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DJ's return to New 92

And they then celebrated with a buffet lunch, where the crowd was regaled with many stories of past victories.

When Jonathan is on his game, he's really, really, really good. But he's been phoning it in for years... almost like the years of turbulence in owners and management have sadly taken their toll....
 
WOW! Few comments made about Charlie James being hired @ New 92. I wonder if the "Radio experts" are going to speak up? How long until Charlie is let go? Ratings going up?
 
I am hoping that this is a step in the right direction and hopefully it will help their ratings as well. I am afraid that Clear Channel made the wrong move with Jonathan Rush. Frankly I feel like he is worn out and it sounds that way. He was great in his prime, but it surely sounds like he is past his prime and out of his element in country.
 
I agree. Listening to Rush as a kid on WNOK was fun....now I can't.
 
I don't think that Jonathan is worn out. I think he's just gotten beat up and mistreated by Clear Channel so much that there isn't much motivation to put a lot of effort into it. He knows that he's at COS because they didn't want to pay his contract out. I've said it before. When Jonathan is on, he's one of the best. When Toby Knapp was programming NOK, JR was back to some peak performances.

The New 92 morning numbers, believe it or not, were trending up. Station as a whole, as well. Not much, but some momentum building. We'll see what happens. It's an uphill climb for that station cluster.
 
worn out or not, people are in situations because they want to be. i have worked with some who did not have the ability and those who did, didn't have the ambition. plus, people change and age and their perspective is different. i remember russ cassell as a hip jock on wqok. now he is an ornery ultra conservative talk show host.
 
DudeFan:I think he's just gotten beat up and mistreated by Clear Channel so much that there isn't much motivation to put a lot of effort into it.

That may very well be, but JR has been treated like a Prince compared to a lot of their other air talent. They've at least kept him employed. That's more than most.
 
On air talent as well as radio talent in gerenal for the most part seems to have lost most of their value to the big wigs in Clear Channel and most other corportation giants. I say that now would be a good time to clean house of most big wigs in all the big broadcast companies : if they can't show their real worth gey rid of them and save money not the talent that keeps everything going, dah.
 
freqdev said:
worn out or not, people are in situations because they want to be. i have worked with some who did not have the ability and those who did, didn't have the ambition. plus, people change and age and their perspective is different. i remember russ cassell as a hip jock on wqok. now he is an ornery ultra conservative talk show host.
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Agree totally. I can listen to a lot of their stuff, but not the morning show.

One DJ that has been doing it a long time that I still really enjoy is Lee Alexander on Magic 98.9. He has been with WQOK, WFBC and now WSPA since the mid-90s. He is very good and seems to really enjoy what he is doing still.
 
After reading these posts, I decided to listen to Jonathan Rush this morning to form my own opinion. Did not hardly sound like himself in the 6am. He got a little more life in the 7am hour. Started to agree with some here that he sounds worn out. I believe that is true. But finally realized that he sounded lonely. Not in a sad way. Just that there was no one there for him to bounce off of or garner any energy from. So while he may have a paycheck, the lack of support and the cuts of teammates leave him on an island. Pretty boring radio.
 
JR is an extremely nice guy and very talented. I'm betting he does feel beat up. I know the feeling myself. But,back to the topic: I wish the new "live" jocks on 92.1 the best of luck. Competition is a good thing.
 
Get a barf bag...I may make some of you nauseous due to gushing, but, JR is one of the finest people I've ever been privileged to know and one of the most knowledgeable radio programmers and talented broadcast personalities I've ever met...and I've worked with and met quite a few. In the 80s, in Greenville/Spartanburg, we worked PM Drive against each other...he was at WANS and I was at WCKN. We were peers then. I never actually met him until I walked thru the door of WNOK in March 1994 to interview for PM Drive. I realized within the first 10 minutes of that interview that wherever he'd been and whatever he'd done since we'd worked against each other in the 80s had caused him to evolve into one of the most astute radio strategists and minds I've ever encountered. His radio knowledge dwarfs mine, in fact, I owe him my career, such as it is. What I know about contemporary radio, I learned from him. In the 6 and a half years we worked together in the 90s, I never attended a day of work when I didn't learn something from him. From personal experience, I can say that he bled for WNOK and put his heart, soul and will into making WNOK a winner and keeping it that way. Consultants and owners came and went...the one constant was JR. I would get up at 6 in the morning to hear what wacked out stuff the Morning Rush was going to do that particular day...AND I WORKED THERE. Sadly, if he is sounding worn out on the air, it's from fighting the good fight over the years, day in and day out, trying to gain the edge over market competitors while fighting in-house "higher ups" to get what he needed to win while making sure his staff didn't have to "do without". Part and parcel, he was THE boss, THE master strategist, THE promotional juggernaut, THE community prince, THE fawning cheerleader and THE shining example of true radio personality to the rest of us on the staff...all the while juggling family, church and social obligations. I have no idea how he did it, but he did. In my mind, although I realize that radio is a business, he's earned the right to conduct himself as he sees fit on the air.

My two cents.
 
ROFL. While I have never met anyone in this wonderful business who does not have at least one or two
talents... There are no "Radio Gods". Geeezzzz- gimme a break.
 
To which post, or to whom, are you directing your yearly post? I ask because no one has stated in this thread anywhere that there are any "Radio Gods".

Enjoy your break. ;)
 
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