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CC Cleveland Programming Chief Filled In For Springer?!?!

O

OldAkronite

Yep, you heard it right.

Clear Channel Cleveland Director of Programming Kevin Metheny was the substitute host on liberal talker Jerry Springer's midday radio show on Friday.

<a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/10/now-filling-in-for-jerrywho.html>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/10/now-filling-in-for-jerrywho.html</a>

Did anyone hear it? Any thoughts? Is Mr. Metheny as good as his Cincinnati programming counterpart, regular WLW/700 weekender Darryl Parks?

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
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> Yep, you heard it right.
>
> Clear Channel Cleveland Director of Programming Kevin
> Metheny was the substitute host on liberal talker Jerry
> Springer's midday radio show on Friday.

Ok, I'm not sure exact who all has filled in for Jerry when he's been on vacation or off-air for any number of reasons, but we now know that TWICE Cleveland CC staffers have done the show:

John Lanigan (a conservative (!), yet anti-Bush, heritage morning host)

and

Kevin Metheny (Lanigan's boss and brainchild behind the Springer on 'TAM debacle).

And to answer OA's question partly, Metheny (and Ray Davis, if I remember right), hosted a fill-in for WTAM afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno a couple years back, taking listener calls about the big guy and his show.

The Metheny/Davis fill-in sticks in my mind because they noted was the ONLY time Sports Director Mike Snyder ever did "20/20 Sports" on time! (Triv is habitually 15 or more minutes late with the updates.)

>>>>>>>>
And, appropriately, this post 1100 is dedicated to NewsRadio WTAM 1100, a station with a storied history going back to 1923 and the Willard Battery Co., through ownership by the van Sweringen Brothers and CEI, as an NBC O&O, bridging the the Westinghouse swap (as KYW), through another NBC O&O (WKYC), with Mileti/Embrescia (WWWE), and ownership by Pacific & Southern, Gannett, Art Modell & Al Lerner, Embrescia-Wilson-Pollack, Booth American, Secret, Jacor, and now Clear Channel.

A traveled history for an old Class I-A.

Slainte, WTAM!<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Johnny Morgan on 10/31/05 04:01 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> Yep, you heard it right.
>
> Clear Channel Cleveland Director of Programming Kevin
> Metheny was the substitute host on liberal talker Jerry
> Springer's midday radio show on Friday.
>


Does anybody find it kinda strange that an executive puts himself on the air in such an important spot even tho he has no experience in the format, has not been on the air in years, and even then, simply used to bark slogans on tight AM music formats?

Is this CC's dream? No talent.....just the execs hogging all the limelight?
He already does all the newspaper interviews (I have never heard a public peep out of their so-called "Program Director"), so why not, eh?
 
> > Yep, you heard it right.
> >
> > Clear Channel Cleveland Director of Programming Kevin
> > Metheny was the substitute host on liberal talker Jerry
> > Springer's midday radio show on Friday.
>
> Ok, I'm not sure exact who all has filled in for Jerry when
> he's been on vacation or off-air for any number of reasons,
> but we now know that TWICE Cleveland CC staffers have done
> the show:
>
> John Lanigan (a conservative (!), yet anti-Bush, heritage
> morning host)
>
> and
>
> Kevin Metheny (Lanigan's boss and brainchild behind the
> Springer on 'TAM debacle).
>
> And to answer OA's question partly, Metheny (and Ray Davis,
> if I remember right), hosted a fill-in for WTAM afternoon
> driver Mike Trivisonno a couple years back, taking listener
> calls about the big guy and his show.
>
> The Metheny/Davis fill-in sticks in my mind because they
> noted was the ONLY time Sports Director Mike Snyder ever did
> "20/20 Sports" on time! (Triv is habitually 15 or more
> minutes late with the updates.)
>
> >>>>>>>>
> And, appropriately, this post 1100 is dedicated to NewsRadio
> WTAM 1100, a station with a storied history going back to
> 1923 and the Willard Battery Co., through ownership by the
> van Sweringen Brothers and CEI, as an NBC O&O, bridging the
> the Westinghouse swap (as KYW), through another NBC O&O
> (WKYC), with Mileti/Embrescia (WWWE), and ownership by
> Pacific & Southern, Gannett, Art Modell & Al Lerner,
> Embrescia-Wilson-Pollack, Booth American, Secret, Jacor, and
> now Clear Channel.
>
> A traveled history for an old Class I-A.
>
> Slainte, WTAM!
> i heard kevin friday morning filling in for jerry on my way to cleveland. kevein admitted he has little experience in doing talk radio, because he does programming, admitted that howard calls him "pig vomit", and tried to emulate jerry's monlogue on the daily happenings. what really was weird was listening to kevin talk to jerrys webguy about he was going to do the magic schoolbus bit and shrink down to microscopic size to travel with the laser doing a colostomy on jerry's butt. it got too weird, so i moved over to quinn and rose to restore sanity--david5258
 
