• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Sid Rosenberg feud with radio messageboard guy

If Sid is doing this because he thinks it makes for entertaining radio, then he missed the mark considerably.

If Sid is doing this because he has a legitimate grievance against some random poster on a message board, then maybe morning drive in market #1 might not be the right job for him???? Just a thought???
 
These guys have been doing this off and on for years. Sometimes it's entertaining. Sid has a thin skin but much thicker ego and reacts to every comment. Allan know it all or pretends to. They go back and forth sometimes for days and then stop for a while.
 
72167-3530 said:
Sad that someone with a show on a flagship name-brand radio station in market number one would even acknowledge the existence of some rando on the internet.
Click to expand...

Sad that all you have is a silly cliche. Well-known people in the radio business read it and have posted there - Herb Barry, Dale Parsons, Pete Salant, Mike McCann, Pete Tauriello, Jay Sorensen (just off the top of my head).

And that very same "flagship name-brand radio station in market number one" itself partnered with him when they did their Memorial Day "WABC Rewound" events, since he also has the definitive tribute site for Musicradio WABC. There's nothing "rando" about it. (But he has a job outside of show business, so he can't be taken seriously, right?)
 
Hyrum said:
These guys have been doing this off and on for years. Sometimes it's entertaining. Sid has a thin skin but much thicker ego and reacts to every comment. Allan know it all or pretends to. They go back and forth sometimes for days and then stop for a while.
Click to expand...
Bingo. Both of them crave attention of any kind whether positive or negative. And they provide each other with the fuel they need.

NJMark said:
Sad that all you have is a silly cliche. Well-known people in the radio business read it and have posted there - Herb Barry, Dale Parsons, Pete Salant, Mike McCann, Pete Tauriello, Jay Sorensen (just off the top of my head).

And that very same "flagship name-brand radio station in market number one" itself partnered with him when they did their Memorial Day "WABC Rewound" events, since he also has the definitive tribute site for Musicradio WABC. There's nothing "rando" about it. (But he has a job outside of show business, so he can't be taken seriously, right?)
Click to expand...
Since he has removed any reference of this site or RadioInsight since I asked him to stop spamming our boards in 1998 with links to his WABC tribute site which led him to starting his board, I'm not going to do the same with this thread. But the fact of the matter is nobody over there is going to learn anything about the radio industry in the 21st century in the bubble he created.

I'm not going to knock any of the other people you mentioned; If you want to talk about New York radio in 1974, you couldn't ask for a better group of people to do so with. But which of them is currently active in the radio industry? The only ones who post there that fit that bill happen to be two of our admins, @DavidEduardo and @fybush. This site is the one that remains relevant and will become even moreso. Just look at the threads about this week's iHeart outage. Nobody there has even a clue how a broadcast operation works in 2024.

I despise seeing him get any attention of any kind here, but unlike any post there with a link to a relevant news story pointing to a site I operate, we're not going to just edit it out...
 
lanceventa said:
Since he has removed any reference of this site or RadioInsight
Click to expand...
I have seen news posted to his board attributed to RadioInsight, and then quickly deleted. Shortly thereafter, the same story is then reposted by him, or one of his delegates (or Charles Everett), with either no attribution, or attribution to another source. Holding a 26-year grudge seems strange to me.
 
NJMark said:
And that very same "flagship name-brand radio station in market number one" itself partnered with him when they did their Memorial Day "WABC Rewound" events, since he also has the definitive tribute site for Musicradio WABC.
Click to expand...
When was the last time that happened? 20 years ago? That's ancient history by this point.
 
Hyrum said:
These guys have been doing this off and on for years. Sometimes it's entertaining. Sid has a thin skin but much thicker ego and reacts to every comment. Allan know it all or pretends to. They go back and forth sometimes for days and then stop for a while.
Click to expand...
But is it really relevant? Not gonna lie, merely pointing at this Bickersons-type act between those two—even if to laugh—just doesn't feel like it's worth the time or oxygen at all.
 
A few minutes ago I read a very well written post on the NYRMB criticizing Allen for taking the poster's previous post down. The main gist of the post was that Sid gets decent rating and that Allen might not be up to date in his thinking.

After I finished reading the post I tried to open one of three replies but they had been deleted along with the OP.

Isn't it better to counter speech than to surpress it? Talk about thin skin!
 
luperm said:
I have seen news posted to his board attributed to RadioInsight, and then quickly deleted. Shortly thereafter, the same story is then reposted by him, or one of his delegates (or Charles Everett), with either no attribution, or attribution to another source. Holding a 26-year grudge seems strange to me.
Click to expand...
I’ve posted many news story links from RadioInsight and they’ve never been deleted from this site.
 
Maybe it's me, but revue-level gawking of said board and said board owner (even if justifiable) feels equally petty. Why even give him and them the time of day when attention is what they want?
 
wadio said:
A few minutes ago I read a very well written post on the NYRMB criticizing Allen for taking the poster's previous post down. The main gist of the post was that Sid gets decent rating and that Allen might not be up to date in his thinking.
Click to expand...
Allan is very defensive, which is mixed with an uncontrollable "I know it all" attitude. Plus he's the one and only moderator and retains sole authority to delete anything he disagrees with, or which offends him, or that threatens his authority or knowledge (e.g., try challenging his encyclopedic knowledge of Dan Ingram). You can't tell him he's wrong, because if you're right, he'll make the evidence go away, and probably bar you from any further participation.

The Staten Island Ferry isn't big enough to hold all the former posters he's barred or chased away from his message board.
wadio said:
After I finished reading the post I tried to open one of three replies but they had been deleted along with the OP.

Isn't it better to counter speech than to surpress it? Talk about thin skin!
Click to expand...
That's Allan. A man with the behavior of an Asperger sufferer and the inclinations of a Soviet-era censor.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Maybe it's me, but revue-level gawking of said board and said board owner (even if justifiable) feels equally petty. Why even give him and them the time of day when attention is what they want?
Click to expand...
Because more than a few of us have been burned by said board owner. (And BTW, said board is now a 501(c)3 charity, so technically he doesn't even own it anymore. He's an official and/or a trustee (or director) of said charity, so his behavior is in conflict with his fiduciary responsibilities to the organization.

As for Sid, he's a jerk, but the world's full of those. His erstwhile colleague on WABC is a much bigger jerk.
 
Weiserguy said:
Because more than a few of us have been burned by said board owner. (And BTW, said board is now a 501(c)3 charity, so technically he doesn't even own it anymore. He's an official and/or a trustee (or director) of said charity, so his behavior is in conflict with his fiduciary responsibilities to the organization.
Click to expand...
Full disclosure: I had a deeply negative experience at said board—with Allan deleting my posts, then emailing me repeatedly to pick a fight—to the point I had to overtly tell him to quit emailing me as he bordered on harassment. Haven't been there since, and I care not to think about him or his board in any way.

My criticism is more aimed at Sid anyway, who clearly shows he isn't fit for morning drive in market #1 by being in petty fights like this. But I digress.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom