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Um, no....Two Chicks Dishing, the show she co-hosted with Lori Kramer received numerious awards, accolades from critics, was WRKO's number 1 show, was the number one night/evening show in Boston, and was even on the verge of national syndication when they had a falling out and went their seperate ways.
She's already syndicating. She's filled the midday slot at 106.9 KIFR (the late KEAR) in San Francisco, taking the spot of Darian O'Toole who reportedly fell asleep on the air. Boston is probably next, so where do Toucher and Rich go? Middays? Take Tom Leykis in evenings and you've got 104.1 FREE FM.
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I grew up in Boston, but have been in Atlanta for quite some time. I am familiar with Toucher and Rich, who actually started out as back-filler on the morning show at 99x (www.99x.com) - 99x has been going through a serious decline in the ATL in recent years. They were #1 when I moved here, and now they are down towards the bottom, and all of the talent is jumping ship it appears.That being said - they are really not that bad, though not sure how the reception will be up there. Give 'em hell.
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In the '97/'98/'99 timeframe, being #1 on "RKO DID meaning something, the stations ratings, I believe, were pretty good themselves, and the show had high ratings.
Hire WMLN talent? count me inVarulven said:
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New Board, Same old psychosis/ideas
Ill make this simple: Brand new board yet the same old weird agendas from one poster. I had time to establish myself but just didnt click in Boston?....Joe I spent eight years at WBCN, the previous seven years I spent at WFNX where I was one of the highest rated and most popular personalities in the station's history. As for WBCN Hardy has yet to match my last book numbers which were very high, and this is a huge part of the reason that Hardy himself has been replaced because he never duplicated my performance in afternoon drive there. In fairness, Hardy and I have exchanged emails when he first got to town and he seems like a genuinely good guy, who was ill prepared for the position with no understanding of the market. This is due largely to his not being prepared by the PD who himself has little understanding of the market even now. The same PD who had told me time and time again "we'll have plenty of time for personality later" well when a heritage monster with a pristine signal like WBCN falls below a two share, "later" is obviously too late. The next generation of dj's should come from WERS? and the Art Institute? that statement itself reveals a life being lived in the past. The day of WBCN or ANY station in a large market hiring dj's from somewhere like WMBR are gone forever. A station as large as WBCN cannot operate with first time talent, I know in your world it is still 1974 and you're still relevent but things are very different now and your inability to even grasp that simple reality is a part of what keeps you on the sidelines perrenially. Your dislike of what I did in Boston is well known Joe although no one takes you seriously least of all me, I think we're all aware of the imagined wrongs you feel that have been done to you by so many and somehow you number me among the many ( I still cant figure that out but you're not known for being rational) but to try to say that I never clicked in Boston is just beyond irrational. Say you dont like me, say you never thought I was any good personally (because that is all you ever spew, your personal feelings, never with any shred of fact behind them), say you never understood the hype, but dont try to say that someone who worked in the market for more than 15 years "never clicked" that is nonsensical even for someone KNOWN for his nonsensical arguments like YOU. AS much of a phenomenon as Opie and Anthony are they will need more than that past 9am, and "41 minute rock blocks" obviously are not the answer. Just the term "rock block' is so dated and cliche radio 101. This is one of most legendary rock stations in America which now just sounds like a medium market also ran. I wish them luck, I would love to see them back on top but it's looking less likely with every book.
Ill make this simple: Brand new board yet the same old weird agendas from one poster. I had time to establish myself but just didnt click in Boston?....Joe I spent eight years at WBCN, the previous seven years I spent at WFNX where I was one of the highest rated and most popular personalities in the station's history. As for WBCN Hardy has yet to match my last book numbers which were very high, and this is a huge part of the reason that Hardy himself has been replaced because he never duplicated my performance in afternoon drive there. In fairness, Hardy and I have exchanged emails when he first got to town and he seems like a genuinely good guy, who was ill prepared for the position with no understanding of the market. This is due largely to his not being prepared by the PD who himself has little understanding of the market even now. The same PD who had told me time and time again "we'll have plenty of time for personality later" well when a heritage monster with a pristine signal like WBCN falls below a two share, "later" is obviously too late. The next generation of dj's should come from WERS? and the Art Institute? that statement itself reveals a life being lived in the past. The day of WBCN or ANY station in a large market hiring dj's from somewhere like WMBR are gone forever. A station as large as WBCN cannot operate with first time talent, I know in your world it is still 1974 and you're still relevent but things are very different now and your inability to even grasp that simple reality is a part of what keeps you on the sidelines perrenially. Your dislike of what I did in Boston is well known Joe although no one takes you seriously least of all me, I think we're all aware of the imagined wrongs you feel that have been done to you by so many and somehow you number me among the many ( I still cant figure that out but you're not known for being rational) but to try to say that I never clicked in Boston is just beyond irrational. Say you dont like me, say you never thought I was any good personally (because that is all you ever spew, your personal feelings, never with any shred of fact behind them), say you never understood the hype, but dont try to say that someone who worked in the market for more than 15 years "never clicked" that is nonsensical even for someone KNOWN for his nonsensical arguments like YOU. AS much of a phenomenon as Opie and Anthony are they will need more than that past 9am, and "41 minute rock blocks" obviously are not the answer. Just the term "rock block' is so dated and cliche radio 101. This is one of most legendary rock stations in America which now just sounds like a medium market also ran. I wish them luck, I would love to see them back on top but it's looking less likely with every book.
