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Heidi West No Longer At Citadel Providence??? An Eye Witness Account.....

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Blondie1216

I was at the mall today and I had to turn around because I heard a woman acting very uppetty with a sales person and I turned around just in time to hear her introduce herself as"Heidi West" to this salesperson (without being asked).
She proceeded to talk to other shoppers in the store and introduce herself again..HW from lite rock 105 and then she said was buying a suit for an interview because she was no longer with 105 because they choose to go in a different direction after she had been there for 5 years..
Can anyone confirm this rumor?
I am looking for a job.
 
Papparazzi- Photographers and members of media stalking a known superstar.

Papparazzi- Rhode Island version- Members of Providence Radio-Board hanging out in Malls to get scoop and post on R-I dot com.

:D
sorry,
 
I just think it's hilarious that she throws her name and her place of employment around everywhere she goes. As if anybody really gives a sh*t! She went to buy a freaking shirt and pants. Does she think she's going to get better service by throwing in the "lite rock 105"? Is that how she goes through life. Expecting people to kiss her feet because she mentions a radio station? What a joke.

As if that's not bad enough...... she's busy introducing herself followed by a place of employment where she is no longer employed. hahahaha.

I don't know Heidi from a hole in the wall. She's probably a nice person. But I can tell you, That is some WACKO behavior!
 
Skynet74 said:
I just think it's hilarious that she throws her name and her place of employment around everywhere she goes. As if anybody really gives a sh*t! She went to buy a freaking shirt and pants. Does she think she's going to get better service by throwing in the "lite rock 105"? Is that how she goes through life. Expecting people to kiss her feet because she mentions a radio station? What a joke.

As if that's not bad enough...... she's busy introducing herself followed by a place of employment where she is no longer employed. hahahaha.

I don't know Heidi from a hole in the wall. She's probably a nice person. But I can tell you, That is some WACKO behavior!
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They all do it...don't kid yourself
 
Quote:They all do it...don't kid yourself

Exactly.___fromW___is part of the identity that radio people cling to.Take it away and the identity is lost.Why do you think so many ex fulltimers cling to weekend jobs?The Money?
 
I have heard that up until his most recent gig, Mike Butts was still introducing himself as Mike Butts from 92 Pro-FM...up to 5 years after he was not on the air anymore! I've seen it done on too many occasions to count (Thank God I've been removed from it long enough to not be recognized when someone does it and I can grin).

I've actually had a former colleague of mine attempt to do it to me at my current job over the phone (I didn't let on who I was) and needless to say, it didn't work with me (This person has been off the air almost as long as I have)
 
FYI - From what I understand Heidi was not let go so much as her contract was not renewed. She also had a noncom so she had to sit on the beach for a while anyways. So why not just move elsewhere? Apparently her boyfriend is Jaybeau Jones from XLO in Worcester, another Citadel station.
 
Somehow not having a contract renewed but having to stick to a noncompete doesn't make sense to me. OK if you leave on your own but "you're not working here but you can't work anywhere else in the market" doesn't seem fair.
 
Help me out here...she had a non-compete and had to sit out awhile ? If she was in Massachusetts she would be a freebird they are illegal there - period (radio or otherwise). Must be different in RI
 
jockitch said:
Somehow not having a contract renewed but having to stick to a noncompete doesn't make sense to me. OK if you leave on your own but "you're not working here but you can't work anywhere else in the market" doesn't seem fair.
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The date of her coming off the air and then end of the contract probably didn't coincide...
 
wknd92 said:
jockitch said:
Somehow not having a contract renewed but having to stick to a noncompete doesn't make sense to me. OK if you leave on your own but "you're not working here but you can't work anywhere else in the market" doesn't seem fair.
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The date of her coming off the air and then end of the contract probably didn't coincide...
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Sounds like a Carolyn Fox deal (WRX and WPRO).Massachusetts,correct me if I'm wrong just started that.
 
and the moral of the story is when the going gets tough the tough go shopping
 
RE "They all do it. Don't kid yourself."

The-scene-described sounds like one of those you-had-to-be-there moments.

More-relatable: the reminiscence factor, recalling That Gig.

wknd92 said:
I have heard that up until his most recent gig, Mike Butts was still introducing himself as Mike Butts from 92 Pro-FM...
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As you'll see-and-hear, among others' stories, Mike remembers that gig as his fondest, not his-most-recent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSI3UyQkd0

When Roger Clemens goes into the Hall of Fame, lots of us here in Red Sox Nation will wish he remembered the-team-that-brought-him-up...but it's more likely he'll want his plaque to show him wearing a Yankees cap. Not a Sox chapeau, nor a Blue Jays or Astros cap. He'll remember what-was That Gig TO HIM.

