Daryl is usually at a Penguins game down at the zamboni end on the oposite side from where is comes out.. I see him at each game.. still looks the same.. not sure what he's into... Haven't seen Stan in years.. lived in the Hudson section and was in the Knights of Columbus as an Officer. Suprised such a talent has gone silent... Emmerson, we all miss you! Yevette is MIA... All I remember si her love of the SPCA and animals.
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yonkstur
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Yevette is MIA... All I remember si her love of the SPCA and animals.
It was much more than that. She kept ferrets in her office. Named them. Even dressed them in little leather bomber jackets. When I first started there, I heard this from people on the staff. A business manager usually has to be a hard ass (especially with radio sales people) so I chalked it up to people just being sarcastic. But one day I asked Mary Ellen who was in fact the defacto consigliere to one and all in the building who were not management. I told her I heard about the bomber jackets and asked if it were true. She confirmed it. This was one of the incidents edited out of "A Radio Story/We Wish You Well In Your Future Endeavors".
Yvette's sister Cindy worked in traffic, was great to work with and was a big Andy Petite fan.
Yonkstur
It was much more than that. She kept ferrets in her office. Named them. Even dressed them in little leather bomber jackets. When I first started there, I heard this from people on the staff. A business manager usually has to be a hard ass (especially with radio sales people) so I chalked it up to people just being sarcastic. But one day I asked Mary Ellen who was in fact the defacto consigliere to one and all in the building who were not management. I told her I heard about the bomber jackets and asked if it were true. She confirmed it. This was one of the incidents edited out of "A Radio Story/We Wish You Well In Your Future Endeavors".
Yvette's sister Cindy worked in traffic, was great to work with and was a big Andy Petite fan.
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yonkstur
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Yonkstur...fuzzy memory, but I knew you, yes?
Since I lived in Wilkes Barre, I was the designated dub guy for Rock 107 so you might have come across me. I used to wear double breasted suits, ran about 280, 5'10, made every excuse to hang out and shoot the stuff with Joey Shaver, John Koury, Neishel, Davis, Tommy Jenkins, anything to either ease into the day or ease out of it. So we might have come across each other. I remember having conversations ranging on the political with you.
As far as sales threads, whoa, don't get me started on that.
Yonkstur
Since I lived in Wilkes Barre, I was the designated dub guy for Rock 107 so you might have come across me. I used to wear double breasted suits, ran about 280, 5'10, made every excuse to hang out and shoot the stuff with Joey Shaver, John Koury, Neishel, Davis, Tommy Jenkins, anything to either ease into the day or ease out of it. So we might have come across each other. I remember having conversations ranging on the political with you.
As far as sales threads, whoa, don't get me started on that.
Yonkstur
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arehkopf
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OK...I remember you now! Thanks for the memory-jogger!
As for Yvette and her ferrets, I remember her love for the critters quite well. They truly were her kids.
Uncle Stan as Emerson on the air was fantastic. Truly a hoot. Life in the building was never dull with Stan in the hallway..."JENKINS!!!"
The arena was still in the planning stages when I was there...Darryl was beside himself with anticipation for hockey so close to the job.
I'm enjoying the trip down memory lane..thanks for all the responses!
As for Yvette and her ferrets, I remember her love for the critters quite well. They truly were her kids.
Uncle Stan as Emerson on the air was fantastic. Truly a hoot. Life in the building was never dull with Stan in the hallway..."JENKINS!!!"
The arena was still in the planning stages when I was there...Darryl was beside himself with anticipation for hockey so close to the job.
I'm enjoying the trip down memory lane..thanks for all the responses!
aawww come on yonk, start up on sales...
What was the name of that small time thief ( literal, not a sales metaphor) who used to sell golf clubs and other booty out of his trunk and robbed stuff from Account Exec's cubes when they were away from their desk? Was that pre 1996? Could that have been in the WARM building and not on B-more drive? ???
arehkopf said:OK...here are some more names to toss out from the class: Stan, Yvette, Pam, Avery and Darryl.
Stan still programs Magic. I think Pam is married to WARM's former PD (can't remember his name).
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arehkopf
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Yeah, emo...I was thinking of Uncle Stan, though Stan Phillips had crossed my mind as well.
Wasn't Neishel writing a column for one of the local rags for awhile?
Also, the Pam I'm thinking of worked part time in news and dated Avery the engineer (worst kept sort-of secret at the time, as I recall).
Wasn't Neishel writing a column for one of the local rags for awhile?
Also, the Pam I'm thinking of worked part time in news and dated Avery the engineer (worst kept sort-of secret at the time, as I recall).
Yeah, Stan used to have a column called "Neishel's ?????"... he could always break me up with his zipper sound effect... great production man...I see Clark Kushkie (the other half of the production/copywritting team)every now and then up at Mohegan Sun with his girlfriend. Harry West stops by too... looks great.
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scmidlapp
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Last time I saw Neishel he was driving a school bus in Wilkes-Barre. I think he still has a column in the Citizens Voice. I hear Pamela every afternoon doing news on WVIA-FM
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arehkopf
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Clark is the guy who got me hooked on Krispy Kreme donuts...he'd bring 'em in hot every once in awhile. I'd never had them before. It's all his fault...
