Did any of you hear the news that Gavin is going to Houston? Read the Article at the beginning of this website. the article is quite funny, you guys will get a kick out of it. Now he can mess up the station in Houston KILT. Wonder if 105.3 will be better now?
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Gavin to go to Houston!!!
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Good Riddence!
I'm not up on all the management moves in radio, when did Purdy move to Houston?
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Power move by Bigby....I hear that Bigby wanted things done a certain way and Gavin was dragging his feer. Bigby got tired of it and pushed him out...The latest mistake was losing out on an air-talent to Smaller market, along with miss on hardline....
What will you guys all complain about now?!?
BenB said:
Frasier Maxwell? The guy is an enormous D-bag. I wish him nothing but bad luck.
I can tell you this much, the common thread between the odd cast of psuedo-sports stars at FAN Dallas is that Sals, Hill, etc all use the same agent. Way to roll up your sleeves Gavin. Basically made a deal with one guy a bought a boatload of spares for $60-$100K a pop. WEAK.
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Who takes over as PD of KRLD? Bigby has already been there once in which several top dogs called New York and said either he goes or we go. Wow many of the KRLD folks feared Bigby would be back in the picture at the AM once it was made known he would be working at the fan. I don't think it will happen, but for now I'm sure some of the good 1080 folks are a bit worried.
Brian Purdy is now in charge of both Houston and Dallas for CBS.
kzewdude said:
Bigby's resume reads different than the feelings on this forum. I've worked with him, yes he is firm, overconfident, and my way or highway, BUT everyone says the FAN has a death sentence. Sounds like they sent Obi Wan in to turn it around. If you look at his last project in Detroit, there is no arguing the results. If you google him, you will see praises all over the web. I'm not taking up for him, as much as inquiring why users here feel he won't turn the Fan around as he has many other signals in the past?
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Are you KIDDING! Gavin Spittle goes to Houston to replace the great Bill Van Rysdam?!?!?
Wow, talk about sending in a boy to do a man's job!
Bill had been programming sports stations in Houston for what...30 years?
Gavin has been programming a so-called sports station in Dallas for...all of about 10 minutes? Or whenever Bigby finally fell asleep!
Do the math! The BEST thing that could happen from ALL of this is to bring Bill to Dallas and let HIM run The Fan. At least you'd have a REAL radio person, a consumante professional, a DECENT human being running things.
Oh wait...I forgot, CBS gets RID of those types. Seems like the new brainiac in charge in Houston (Purdy) saw fit to lay Bill off! Brilliant move...simply brilliant!
Wow, talk about sending in a boy to do a man's job!
Bill had been programming sports stations in Houston for what...30 years?
Gavin has been programming a so-called sports station in Dallas for...all of about 10 minutes? Or whenever Bigby finally fell asleep!
Do the math! The BEST thing that could happen from ALL of this is to bring Bill to Dallas and let HIM run The Fan. At least you'd have a REAL radio person, a consumante professional, a DECENT human being running things.
Oh wait...I forgot, CBS gets RID of those types. Seems like the new brainiac in charge in Houston (Purdy) saw fit to lay Bill off! Brilliant move...simply brilliant!
As Barry Horn noted a fortnight back, no market has 3 successful sports stations. So that's strike 1. And while yes, the Fan COULD overtake KTCK and KESN, it's a very uphill climb. So while he's turned around other stations, will he be able to overtake these two particular stations. So what is he up against?
KTCK- #1 in men 25-54, a player in persons 25-54, one of the highest billers in the market, a Marconi winner, and at 15 years in the same format, pretty much a 'heritage' station in this market. I don't know any serious radio observer that doesn't at least respect that station. A lot of people don't like their brand of sports (guy talk) but I think we should all respect their results.
KESN- Consistently has a decent showing M25-54 with a crappy FM signal. A good mix of the national (M&M) with local, including one of 2 REAL heritage sports talk hosts (Galloway) in the market. A station that outcumes the Ticket many books, just doesn't have the TSL that KTCK has. But aside from all that- they are an affiliate of 'the worldwide leader in sports'. They're not going anywhere. Probably ever.
