Braden Gunn Returns To WQYK ..

[Koger Complex]

Heard it Saturday, Braden has brought The Big And Wild Outdoors back to WQYK's 1010..7 to 9 Am..Wonder if Steve Austin will make a guest appearance?

 

[Studio20]

You and maybe a co worker there will be the only ones who care about the comings and goings and format changes regarding an AM station you can't hear five miles north or south of the transmitter....

Give it up already.

 

[DToTheJ]

But 1010 Sports can be heard loud and clear on Radio.com. :-\

 

[billalm]

and on 99.5 HD-3 ;D

 

[Koger Complex]

You and maybe a co worker there will be the only ones who care about the comings and goings and format changes regarding an AM station you can't hear five miles north or south of the transmitter....

Give it up already.

You must be new to the area. Braden got his start at WQYK and has been a part of the Tampa radio market for around 30 years. He has been off the air for around 3 years after CC cleaned house.. The reason for the post was to inform the radio community that Braden Gunn is back on the air…

 

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You must be new to the area. Braden got his start at WQYK and has been a part of the Tampa radio market for around 30 years. He has been off the air for around 3 years after CC cleaned house.. The reason for the post was to inform the radio community that Braden Gunn is back on the air…
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CC didn't clean house, they cut ties with an awful show that was hemorrhaging money despite upper management's best efforts to right the ship (Sorry Skip, love ya, but its true). In all my years in radio, he might have been the most difficult person to work with IMO. I just hope they don't have him do any production work at WQYK...

 

[Studio20]

You and maybe a co worker there will be the only ones who care about the comings and goings and format changes regarding an AM station you can't hear five miles north or south of the transmitter....

Give it up already.

You must be new to the area. Braden got his start at WQYK and has been a part of the Tampa radio market for around 30 years. He has been off the air for around 3 years after CC cleaned house.. The reason for the post was to inform the radio community that Braden Gunn is back on the air…

Lived and worked here over two decades. I remember the reaction Phil Esposito had heading back to Cheval when the Lightning were first on 1010. He lost the signal pulling into the neighborhood.

Nothing personal against Braden, and the tenure is unusual for this market, but I reiterate, the signal is the poorest north/south quality in a market of this size. Its well documented, not to mention the multiple format flip flops ranging from classic country to Howard Stern to all sports....and running network PSA's during NFL Football broadcasts? Theres an indication on signal strength, son.

 

[billalm]

I don't ever remember the Lightning being on 1010. I think you're speaking of 910, which at the time was sports WFNS.... and that's where the Esposito story comes from.

 

[Koger Complex]

You must be new to the area. Braden got his start at WQYK and has been a part of the Tampa radio market for around 30 years. He has been off the air for around 3 years after CC cleaned house.. The reason for the post was to inform the radio community that Braden Gunn is back on the air…
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CC didn't clean house, they cut ties with an awful show that was hemorrhaging money despite upper management's best efforts to right the ship (Sorry Skip, love ya, but its true). In all my years in radio, he might have been the most difficult person to work with IMO. I just hope they don't have him do any production work at WQYK...


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"In all my years in radio, he might have been the most difficult person to work with IMO."...
???? Skip or Braden ????

Didn't clean house ?
They Did and still are !
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=10980806#page:showThread,10980806

If your in the building look around and tell us who's still there?
"Longtime morning radio personality Skip Mahaffey and his crew on country music station WFUS (103.5 FM) were among those laid off Tuesday in another round of massive layoffs by Clear Channel Radio".
http://duke1.tbo.com/content/2009/apr/29/291435/popular-dj-skip-mahaffey-laid-clear-channel/

 

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"In all my years in radio, he might have been the most difficult person to work with IMO."...
???? Skip or Braden ????

Didn't clean house ?
They Did and still are !
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=10980806#page:showThread,10980806

If your in the building look around and tell us who's still there?
"Longtime morning radio personality Skip Mahaffey and his crew on country music station WFUS (103.5 FM) were among those laid off Tuesday in another round of massive layoffs by Clear Channel Radio".
http://duke1.tbo.com/content/2009/apr/29/291435/popular-dj-skip-mahaffey-laid-clear-channel/

Never was in the building on a FT basis, but your facts are wrong. I can't find the official release, but read this:

WFUS Morning Change: In a move that WFUS/Tampa PD Travis Daily emphasizes was not part of Clear Channel's RIF, the entire US 103.5 morning show exited today. Skip Mahaffey, Melissa Bunting, Les McDowell and Braden Gunn were let go after three-and-a-half years together. Mahaffey had been at crosstown WQYK for seven years when he was wooed away by WFUS in spring 2005, but he had to sit out a non-compete and didn't go on the air until October 2005. McDowell and Gunn were on the air with Skip at WQYK and made the move with him. Bunting came in as Executive Producer from KUSS/San Diego, where she had been working with Tony & Kris in mornings there.

https://www.countryaircheck.com/email_publication/CAT_04_28_09/

And I was referencing Braden as the difficult one, Skip and Les were always extremely pleasant in the building and if I saw them out at a show or Charity event like the Cattleman's Ball.

