Georgia Association of Broadcasters Awards

[Roach Radio]

I heard that the Gabby's were given out tonight (Sat), who were the lucky recipients? I heard through a friend that WBHF in Cartersville got a few. Who else took home a trophy?

 

[AtlBanker]

Now that is funny. WBHF is a station geared towarded the blue haired. How old are the judges of these awards that were given? Good for Frank Sinatra. He still has it. What about Boortz, did he get any? He is the man. What about the regular guys?

 

[Roach Radio]

The Gabby Awards are given out by the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, small, medium, and large markets. WBHF is a small market station, and the fact that they won Gabby awards tells me that they must be doing a good job of servicing their market. They weren't in competition with Atlanta stations, and your opinion of the people work work very hard at small market stations tells alot about you.

 

[AtlBanker]

I am not trying to upset you. WBHF is a station that focus's on really old people, like 70 plus. That is a fact. They won a gabby. Great. But, it is a station for grannys. As far as focusing on their market, they focus on the bluehairs, and that is it, and they do a good job at it. What about Boortz? Or the regular guys? What about Steve and Vicki?

 

[radioman1964]

As far as the Atlanta competition, WSB AM won eight GABBY Awards including:

Station of the Year
Community Service
Best Non-News Program - Clark Howard
Best Newscast - Atlanta’s Morning News
Best News Story - Tournament Tornado
Best Feature - Varsity at 80
Best Sports Program - Best of the Bulldogs
Best Station Produced Commercial - AT&T Pro AM

WSB AM also captured three merit awards:
On Air Personality - Scott Slade
News Series - The Power in Fear
Station Produced Promo - Voices

 

[bobbybeth]

The winners of the GABBY awards have now been posted at www.gab.org.

 

[radioworld]

radioman1964 left out the big story of the night...WGKA's Joel Aaron won the Gabby for On Air Personality of the Year (beating Scott Slade) and won the Gabby for Best Station Produced Promo-Georgia Decides 2008. Steve Winslow won a merit awards for Best Sports Program-High School Football Report (He won the Gabby last year).

It's good to see the little guy give "the big SB" some competition and actually win. Just remember, Goliath lost...

 

[AtlBanker]

WGKA's Joel Aaron winning a Gabby for 'On Air Personality of the Year' is all the proof you need that the Gabby is a meaningless, out of touch with the listener, paperweight. Nobody, and I mean Nobody listens to Joel Aaron and he is the 'On Air Personality of the Year'. You would think being 'On Air Personality of the Year' there would be an audience. Well, there isn't. None, nobody there. The Gabby is a joke and some of you just don't get it. You can't get an audience so you want a trophy for a job well done. Sad. When you look for your next radio job and they ask about past ratings, just show them the trophy. LOL

 

[radioworld]

AtlBanker-I actually do see the numbers and I bet more people in Atlanta know who Joel Aaron is than know who you are. Which is probably why you're such a bitter man.

 

[AtlBanker]

AtlBanker-I actually do see the numbers and I bet more people in Atlanta know who Joel Aaron is than know who you are. Which is probably why you're such a bitter man.

Not bitter here. I have fun on this board exposing the truth. I have the seen the numbers also, or the lack of. I, like everybody else in Atlanta, know who Joel is. He is the guy with the paperweight.

 

[radioworld]

Bet you never won a Gabby either...It's easy to dismiss something as a paper weight when you never had the talent and/or drive to win one yourself...

 

[AtlBanker]

The overwhelming majority of radio stations in Georgia don't participate in the Gabby's. Other than WSB, most of the competitors, and most of the winners, are struggling in their marketplace and need anything to help overcome their dwindeling audience to close the deal with an advertiser. They need this trophy, anything, and now they have it.

 

[Knowsnews2]

Bet you never won a Gabby either...It's easy to dismiss something as a paper weight when you never had the talent and/or drive to win one yourself...

Um, I've won several Gabby awards and I agree with AtlBanker: they're worthless. They're like the AIR awards. When someone like a Joel Aaron, who might as well be in the federal witness protection program, is named personality of the year, then the award has lost it's credibility. And, again, this comes from someone who has won about a dozen of these paperweights.

 

[gravelgertie]

I've never felt that a competition in which you had to nominate yourself held much credibility!

 

[Roach Radio]

I've received three GABBY Awards over the years, and I am damn proud to own them even if some of you think they are only paperweights. I did not nominate myself for the awards, the station I worked for nominated me.
And I appreciate the fact that they thought I deserved being nominated...although they did not give me any more money for my efforts, or for winning the awards. Whatever they are worth to anyone else, I can at least show them to my future grandchildren in a few years and say see kids...I was an award winning Radio personality. I just hope I can come up with an answer when they ask..." Grandpa, what the HELL is a Radio?"

 

[littlejohn]

You tell them it's something people used to listen to, to get the correct time so they could set their wristwatches.

 

[fortt3]

You tell them it's something people used to listen to, to get the correct time so they could set their wristwatches.

..." Grandpa, what the HELL is a wristwatch?" (People are even now starting to look at their cell phones for the time.)