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Gil Gross on Armstrong & Getty

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DJBigOne

I turned on KSTE this morning, since I live and work in the Sacramento market. I said to myself, "Who is this?" I looked to see if my radio was tuned to AM650.

It was Gil Gross filling in for Armstrong & Getty (A&G). Once I understood the rhythm of his voice, he was great. Although I enjoy A&G, Gil made the issues of the day very entertaining.

It was a pleasant surprise, since I'm not familiar with him as you all are.
 
Steven Roy said:
It was a pleasant surprise, since I'm not familiar with him as you all are.
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Gil Gross has had quite the radio career. He was the youngest ABC radio news anchor and reporter ever hired. He was Paul Harvey's substitute for a number of years. He had a syndicated nighttime talkshow on CBS Radio for a few years. He's written comedy. He seems to know just about everybody in politics, either personally or having covered them as a reporter.

What amazes me is that he spent a lot of time in Chicago, then New York and Los Anageles, but yet he talks about the SF Bay Area as if he grew up here! He gets all the pronunciations right. He knows the nightspots worth going to, the hidden surprises of the Bay Area that only natives usually know. It seems he can talk for hours about the Bay Area and you'd think he was a tour docent or a Bay Area history buff. But then I've been told he can do the same about Chi, NY and LA, too. Amazing.
 
DavidKaye said:
Gil Gross has had quite the radio career. He was the youngest ABC radio news anchor and reporter ever hired. He was Paul Harvey's substitute for a number of years. He had a syndicated nighttime talkshow on CBS Radio for a few years. He's written comedy. He seems to know just about everybody in politics, either personally or having covered them as a reporter.

What amazes me is that he spent a lot of time in Chicago, then New York and Los Anageles, but yet he talks about the SF Bay Area as if he grew up here! He gets all the pronunciations right. He knows the nightspots worth going to, the hidden surprises of the Bay Area that only natives usually know. It seems he can talk for hours about the Bay Area and you'd think he was a tour docent or a Bay Area history buff. But then I've been told he can do the same about Chi, NY and LA, too. Amazing.
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DOH! I just realized he's the voice I've heard many times on ABC News Radio. I listen to a small-market, local station just to hear the top-O-the-hour news.

He was good this morning, BTW, what little I heard. Wasn't he one of the hosts laid off by the recent clear-out?
 
Gil gave life and humor to the ABC hourly news whch he was doing before going to KGO in recent times, only to be dropped by Cumulus.

I was surprised when he left the net to go local on KGO. I assume it was for bigger bucks. Then again with that crazy Citadel-Disney deal strange things could have been happening at the net. Hopefully, maybe Gil will write a book someday.

If radio hadn't become a shadow of it's former self I'm sure Gil would have become a national name, as big as Paul Harvey.


Jerry Gordon
 
I emailed Gil Gross after Paul Harvey's death. He had been filling in during the final weeks and asked him about the future of the program and his involvement. He main point in his reply was ABC had no interest in keeping the 15 minute program since it was such an odd period to sell in this day and age. I told him if anyone could succeed Harvey, it would be him. His plans were to stay in local radio at that time. In a day with a better environment for great classy radio talent, I'm sure he would have made it big.
 
JEREMIAH said:
If radio hadn't become a shadow of it's former self I'm sure Gil would have become a national name, as big as Paul Harvey.
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He still can if he switches to TV. Note that Sally Jessy Raphael spent 2 decades in radio, about 10 years syndicated by NBC's "Talknet" laboring in obscurity. It wasn't until she hosted a TV talkshow that she became a household name. Likewise Rachel Maddow, Larry King, and (to go back into ancient history) even Joe Pyne. They all had radio shows, syndicated shows, too. It's hard to make a name in radio, but take that talent and put it to TV and you become a national name.
 
JEREMIAH said:
If radio hadn't become a shadow of it's former self I'm sure Gil would have become a national name, as big as Paul Harvey.
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So what has replaced Paul Harvey, the Hukabee report?

This morning, I was screaming at the radio for Gil's co-host to shut up. Every time Gil would try to talk, she would interrupt. It was not good radio. He's a better man than I. I would have cut off her mic.

Thanks for letting me vent. :mad:
 
Steven Roy said:
So what has replaced Paul Harvey, the Hukabee report?
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Paul Harvey was not replaced. The show is no longer offered. Paul Jr didn't want to do it; ABC/Citadel didn't want to run that oddly shaped block. It's history.
 
I hope A&G is back on Monday. The news people the past two days were un-listen-able. They sounded like a robot reading copy. Sorry. Just my opinion.

I also like the banter between Marshall and A&G. It makes me nervous having all these fill-ins. Please radio gods, let them just be on vacation. ;)
 
I listen to John Rothman on KKSF 910 Yesterday and it was interesting but didn't realize that he was on 650 AM too. Even though Armstrong and Getty is broadcasted nationwide on I heartradio and in Sacramento on KSTE and in SFO on 910. I know Rothman has a good show going back to his KGO days. But Rothman has get used to the fact that he is doing 2 markets on the morning drive at 910AM.
 
recto101 said:
I listen to John Rothman on KKSF 910 Yesterday and it was interesting but didn't realize that he was on 650 AM too. Even though Armstrong and Getty is broadcasted nationwide on I heartradio and in Sacramento on KSTE and in SFO on 910. I know Rothman has a good show going back to his KGO days. But Rothman has get used to the fact that he is doing 2 markets on the morning drive at 910AM.
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John was pretty good. It was the monotone news readers that made me switch stations. Just sayin'...
 
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