Ok what is the difference between hearing and listening.
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Listening is when a person pays attention for what is on the radio station they hear. "Hearing" is when the audio is there, but the person pays no attention to it or purposely ignores it... but can hear it. And both listening and hearing are picked up equally by the PPM.
I knew elderly people (i.e. my grandpa) who kept the radio on all day. Never anyone asked them what station were they listening tho
Keeps them company. I had a friend's parent that kept the radio on to deter burglars. I thought, so someone looked in your window 15 years ago and you have left the radio on since?
Tonight they said “ The Nielsen rated number one Rita Cosby show “
What they didn't say was that it was Ozzie & Harriet Nielsen who rated it as "the number 1 show we listen to".
A Red Apple station on all day keeps the burglars away!
My parents did the same, except it was a Christian teach & preach station. They were convinced either God or the message of God would keep burglars and other intruders away.
I still have Kathryn Kuhlman’s show opening “Hello there. Have you been waiting for me?” In the deep recesses of my mind.
Well, will you look at this...
Someone's having a really good holiday weekend.
(And come Monday morning, he'll go back to stoking fear of a socialist mayor forcing him to close his supermarkets and move his businesses to New Jersey.)
Someone's having a really good holiday weekend.
(And come Monday morning, he'll go back to stoking fear of a socialist mayor forcing him to close his supermarkets and move his businesses to New Jersey.)
What is being said on WABC itself about such "fear stoking"? Is "Cats" or are his talk hosts making statements about the Democratic Party candidate, and what exactly are they saying?
New York City, based on the decade in which I was a VP of a company that had a major presence in the suburban market, is one of the worst grocery and market businesses you can imagine. There are conflicting union rules, high costs of transport and storage, different business rules in each city, county and state... and more, all in a business that typically has a profit margin of less than 1% of gross sales.
So what is "Cats" saying on WABC (or causing to be said). I can believe that he will move his HQ out of The City, but would he move WABC's operations to Jersey like Univision and many others have done? What might be the audience reaction if WABC moved its studios off of Manhattan?
Funny line.
I can't speak for any other host or show on the station, but as I produce his weekly "Cats Roundtable" program I've heard him make these comments (and I have the raw audio as proof).
He's also done it on "Cats and Cosby" alongside Rita Cosby and the peanut gallery of various contributors (which includes a former Democratic governor of New York, David Paterson).
Part of Zorhan Mamdani's platform is making food available to needy New Yorkers through some form of government-subsidized "free" grocery stores. Catsimatidis believes that it will drive his Gristedes and D'Agostino chains out of business. Given that those chains operate exclusively in the wealthiest areas of Manhattan (south of 110th Street on the west side and south of 96th Street on the east side), i don't think he has anything to worry about.
And of course, there's the "threat" that a Democratic Socialist mayor will raise taxes on the one-percenters, make public transportation free, "defund" the NYPD, and protect undocumented migrants and foreign nationals (the gang members, drug dealers, rapists and murderers as Cats calls them) from ICE—all leading to a more expensive, less safe city for the working class.
So in short, Catsimatidis is just bloviating tons of hot air. If Mamdani wins the general election, we'll see if any of those verbal checks get cashed. Same for Cats' threats of going to New Jersey or Florida.
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Shocking. Who could imagine.
"One of the 40 most powerful people in radio" and nothing to back up such a claim, not even a self-designation from Talkers magazine lol
It’s almost like it’s a lie
“it’s not a lie if YOU believe it.” - Cats Costanza
Did Cousin Brucie get that suit and bow tie from a pimp’s estate sale?
That’s a bit harsh. Entertainers dress “extravagantly” to leave an impression. They don’t work on Wall Street!
It's hard to imagine that Cousin Brucie started in NYC radio on WINS in 1958. He got the late evening shift on WABC in 1961 and moved to early evenings in 1965 when Scott Muni left.
I wasn't much of a Brucie fan growing up. My favorite WABC DJs were Ron Lundy, Chuck Leonard and Dan Ingram. But we can't dispute Morrow's record of still being on the air on WABC 64 years after his first show on 770 AM.
BTW, speaking of longevity, Mitch Lebe is still heard on WINS from time to time in the overnight news shift, usually Sundays. Lebe was a teenage DJ on WINS in 1965 when it was still Top 40. But you'd never guess his age by listening.
And honors go to WAXQ's morning host Jim Kerr and evening host Carol Miller, both on NYC rock radio for 50+ years.
I wasn't much of a Brucie fan growing up. My favorite WABC DJs were Ron Lundy, Chuck Leonard and Dan Ingram. But we can't dispute Morrow's record of still being on the air on WABC 64 years after his first show on 770 AM.
BTW, speaking of longevity, Mitch Lebe is still heard on WINS from time to time in the overnight news shift, usually Sundays. Lebe was a teenage DJ on WINS in 1965 when it was still Top 40. But you'd never guess his age by listening.
And honors go to WAXQ's morning host Jim Kerr and evening host Carol Miller, both on NYC rock radio for 50+ years.
In all likelihood he was wearing that outfit before you were born. He wore leopard-skin suits in the 60’s for his public appearances when he was working at WABC, and once brought his pet poodle to one of his live shows…in a leopard-skin suit, of course.