Dees to Hot...

[ocer]

Dees commented, “I am proud to be welcomed back into the number one radio market in the world, playing some of the best music ever recorded and especially getting the opportunity to reunite with a long list of Clear Channel friends.”

So he's going to be syndicated in New York too?

#1 in the world would be Tokyo 

On population, metro Mexico City, now over 24 million, would be #1.

But on revenue, it's LA all the way.

Not to beat an off topic subject to death, but Tokyo has the largest metropolitan area in the world (on population), larger than Mexico City, New York and LA.  Totally agree the $ is in LA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population

 

[BMedina]

Tokyo has surpassed Mexico City from what I read and I have family in D.F.

 

[OC Radio Geek]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

 

[LKellerIII]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

If by dinosaur, you mean his age - so what? This is radio, so nobody has to look at his wrinkled old face. If he's still entertaining and his material is topical, it doesn't matter. The highest paid morning DJ in the Bay Area is Don Bleu (on CHR Star 101.3) who's a few years past 60.

 

[ajc_trw]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

Rick just turned 61 while Paul Harvey turned 61 in 1979.

My point, how long did Paul Harvey stay in radio past 1979? Also, how old is Don Imus?

I think we can count on listening to RD well into 2030, unless CC cans him again.

 

[RadioGirl89]

I, personally am excited that Rick is coming back! I was an avid listener of KIISFM in the early 90's when I lived near LA! I definitely will be tuning in when Rick returns!
Amber

 

[calguy]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

I have noticed quite a bit of age discrimination in radio lately. Believe me, if Don Steele was alive he'd still be on KRTH and he would be kicking ass and taking names. If Dees can keep the content fresh and stay topical there's no reason why he can't still be a success. You know, many on staff at KRTH are around 60, maybe a few even older. No one says jack about their age, and why would they, these guys sound better and have more energy that jocks half their age. Youth is fleeting, experience grows and the fire still burns.

 

[LKellerIII]

I can't speak to LA, but if you go to the website of the Bay Area's most popular music station - Lite Rock KOIT, and click on the DJ bios, you'll see pictures of people with wrinkles and gray hair. The fill in and local "hosts" (as they call them) are younger, but all of the main weekday hosts have been there seemingly forever.

 

[calguy]

I can't speak to LA, but if you go to the website of the Bay Area's most popular music station - Lite Rock KOIT, and click on the DJ bios, you'll see pictures of people with wrinkles and gray hair. The fill in and local "hosts" (as they call them) are younger, but all of the main weekday hosts have been there seemingly forever.

Appreciate your comments Mr Keller.

The exception would be Bobby Ocean, he's probably the senior member of the weekend & fill staff at KOIT.

My point here is that I see a lot of people putting others down because of their age and that my friends is wrong. We all get older and that young joker making nasty comments will someday be the older guy who thinks the insults sting a little too much. I'll take age, talent and experience any day over some young, green kid who works for peanuts. Guess that makes me the opposite of those bean counters in control of the industry now..

 

[radio-darn]

The exception would be Bobby Ocean, he's probably the senior member of the weekend & fill staff at KOIT.

I'm 60 and worked with Bobby at KHJ and Shotgun Tom and KOGO and I know they are both older than me: we are all old farts - oops vintage flatulence.

 

[AM FM listener]

If Dees can keep the content fresh and stay topical there's no reason why he can't still be a success.

That will be the question. Can Dees keep the content fresh? At Movin' he was doing the same old schtick. He is a legend, no doubt, but he will need to reinvent himself if he wants to make a viable comeback.

 

[wdb2003]

More than likely he probally will. I was hoping for a more music driven program. I wonder who his new female cohost will be? I doubt KHHT will carry Rick Dees Countdown although when Movin aired the show it was edited. KHHT still airs Top Ten Now and Then on Saturdays and Sunday Night Slow Jams on Sundays

 

[ronkaram]

According to Gary Lycan's article in the Orange County Register, the station had a focus group with a list of personalities and the top two were Dee's and Art Laboe. They plan to have Dee's in the morning and keep Laboe in the evenings.

 

[ajc_trw]

The exception would be Bobby Ocean, he's probably the senior member of the weekend & fill staff at KOIT.

