Does iHeartMedia still own WKOX?
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Matty In The Morning
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Yes, but it's a dumping ground for syndicated talk that needs a Boston signal. Few listen and iHeart isn't going to pay a local host big money to talk to no one on 1200.
The interesting thing about Matty is that he shows you don’t need to have a cookie cutter morning show to be successful. It doesn’t seem to matter that he isn’t a millennial posting some “on brand” content on his social media account and only discussing content that the consultants think the target demo wants to hear. The audience doesn’t care that he isn’t “hip and young.”
Within Marty’s rant the other day was a not so subtle shot at the Mix and Magic morning shows. He is right. Boston already has cookie cutter morning shows with a bunch of actors saying what the PD thinks the target demo wants to hear in the exact tone of voice the PD wants them to use. Matty beats all of them though, and has for decades.
Within Marty’s rant the other day was a not so subtle shot at the Mix and Magic morning shows. He is right. Boston already has cookie cutter morning shows with a bunch of actors saying what the PD thinks the target demo wants to hear in the exact tone of voice the PD wants them to use. Matty beats all of them though, and has for decades.
By the way the talk 1200 AM station is WXKS (AM) while WKOX is 1430. The calls got swapped in 2010 when 1200 became Rush Radio.The WKOX calls remain on 1430, now owned by Delmarva Education Assn.
Thank you for letting me know. There has been a huge shuffling of call letters in recent years on the Boston AM dial and beyond. So much so, that is ihard to even keep up with all of them!
I guess sometime in the last year or so I failed to observe the 40th anniversary of the last time I listened to his show, likely while sitting in my car between classes while cramming down a sandwich..
I'm a boomer, and had to Google "non binary". No I don't get it, and I'd imagine most people regardless of what generation they are (including Gen Z'ers) don't either. Sounds to me like she's just being weird for the sake of being weird.
While the term "non-binary" is a bit pretentious, the basis for it is very sound. There are many people who are bisexual, homosexual, gay, lesbians, trans-sexual and otherwise don't feel to be, by conventional standards, purely male or female.
Such people have had to be hidden or have been criticized and sidelined in the past. It has affected their employment, relationships with family and much more. It's certainly a good thing that society is starting to accept such people and to see them as good, normal and equal.
It's not "weird". It's being open on one side and accepting on the other.
One of the many eye-opening things the internet has done is show just how many such people are out there. Pre-internet (for me, 1997) I knew I had two gay/lesbian cousins and one gay friend. Since getting online, I've found that I actually have another gay relative and numerous g/l/bi friends, including some I've known since grade school and never once even entertained any doubt that they were straight. Knowing all that hasn't changed a thing for me; it's just, as I say, an eye-opening thing for this non-millennial. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been surprised in this very way.
Just FYI, didn't not so long ago, those who identified themselves as a different gender get very offended by people who would refer to them at "it?" True, the person who was saying it was being bigoted, degrading, and demeaning them. However, I just bring it up in reference to the discussion at hand. Nothing more, and nothing less.
AFAIK, few if any of those people prefer -- or every preferred -- "it." The plural "they" and "them" seem to dominate now for those who identify with neither gender.
Oddly, I think Boomers should understand it easily. We went in radio from stations that played "race music" in the 40's and 50's to "Negro" formats in the 60's to "r&b" formats in the 70's and 80's to "urban" or "hip hop" more recently. And now we are going back to r&b" instead of "urban".
Or, back in the 50's and 60's, a gay person was one who was upbeat, cheerful, happy. While some gays today may also be upbeat and cheerful, the word changed meaning. Us old farts are used to changing vocabularies.
Heck, we went from "kilocycles" to "Kilohertz" and accepted it easily!
Yeah. Heck, I'm in my mid-30s and I don't understand it (yet).
But unlike gay marriage, this time I'm smart enough to stay out of the fray until the dust settles. The last thing this world needs is another under-informed person (me) running around expressing his (my) opinion. I'll wait until I better understand the issue.
I just wish English had a better singular pronoun than "it." The grammatical singularity/plurality ambiguity with "they" is really my hangup — not the person selecting that pronoun. That's not their fault.
I hate to sound like a "boomer" but shut up and sing.
I don't care who an artist is sleeping with as long as they are consenting and older than the age of consent.
If you can't decide if you are a pitcher of a catcher, if you want to swap teams, whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home is OK by me.
I know that in the past the public was not accepting of alternate lifestyles.
There are hundreds of performers from the dawn of rock and roll til now that were/are gay, bi, lesbian, transgendered, etc..... and some are big time performers too, some were very public about it, some not, cripes "The Singing Nun" was lesbian.... it never effected how I felt about their craft... (now some of their political positions pissed me off but that is another story)
Demi, I think its great you want to sample the buffet, but I don't need to or care to know what you had for dinner
I don't care who an artist is sleeping with as long as they are consenting and older than the age of consent.
If you can't decide if you are a pitcher of a catcher, if you want to swap teams, whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home is OK by me.
I know that in the past the public was not accepting of alternate lifestyles.
There are hundreds of performers from the dawn of rock and roll til now that were/are gay, bi, lesbian, transgendered, etc..... and some are big time performers too, some were very public about it, some not, cripes "The Singing Nun" was lesbian.... it never effected how I felt about their craft... (now some of their political positions pissed me off but that is another story)
Demi, I think its great you want to sample the buffet, but I don't need to or care to know what you had for dinner
That's fine and that's your right to feel that way. But Matty went further than you. He wanted to sit in judgement, and I think that's uncalled for. She should shut up and sing, and Matty should just introduce the next song in the playlist. We don't need to know what he thinks about her lifestyle. That's not his job.
When has Matt Seigal not ever been opinionated though? Either better or for worse, that is just a part of who he is. To take tgat away, then he simply cease to be Matty In The Morning.
Why would he even venture into that minefield anyway?
I always thought Linus had it right when he said "there are three things I never discuss with people. Religion, Politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Well times have changed since 1965 and although I live by his statement, I also don't discuss race or sexual orientation either.
Too many on air people have gotten caught up in the current climate (call it what you want) by saying what is the now considered the "wrong" thing. It is one thing to try to be topical and edgy, but in this climate almost everything you say is going to offend someone. Pick your words carefully, and when in doubt don't. What used to be acceptable is no longer so and you may not know it until you cross the ever moving line.
And it isn't just radio, I was reading a story about a 19 year old female NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver who had to go to the re-education camp because she used the "R" word in a podcast, as in We Todd Did, or the opposite of advancing your ignition timing.... that thing you do when using Nitrous, you pull some timing out or R word it a few degrees.
Try using "master" or "slave" in the context of hard drives in computers or hydraulics in automobiles and see the looks you get.
"Niggardly" has been pretty much banished from the language for similar reasons. It was never a common, everyday word, but was a perfectly fine synonym for "stingy," with absolutely no racial connotations. And its root is a word that not only isn't about color, it's from Middle English with Scandinavian origins, unlike the Spanish-via-Latin "negro" (black) that's the root of the N-word. But try saying or writing "niggardly" today and see how far your explanation will get you. You'll be condemned just for choosing to use it in the first place. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see this post either criticized or deleted.
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