> > i heard kevin friday morning filling in for jerry on my
> way to cleveland. kevein admitted he has little experience
> in doing talk radio, because he does programming, admitted
> that howard calls him "pig vomit", and tried to emulate
> jerry's monlogue on the daily happenings. what really was
> weird was listening to kevin talk to jerrys webguy about he
> was going to do the magic schoolbus bit and shrink down to
> microscopic size to travel with the laser doing a colostomy
> on jerry's butt. it got too weird, so i moved over to quinn
> and rose to restore sanity--david5258
>


He must have been REALLY bad if you had to go to the red Kool-Aid drinkers
Quinn and Rose in order to "restore your sanity"! Repeat after me: "Bush great...Liberals evil...Bush great.....Liberals evil".

That's their whole show. The world is that simple!
 
> > > i heard kevin friday morning filling in for jerry on my
> > way to cleveland. kevein admitted he has little experience
>
> > in doing talk radio, because he does programming, admitted
>
> > that howard calls him "pig vomit", and tried to emulate
> > jerry's monlogue on the daily happenings. what really was
> > weird was listening to kevin talk to jerrys webguy about
> he
> > was going to do the magic schoolbus bit and shrink down to
>
> > microscopic size to travel with the laser doing a
> colostomy
> > on jerry's butt. it got too weird, so i moved over to
> quinn
> > and rose to restore sanity--david5258
> >
>
>
> He must have been REALLY bad if you had to go to the red
> Kool-Aid drinkers
> Quinn and Rose in order to "restore your sanity"! Repeat
> after me: "Bush great...Liberals evil...Bush
> great.....Liberals evil".
>
> That's their whole show. The world is that simple!
> repeat after me..kevin was THAT BAD...kevin was THAT BAD...kevin was THAT BAD

as far as quinn and rose go, they are entertaining, and frequently look at things thru a Christian worldview, especially Rose--david5258
 
>
> Does anybody find it kinda strange that an executive puts
> himself on the air in such an important spot even tho he has
> no experience in the format, has not been on the air in
> years, and even then, simply used to bark slogans on tight
> AM music formats?
>
> Is this CC's dream? No talent.....just the execs hogging
> all the limelight?
> He already does all the newspaper interviews (I have never
> heard a public peep out of their so-called "Program
> Director"), so why not, eh?
>

I think this is typical of Clear Channel, here in Columbus I have heard the PD of the CHR station on air filling in for jocks before. Typically you don't see that happen in corporate radio either... Guess all the other talent was tied up and they couldnt ISDN or WAN someone in?

<P ID="signature">______________
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Program Director/Music Director
X Music Online
The X
Today's Best Music
http://www.xmusiconline.com/</P>
 
> as far as quinn and rose go, they are entertaining, and
> frequently look at things thru a Christian worldview,
> especially Rose--david5258


Not sure what you mean by "Christian worldview".

I just know that I heard them on 640 during the presidential election accuse John Kerry of making up all the attrocities that he reported about in his testimony years ago and that the "Liberal (of course) media went along with the lies" and that "there were no attrocities in Vietnam done by US soliders".

A caller called in and pointed out that the Toldeo Blade just won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about the Tiger Force soldiers in Vietnam, surviors of which admitted to performing brutal attrocities on Vietnamese civilians. Some of the soldiers came forward because they just couldn't stand it anymore and had to talk about it. It was a sympathetic article, sensive to the madness which happens during wartime, and did not portray the men as villans, but as young kids who just got swept up (sound familier?)

Anyway, Quinn said that he didn't read the article and wouldn't read it because "the Blade is a notorious Liberal newspaper and probably made up the whole thing" (including faked-up soliders, I presume?). When questioned about the Pulitzer Prize and the integrity required for its award, Quinn flicked that off, too. "What do I care about what some Liberal eggheads think?", he laughed.

