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Bring back Lovell Dyett http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...f__BZ_host_raises_ire/srvc=news&position=also
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Everyone should be up set! He has a great broadcasting voice and tons of intellect. I enjoyed his show on WBZ. He wasn't getting rich doing it. He did it for the love of broadcasting and to enlighten people black, white,brown, yellow...
He is off the air because the least intelligent people in the business are making all the decisions. Too much money is being wasted in all businesses on suits with zero talent. They are th true financial drain...talking heads with no talent.
He is off the air because the least intelligent people in the business are making all the decisions. Too much money is being wasted in all businesses on suits with zero talent. They are th true financial drain...talking heads with no talent.
bring back Lovell... and Steve, too, while you're at it. I wonder if anyone would mount the sort of campaign that happened to bring back Brudnoy. Was that on WBZ? And was it when Westinghouse still owned them? I doubt it'd work these days, unfortunately. There won't be any administrative staff left to check out the correspondence, anyway
Wonder if any of the other talkers in town could hire them, even as fill-ins, though 'RKO's budget is
apparently tight due to overspending for Red Sox (though it does get 'em good ratings). Could WILD
launch a local show with Lovell (though he probably appeals to more than just the black community).
Could WTKK have Steve in as a fill in? A bit more laid back in his approach but could he fill in for,
say, McPhee? We'll have to see; as I said in a post above, WRKO's laid off staffers like Listo Fisher,
Rod Fritz, etc. wound up getting jobs at other stations.
I'd doubt WRKO would, say, cast off Coast to Coast (it's cheap to run! they're on a low budget...)for
someone like a Steve Leveille. More local on WRKO? Perish the thought! They're now down to technically
7 hours per day of local talkers on weekdays (Finneran I believe has a radio rewind from 5:30 to 6 am,
so there's three hours there, then four of Howie. 7 hours a day of local talk, isn't that great!) We'll
have to see where they wind up (or would CBS bring back one of them due to protests?)
The Brudnoy situation had PD David Bernstein, IIRC, getting rid of him in favor of syndie Tom Snyder.
Listener protests (no doubt phone calls and letters in those days rather than email) brought Bruds back.
apparently tight due to overspending for Red Sox (though it does get 'em good ratings). Could WILD
launch a local show with Lovell (though he probably appeals to more than just the black community).
Could WTKK have Steve in as a fill in? A bit more laid back in his approach but could he fill in for,
say, McPhee? We'll have to see; as I said in a post above, WRKO's laid off staffers like Listo Fisher,
Rod Fritz, etc. wound up getting jobs at other stations.
I'd doubt WRKO would, say, cast off Coast to Coast (it's cheap to run! they're on a low budget...)for
someone like a Steve Leveille. More local on WRKO? Perish the thought! They're now down to technically
7 hours per day of local talkers on weekdays (Finneran I believe has a radio rewind from 5:30 to 6 am,
so there's three hours there, then four of Howie. 7 hours a day of local talk, isn't that great!) We'll
have to see where they wind up (or would CBS bring back one of them due to protests?)
The Brudnoy situation had PD David Bernstein, IIRC, getting rid of him in favor of syndie Tom Snyder.
Listener protests (no doubt phone calls and letters in those days rather than email) brought Bruds back.
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FatherCoughlin
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Yeah, It was that Twerp, that Spineless Turd..."Junior" Bernstein who clipped Bruds in favor of Mr. Colortini, even though I did like Snyder on TV.
Yeah, It was that Twerp, that Spineless Turd..."Junior" Bernstein who clipped Bruds in favor of Mr. Colortini, even though I did like Snyder on TV.Bernstein later worked for Air America I think
Brian at Save WRKO floated the idea of 'TKK using this opportunity to go live overnight with either LeVeille or another local option in order to fill the void left by 'BZ going syndie.
It might work. I can't imagine that Steve was commanding a high salary over on Soldiers Field Road and he'd probably bring quite a few advertisers with him. There are reports on a couple other boards (and Fybush.com) that at least one major 'BZ advertiser offered to buy out the overnights in order to save the LeVeille broadcast and was rebuffed.
I thought then-WBZ GM John Irwin was primarily responsible for Brudnoy's 1990 firing. I even think Brudnoy talked about it is in his memoir, "Life is not a Rehearsal". Irwin was apparently a serious evangelical Christian and the inference was that he frowned upon David's lifestyle.
