Bob Connors Retiring?

[Dave Sarnoff]

Maybe it only matters to those who know the one time connection of "they are experiencing what I'm experiencing". Maybe it's part of the reason why when I was a budding personality, I had a line of people ahead of me to get an on air job, any job, where today many outlets go begging for those wanting to become part of the business. The plug and play mentality may have taken away that special uniqueness.

Bob was one of my heroes growing up. I remember with pride the Christmas morning I was listening to him on WBNS on the way to fire up WRFD and be the all day Christmas fill in guy. The thought of knowing I was "competing" with him for an audience. BC and me working on Christmas day on competing frequencies. I was in awe when I worked pt at WTVN and relieved him on Saturday evenings to do a show. Just knowing the guy who wore the headphones prior to me was the great BC. Or appearing at Eastland Mall together to do a Secret Santa remote.

As I said; maybe I'm a radio romantic. Just enough geek remains in me where this type of thing matters. Maybe for most of the population, if they know they don't care and most probably don't know but if they did it wouldn't matter.

There's a big part of me that that looks on with respectful awe that at 77 he still matters. That he has enough clout to do his show where he wants (even the Early Worm often broadcast from home in the 60's). Sure the voice isn't as crisp and clear as it once was. That he doesn't sound as hip as he used to. But he still matters. That's a testament.

And then there's the traditional part that of me that says if you want to represent the city, you need to be in the city. Maybe that part needs to silently slip away because times have changed. And hosts, for the most part, no longer matter as much as they once did.

And he still has those right-wing, Faux News talking points down pat!

What is your problem? Why throw this unnecessary crap around?

Maybe because I have a problem with right wing toadies using the public airwaves to spread lies and misinformation. Just calling a spade a spade.

 

[gabigley1]

Joel mentioned Monday AM that Bob would be back Thursday.

But his vacation time is beginning to rival that of Johnny Carson. He'll have to change his theme song to Johnny's soon.

It's already rivaling Johnny Carson's vacation time. He left the air at the end of November for Florida and didn't return to the air from the Columbus
WTVN studios until today, Match, 31, 2011. From , January 2, 2011 to March 11, 2001, he was broadcasting from his Florida Winter vacation home.
So, for almost four months this Winter, he was in Florida. This dose not included the few weeks he'll takes off the air this Summer.

Also, Johnny Carson didn't have the luxury of broadcasting from his vacation home.

Personnel, I don't like the remote audio for his vacation home in Florida. It makes him sound too tired and sleepy. That is a drawback of his remote
Florida broadcasts. That's why I'm glad he's back in the great Columbus WTVM studios. Of course, WTVN management Wants to keep BC on the air at all costs. Money seem to be no object to them as long as BC is on the air and WTVN's billing are great!

 

[antares]

BC does a fine job; it does not matter to me if he is physically in Columbus or not when he does his show.

 

[gabigley1]

Yesterday morning, BC said if you were born on this date thirty four years ago, that is how old you would be when he first started this job.
That means he started in at WTVN on May 16 of 1977. Did I miss something? Maybe he said Forty Four years ago? I always assumed he started
at WTVN in the 60s.

 

[Allfirdup]

BC started at WTVN in January of 1966 doing afternoons, in Feb of 1973 he left WTVN for 1460 WBNS and mornings it seems to me they were doing oldies at the time "Saddle shoe radio" 1977 would be about right for BC to return to WTVN, John Frame held the morning slot from around 1963 until he retired from WTVN. later john Frame ended up on WCOL doing mornings from his apt at the top of the Leveque tower in downtown Columbus.

 

[gabigley1]

His retirement is now for real:

http://www.610wtvn.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=268656&article=9292707

This is copyrighted so here is the rest:

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) --Bob Conners, a radio mainstay in Central Ohio for more than 40 years, announced to listeners Monday morning that he will leave the airwaves, effective November 30.