I hope this is not your idea of "Christian worldview", to live in a world where facts are so easily dismissed with a theatrical laugh and a quick seg to a spot for debt consolidation.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by HHH on 10/31/05 06:06 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> He already does all the newspaper interviews (I have never
> heard a public peep out of their so-called "Program
> Director"), so why not, eh?
>

It's SOP for there to be one "voice" of the company in each market. More often than not it's the Operations Manager or Director of Programming (same thing) who speaks for the cluster regarding programming. Jim Meltzer most likely speaks for the Cleveland cluster regarding all things Sales oriented.<P ID="signature">______________
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.</P>
 
> I think this is typical of Clear Channel, here in Columbus I
> have heard the PD of the CHR station on air filling in for
> jocks before. Typically you don't see that happen in
> corporate radio either... Guess all the other talent was
> tied up and they couldnt ISDN or WAN someone in?

Some of us do it every day!

JbC
 
> i heard kevin friday morning filling in for jerry on my
> way to cleveland. kevein admitted he has little experience
> in doing talk radio, because he does programming, admitted
> that howard calls him "pig vomit", and tried to emulate
> jerry's monlogue on the daily happenings. what really was
> weird was listening to kevin talk to jerrys webguy about he
> was going to do the magic schoolbus bit and shrink down to
> microscopic size to travel with the laser doing a colostomy
> on jerry's butt. it got too weird, so i moved over to quinn
> and rose to restore sanity--david5258


I heard him.
Found him refreshingly self-deprecating. Didn't pretend to be anything he's not. Said he was scared. You say he "tried to emulate" Jerry. I heard him explain that he was following Jerry's usual approach and approach of fill-ins, but HE couldn't DO all the things normal fill-ins do because he's NOT a talk host. HE made fun of himself, LIVE on the air, before WE got a swing at him in this forum!

Briefly xplained his political philosophy and didn't seem to rely on fraudulent RNC talking points one time. Didn't sound stoned on oxycontin. Heard him do an on-air focus group about what people want from progressive radio ... and HE raised the notion that his bitch (or is it the other way around) Springer might be too NICE a guy to be successful to survive in the forest of talk show cannibals.

What was WRONG with it?
Maybe you should send him a tape of YOUR talk show, along with a critique of HIS. I hear he has a sense of humor.
 
>
> Some of us do it every day!
>
> JbC
>

Very true John; Great job too! You have been on WCOL for a long time! <P ID="signature">______________
Lenks
Program Director/Music Director
X Music Online
The X
Today's Best Music
http://www.xmusiconline.com/</P>
 
> I hope this is not your idea of "Christian worldview", to
> live in a world where facts are so easily dismissed with a
> theatrical laugh and a quick seg to a spot for debt
> consolidation.


Of course, you so easily dismiss anyone on the right as being factually incorrect while apparently "drinking the kool-aid" fed by the left. Oh, I forgot, you're an independent or Libertarian. At least that's your out when it's convenient.

The Toledo Blade is a liberal-leaning paper. No big deal. But try to understand that conservatives are skeptical of news from liberal sources. In the exact same way, liberals distrust news from conservative sources. I've yet to meet a liberal that puts any merit in anything Fox News would have to say. Doesn't matter how factual it may be. This is simply because it doesn't affirm their own world view.

Can't you see it goes both ways? Your frequent references about conservative talk radio being nothing but "conservatives and Republicans good, liberals and Democrats bad" are predictable. But listen to Air America and liberal talk radio....."Liberals and Ds good, conservatives and Rs bad (especially if they're Christian)."

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with what you allegedly heard on WHLO, but I am offended by your subtle implication that those who hold a Christian world view or a view different than yours are living "in a world where facts are so easily dismissed with a theatrical laugh..." Liberals and non-Christians are guilty of it too my friend.
 
What's a Christian that leans Libertarian to do? I'm uncomfortable with the term "Christian World View" when it implies that only a certain set of political and social beliefs qualify as "Christian".

Who filled in on the network version of the Springer show? A couple of weeks ago I heard Malloy..only reason I checked it out was because McConnell said there were phone problems with the substitute host from Denver "down the dial".
 
Metheny Was Nationwide For Springer

> Who filled in on the network version of the Springer show? A
> couple of weeks ago I heard Malloy..only reason I checked it
> out was because McConnell said there were phone problems
> with the substitute host from Denver "down the dial".

Mr. Metheny did the entire network show - it was not solely on WTAM.

You can hear Air America's version of it (with the liners you don't normally hear on WTAM during Springer) here:

<a target="_blank" href=http://airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=show&id=16>http://airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=show&id=16</a>

It's the October 28th show, of course.

I weigh in it on the Mighty Blog of Fun(tm) here:

<a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-odds-and-ends-and-future-of-omw.html>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-odds-and-ends-and-future-of-omw.html</a>

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
Re: Metheny Was Nationwide For Springer

> You can hear Air America's version of it (with the liners
> you don't normally hear on WTAM during Springer) here:
>
> http://airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=show&id=16

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