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Why Is Bones Still On the Air?

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Mojo Marklin

What kind of radio world are we living in now where the on-air talent screws with the EAS System, costs his corporate handlers a million buck FCC fine, and remains on the air??

In any other parallel radio universe previously known to this old former radio guy, Bones would have been out on his tailbone faster than a radio microwave can hop a tower.

I get that the guy was iHeart's chosen boy to bring the next generation of Country listeners over from the Top 40 world where he had previously rattled his bones, but this would have introduced any other air jock to the realities of his or her non-compete. It's not like Nashville would miss him since he'd already boned-off a lot of the in-town industry insiders with his whines that he wasn't being respected and should be because he's, well, Bobby Bones. Everybody else on the inside in this town had to earn respect with hard work and integrity, it don't come to you because some corporation sets you up in front of a mic in the middle of town.

And it sure don't help to yank out a false alarm. Or at least, it didn't use to...
 
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Mojo Marklin said:
What kind of radio world are we living in now where the on-air talent screws with the EAS System, costs his corporate handlers a million buck FCC fine, and remains on the air??
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Put it in perspective: iHeart just signed a morning guy in LA for over $4 million a year.

If you have talented people and want them to be creative, you run the risk of an occasional mistake. The contrary would be to muzzle the talent and have nothing entertaining... but no risks.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Put it in perspective: iHeart just signed a morning guy in LA for over $4 million a year.

If you have talented people and want them to be creative, you run the risk of an occasional mistake. The contrary would be to muzzle the talent and have nothing entertaining... but no risks.
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Who is the LA host?
 
I had a chance to sample the Bobby Bones show recently. He was calling a pregnant friend on the air and wanted her to come on the show when her water broke. I have not listened since. Even the new TV commercials have not brought me back.
 
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