I'm 60 and worked with Bobby at KHJ and Shotgun Tom and KOGO and I know they are both older than me: we are all old farts - oops vintage flatulence.

Classical Gas

 

[LKellerIII]

I can't speak to LA, but if you go to the website of the Bay Area's most popular music station - Lite Rock KOIT, and click on the DJ bios, you'll see pictures of people with wrinkles and gray hair. The fill in and local "hosts" (as they call them) are younger, but all of the main weekday hosts have been there seemingly forever.

Appreciate your comments Mr Keller.

The exception would be Bobby Ocean, he's probably the senior member of the weekend & fill staff at KOIT.

My point here is that I see a lot of people putting others down because of their age and that my friends is wrong. We all get older and that young joker making nasty comments will someday be the older guy who thinks the insults sting a little too much. I'll take age, talent and experience any day over some young, green kid who works for peanuts. Guess that makes me the opposite of those bean counters in control of the industry now..

I think that was my point, too. Especially with radio, this should be irrelevant to listeners. I'm sure Cheap Channel wouldn't continue to pay Don Bleu his reportedly large salary in the Bay Area unless his ratings didn't justify it. Given that the station (Star 101.3) plays new hits mixed with a few 90s "oldies, " I'm sure the average Star listener is half Don's age.

 

[michael hagerty]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

Dees is a dinosaur and you want KIQQ airchecks from 30 years ago.

Huh?

 

[michael hagerty]

LOL so funny! Dees is a dinosaur. They might as well bring Don Steele back from the dead.

Rick just turned 61 while Paul Harvey turned 61 in 1979.

My point, how long did Paul Harvey stay in radio past 1979? Also, how old is Don Imus?

I think we can count on listening to RD well into 2030, unless CC cans him again.

While I, too, hate the ageist junk that's being thrown at Rick...a little reality. Paul Harvey (who stayed on the air until he died at age 90) and Don Imus (71 in July) did and do a different kind of radio.

Suggesting that Rick Dees will be a jock until his 80th birthday is a bit of a stretch. Could happen (see Art Laboe and Huggy Boy), but the odds are pretty long.

 

[radioguy39nj]

According to Gary Lycan's article in the Orange County Register, the station had a focus group with a list of personalities and the top two were Dee's and Art Laboe. They plan to have Dee's in the morning and keep Laboe in the evenings.

Art Laboe? The jock who invented "oldies but goodies"? I didn't know he was still around, much less on Hot 92.3! Seems like he'd be a bigger fish out of water on that station than even Rick Dees!

 

[LKellerIII]

According to Gary Lycan's article in the Orange County Register, the station had a focus group with a list of personalities and the top two were Dee's and Art Laboe. They plan to have Dee's in the morning and keep Laboe in the evenings.

Art Laboe? The jock who invented "oldies but goodies"? I didn't know he was still around, much less on Hot 92.3! Seems like he'd be a bigger fish out of water on that station than even Rick Dees!

Art Laboe was already past his "prime" jocking years when I was a kid - in the late 60s and early 70s, he was the guy who bought time on brokered daytime stations to sell his Oldies But Goodies record collections. He came back to regular DJ gigs much later. So Art is even 'old' to me, in a sense.

 

[radioguy39nj]

According to Gary Lycan's article in the Orange County Register, the station had a focus group with a list of personalities and the top two were Dee's and Art Laboe. They plan to have Dee's in the morning and keep Laboe in the evenings.

Art Laboe? The jock who invented "oldies but goodies"? I didn't know he was still around, much less on Hot 92.3! Seems like he'd be a bigger fish out of water on that station than even Rick Dees!

Art Laboe was already past his "prime" jocking years when I was a kid - in the late 60s and early 70s, he was the guy who bought time on brokered daytime stations to sell his Oldies But Goodies record collections. He came back to regular DJ gigs much later. So Art is even 'old' to me, in a sense.

I visited LA in 1974 and went to Art Laboe's club on Sunset Strip! The Coasters were there that night. IIRC, KRTH was broadcasting live from the club. KRTH was owned by RKO General then. I even got Art Laboe's autograph!