820 DIGS FOR GOLD, SHOVELS YORKIE

[smedge2006]

Tuning in around 11 in the morning, expecting to hear the last hour of "Dan York and the Tampa Bay Experience", I heard a gold infomercial. Has the Yorkie been trimmed or worse? Bad omen for 820...

 

[American AM]

Dan York is still on 9-noon M-W. Station said this a Th-Fr, 11 am noon show for a few weeks. It's the summer, take the cash!

 

[smedge2006]

Dan York is still on 9-noon M-W. Station said this a Th-Fr, 11 am noon show for a few weeks. It's the summer, take the cash!

Because they apparently can't make any with Mr. York doing a callower, shallower version of Mark Larsen?

Sounds to me like Genesis is going back to its roots in the 90's and early 00's: cheesy brokered programming.

All the while, they have promos trying to convince people of their parity with 970 and begging people to "break the habit"?

There are at least two other conservative talk stations in Tampa. Guess where their audience goes... and it's not like they have much audience left to lose before they reach "Did Not Meet Minimum Reporting Standards."

Guess this gold show was the "or else" one of their promos was warning about...

 

[billalm]

I was giving them a chance... and they almost had me believing it was becoming a real radio station group that could possibly compete at times. But Bruce... You should have never spent the money on the purchase of 820. What a waste.

 

[Super Scribbler]

Maybe Dan should have come clean about his personal story a long time ago. He ignored court ordered fines and summons and lost his drivers license for several years. And now Dan's living with his brother, no mention of his girlfriend or their ready made juvenile daughter in months.

The raw racial overtones in every show were refreshingly anti-politically correct, but tribalism proves tedious when it's clearly the hosts only core value. Dan York's 820 web photo in the plaid beenie doesn't make him look like the white man he constantly claims to be, he appears a Portugese and Austrailian Aborigine mix.

Had listeners known about his thuggish background and bad boy behavior sooner, it would have informed the shallow thoughts and disjointed logic coming from the AM speakers every week day. And when York said, "I am the most wrong radio host in Tampa," we would have known why he was right.

Sadly, Dan York's "Tampa Bay Experience" was improving as he attempted to make human connections to the delinquents who hadn't yet escaped his influence. Ratings might have followed eventually, but no station can invest in a loser forever. Infomercial cash came calling and dollars trump drama every time.

Just this week, York muttered to himself incredulously; "maybe that's why my ratings suck." When the host knows its over, its over. We got the hook, reprobate radio, but it came too late to hang our earbuds on it. Dan gave it the old college try. Oh wait, he didn't finish college either. Dropouts, are obviously another key demo not using their PPMs.

 

[Parttimer]

Dan York is still on 9-noon M-W. Station said this a Th-Fr, 11 am noon show for a few weeks. It's the summer, take the cash!

Thus the above message might be a little premature....

 

[coolaid213]

Maybe Dan should have come clean about his personal story a long time ago. He ignored court ordered fines and summons and lost his drivers license for several years. And now Dan's living with his brother, no mention of his girlfriend or their ready made juvenile daughter in months.

The raw racial overtones in every show were refreshingly anti-politically correct, but tribalism proves tedious when it's clearly the hosts only core value. Dan York's 820 web photo in the plaid beenie doesn't make him look like the white man he constantly claims to be, he appears a Portugese and Austrailian Aborigine mix.

Had listeners known about his thuggish background and bad boy behavior sooner, it would have informed the shallow thoughts and disjointed logic coming from the AM speakers every week day. And when York said, "I am the most wrong radio host in Tampa," we would have known why he was right.

Sadly, Dan York's "Tampa Bay Experience" was improving as he attempted to make human connections to the delinquents who hadn't yet escaped his influence. Ratings might have followed eventually, but no station can invest in a loser forever. Infomercial cash came calling and dollars trump drama every time.

Just this week, York muttered to himself incredulously; "maybe that's why my ratings suck." When the host knows its over, its over. We got the hook, reprobate radio, but it came too late to hang our earbuds on it. Dan gave it the old college try. Oh wait, he didn't finish college either. Dropouts, are obviously another key demo not using their PPMs.

While I claim to know nothing of the happenings over at Genesis, I assume things aren't going so well. With that said, it's clear where the negative comments are coming from, and why they're pointed towards 820. If it weren't for the class acts over at CC, I'd have a hard time understanding where all this hostility is coming from. While Dan York is no Bob Lassiter, I got chills the other day when I turned on the radio and heard this dude talking about local issues, not his damn Mercedes. I don't really care how much of a reprobate he is, I've heard him on the air whining about his legal problems... it's still better than listening to the midget talk about how wonderful he is.

If you really do care about this medium surviving, you should hope that Yorkie isn't going anywhere yet. I can't believe any person working in this business, not matter how entrenched, is actually heartless enough to want to see GOOD local radio fail. You should be ashamed. This industry is sustaining itself off the oxygen from its own flatulence. This hostility towards Genesis seems so misdirected in an industry where radio stations condone and endorse 30 song play lists, and 24/7 satellite programming. I know that the underlying goal is to dumb down the audience, and obviously that mission has been accomplished. But why am I the only one who is fighting mad?!?!?

Cedric

P.S.

