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A legitimate question about OEDIPUS: Why hasn't he bounced back?

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Varulven

The Rules:

1)You can't post a response if you aren't using a name known as a legitimate handle (read, someone who doesn't "blow smoke"), or can't point to a website proving you are a real flesh and blood person

2)Don't turn the question around and make it about me. Ya got TWO threads on this board already to play that
game. Disrupting the thread will only prove you don't have a valid point of view.

Background: Some on this board believe that Oedipus (Ed Hyson, former WBCN Program Director) was a radio giant when he ruled the 104.1 signal. Others believe he was a man of little talent who was installed by
Mel Karmazin to be the "hatchet man" to cut payroll.

Oevidence: Few of the men and women Oedipus hired have gone on to become industry legends the way
Charles Laquidara, Matty in the Morning, Dale Dorman and other icons have survived the many changes in radio.

In fact, it would be hard to name a disc jockey Oedipus brought up from WMBR or WFNX that had any lasting power beyond their stint with CBS radio. God love 'em Albert O, Bradley J, Tracy Roach, Juanita The Scene Queen were all competent, but they didn't go into syndication a la Opie & Anthony, Howard Stern, or the new wave of talk radio - the Rush Limbaugh / Bill O'Reilly / Ed Schultz / Randi Rhoads people with national airtime.

If Oedipus was so important and vital to Boston radio, why hasn't Clear Channel picked him up?

Why not let him run the Country Station at Greater Media. Fact is, if Loren & Wally could do Country,
and Oedipus is equal to or a bigger legend in Boston radio than L & W, why shouldn't he take over the new Country station that takes the place of WCRB on the dial?

Or the FNX Radio Network. If Oedipus was so good at finding talent at 101.7, wouldn't he be the logical choice to run the FNX Radio Network?

a)it would be a challenge
b)It would show us that he's got what it truly takes

This is a valid question. People have gone on and on and on about my resume and demanding to know what year I wrote for Billboard and what year The Boston Globe published me and what year my third album came out in the Benelux countries along with France, The U.K., Germany etc., etc. I have responded to all the Swifties - BUT - as many have stated - I'M NOT IN BOSTON RADIO.

Oedipus is...or was. The Oedipus Foundation is all well and good. Why has Mel Karmazin not picked up the phone and called his Golden Boy. I don't want to hear he has "retired". Soon he will be 58 years of age - if he is so talented, it can't be age discrimination.

Arnie Woo Woo Ginsburg, John Garabedian, Little Walter, all the legends got hired and fired and hired again.
They all got major gigs time and time again, Woo Woo & John H got V-66, John H has the House Party,
Walter is probably the #1 mastering engineer in the world for 50's music. And he's still on the radio.

Oedipus has only had one commercial radio gig that we know of where, my God, even I've been on more commercial radio than Oedipus! And it is only my hobby.

There ya go. Fair question. Real people with answers, not changing the subject back to me, are welcome to respond.

Thank you. What has Oedipus done for us lately? He is "Mr. Boston Radio" according to many on this alleged "radio" board.
 
The only one here obsessed with the man is you.

He's a millionaire who doesn't need to work. Why does that suprise you?
 
Do you really think Oedipus is puting his resume' out there to get another PD job?

I aspire to be in Oedipus's financial position when I'm in my 50's. If I were Oedipus, I would not want to subject myself to the headaches of day-to-day station operation after a lifetime of it. He has enough money where he can enjoy his life and participate in radio at the pace which he feels like. (while he can also continue to read fan mail from obsessed stalkers)
 
Smoke couldn't resist. You are not qualified to respond as you won't reveal yourself.

If money was the deciding factor, many more Program Directors should be a lot richer than Oedi.
They just didn't break the rules, as Smoke just did.

To reiterate: Oedi was in radio, Smoke won't reveal himself and turned the attack on me - again.
Smoke can't resist disrupting legitimate threads. [EDIT]

Content - another one breaking the rule. Perhaps Oedi has nothing better to do than defend himself.
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[EDIT=ad hominem attack]
 
Since when do you make the rules??? You can't restrict people from posting because your crazy sick mind thinks they are under "handles". See a specialist.

Oedipus has a lot of money... much more than you. The guy can sit on that money the rest of his life and not be bothered.. except by insane people with theories who persistently follow him
 
Varulven said:
Smoke couldn't resist. You are not qualified to respond as you won't reveal yourself.
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Do you really think Varulven isn't more than a random handle to most readers?

Varulven said:
To reiterate: Oedi was in radio, Smoke won't reveal himself and turned the attack on me - again.
Smoke can't resist disrupting legitimate threads. [EDIT]
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Art thou daft, man? You cannot mention me and then claim is an arbitrary rule for me not to respond.
 
This is a legitimate post about a legitimate radio personality that you have hijacked. I look at how many posts you have and wonder if this is all you do with your life. 450 - veteran 1159 - excessive.
 
my thoughts...he got fired at the start of the summer, probably got a nice severance. He probably bought some nice high yielding instrument with the bulk of the severence, enabling him to "live-off-the-interest" forever, and used a small portion of the severance to learn to surf, hike the presidential range, read books to children, or take a dump in the back of a movie theatre and sit a few seats behind and watch someone sit in it, all just to kill time while the debt matures.