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yonkstur
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What was the name of that small time thief ( literal, not a sales metaphor) who used to sell golf clubs and other booty out of his trunk and robbed stuff from Account Exec's cubes when they were away from their desk? Was that pre 1996? Could that have been in the WARM building and not on B-more drive?
How the heck did I miss this guy?
yonkstur
How the heck did I miss this guy?
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yonkstur
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I think Pam is married to WARM's former PD (can't remember his name).
Her married name now is Kuna and she's on afternoon on VIA FM. The guy you might be thinking about is Greg "Hey what's the format going to be this week?" Foster. He came from Arkansas, a kind of Andy Hardy redhead type kid who was all of 25 programming a heritage 45 year old radio station. Nice guy, very personable, kind of like Mr. Bush. You'd want to hang with him but not let him run anything. He never believed in local, had to be dragged kicking and screaming for us to do high school football (the suits wanted money, money, money) and we were doing everything but putting on fishnets and working the corner of Cedar and Capouse in Scranton to make it happen. Citadel wanted 10 times the budget what it cost to run the Phillies, and enormous pressure was put on us to get sales. While I was there, we went through three sales managers, and company wide, 68 reps in a 14 month period. Foster basically toed the company line, had no interest in learning the market and wound up in upstate New York at one of the Citadel clusters. A great kid, who loved Vegas but not ready for prime time in this market. He replaced Rob Nyehard who basically wandered around the station looking for something to do. So, we thought up sales ideas to sell the crap out of WARM who was then pulling a 1.9 share. We did "Rob On the Road", "Rob On the Sidelines", "Rob Anywhere" we could get a buck. The line up didn't help either, it was:
Imus
Dr. Joy Bown
Mike and Don????
Kevin Lynn
and then non descript right wing talk. It was brutal but we sold it. Then had our accounts taken away from us (major ones like LCCC, Wyoming Valley Health Care, Mercy Hospital and SureSave-companies that had no freaking business being on a 1.9 share station) and of course then fired.
By the time I left Citadel, we would go up to Kevin's manufacturing in Throop and buy a button down shirt for the departee, it had a red Citadel logo and a number on the top signifying the number you were at the time of your firing. I was number 68, I was supposed to be 65 but that Monday was my wedding anniversary, Tuesday I was in Tunkhannock trying to sell WEMR, and WARM, and Wednesday I had a root canal. So 65, 66 and 67 were fired ahead of me because essentially they couldn't find me! And this is in 14 months mind you.
Anyway, getting back to the original question, when I got canned, one of the nicest notes I recieved was from Pamela Hyatt in the news department. I barely knew her but this act of kindness was very sustaining when you lose your job and have been told you weren't good enough. I hope she's happy and well.
Yonkstur
Her married name now is Kuna and she's on afternoon on VIA FM. The guy you might be thinking about is Greg "Hey what's the format going to be this week?" Foster. He came from Arkansas, a kind of Andy Hardy redhead type kid who was all of 25 programming a heritage 45 year old radio station. Nice guy, very personable, kind of like Mr. Bush. You'd want to hang with him but not let him run anything. He never believed in local, had to be dragged kicking and screaming for us to do high school football (the suits wanted money, money, money) and we were doing everything but putting on fishnets and working the corner of Cedar and Capouse in Scranton to make it happen. Citadel wanted 10 times the budget what it cost to run the Phillies, and enormous pressure was put on us to get sales. While I was there, we went through three sales managers, and company wide, 68 reps in a 14 month period. Foster basically toed the company line, had no interest in learning the market and wound up in upstate New York at one of the Citadel clusters. A great kid, who loved Vegas but not ready for prime time in this market. He replaced Rob Nyehard who basically wandered around the station looking for something to do. So, we thought up sales ideas to sell the crap out of WARM who was then pulling a 1.9 share. We did "Rob On the Road", "Rob On the Sidelines", "Rob Anywhere" we could get a buck. The line up didn't help either, it was:
Imus
Dr. Joy Bown
Mike and Don????
Kevin Lynn
and then non descript right wing talk. It was brutal but we sold it. Then had our accounts taken away from us (major ones like LCCC, Wyoming Valley Health Care, Mercy Hospital and SureSave-companies that had no freaking business being on a 1.9 share station) and of course then fired.
By the time I left Citadel, we would go up to Kevin's manufacturing in Throop and buy a button down shirt for the departee, it had a red Citadel logo and a number on the top signifying the number you were at the time of your firing. I was number 68, I was supposed to be 65 but that Monday was my wedding anniversary, Tuesday I was in Tunkhannock trying to sell WEMR, and WARM, and Wednesday I had a root canal. So 65, 66 and 67 were fired ahead of me because essentially they couldn't find me! And this is in 14 months mind you.
Anyway, getting back to the original question, when I got canned, one of the nicest notes I recieved was from Pamela Hyatt in the news department. I barely knew her but this act of kindness was very sustaining when you lose your job and have been told you weren't good enough. I hope she's happy and well.
Yonkstur
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