 

[frankberry]

I don't ever remember the Lightning being on 1010. I think you're speaking of 910, which at the time was sports WFNS.... and that's where the Esposito story comes from.

The Lightning were on 1010AM the first year that they played in Tampa ... at the Fairgrounds.

 

[Studio20]

I don't ever remember the Lightning being on 1010. I think you're speaking of 910, which at the time was sports WFNS.... and that's where the Esposito story comes from.

Testify, my brother. Thats how little of an impact that station has made over the years.

Ok, enough with beating the dead horse. AM radio is passe, and HD radio is a passing fad. I'm not buying a specially equipped radio for additional jukeboxes. Here's hoping that they get some listeners on smartphones/Ipad's etc.

Next topic...

 

[Koger Complex]

And I was referencing Braden as the difficult one, Skip and Les were always extremely pleasant in the building and if I saw them out at a show or Charity event like the Cattleman's Ball.

How strange? I always like the guy and found him to be very cooperative, especially when it came to remotes & appearances. He was the only one (of any morning shows I worked with) who would actually help set up & tear down his own remotes & appearances. And most of the time he drove the remote truck or station vehicle to the gig.
Granted he may not be a Mike Serio when it comes to production, but he always got his spots cut.Didn’t Skip have his own studio to do his work? And I know from experience that Lester never did his own production, but maybe that changed when he went to CC.

I curious, what “work” did you do with BG that made him so “difficult” to work with?

Seems to me that observing his fellow crew members at a function that only happens once a year, doesn’t really give you much perspective on how they are the rest of the time does it? I know you wrote that “Skip and Les were always extremely pleasant in the building”. But did you work with them in the same manner as Braden?

 

[Frank Ferreri]

I don't ever remember the Lightning being on 1010. I think you're speaking of 910, which at the time was sports WFNS.... and that's where the Esposito story comes from.

The Lightning were on 1010AM the first year that they played in Tampa ... at the Fairgrounds.

WFNS 910 became the Lightning flagship and, like 1010, had some signal limitations. Phil Esposito received my station WLVU 106.3 great in his home. The owner of FNS approached me with a deal to carry the games. FNS would actually purchase the time. At first, being a music station, my answer was no. Mr. Esposito called me at the station one day and made a personal pitch to pick up the games and we did. Ira Kaufman ran an article about the fact that Esposito couldn't hear the games on FNS at home and that WLVU boomed in on his kitchen radio. Turned out to be a good deal.

 

[Mike_Hennessy]

Listening to the games on FM was great!

 

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I curious, what “work” did you do with BG that made him so “difficult” to work with?

Seems to me that observing his fellow crew members at a function that only happens once a year, doesn’t really give you much perspective on how they are the rest of the time does it? I know you wrote that “Skip and Les were always extremely pleasant in the building”. But did you work with them in the same manner as Braden?

Judging from the fact that I no longer work there, not enough apparently Production, promotions, picking up Dan DiLoretto's dry cleaning... there really wasn't much I wouldn't do, and then began to realize there were easier ways to make $8.00/hr.

I dealt with them all equally. And I mention the Ball as an event because they actually did acknowledge me (I was there on my own dime), which is always nice for the grunt, especially when Olivia Fox wouldn't even acknowledge you if you saw her at Brandon Mall.

 

[Koger Complex]

I curious, what “work” did you do with BG that made him so “difficult” to work with?

Seems to me that observing his fellow crew members at a function that only happens once a year, doesn’t really give you much perspective on how they are the rest of the time does it? I know you wrote that “Skip and Les were always extremely pleasant in the building”. But did you work with them in the same manner as Braden?

Judging from the fact that I no longer work there, not enough apparently Production, promotions, picking up Dan DiLoretto's dry cleaning... there really wasn't much I wouldn't do, and then began to realize there were easier ways to make $8.00/hr.

I dealt with them all equally. And I mention the Ball as an event because they actually did acknowledge me (I was there on my own dime), which is always nice for the grunt, especially when Olivia Fox wouldn't even acknowledge you if you saw her at Brandon Mall.

Sounds like you did about the same things Braden did when he started at QYK,,I think he would have starved if Tom Rivers didn't have him picking up his Dry Cleaning!! (Tom always paid cash )