It might work. I can't imagine that Steve was commanding a high salary over on Soldiers Field Road and he'd probably bring quite a few advertisers with him. There are reports on a couple other boards (and Fybush.com) that at least one major 'BZ advertiser offered to buy out the overnights in order to save the LeVeille broadcast and was rebuffed.
I thought then-WBZ GM John Irwin was primarily responsible for Brudnoy's 1990 firing. I even think Brudnoy talked about it is in his memoir, "Life is not a Rehearsal". Irwin was apparently a serious evangelical Christian and the inference was that he frowned upon David's lifestyle.
If the ad dollars justify the hiring of a host and a producer/board-op, maybe. For now they have Sliwa
10p-1 am and then Phil Hendrie. They could put Steve on 12-2, 12-3 etc and then go to Hendrie maybe...?
WTKK currently has non stop local talk from 9 am to 10 pm (Graham, E&B, Severin, McPhee); 11 hours worth
(RKO has 7). And originally the Sliwa show was billed as live and local but no doubt they realized Curtis
might try to go national, and he did.
Meanwhile in addition to the Facebook group I mentioned and joined, The Slow Death of WBZ, there's now
a blog & petition drive to get Steve back which someone mentioned on the comments for the Herald
article about Lovell. (btw not sure if this made the Globe yet, as I haven't picked up a copy of that
paper yet today...but let's just say it's great Boston is a two paper town!! Thanks Herald!)
http://bringbacksteve.blogspot.com/
10p-1 am and then Phil Hendrie. They could put Steve on 12-2, 12-3 etc and then go to Hendrie maybe...?
WTKK currently has non stop local talk from 9 am to 10 pm (Graham, E&B, Severin, McPhee); 11 hours worth
(RKO has 7). And originally the Sliwa show was billed as live and local but no doubt they realized Curtis
might try to go national, and he did.
Meanwhile in addition to the Facebook group I mentioned and joined, The Slow Death of WBZ, there's now
a blog & petition drive to get Steve back which someone mentioned on the comments for the Herald
article about Lovell. (btw not sure if this made the Globe yet, as I haven't picked up a copy of that
paper yet today...but let's just say it's great Boston is a two paper town!! Thanks Herald!)
http://bringbacksteve.blogspot.com/
I'm sure Dyett is a swell guy with dulcet tones. But media people have to get it through their skulls that employment isn't some womb-to-the-tomb entitlement program. Imagine being 'anguished' over being 'let go' at age 73 after 37 years with one employer. We should all be so lucky! Tom Ellis reacted the same way after his own 'womb-to-the-tomb' career was cut shorter than he thought it ought to have been.
Cue the discrimination lawsuit express...WOO-WOOOOOO!
Cue the discrimination lawsuit express...WOO-WOOOOOO!
How about discrimination against folks who'd like a little local content?
WRKO Press Release--May 14, 2009:
"WRKO is replacing the Howie Carr show with the syndicated Jerry Doyle show. We are
pleased to bring one of America's best syndicated shows to you live in afternoon drive.
In place of the Jerry Doyle tape delayed broadcasts at 10 pm, WRKO will have the exciting
(Name of Sponsor) Program, an informative show about how you can get rid of
the 15 to 25 pounds of gunk that is stuck to your colon walls like spackle or paste."
WRKO Press Release--May 14, 2009:
"WRKO is replacing the Howie Carr show with the syndicated Jerry Doyle show. We are
pleased to bring one of America's best syndicated shows to you live in afternoon drive.
In place of the Jerry Doyle tape delayed broadcasts at 10 pm, WRKO will have the exciting
(Name of Sponsor) Program, an informative show about how you can get rid of
the 15 to 25 pounds of gunk that is stuck to your colon walls like spackle or paste."
L.Dyett said his specialty was "Crisis Management." Which must have come into play around air-time at 9:06 on Saturdays.
Spano & Dawicki Law might have offered sponsorship. They had bought a lot of time.
A few years ago there was a lot of anti-gay spots coming from a "pro-marriage" couple and "group." A few were actually very funny and the running joke was nobody calling in ever commented on these frequent ad buys.
Spano & Dawicki Law might have offered sponsorship. They had bought a lot of time.
A few years ago there was a lot of anti-gay spots coming from a "pro-marriage" couple and "group." A few were actually very funny and the running joke was nobody calling in ever commented on these frequent ad buys.
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