My friends and I have invented the 102.5 the bone drinking game. Everybody guesses the next song to play, and whoever gets it right is safe while the rest have to chug their shots. This game is usually over pretty quickly especially at a good sized party as there's a 1 in 30 shot of guessing the next song right. If nobody guesses the next song correctly, then everybody drinks anyway, because they're tired of hearing that f***ing song too. You can get sloshed pretty quickly. My strategy is always picking G&R's Paradise City, cuz even if it just played, you'll probably hear it next anyway.

 

[smedge2006]

I can't believe any person working in this business, not matter how entrenched, is actually heartless enough to want to see GOOD local radio fail.

That's the real reason for what you think is a "pile on." I want local radio to succeed. I've praised York when he hit on a topic that struck a nerve with the audience. I'm no fan of corporate syndicated radio. But when somebody gets the privilege in 2009 of doing a local radio show, and fails to live up to anywhere near the potential of a 50 kW signal, it sets back local talk radio (what there is left of it) by 30 years.

Yes, there are entrenched hosts who want to see local radio fail. They're the ones who rant all the time about how FCC localism requirements are a plot to destroy talk radio.

 

[GlitterGal28]

Dan York is still on 9-noon M-W. Station said this a Th-Fr, 11 am noon show for a few weeks.

It was Wednesday.

 

[naughtytalker]

Cedric, I'm confident the "class acts" over at CC couldn't care less what's happening at Genesis, which is the only station group promoting programming superiority over the highest rated News/Talker in town. There's no joy in the unraveling of a rival, but when the competition is killing itself, you step out of the way.

 

[DToTheJ]

My friends and I have invented the 102.5 the bone drinking game. Everybody guesses the next song to play, and whoever gets it right is safe while the rest have to chug their shots. This game is usually over pretty quickly especially at a good sized party as there's a 1 in 30 shot of guessing the next song right. If nobody guesses the next song correctly, then everybody drinks anyway, because they're tired of hearing that f***ing song too. You can get sloshed pretty quickly. My strategy is always picking G&R's Paradise City, cuz even if it just played, you'll probably hear it next anyway.

Now that's funny!

While I claim to know nothing of the happenings over at Genesis, I assume things aren't going so well. With that said, it's clear where the negative comments are coming from, and why they're pointed towards 820. If it weren't for the class acts over at CC, I'd have a hard time understanding where all this hostility is coming from. While Dan York is no Bob Lassiter, I got chills the other day when I turned on the radio and heard this dude talking about local issues, not his damn Mercedes. I don't really care how much of a reprobate he is, I've heard him on the air whining about his legal problems... it's still better than listening to the midget talk about how wonderful he is.

But Hannity doesn't come on until 6 PM? ???

 

[coolaid213]

I can't believe any person working in this business, not matter how entrenched, is actually heartless enough to want to see GOOD local radio fail.

That's the real reason for what you think is a "pile on." I want local radio to succeed. I've praised York when he hit on a topic that struck a nerve with the audience. I'm no fan of corporate syndicated radio. But when somebody gets the privilege in 2009 of doing a local radio show, and fails to live up to anywhere near the potential of a 50 kW signal, it sets back local talk radio (what there is left of it) by 30 years.

Yes, there are entrenched hosts who want to see local radio fail. They're the ones who rant all the time about how FCC localism requirements are a plot to destroy talk radio.

I dunno man. In my opinion, it's just about the best talk show aired in this market... second only to Cowhead's (does that automatically ruin my credibility?). My point still stands, Local Calls + Local Topics = better radio than any syndicated show, no matter how terrible the host. And I just don't think Yorkie is that bad. But then again I haven't tired of Larsen's shtick either.

Oh yeah, and Naughty, if anybody cared what you thought, you wouldn't have been a total failure... you rascal.

 

[naughtytalker]

I can't believe any person working in this business, not matter how entrenched, is actually heartless enough to want to see GOOD local radio fail.

That's the real reason for what you think is a "pile on." I want local radio to succeed. I've praised York when he hit on a topic that struck a nerve with the audience. I'm no fan of corporate syndicated radio. But when somebody gets the privilege in 2009 of doing a local radio show, and fails to live up to anywhere near the potential of a 50 kW signal, it sets back local talk radio (what there is left of it) by 30 years.

Yes, there are entrenched hosts who want to see local radio fail. They're the ones who rant all the time about how FCC localism requirements are a plot to destroy talk radio.

I dunno man. In my opinion, it's just about the best talk show aired in this market... second only to Cowhead's (does that automatically ruin my credibility?). My point still stands, Local Calls + Local Topics = better radio than any syndicated show, no matter how terrible the host. And I just don't think Yorkie is that bad. But then again I haven't tired of Larsen's shtick either.

Oh yeah, and Naughty, if anybody cared what you thought, you wouldn't have been a total failure... you rascal.

...ouch, if you cut me do I not bleed.

 

[DToTheJ]

In my opinion, it's just about the best talk show aired in this market... second only to Cowhead's (does that automatically ruin my credibility?).

Remember, Cowhead is No. 1 in Fort Myers! 8)

 

[naughtytalker]

Oh no!... more pooh-pooh spills from the Yorkie's yapper. His 820 WWBA campaign to replace the currently room-temperature elections supervisor Phyillis Busansky ends with Governor Charlie Crist selecting former county schools superintendent Earl Leonard. Sorry Dan, crap happens. I even threw the little ankle nipper a bone and voted for him on 820's toothless web-site.

 

[coolaid213]

;D hahahaha you're so ate up

 

[naughtytalker]

;D hahahaha you're so ate up

Yorkie is euthanized... who's laughing now?