In all cases, he's probably loaded and semi-retired. Good for him.
 
Varulven said:
This is a legitimate post about a legitimate radio personality that you have hijacked. I look at how many posts you have and wonder if this is all you do with your life. 450 - veteran 1159 - excessive.
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1. begs the question: do you plan on walking away from the game, say, around post 619?

2. this reminds me of a story: goldilocks broke into the bears' den because she had nothing better to do with her time. she found a computer with this thread at radio-info opened in the web browser. first she tried talking to sam horn, he only had 18 posts -- too few! then she tried talking to smoke who had 1,159 posts -- too many! then she tried to talk to varulven

2a. but she only had 1 post
 
Varulven said:
450 - veteran 1159 - excessive.
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450 since Radio-Info version 3 started.

1150 since Radio-Info version 2 started (years ago).

I can't do the exact math without the months, but you're ahead of me in speed.

Joe, you're really starting to lose it and I worry for your health.
 
Oedipus is wealthy, single and childless. He doesn't need a job and doesn't want one--every five weeks, sweating trends, dealing with imbecile prima-donna talent and a sales staff up his ass.

And, as a bonus, an obsessed stalker.

Bounce back? What for?
 
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100 or so reads so quickly! Yikes - doesn't anyone have anything else to do on a Sunday night?

(I can post the voluminous writing I'm doing off this list, but that would just really get people angry!)

Credible people notice:

1)No one can name a "famous" jock launched by Oedi

2)They all say he's "Rich" (or most of 'em) when, in fact, rich men like John Garabedian and Howard Stern LOVE to be on the air. Half the fun for a pro is working.

Knowing Oedi better than most I would guess he's ripping that no one has put him back on the air;
Professionals love their work and never retire. Hacks can't cut it when they are cut loose.

No one answered the question legitimately: Why hasn't he bounced back, and why haven't his "discoveries" made it beyond his small world here in Boston?


[EDIT=ad hominem attack]
 
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100 or so reads so quickly! Yikes - doesn't anyone have anything else to do on a Sunday night?


[EDIT=ad hominem attack]
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wow!!!!!!!!!! you really got everybody you jokester!. if we are so predictable then go find something else to entertain your obviously superior mind and leave us dumb lifeless radio board aliases alone.

(I can post the voluminous writing I'm doing off this list, but that would just really get people angry!)
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what the ??? are you writing a book about the people on here? or just some rant on an unread blog?

NO!! please don't write about us please!!! we'll be ruined! we're sorry! we love you and respect you as a writer/enterainer/tv star ect ect ! please don't write about us in a blog somewhere!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :p
 
No, not a bio on everyone here; liner notes that have nothing to do with this site. It's too bad we can't get some credible responses to the important questions here. I would like to be enlightened - what great jocks came out of WBCN after the Oedi era - jocks on the level of Charles, Howard Stern, Joe Smith from BZ. It shouldn't be that difficult a question.
 
My guess is also that he retired or went on sabbatical. He's been in the 'biz,' how long? Almost 30 years, correct? Hell, if I was in my 50s and got a decent severence package, I'd probably want to pursue other passions if I had the werewithal (sp?) to do it.

I don't listen to BCN except for the Pats. Had Oedipus been on the air as a DJ at all in recent years? I ask that in seriousness--I don't know.

ps... it's Randi RHODES...
 
Oedipus did the occasional Sunday night, Nocturnal Omissions.

The case of projection going on here is amazing. No one has ever asked Oedipus if he missed broadcasting, so the idea that "all jocks long to be on the air" really means that one "jock" (sidekick) that got canned 19 years ago by Bill Smith longs to be on the air.

And spends their time writing liner notes for an album never made, produced by a company that doesn't exist
 
The Moderator really has to do some Troll cleaning tonight.

1)I was never anyone's "sidekick". And it was long after the BilL Smith era that I produced at 93.7; if you are going to be obnoxious and write lies, at least try to mix some fact in.

2)Many, many liner notes have come from my fountain pen. This is my own personal album, which I'm sure you'll be the first one to buy off I Tunes.

Keep looking because my deal isn't with I Tunes. (Ad Hominem attack from a brand new poster will follow)
 
Just pathetic.

Every thread on this board ends up as "I Me Mine" as covered by Joe Viglione.
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Banned or not, here's a legitimate question: What are the odds of Viglione ever drawing a check for broadcasting work EVER AGAIN ANYWHERE?

Absolutely none, period, never, ever, over and out.


And as far as "your own personal album" goes, uhh, your album? Is that like the album my kid cousin made on his computer the other day? Self realized and self financed, never to be heard by anyone?" Is that like most of your original material that's never heard a second of airtime on any station in America?

Ban away, moderator, as I know you will.

[EDIT=ad hominem attack]
 
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