So not only does he have an uphill climb, most people don't like they way he seems to be going about it. the problem with caller driven sportstalk is that if your callers suck, you suck. Add in hosts who aren't necessarily strong radio hosts (Ben Rogers was selling TV time this time a year ago, Newey was doing TV, Greg Hill was doing God knows what and Dan O'Malley was what, one of Russ's sidekicks?) and you don't necessarily have the talent to overcome bad calls.
Then their crappy imaging. If you're going to image as 'the sports station for sports fans", why are you giving me manliest man brackets? Or hot chick talk, or whatever guy talk segment they are on that day. It's VERY mixed message.
KTCK- #1 in men 25-54, a player in persons 25-54, one of the highest billers in the market, a Marconi winner, and at 15 years in the same format, pretty much a 'heritage' station in this market. I don't know any serious radio observer that doesn't at least respect that station. A lot of people don't like their brand of sports (guy talk) but I think we should all respect their results.
KESN- Consistently has a decent showing M25-54 with a crappy FM signal. A good mix of the national (M&M) with local, including one of 2 REAL heritage sports talk hosts (Galloway) in the market. A station that outcumes the Ticket many books, just doesn't have the TSL that KTCK has. But aside from all that- they are an affiliate of 'the worldwide leader in sports'. They're not going anywhere. Probably ever.
So not only does he have an uphill climb, most people don't like they way he seems to be going about it. the problem with caller driven sportstalk is that if your callers suck, you suck. Add in hosts who aren't necessarily strong radio hosts (Ben Rogers was selling TV time this time a year ago, Newey was doing TV, Greg Hill was doing God knows what and Dan O'Malley was what, one of Russ's sidekicks?) and you don't necessarily have the talent to overcome bad calls.
Then their crappy imaging. If you're going to image as 'the sports station for sports fans", why are you giving me manliest man brackets? Or hot chick talk, or whatever guy talk segment they are on that day. It's VERY mixed message.
FlyOnWall said:
Before coming to Dallas, Gavin won PD of the year 4 times in a row at the news/sports/talker in Las Vegas. I'm not sticking up for the guy, I'm just saying. He may do better with an AM talker then the FM talker. Granted there really isnt much difference except format clock. You just plug in shows and go.
New leadership at KRLD FM
I agree with the obstacles, BUT....what I see in rebute to your factual observations is that restructuring changes are occuring as we speak. Hence the title of this thread
A) Bring in proven heavyweight Bigby
B) Ben/Skin gone
C) Salsbury added (good solid even keel sports mouth, similar to ESPN
D) Spittle gone
E) Cowboys added, along with thier shows come game time
F) undisputable signal strength
G) whoreishly opening up phone lines as easy access to start stampede towards the signal leading up to football season
H) Jagger will be gone soon, if they add a badass bigmouth smart talker (ie Ticket) then they will be covering enough bases to take the lead
I) already surpassed KESN in M demo ***. So with a weak everything, they are already #2. My bet is they take the ticket too during football IF IF IF they hire the right team to replace JAgger.
I agree with the obstacles, BUT....what I see in rebute to your factual observations is that restructuring changes are occuring as we speak. Hence the title of this thread
A) Bring in proven heavyweight Bigby
B) Ben/Skin gone
C) Salsbury added (good solid even keel sports mouth, similar to ESPN
D) Spittle gone
E) Cowboys added, along with thier shows come game time
F) undisputable signal strength
G) whoreishly opening up phone lines as easy access to start stampede towards the signal leading up to football season
H) Jagger will be gone soon, if they add a badass bigmouth smart talker (ie Ticket) then they will be covering enough bases to take the lead
I) already surpassed KESN in M demo ***. So with a weak everything, they are already #2. My bet is they take the ticket too during football IF IF IF they hire the right team to replace JAgger.
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