three radio programs nationwide, the program is especially popular among women between the ages of 25 and 54, the prime demographic in American advertising
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Delilah says that her show is a "safety zone where listeners take off their armor, slip into a 'Mr. Rogers' cardigan, sit around the electronic hearth and share their secrets." Because of her personal experience with the foster care system, Delilah has established a foundation called
Point Hope as a voice for forgotten children everywhere. The immediate focus of the Foundation is on refugee children in
Ghana and on special needs children in the
foster care system nationwide and in her neighborhood of White Center in Seattle.
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