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Bloomdaddy
- Thread starter vjm
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I still don't know why Seth was dumped when Bloomdaddy was brought in. The whole situation seemed weird to me.
I have no proof, but my guess it was a budgetary move. If you notice, they have dropped several staff members, gutted the news dept, and weekends are pretty much all paid programs, syndicated shows, or iHeart podcasts.
I don't listen very often either, as their brand of politics is toxic and condescending, but yes, he and Carmen sound exactly alike making it confusing to the listener.
I think no matter who is on WTAM in the afternoon, no one can really replace Triv. Not even "Bloomdaddy."
David “Bloomdaddy” Blomquist was excellent mornings on 1170 WWVA, Wheeling, West Virginia. He had also spent years as a sports anchor at WTRF-TV, also Wheeling. His then-wife was a local anchor at a competing station, WTOV9 (Steubenville, Ohio). If TMI, I apologize.
You're fine.
Nice background info, actually.
I don't think anyone is saying Bloomdaddy is a bad host per se, just about how he is compared to Triv.
Triv - whatever your opinions of him - just had that special sauce that made him a star in this town.
Beer gut, chain smoker, blunt, rough around the edges, eternal mullet, and had an opinion on everything...every neighborhood bar in town has a Triv in it, and this one just happened to find his way on the radio because he loved to argue with Pete Franklin, and "38 states and half of Canada" heard him.
Bloomdaddy is a textbook broadcasting professional, good solid guy to have around, and you can plug him in anywhere in any market and he'd do a good job. But Triv was just MADE for this town.
This is kind of the same thing WTAM has in the 12-3p slot with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton replacing Rush Limbaugh.
C & B are OK, but Rush was just a different breed of cat.
Great take VJM. I'm an outsider from Columbus, but "Triv was just MADE for this town" is as true as it gets. He screamed Cleveland. Perfect guy for that timeslot in that town on a 50K blaster.
As an aside, I have tried to get into Clay and Buck but I can't. They don't do anything for me. It's been almost two years and I still miss Rush in that slot more than I expected.
As an aside, I have tried to get into Clay and Buck but I can't. They don't do anything for me. It's been almost two years and I still miss Rush in that slot more than I expected.
Triv, Rush, Lanigan, Stern, Imus, and those like them had that certain "star" quality that made them legends. We are not likely to see such talents like that coming in to replace them.
It's more than just the inevitable passing of a generation. The number of young people wanting to become broadcasters is almost nil. They can see the chances of making any kind of steady, even modest, living in the industry have disappeared. Fewer people means fewer individuals in which that special "star" quality can develop. And the supply chain of new talent has been dismantled with the mass consolidation of stations and the elimination of local programming where that new generation could hone its craft. And even if such talent can navigate the chain, the now complete takeover of management by the MBA corporate crowd means no one will take chances on anything new or different, preferring to play it adequate but safe, paying attention only to meeting their budget goals.
An era has passed. Welcome podcasts, streaming, snapchat and Tik Tok.
It's more than just the inevitable passing of a generation. The number of young people wanting to become broadcasters is almost nil. They can see the chances of making any kind of steady, even modest, living in the industry have disappeared. Fewer people means fewer individuals in which that special "star" quality can develop. And the supply chain of new talent has been dismantled with the mass consolidation of stations and the elimination of local programming where that new generation could hone its craft. And even if such talent can navigate the chain, the now complete takeover of management by the MBA corporate crowd means no one will take chances on anything new or different, preferring to play it adequate but safe, paying attention only to meeting their budget goals.
An era has passed. Welcome podcasts, streaming, snapchat and Tik Tok.
On the positive side, there are still live people on-the-air, and talent needed for voice tracking, sometimes of multiple stations. Additionally, there are jobs/careers for those who can work the technology for the stations. When it is said that "The number of young people wanting to become broadcasters is almost nil", that means that those who are pursuing those job and careers have much less competition. That's good for them. Of course, pay-rates are an issue. I do know that there are some 'yung-uns' at WKRK 92.3 FM and AM 850 WKNR, for example. Now that radio stations and companies are doing podcasts, there's jobs available there as well, or in addition to the other radio station work/positions. The point is, it's not all gloomy.
Not meant to be gloomy. The point is the industry that spawned that generation of stars no longer exists and the new stars will come from the new technologies and the new industry, not as much from the bones of the old one The new generation will have to find its own path to success through the new paradigm. And that can be said for every new generation in almost any field.
If it's gloomy, it's because, like me, one misses those "good old days" just a bit, too!
If it's gloomy, it's because, like me, one misses those "good old days" just a bit, too!
Let's go back 40+ years ago. When people [mostly older teens/young adults] found out I was in radio, they went ga-ga and were excited to meet me.----I never brought it up, some friends always did.....and when I was talking with a friend in a mall back in 1982 some girl came up to me and "said "Excuse me, but you sound familiar....." She was trying to figure out where she had heard my voice before or if she knew me. I wasn't even thinking about my radio job and then it dawned on me. When I told her I was a DJ she said yelled "THAT'S IT! I listen to you!" and got all excited and wanted my autograph. I was sort of embarrassed because everyone around was looking at me and this girl gushing all over the place and figured I was some sort of pervert. No one ever did that to me before and I liked being anonymous anyways unless I was at a station function, which was rare. Fast forward to today, mention you used to be "on the radio" and you get a yawn and "who cares?" from most teens....actually almost anybody.
It's like back in the 60s when an old timer would say that they used to be in vaudeville.
But Vaudeville people are what made 1930s-40s radio so fun! They brought the gags and routines right to your room.
Big Chuck and Lil John were sort of a vaudeville act. They continued to do well.
I'm not a Cleveland native but I watch Big Chuck and Little John on Youtube and they're STILL hilarious. 
Agreed, but the biggest names in vaudeville who were household names back then are virtually unknown today. Point is, that you can be really famous in one generation and totally unknown in the next. This is now happening with all those great Cleveland deejays of the past. Today's young people not only don't know who these people were, but most don't get their music from radio anymore. And who can blame them? The music on radio is no longer picked by music aficionados on staff who wanted to turn you on to new sounds, but by "research" which favors the tried and true. Gone are music people like Billy Bass, Kid Leo and Denny Sanders or brilliant Programmers like John Gorman who kept up with new sounds and were not afraid to put them out there on the strength of their belief in the act.
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