Since the 6 Nixon/Ford/Carter years I was on WPRO, I sure had bigger jobs, and made LOTS-bigger-money.
'Did some significant stuff as a management suit; among people who never knew me as on-air.
But, like Mike, I'll always remember Camelot-on-The Trail...
 
Re: RE "They all do it. Don't kid yourself."

Holland Cooke said:
The-scene-described sounds like one of those you-had-to-be-there moments.

More-relatable: the reminiscence factor, recalling That Gig.

wknd92 said:
I have heard that up until his most recent gig, Mike Butts was still introducing himself as Mike Butts from 92 Pro-FM...
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As you'll see-and-hear, among others' stories, Mike remembers that gig as his fondest, not his-most-recent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSI3UyQkd0

When Roger Clemens goes into the Hall of Fame, lots of us here in Red Sox Nation will wish he remembered the-team-that-brought-him-up...but it's more likely he'll want his plaque to show him wearing a Yankees cap. Not a Sox chapeau, nor a Blue Jays or Astros cap. He'll remember what-was That Gig TO HIM.

Since the 6 Nixon/Ford/Carter years I was on WPRO, I sure had bigger jobs, and made LOTS-bigger-money.
'Did some significant stuff as a management suit; among people who never knew me as on-air.
But, like Mike, I'll always remember Camelot-on-The Trail...
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Holland, while I agree that the best job I've had was on the Trail, it is a bit sad as well that is how he was (and from a conversation I had Friday night at Twin Oaks) still is introducing himself. He has been off the air for 8 years here and for some of the stories I have heard, the instances he is using this introduction does not do him or the station any good (especially as the implied way used by Heidi noted at the start of this thread).

Holland, while being an alum of the great grey way on the trail, you in no terms let it define you now some 20 years later and although Mike has had 3 or 4 gigs since, he still is utilizing it here and now. Being an alum is just that, we were there; but not anything to latch onto 8, 11, or 20 years later....my $.02
 
Rick Nelson's hit "Garden Party" was all about JUST THAT.

He was booed at Madison Square Garden, because he didn't look...square, like he did on TV in the 50s.
"I played 'em all the old songs. 'Thought that's why they came."
But he didn't look the same.

I have tickets for Barry Manilow in Vegas later this month, and for THAT kind of dough, he BETTER sing "Mandy."
I sure hope he HASN'T moved on.

When I was in Washington, I was "a suit."
'Managed WTOP for 7 years, then VP-of-something-or-other at USA Today for 3 years.
January 1, 1995, I hung out my shingle. Me, Inc. Finally in-control-of-my-own-time.

I knew the PD at WBIG Oldies 100 from umpteen Washington broadcasting events.
I called him to say two things:

1. "DON'T STOP. I LOVE IT!"
This station -- formerly smooth jazz -- was now on its way to #1 25-54.
I -- a 40-something at the time -- was his demographic bulls-eye.
HOWEVER they were picking-and-rotating titles, IT WAS WORKING.
And the jocks sounded like they were HAVING FUN.
So, as a listener, I was calling with applause.
And an offer...

2. "Holler if you ever get into a jam," I told him.
Like most broadcasters in the Washington market then, he didn't know I'd been a DJ.
"I did this in the 70s, at WPRO," I told him.
And -- having managed a staff -- I knew about...the flu.
So I told him I could suit-up if he ever had a bench problem.
Or just grab a shift from-time-to-time.
"Whattya mean, like 'recreational jocking?'" he asked.
EXACTLY, I beamed.

So, after not-having-been-on-air for 13 years, they had me come in late-late at night...to a studio where the-only-piece-of-equipment-I-recognized was a microphone, and do a "break-in shift." Believe me, it felt more like "forcible entry." But I just played it as-though-I-was-coming-back-from-the-weekend circa 1975, WPRO.

THAT NIGHT...THE VERY FIRST TIME I TAWKED LIVE ON WASHINGTON RADIO...AFTER MIDNIGHT...the request line rang.
A thick New England accent asked, "Holland Cooke?"
"Yes, hello, Oldies 100," I replied.
The voice repeated, "Holland Cooke!"
I thought she hadn't heard me say hello the first time.
"Yeah, hi. What would you like to hear?"
Yet again, as though she had looked down at the sidewalk and spotted a $50 bill, she said "Holland Cooke. We used to listen to you every summer at the beach."

This was 1995.
That was 1975.

WE think we can move on.
I REFUSE TO COLOR MY HAIR. I earned every single one of these greys.

But I never cease to be flattered by moments like that one.
And I'll bet Barry Manilow doesn't either.

HC

PS: Listen to the caller in THE LAST BREAK: http://www.hollandcooke.com/wbig.ram
 
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