From an imaging stand point WBCN has gone way down hill. I don't know why they're not using John Reiley's voice exclusivley, the other imaging voice sounds like he belongs on a CHR not a heritage rock station. I'm 33 years old and have been been a BCN fan since I was a child back to the early 80's (Dad listened all the time). I've stuck with BCN through all their different "phases" (The Rock of Boston, The New Rock Revolution, Boston's Alternative Rock, The Rock of Boston). Other than the recent addition of O&A the station is STALE. When you're tied with WPLM in the 12+ something's NOT going right.
this is completely off topic but i heard through the grapevine that you couldn't hear plm on their fm or am frequency for a while...anyways...I have always enjoyed bcn's imaging, although i agree that recently it hasn't sounded nearly as sharp, john (or jon, i apologize if you read this and i spelled it wrong) still has one of the best voices in boston for a radio stationtjm_pro said:
i think nik made some very valid points about the current state of wbcn.does anyone honestly think if wimpy hardy wasn't wellington's lap boy from vegas he'd be sticking around to do nights for wbcn?! i also wonder how long will wellington stick around if the spring book has wbcn(down) and wfnx/waaf(up) going in opposite directions. if that happens, you hear o&a, ******r and rich and rest of free-fm line-up by the time college kids are back in their dorms in september.
WPLM-FM has come in with their usual fair signal in the Boston area whenever I've checked lately. I haven't heard any period when they weren't coming in. WPLM-AM never came in worth anything in the Boston area due to their directional pattern.TravisWMLN said:
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Some hard feelings about being let go Nik? NO Smoke, I did for a while I guess even though I was looking to get out (becuase I saw this coming, I didnt see a dip below a two share but) I had been talking to WXRK about afternoons along with both Sirius and XM when my contract was not renewed. No, I guess I do have feelings of sadness about the situation they're in now where one of AMERICA'S (not just Boston's) great heritage stations has been reduced to being just another pre set on some people's dial, really just another stick that plays Pearl Jam. Ask anyone; even in the height of the BCN/aaf battles I always said that I admired the passion that they instilled in their audience especially in a time when people overall couldnt care less about the radio, especially rock radio that is not an accident. Their audience may be a little less passionate today given recent changes that their core audience doesnt seem to get (gorillaz on WAAF?) but compared to WBCN? what could you be passionate about on WBCN? the Patriots? ok but that's not really about programming now is it?. I do feel bad for Hardy, if any of us were in Las Vegas broadcasting to a bunch of cactus, whores and gambling junkies and someone said "you want to do afternoons in Boston"? who among us wouldnt stampede toward the airport?. I actually tried to help him when he first got there, when I saw the picture of him on wbcn's web site holding a map looking lost and heard John Frost sweepers that said " from Albequerque (sp?), to St. Louis, to Vegas, to Boston, Hardy on WBCN" I knew that he had been ill prepared for the market and how PROVINCIAL Boston is. I actually called TWO people in management and said " you guys are setting him up to fail, get that picture of him holding the map off the web site, it just screams IM AN OUTSIDER, I DONT KNOW BOSTON, he's going to get tagged an outsider and never be able to live it down just like Eddie Webb",,,the response was " I know, I know" but they couldnt go against the Pd and the guy who was perceived as his golden boy. So he walked in completely unfamilliar with the tone of the market he was in, partially his fault but I've seen other PD's explain to out of town talent where they are and what the people and market are made of, obviously that didnt happen. It's too bad.
Hey Nik,Guess the NY meds are just as useless as the ones you got in Boston." Your dislike of what I did in Boston is well known Joe although no one takes you seriously least of all me,"Your idol and predecessor said of your constant yapping "Consider the source!" Nik, just as you attack Hardy for being Dave Wellington's hire, without Oedipus you would NOT have been on the air.You didn't add to WBCN's legend, Nik - take it from an oldtimer (hey, my birthday is a month before your ex-bosses, but he's pushing 60, I'm a LOT younger, though you keep telling me how "old" I am) - take it from an old timer, WBCN was more fun before Oedipus took it down the Corporate path.Just as Pete Falconi has a right to bring in some afternoon drive woman to replace JJ because he is comfortable working with her, Dave can bring in Hardy. Hardy and ADAM 12 might be as much of a problem as you in the talent department, but the bigger problem is that Oedipus rested on theNew England Patriots / Howard Stern laurels. Oedi had his day in the sun (High Noon for Hyson), but he got sloppy in the end and was pushed out the door. Wellington doesn't have the authority to make the decisions - you know they are made by J.H., Mark H. and Rob B." I think we're all aware of the imagined wrongs you feel that have been done to you by so many and somehow you number me among the many" Oh please, Nik, you sound like a broken record. I have articles to get in - and would bill this out to you as a "professional courtesy" (for free) but I don't consider you a professional.WBCN was great. You were part of the wave that came in and ruined a good thing. Bisexual/Lesbian chatter is not as exciting to some of us as a rare T Rex concert being broadcast on 104.1 FM - but, somehow, you think you are more important than Marc Bolan or rare Dylan...let's face it Nik, when you don't know a tune by THE BEATLES and WILBERT HARRISON - KANSAS CITY - you aren't in radio.
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Well, not all of us can be pioneers in that heady world of cable access television and blogs.Varulven said:
Nik Carter attacked my poetry - a parody of "Kansas City" - thinking it was "Goin' to California" (probably the Pink song, God knows Nik has probably never heard of Led Zeppelin).Though I referenced Wilbert Harrison, a wonderful African American artist, the tune WAS covered by an obscure band from Liverpool...The Beatles. When an allegedly MAJOR disc jockey doesn't know a tune sung by THE BEATLES...you really have to wonder. Maybe Nik's next thought up position in life is that of Rocket Scientist.Mock Access TV all you want - that's what I do for fun. It's good research and development - always looking to expand one's horizons...hey, 7 or 8 psychiatrists have appeared on my show and there's no straight jacket yet, so I guess I'm doing something right.
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Take your petty personal attacks and diatribes elsewhere, Joe.Varulven said:
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