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Carl Dukes question
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DJboutit3 said:
in Atlanta 92.9 launches oct 24 as the game. http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/...unveils-opening-lineup-launch-date-of-oct-24/DJboutit3 said:
DJboutit3 said:
Pay attention.
It is logical to post on the Houston board if you are wanting to find out about a longtime Houston air personality that is moving to another market.
Rodney Ho said:
Incredibly personable, great guy when I worked with him.
DJboutit3 said:
I know we need to talk slowly when speaking to people in Texas. ;D
Rodney Ho is a writer in Atlanta for the honkin' big newspaper here.
He writes about media.
We have a station in Atlanta at 92.9 on the dial... listen carefully now... 92.9 on the dial in ATLANTA
They are getting ready to switch formats and become a sports oriented station.
The word is out that they have hired Carl Dukes (OF HOUSTON AS OF NOW) to come and join the new staff.
What does that have to do with Houston?
Where did you expect Rodney to post if he wanted info about somebody on the air in Houston? Post in Pittsburgh? Post in Seattle? Maybe New York City?
Think about it a week or so. It will come to you.
***GRC was born in Donna, Texas. I enjoy tweaking the nose of Texans.... particularly those who wear their jeans a little too low on the hips and their Stetson a bit too low on the forehead. :
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streetbeat
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Carl is a solid guy and a good broadcaster. Definitely a big personality with lots of opinions (which tends to work pretty well when you're a radio host). He kind of got bounced around the last few years, but found a home at 97.5. You'll like Carl. I'm actually surprised he's leaving Houston....didn't expect that to happen. The city has a way of grabbing you and holding on, but Atlanta is similar, so maybe that was the best fit out there. I want to say he was here 13-14 years maybe (?).
What is the hell does this have to do with Houston nothing
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I know we need to talk slowly when speaking to people in Texas. ;D
We have a station in Atlanta at 92.9 on the dial... listen carefully now... 92.9 on the dial in ATLANTA
Think about it a week or so. It will come to you.
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It only took me a day, but I got it. Dukes is an African American, and Atlanta is too, so that’s why Mr. Ho was looking outside the target demo for intel. Then he tripped across your trailer park schtick (GRC), and the rest is history.
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I know we need to talk slowly when speaking to people in Texas. ;D
We have a station in Atlanta at 92.9 on the dial... listen carefully now... 92.9 on the dial in ATLANTA
Think about it a week or so. It will come to you.
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It only took me a day, but I got it. Dukes is an African American, and Atlanta is too, so that’s why Mr. Ho was looking outside the target demo for intel. Then he tripped across your trailer park schtick (GRC), and the rest is history.
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purpledevil
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Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
Yes, please talk slowly to us Texans....As I figure, it'd be about twice the speed you would talk to a Georgian. :
DJ was ill advised to post what he did. The unneccessary slam against the rest of us Texans was just ignorant, and can be stuck straight up your peach pit. :-*Thanks, gang, for bringing me up to speed on several issues.
First, to my friends and relatives in Texas: I have lived in nine states and I picked up a few speech patterns, both written and spoken, from each location. In casual conversation I think it could be said that my natural speech pattern closely resembles what was once the natural sound of the German culture living in the Hill Country of Texas. If my Dad had been able to do it his way, he would have lived somewhere between Austin and San Antonio. Every where I have ever lived had some kind of speech pattern and speed that we can poke fun at.
The one description no one every expressed to me before was "trailer park speech and commentary". Maybe I am destined to replace Jeff Foxworthy some day.
Part of the schtick of the GRC identity is that I function with all the dignity and frivolity of a rodeo clown... which I think you folks is Texas know all about. When the conversation gets too serious and dangerous (as in some of the political rants that break out) I throw a bucket full of "cold water frivolity" into the conversation for the safety of the injured participants... as they crawl off stage for repairs and healing.
This is going to sound really stupid... but I have problem with that. I am NOT a sports fan. Granted I spent a lot of time in my youth listening to Gordon McClendon broadcasting baseball games, but the amount of sports radio listening that I do today is NIL. Nada. Nothing. And in discussing this whole Carl Dukes move to Atlanta, the light-bulb finally came on for me. Sure, Black players are prominent in many sports and many of them are able to become network commentators when their playing days are over. And the audience seems to accept them very well. But here comes my stupidity confession: I had never given thought to the size of the Black listening audience for SPORTS RADIO. Years ago I was part of the sales staff in a norther city for a radio station programming to the Black community. I knew all the statistics and ratings. I knew all the identifiable traits that we attempted to convey to merchants on how to merchandise to the Black customer.
I could see that a Black personality on Sports Talk Radio could certainly understand and get interviews with the key players on a very personal layer.... but flying right past me was the fact that Black personality could connect well with what might be more than half the audience in a market like Atlanta.
Yeah. I not only talk slow... sometimes I think slow. I will make it a point to listen to Carl Dukes when he gets here, whether I like sports or not. You guys got me interested in him as a person.
P.S. If you run short down there, I could probably round up two or three rednecks at the trailer park down the road... just past the peach orchard, and send them your way to fill vacancies that arise. :
First, to my friends and relatives in Texas: I have lived in nine states and I picked up a few speech patterns, both written and spoken, from each location. In casual conversation I think it could be said that my natural speech pattern closely resembles what was once the natural sound of the German culture living in the Hill Country of Texas. If my Dad had been able to do it his way, he would have lived somewhere between Austin and San Antonio. Every where I have ever lived had some kind of speech pattern and speed that we can poke fun at.
The one description no one every expressed to me before was "trailer park speech and commentary". Maybe I am destined to replace Jeff Foxworthy some day.
Part of the schtick of the GRC identity is that I function with all the dignity and frivolity of a rodeo clown... which I think you folks is Texas know all about. When the conversation gets too serious and dangerous (as in some of the political rants that break out) I throw a bucket full of "cold water frivolity" into the conversation for the safety of the injured participants... as they crawl off stage for repairs and healing.
This is going to sound really stupid... but I have problem with that. I am NOT a sports fan. Granted I spent a lot of time in my youth listening to Gordon McClendon broadcasting baseball games, but the amount of sports radio listening that I do today is NIL. Nada. Nothing. And in discussing this whole Carl Dukes move to Atlanta, the light-bulb finally came on for me. Sure, Black players are prominent in many sports and many of them are able to become network commentators when their playing days are over. And the audience seems to accept them very well. But here comes my stupidity confession: I had never given thought to the size of the Black listening audience for SPORTS RADIO. Years ago I was part of the sales staff in a norther city for a radio station programming to the Black community. I knew all the statistics and ratings. I knew all the identifiable traits that we attempted to convey to merchants on how to merchandise to the Black customer.
I could see that a Black personality on Sports Talk Radio could certainly understand and get interviews with the key players on a very personal layer.... but flying right past me was the fact that Black personality could connect well with what might be more than half the audience in a market like Atlanta.
Yeah. I not only talk slow... sometimes I think slow. I will make it a point to listen to Carl Dukes when he gets here, whether I like sports or not. You guys got me interested in him as a person.
P.S. If you run short down there, I could probably round up two or three rednecks at the trailer park down the road... just past the peach orchard, and send them your way to fill vacancies that arise. :
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