To answer your many questions, Nik:
Having been a producer at a major 50,000 watt station, as well as account rep, with a resume that goes back longer than yours, N.C., you'd like to convince people that your word is the be all and end all, but there are those of us who do have information about the biz that is exactly what Coolidge was demanding.
Yes your resume goes back longer than mine because youre a good deal older than I am, however my resume is very long and very solid. No internships or Community access, or blog-like experience on it, itr's all national and major market on air experience over the course of the last twenty plus years dating back to when I was a teenager hosting his own show on WBZ TV 4, in Boston, commerical airwaves not public access. That said the point I made is true, you mentioned Paula Street and I said she's a mid day host so the point I made still stands. Matty? yes he survived two program directors (outside of the one who hired him), same with Dale Doorman who Survived one and was let go by his last, the same goes for Ed McMann all talented, yes but your point is not very solid. They were all hired By Sunny Joe White, and let go by Cadillac with the exception of Matty. Again with the Harvey Warfield? who evenknows where he is today? bad example but then again he's one of the few people who will talk to you so as usual in your mind he's a HUGE SUPERSTAR becuase of that.
Paula Street is an excellent example - so Nik screams out "Mid Day", "Mid Day". Matty in the Morning has also survived many a program director, as has Dale Dorman, Ed McMann, Wharfield, David Brudnoy (oh, you're going to say, 7 PM; but who could touch Brudnoy's numbers?)
Uhhhhhh I didnt scream out anything i merely pointed out the flaw in your argument...... By the way: when I was doing 7-11pm for the year that I did it whhen i first came to WBCN I actually beat Bruds a few times, so, so much for that point. Which is why Jeff Katz (who was doing late nights at RKO at the time ) took shots at me on air, we should not have shared any audience but obviously in his mind we did, men 18-34 and men 25-54 and I beat Bruds a few books there. So Please give me a break with the idea that I try to convince people that My word is the be all and end all. I believve in facts, you constantly post your OPINION and pass it off as fact when it's nothing of the kind.
Keep in mind, radio is a hobby for me and for many on this board. You like to throw your resume' around and try to one up the critics - if you can't take the heat, why are you in the battle? Fact is, there are many great talents in Boston who survived the firing of the specific program director that got them on board.
That's the barometer I use to tell me that they have real talent OUTSIDE of what we hear them do on the radio; outside of the performance, they can roll with the punches.
UHHHHHHHHH YOU're the one who brought your resume into the discussion and said it was longer than mine, in short YOU STARTED IT YOU, dont even try to pull that nonsense on me. No Joe I just respectfully disagree with some of the things you say and like Ive said in the past you're so self obsessed that you cant imagine that anyone could ever disagree with you, and when they do you take it so personally as if it is some sort of war and those who disagree with your often skewed view of reality are somehow your enemies. YOu're the one who cant take the heat, someone disagrees with you and automatically theyre a plant from some corproation, or they're using Karl Rove techniques or the Swift Boat technique.......... Face it, you're just wrong sometimes, and not even a little bit wrong but painfully off the mark wrong. Speaking of which Max Tolkoff got me on the board, Not Oedipus. I worked at fnx for seven years before BCN.. where I outlasted three program directors before I resigned and took a job doing mornings in Providence... You know nothing of my history..Do your research Joe so one day you can state the facts and not just your jealous opinions.
Anyone who can't bounce right back (and remember, Parenteau certainly bounced back; it was his private life that ruined him), anyone who can't bounce back is one of those political hires we discussed earlier. They can't believe they have a ghost of a resume' because they actually believed their own copy.
Yes and no: Parenteau was able to find a job at WAXQ almost a year after his contract was not renewed by WBCN and until then he worked part time at WRKO, PART TIME JOE, I guess it was a noble thing then huh?....(Hmmmmmmm his contract was not renewed , mine was not renewed either, yet somehow you think there is some huge difference in the way that he and I left the station,........that does not make much sense now does it?..Like always Joe your politics dictate evcerything you say, the truth has no place in your world, how sad!). He didnt last two years at WAXQ before he was fired, he then went to XM and was not there even two years (not much more than a year actually) before his attitude again got him fired, and no his personal life had nothing to do with it, he was essentially out the door when he was arrested, that just was the period on the end of the sentence.
True talent will survive. And all the name-calling and sniping on this board regarding someone's work in radio, tv, journalism, the record biz, is amazing because - wow - you add it all up and it proves something - which Oedipus proudly proclaimed at a dinner at a Japanese Restaurant one night "The hardest working man in Boston rock & roll." And he pointed to a dear old friend of his, who you, Nik, keep reminding evereyone is "old".
I dont call everyone old Joe, YOU ARE lost in a by gone era but that has more to do with your mental state than your chronlogical state. You are the biggest hypocrite on the board, you call people names, you "assault" others all the time, you've been responsible for more threads removed or locked than anyone else here,.....You need to give it a rest with your projection complex. Why do you on one hand villify Oedipus every chance you get, yet continuously re hash that quote ( if he even said it, I know from the wya in which you've twisted my words that you're not a reliable source on such things) from literally over 20 years ago? AND if Oedipus is the horrible figure that you portray him to be then what good is a positive quote froms omeone who you claim is as wantonly corrupt as you claim he is? oh let me guess: He's corrupt except when it comes to praising and feeding your overblown ego? You cant have it both ways Joey, you cant have it both ways.
the older the grape, the sweeter the wine. Bobby Womack wrote that!
Maybe, but BOBBY WOMACK.....IS OOOOOOOOOLD! VERY OLD!
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